News tagged with flash modules

Toshiba Launches 256GB Solid State Drives with MLC

Sep 26, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0

Toshiba today announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of an industry-leading 256-gigabyte (GB) SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash ...

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Planetary Society plans new 'solar sail'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

8 hours ago | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a spacecraft that will be propelled by the ...

Implantable Glucose Sensor Could Spell Relief for Millions of Diabetics (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

8 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers have developed a tiny wireless device that can be inserted under a patient?s skin to monitor blood glucose levels over a period of several months.

The GOES-12 satellite sees Large Hurricane Ida nearing landfall

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

14 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until Ida showed up. Today, November 9, Ida is a hurricane and is headed for a landfall in the western Florida Panhandle ...

Researchers find robotic repair for vaginal prolapse has significant benefits

Medicine & Health / Diseases

16 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

New Mayo Clinic research has found that robotic surgery for vaginal prolapse dramatically reduces patient hospital stay and recovery time. These findings are being presented this week at the North Central Section of the American ...

Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

Nov 06, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of ...

Ford to put air bags into back seat belts of SUV (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

Nov 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Air bags have long been mounted in the steering wheel, dashboard and sides of vehicles. Now, they're in the seat belts. Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce seat belt-mounted air bags in the back seat ...

Samsung Develops Advanced Packaging Technology to Achieve a 0.6mm-thick 8-chip Package

Technology / Semiconductors

Nov 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world's thinnest multi-die package, one that measures a mere 0.6mm in height. Designed initially for 32 gigabyte (GB) densities, the new memory ...

Dartmouth professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked

Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 05, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (10) | 45

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally ...

Nanotechnology: A risky frontier?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 05, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Inside a cramped back room at Rushford Hypersonic, a start-up headquartered in southeastern Minnesota, sits a cube-like machine that throws a mean atomic fastball. At the push of a button, the reactor hurls atoms toward a ...