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Obama names first US Chief Technology Officer

Technology / Internet

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

US President Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard-educated Indian-American to the newly created post of Chief Technology Officer in an appointment much-awaited by Silicon Valley.


Is India the future for tech?

Technology / Business

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The recent hubbub about cloud computing -- how to define it and where it's heading -- has me wondering something. What about India?


Scientists create working artificial nerve networks

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such as blindness or epilepsy. In the ...


Keynote at CES will test Ballmer's star power

Technology / Other

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Not that he needed one, but Bill Gates had rock star Slash help him cap his performance at the International Consumer Electronics Show last year.


Computing in a molecule

Computing in a molecule

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger ...


Fight begins to eradicate fatal parasite; first vaccines delivered following major funding award

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A vaccine developed by University of Melbourne researchers that could eradicate a fatal form of brain disease will be delivered to Peru next week, and could soon be commercially available thanks to multi-million dollar funding.


New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 1

European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach ...


Engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 04, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 1

Most innovations don't go far unless there is a way to turn them into products that are manufacturable on a mass scale. That's why new research on carbon nanotubes, presented June 19 by a group of Stanford electrical engineers, ...



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