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Raytheon turns iPhones into battlefield tools

Technology / Software

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

US defense contractor Raytheon on Wednesday unveiled the first of what it said will be a series of software applications to make iPhones or iPod touch devices into battlefield tools.


Heat-Transfer Material Could Allow More Powerful Radar Electronics

Heat-Transfer Material Could Allow More Powerful Radar Electronics

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Open any computer and you're sure to see at least one massive cooling device, complete with metal fins and a noisy fan. Today's high-power processing chips generate lots of heat -- and those ...





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TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed ...


Two chips in one: Researchers combine microprocessor materials

Two chips in one: Researchers combine microprocessor materials

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An MIT team led by Tomás Palacios, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has succeeded in combining two semiconductor materials, silicon ...


Want responsible robotics? Start with responsible humans

Technology / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers ...


Secure, 3D Meeting Service Now Available with Lotus Sametime

Secure, 3D Meeting Service Now Available with Lotus Sametime

Technology / Software

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM today announced that a new service, Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime, is now available. The service allows Lotus Sametime users to set up and use virtual meeting spaces securely behind-the-firewall ...


IBM Announces New Products and Initiatives to Enable Next-Generation Linux

Technology / Software

created Aug 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

At the opening of the LinuxWorld tradeshow today, IBM introduced a series of new products, services and initiatives that further expand IBM's commitment to Linux and open source by enabling the next generation of Linux.


New Antarctic ice core to provide clearest climate record yet

New Antarctic ice core to provide clearest climate record yet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

After enduring months on the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record ...


New gas sensor is tiny, quick

New gas sensor is tiny, quick

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Engineers at MIT are developing a tiny sensor that could be used to detect minute quantities of hazardous gases, including toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents, much more quickly than current ...


Customized telemetry system for the James Webb Space Telescope successful

Customized telemetry system for the James Webb Space Telescope successful

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Once it launches in 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to communicate with the Earth thanks to a customized and modified "off-the-shelf" system that has been recently and successfully tested ...


Understanding MEMS: DARPA Award to Create Computer-Aided Design Environment for Micro-Electromechanical Systems Devices

Understanding MEMS: DARPA Award to Create Computer-Aided Design Environment for Micro-Electromechanical Systems Devices

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 13, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award to participate in a multi-university research center that will develop a computer-aided ...


'Not so fast, supercomputers,' say software programmers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 22, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 2

The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of multicore computing.



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