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What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (36) | comments 36 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


Beating the back-up blues

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 10

That sinking feeling when your hard disk starts screeching and you haven't backed up your holiday photos is a step closer to becoming a thing of the past thanks to research into a new kind of computer memory.


Keep on spinning

Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...


Magnetic Tunnel Junction

Physicist develops battery using new source of energy

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (51) | comments 11

Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a "spin battery," a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic ...


New technology could boost disease detection tests' speed and sensitivity

New technology could boost disease detection tests' speed and sensitivity (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December ...


Penn study: Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale ...


Apple unveils new features for desktop, laptop models

Apple unveils new features for desktop, laptop models

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Apple on Tuesday updated its consumer desktop and laptop lines, one day after announcing record quarterly computer sales.


Getting files from a failed hard drive

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (19) | comments 10

A friend whose iMac's hard drive had apparently died called recently, wondering how she might access the files on the failed drive.


Startup lets you play console video games remotely

Technology / Software

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- As any a video game aficionado knows, it's easy to pop a game into your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and spend hours working your way from one level to the next. Without the hefty console, though, you're out of luck ...


Time to clean up your digital closet

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Let's jump ahead 50 years. Imagine your grandchildren are rummaging around in your attic, looking through old boxes and trunks. They discover laptops, hard drives wrapped in cloth, DVDs, and maybe even a real antique: A ...


Liberal? Conservative? Stanford study says mental nudge can make voters flip-flop

Liberal? Conservative? Stanford study says mental nudge can make voters flip-flop

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- No doubt you’ve worked hard for your success. But chances are you’ve also had some help and lucky breaks along the way.


Xbox

XBox forensics

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the latest issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law en ...


Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying (AP)

Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying

Technology / Business

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 5

(AP) -- Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market - software that allows you to copy a film ...


Cloud computing: a new horizon

Cloud computing: a new horizon

Technology / Hi Tech

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The outlook is bleak for laptops, hard drives and desktops - clouds are on the horizon and could change the way we use computers forever. For some, the ‘cloud’ is just the latest technological craze, but for ...


It's the year of the terabyte

Technology / Hi Tech

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 22

I remember my first hard drive. Back then, getting a hard drive for your computer was tantamount to a rite of passage. It meant that you no longer had to struggle inserting floppy discs with their limited capacities and ...