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Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
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Security Researchers Create ndetectable Hardware Trojans
A new paper shows how integrated circuits used in computers, military equipment, and other critical systems can be compromised during the manufacturing process. ...
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Researchers Build Jumping, Flipping, Hand-Standing Robot
The X-Rhex Lite robot can do a handstand, jump over gaps, and climb over rocks, all movements that could be used in hazardous situations.
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Next-Gen SB SuperSpeed to Eliminate Power Cords
Upgrades to the Thunderbolt and USB SuperSpeed specifications will double data transfer speeds and boost power transfer in both directions 10-fold.
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Harvard Global Grid Computing Project Will Help Create Printable Solar Cells
Harvard University's Clean Energy Project soon will release a list of organic compounds that could be used to make inexpensive, printable photovoltaic cells.
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Scientists Demonstrate Key Component of Quantum Machine
Researchers have demonstrated a quantum bit based on the nucleus of a single atom in silicon, which could lead to mass production of quantum computers.
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New Hybrid Memory Cube Spec to Boost Dram Bandwidth By 15x
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has announced the final specifications for 3D dynamic random-access memory.
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China Moves to Beat U.s. in Exascale Computing
China recently has fully embraced high-performance computing and now has 72 systems on the most recent Top500 supercomputer list, making it the second largest HPC...
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Intel Researchers Work on New Way to Display, Share Images
Intel researchers are developing Display without Borders, a system to display photos and videos in order to make them more social and collaborative.
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Nasa pgrades Mars Curiosity Software ... from 350m Miles Away
Picture doing a remote software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface...
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Silicon Valley's Top Threat Is China, Survey Finds
Many high-level technology executives are convinced that some other country, probably China, will supplant Silicon Valley as the global center for innovation within...
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A High-Tech Pioneer Reflects on the Digital Revolution
In an interview, Frederico Faggin, who led the design and development of the first microprocessor in 1970, says he sees a future in which quantum and cognitive...
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Exascale Computing Seen in This Decade
A major focus at the SC11 supercomputing conference was plans to develop an exascale computing system, which would be about 1,000 times more powerful than any...
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3D Chips: The Next Electronics Revolution
The semiconductor industry is moving toward three-dimensional (3D) chip design, stacking dies and moving data from one layer to another.
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5 More Tech Breakthroughs: Innovations in Access, Power and Control
Five new technology breakthroughs could change the way users power and interact with their devices and access the Internet.
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5 Tech Breakthroughs: Chip-Level Advances That May Change Computing
Chip-level advances, including new processors and circuits, could be the building blocks that lead to a new generation of computing products and devices.
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Arm: Intel Has Tough Road Into Mobile Market
Intel may have made a big splash this week announcing it's going to focus on the mobile market, but its rival in the space says the chip maker has an uphill climb...
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Hp Advances Next-Gen 'memristor' Memory Technology
Hewlett-Packard and University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have mapped out the basic chemistry and structure of what happens inside a memristor during...
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Iranian General Accuses Siemens of Helping .s., Israel Build Stuxnet
An Iranian military commander Saturday accused the German electronics giant Siemens with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his...
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Multicore Coding Standards Aim to Ease Programming
The Multicore Association has established specifications for a programming model designed to make it easier to write software for multicore chips, particularly...
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