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Tech advancements improving accuracy in predicting weather
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Study weather reports online, and you might want to give up on meteorology. "Deadly" storms fizzle, while weaker-looking fronts devastate. Temperatures often soar above predicted highs or plummet below predicted lows.
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Scientists make quantum leap in developing faster computers
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have created a molecular device which could act as a building block for future generations of superfast computers.
Super-thin carbon sheets poised to revolutionize electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Super-thin films of carbon with exotic properties, now taking the scientific world by storm, may soon mean a new era of brighter, faster, and smaller computers, smart phones, and other consumer electronics. Brighter digital ...
Innovative research brings quantum computers one step closer
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster thanks to new research carried out by the University of Surrey.
Engineering researchers: Novo-G supercomputer fastest of its type in world
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A supercomputer named Novo-G described by its lead designer as likely the most powerful computer of its kind in the world became operational this week at the University of Florida.
Chrome 4.0 beta web browser launched
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has released its latest beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows, which promises faster browsing, bookmark synchronization and more.
Computers Faster Only for 75 More Years? Physicists determine nature's limit to making faster processors
Oct 14, 2009 |
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With the speed of computers so regularly seeing dramatic increases in their processing speed, it seems that it shouldn't be too long before the machines become infinitely fast -- except they can't.
Presto! Fast color-changing material may lead to more powerful computers (w/Video)
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called "photochromic" material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light.
Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...
Quantum computing spins closer
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes ...
Ion trap quantum computing
May 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “Right now, classical computers are faster than quantum computers,” René Stock tells PhysOrg.com. “The goal of quantum computing is to eventually speed up the time scale of solving certain important proble ...
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