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Apple Blinks in Apps Fight
In an uncharacteristic about-face, Apple Inc. loosened its control over software development for its iPhones and iPads as the company feels heat from a U.S. antitrust...
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Cracking Flight's Mysteries
Harvard University engineers are developing minuscule aerial robots that could one day be used to investigate areas that are too hazardous for humans. The robot's...
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CLA Chemists, Engineers Fabricate High-Speed Graphene Transistors
UCLA researchers say they have fabricated the fastest graphene transistors ever using a nanowire as the self-aligned gate. Their fabrication technique enabled...
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Student-Built Satellite Scheduled for Launch
A 6.5-pound satellite scheduled for launch on November 19 is to become the first stand-alone spacecraft built by University of Michigan students to go into orbit...
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New Process Promises to Revolutionize Manufacturing of Products
University of Waterloo scientists have developed Multiple Memory Material Technology, a new manufacturing process that they say makes smart materials even smarter...
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Scientists Develop Device to Enable Improved Global Data Transmission
University of Southampton researchers have developed a data transmission system that could benefit optical communications networks by eliminating phase noise from...
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Computer Scientists Leverage Dark Silicon to Improve Smartphone Battery Life
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon"—the...
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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Researchers Create Robot That Can Pair, Fold Socks
University of California, Berkeley researchers have developed a robot that can pair and fold socks. The robot can determine whether a sock is inside out based on...
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Researchers Develop New Piezoelectric Logic Devices
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated...
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Technology Assists Multi-Tasking Motorcycle Officers
A motorcycle police officer on an urgent call faces huge information processing and decision-making demands. A new European research project aims to prevent potentially...
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Nano Switches that Store More Data Head to Market
An electronic component that offers a new way to squeeze more data into computers and portable gadgets is set to go into production in just a couple of years.
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Wonder Conductors Will Spin p Cooler Computers
Newly discovered materials called topological insulators could clear the way for blisteringly fast laptops and smartphones that don't warm your lap or singe your...
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Tech Research Customizes Tv sers' Preferences
Intel researchers have developed a way TV remote controls can identify users based on their viewing preferences and how they hold the remote, which could help advance...
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Nasa Funds Development of Nano Materials For Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries
NEI Corp. and UC San Diego recently won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and implement high energy density cathode materials...
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Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chip
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization...
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Rational Design Process Produces Enhanced Optoelectronics Materials
European researchers have combined computer modelling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes to create novel transparent conductive oxides made...
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Worm Memory ses Orders of Magnitude Less Power Than Other Devices
Cambridge University researchers have developed an inexpensive write once, read many (WORM) memory device that uses much less power than previous devices.
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