News tagged with machines
Physicists to study attractive and repulsive forces crucial in designing nano-machines
Aug 06, 2009 |
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The Casimir force, also known as the Casimir effect, is typified by the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates. Today, this force has become an interdisciplinary ...
'Virtual' computers span the digital divide
Aug 06, 2009 |
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NComputing is out to span the digital divide with a version of cloud computing called "virtualization," which essentially turns one machine into many.
Getting the most out of gemstones
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Emeralds, rubies and the like are referred to as colored gemstones by experts. They sparkle and shine with varying intensity, depending on the cut. A new machine can achieve the best possible cut and extract ...
Redbox's machines take on Netflix's red envelopes
Jun 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With more subscribers than ever flocking to its DVD-by-mail service, Netflix Inc. is one of the few companies to prosper during the worst U.S. recession in 70 years. Yet Netflix CEO Reed Hastings still has something ...
Predictive powers: a robot that reads your intention? (w/Video)
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions ...
Going for broke
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Natasha Schull recalls how in the late 1990s she began observing people in Las Vegas transfixed for hours at video poker and slot machines. What, she wondered, kept them glued to machines ...
A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 08, 2009 |
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Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking ...
Conficker worm hits hospital devices
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat.
As Oracle readies takeover, Sun's loss widens
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc.'s loss ballooned in the latest quarter as restructuring charges and a 20 percent drop in sales compounded the financial woes Oracle Corp. is set to inherit by acquiring Sun for ...
Review: Looking for gems in iPhone's game library
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market - first with the Game Boy, now with the DS - for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. But it's become impossible to ignore ...
Brocade deepens IBM ties, steps up attack on Cisco
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc. is deepening its ties with a powerful ally, IBM Corp., forging a new distribution deal for Internet routers and switches at a time when bigger rival Cisco Systems Inc. is straining ...
Blood vessels made from patients' cells
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
Nintendo not planning price cuts for hit machines
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nintendo has weathered the global recession because of the popularity of its game machines and won't be resorting to price cuts to boost sales, the company's president said Thursday.
Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR production demands
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. ...
Conficker Worm Prepares For A New Release On April 1
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The conficker worm created havoc last year when it infected over 10 million computers on a global scale. The unique design of the conficker worm allowed for this large scale attack to over ...
