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ARM Has Signed Two Licenses for Server Processors

It looks like ARM Holdings has made another step in the right direction while seeking to establish a presence on the server market. Like so many other companies, ARM has to periodically hold conference calls with financial analysts and discuss earnings, outlooks, etc. These calls tend to disclose certain business ...

25 April 2012
03:11 GMT

A Video Tour of LHC's ATLAS Detector

If you were ever interested in learning how the Large Hadron Collider actually works, this is your chance. The video above shows how the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) instrument on the world's largest particle accelerator works. The LHC was built primarily to detect the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle th...

9 April 2012
10:18 GMT

MechWarrior Online Gets First Atlas Trailer

The developers at Piranha Games have released the first trailer for their upcoming MechWarrior Online, the video game based on the BattleTech franchise that the team is currently developing for the PC.The trailer is designed to pique the interest of the already existing player base as it shows the familiar process of...

29 February 2012
08:57 GMT

LHC Will Operate at 8 TeV Total Output in 2012 [Video]

Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider will operate at a higher energy level in 2012 than last year. The combined output the particle accelerator will produce will reach 8 teraelectronvolts (TeV), 1 TeV above 2011 levels. This can be translated into...

14 February 2012
14:01 GMT

LHC Detector Built Out of LEGO

Sascha Mehlhase, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute, showcases an impressive creation, made entirely out of LEGO. The structure is a 1:50 model of the ATLAS ((A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The amazingly detailed model show...

28 December 2011
08:40 GMT

LHC Collisions Reveal New Particle

In a paper published on December 22 in the online journal arXiv, investigators with the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announce the discovery of a particle that has never been observed before. Scientists from the Lancaster University and the University of Birmingham w...

23 December 2011
05:44 GMT

'God's Particle' May Remain Hidden for Now

Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the rumors making the rounds recently – that the Higgs boson has been finally identified by two particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider – may not necessarily be true. The two LHC detectors in question are the Compact Muo...

13 December 2011
04:51 GMT

Possible Energy Range of Higgs Boson Severely Reduced

Thanks to unyielding efforts made by scientists operating two experiments on the world's most powerful particle accelerator, physicists are now able to say with a high degree of certainty that the prospective mass range in which the Higgs boson may be hiding is constantly shrinking.According to the scientists, t...

23 August 2011
16:01 GMT

LHC Experiment May Have Found Higgs Boson

According to a memo that leaked on the Internet, it could be that one of the four particle detectors installed on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to discover the Higgs boson.This particle is the reason why the 27-kilometer-long accelerator was built on the French-Swiss border, near Geneva. The Standard Model ...

23 April 2011
05:47 GMT

LHC Strips the Early Universe Bare

The Large Hadron Collider switched from using protons for its collisions to heavier lead ions recently, so that the events would produce more data than ever before. Some three weeks into the studies, this has already resulted in new insights of how the Universe looked like at the Big Bang.The goal of the LHC is to de...

26 November 2010
11:00 GMT

Canadian Scientist Leads Publishing of LHC's Findings

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is used to get an insight on the origins of the Universe and thanks to Dr Andreas Warburton of McGill’s Department of Physics, the first results from the analysis made at the LHC have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Researchers working at the LHC were tr...

13 October 2010
03:30 GMT

ATLAS Telescope To Keep an Eye Out for Asteroids

Astronomers have been lobbying for the creation of a telescope capable of keeping an eye out for dangers coming from the skies for a while now, and their prayers will apparently be answered by a new observations project. According to experts, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) will be capable o...

20 August 2010
08:36 GMT

CARIBU Breaks Ionization Records for Solids

The Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) project is an improvement to a famous particle accelerator in use by physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) for many years. The experts that devised it took great pride in their work, and recent experiments seem to...

14 April 2010
05:55 GMT

LHC to Receive Fastest Integrated Circuits Ever Made

A group of experts from the Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, announces the development of a new, super-fast circuit designed specifically to augment the capabilities of one of the main particle detectors of the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is the largest physics experiment ever designed, and its goal...

9 April 2010
04:44 GMT

Microsoft Atlas Selected as Ad-Serving Platform by IPG

Advertising holding company Interpublic Group (IPG) will leverage Microsoft’s ad-serving platform for North America campaigns, per an agreement inked by the duo. Expanding a collaboration dating back to mid-2009 when the Redmond company partnered with IPG’s global media planning and buying unit, Mediabran...

10 February 2010
06:39 GMT

Experts Create Map of Our Bacteria

Scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) have recently developed a new model to explain how bacteria are distributed across the human body, which may bring forth a new wave of understanding of how the microorganisms either live with us in symbiosis, or cause us significant damage. The team has also m...

6 November 2009
09:06 GMT

Mechwarrior Creator Advises Against Selling Rights to Games

News that a fresh Mechawarrior game was in development and that the original creator of the intellectual property, Jordan Weisman, was involved in the project, was welcome earlier in the year by fans of big metal robots that run around firing missiles and lasers.With Weisman talking about bringing the series back to ...

25 August 2009
13:31 GMT

Blausen Human Atlas 2.0 Available for iPhone

Blausen Inc. has released a new version of its Blausen Human Atlas iPhone app with increased medical content and enhanced functionality, according to a report. The developer and owner of the world’s largest library of 3D medical animations partnered up with CodeMorphic (iPhone developer) to create the app. Vers...

12 August 2009
08:56 GMT

Have Fun While Improving Your Geography Knowledge

The “learn through play” technique is a very efficient way to memorize almost everything and I am sure everyone needs a little help when it comes to all those geographical facts that represent common knowledge. That is why GeoEdu is one of the nicest ways to improve your orientation skills. GeoEdu has act...

15 January 2009
12:01 GMT

Microsoft Engagement ROI Beta Tool Available

The Engagement ROI tool is available to all customers running the Atlas platform starting today, September 22, since Microsoft announced that it was taking the tool outside of the initial limited pool of testers associated with the Beta program. Designed to deliver reporting and optimization capabilities to measure d...

22 September 2008
11:52 GMT

Atlas Kinetic Cell Phone Concept - No Battery Required

As years go by, more and more cell phone concepts appear, some from important manufacturers and other from simple users that believe they have a great idea and want to share it with the whole world. One of the latest concepts unveiled is the Atlas Kinetic cell phone, a handset that doesn't have a battery, bec...

27 February 2008
15:41 GMT

Behind the $500 Million Viacom - Microsoft Slap in Google's Face

On December 19th, Microsoft and Viacom announced a broad-based strategic alliance designed as nothing more than a slap in Google's face. The two companies partnered on a range of aspects, including the serving of advertising, but also on content distribution, as well as promotions focused on gaming materials and...

20 December 2007
05:21 GMT

Microsoft World-Class Video Ad Serving Solution Makes Debut

Microsoft's world-class video ad serving solution has made its debut for the Associated Press Online Video Network. The Redmond company informed that it has bridged its MSN Video player and the Atlas AdManager, integrated into the Publisher Solutions Group designed to integrate aQuantive's solutions into Mi...

24 September 2007
12:40 GMT


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