News tagged with digital
Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...
A Billion Year Ultra-Dense Memory Chip (w/Video)
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique ultra-high density memory storage medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years.
Open-source camera could revolutionize photography (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an "open-source" digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create ...
New 167-processor chip is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient
Apr 22, 2009 |
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A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, ...
Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone ...
Efforts to save endangered languages
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There are an estimated 6,500 languages in the world, with around fifty percent of them endangered and likely to cease to exist by 2100, but efforts are now being made to save them from extinction.
Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...
Hubble to receive high-tech James Webb Space Telescope technology
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 08, 2009 |
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Scientists and engineers now creating new technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have realized they can be used to enhance the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing ...
Toshiba Launches Highest Density Embedded NAND Flash Memory Modules
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of a 64 gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry.
Fujifilm unveils 3D digital camera
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Japan's Fujifilm unveiled Wednesday a compact digital camera that can be used to shoot three-dimensional (3D) photos and movies that can be viewed without special glasses.
Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct St. Peter's Basilica. But now the city, including these landmarks, ...
Tiny lasers plug the 'green gap'
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Compact lasers which can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach.
World's oldest surviving Bible published online
Jul 06, 2009 |
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About 800 pages of the world's oldest surviving Bible have been pieced together and published on the Internet for the first time, experts in Britain said Monday.
Beyond flash -- memories are made of this
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily ...
Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
