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Sony Is Working on the PlayStation 4, Devoting Fewer Resources

Video game hardware manufacturer and game publisher Sony has confirmed that it is working on a new version of its home console, which the public has traditionally called the PlayStation 4, although the company has not offered any details on what it will offer to players and has not talked about when it might be launc...

27 May 2011
05:42 GMT

PlayStation 3 Has the Power to Support Killzone 4

Killzone 3 is now out in North America and will soon also arrive in Europe, and the game has managed to impress with its much-improved graphics and its smoother action with the leader of the development team at Guerrilla Games saying that the PlayStation 3 still has enough resources to see significant improvements wh...

23 February 2011
17:41 GMT

IBM Continues to Develop Cell Chips as Part of Power Roadmap

Even despite rumors implied that the creators of Cell chips, chips used in game consoles, would stop making such processors, IBM, at least, seems bent on trying its hand on a hybrid version that will eventually become part of the power-series roadmap.The three original makers of the Cell processors were Toshiba, Son...

9 October 2010
04:25 GMT

Verizon Wireless Deploys New Cell Site in Hoopeston

Continuing its expansion campaign across the United States, Verizon Wireless has recently deployed a new cell site in Hoopeston, Illinois. The new cell site will allow a larger number of Verizon customers to use wireless services in the area, and drastically increase the reception quality and data-transfer speed. The...

11 June 2010
09:12 GMT

Rumor Mill: The PSP 2 Has Touch Screen and Two Cameras

Even Sony has admitted that it is disappointed with the sales of the PlayStation Portable during last year and it seems that the Go version, which has no UMD media drive and no removable battery, has not managed to raise the interest of those looking for ways to play videogames while on the move. And rumors have surf...

20 May 2010
13:11 GMT

Naughty Dog Hopes for 6 More Years of the PlayStation 3

There's a lot of talk in the videogaming world about the next generation of gaming consoles and how the devices might evolve to allow for better graphics, more complex gameplay or more interesting controls.Both Microsoft and Sony have vehemently denied working on anything like the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox 720 a...

6 January 2010
16:11 GMT

IBM to Pull Out of the Development of the Cell Processor

IBM has recently confirmed that it will be pulling out of the development of the Cell processor, as the company plans to make the PowerXCell 8i model the last of its entrance in the technology. The said processor is part of a joint venture between the chip maker, Sony and Toshiba, the result of which has been enable...

23 November 2009
06:41 GMT

The Nuclear Pore Complex Reveals Its Structure

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently managed to develop a basic architectural model for the nuclear pore complex (NPC), often referred to as the “gatekeeper” of the cell. The basic sketch may help biologists and other researchers gain a better understanding of how ch...

28 October 2009
03:30 GMT

PlayStation 3 Cell Development Might Have Aided Microsoft

A new book, written by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, both leading figures involved in the development of the Cell processor, is claiming that the development of the processor powering the PlayStation 3 gaming console from Sony ended up providing Microsoft, the producer of the Xbox 360, with valuable technology.Sony...

6 January 2009
03:33 GMT

Illegal Cell Phones to Be Jammed by Prison Officials

It's a known fact that cell phones get smaller, lighter, better and harder to detect, since they're largely made of non-metallic materials, and can easily fit into hardly accessible places. This has caused the number of smuggled phones in some state prisons to increase by as much as 100% this year, as comp...

9 December 2008
11:06 GMT

Pan-STARRS Has a 1.4 Gigapixel Resolution

Technology is steadily evolving, devices and gadgets become increasingly smaller and optical resolution gets ever larger. Regular photo cameras now boast impressive 5 megapixel resolution and fantastic zoom-in abilities. Well, impressive until some while ago, that is. Still, in this accelerating age of minimizing si...

1 December 2008
10:01 GMT

Duller Solar Batteries Are More Efficient

Although people are accustomed to shiny solar panels and cells that are believed to replace conventional energy sources in the future, this is promised to change soon. In fact, scientists have discovered that, in order to improve the efficiency of the solar light caption devices, these need to be made as less reflect...

13 November 2008
07:56 GMT

UNSW Breaks Own Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

The milestone of 25% efficiency for solar cells has now been reached by the researchers from the ARC Photovoltaic Center of Excellence at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Kensington, Australia. Actually, it's not a new product or technology used for silicon solar cells that has enabled them to break t...

24 October 2008
10:35 GMT

Biggest US Fuel Cell Plant Built by Pepperidge

The Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Pepperidge bakery now relies on its recently-built fuel cell power plants for 70% of its electrical energy requirements. The excess heat generated in the process is also used for baking purposes, reducing the pollution generated by CO2 emissions in the process. The recent partne...

16 October 2008
04:57 GMT

Nobel for Chemical Jellyfish Lights

Recently, the most important scientific prize has been awarded for its Chemistry achievements section. The winners are a Japanese and two American researchers who discovered and improved the applications of the glowing proteins in jellyfish.The actual discovery was made in 1961 by a Japanese citizen, Osamu Shimomura,...

9 October 2008
09:05 GMT

Sony Says the 45 nm Cell Processor Will Be Implemented in 2009

Technology development is constant nowadays, but Sony and Toshiba's latest venture in research, the attempt to improve the Cell processor, which currently powers the PlayStation 3, has resulted in a finished product. Say  goodbye to the old 65 nm chip, and welcome to the new 45 nm one. Sure, it may not soun...

23 September 2008
19:01 GMT

Toshiba and Sony Can Get Along, Work on 45nm Cell Processor

It looks like Sony and Toshiba can get along after all. This comes hot on the heels of this year's final stage of the Blu-ray versus HD DVD war, which prompted many to believe that these two companies would never see eye to eye, not in the near future nor the distant one. However, going against this comes the ne...

22 September 2008
10:30 GMT

IBM Updates Its Blade Server Lineup with PlayStation 3 Chips

IBM has just introduced a new blade server offering for high-performance computing, powered by Cell processors. The new offering is especially targeted at financial services, digital media creation, and medical imaging, as the updated Cell processor comes with better support for floating point operations.According to...

14 May 2008
05:12 GMT

The Secret of the World's Largest Bacterium Revealed

This is like the blue whale of the bacterial world. Epulopiscium is as big as a mountain when compared to other bacteria, having the size of a grain of salt and being a million times larger than the common E. coli bacteria: you can see it with the naked eye. A new study carried out at Cornell and published in the Pro...

9 May 2008
03:35 GMT

Soon, Artificial Blood

Blood supply (or lack thereof) is a real medical issue today, as there are never enough donors. A new research carried out at by a team led by Joseph DeSimone, a chemical engineer the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, could partially solve the problem, as NewScientist notes. Red blood cells transport oxyge...

8 May 2008
14:06 GMT

New Method Catches Rapists in 30 to 45 Minutes

DNA is the irrefutable proof in many outstanding criminal cases. However, about 250,000 DNA samples aimed to detect a rapist can remain anywhere from 3 to 12 months in forensic laboratories backlogs, and this gives suspects more than enough time to make themselves disappear. The issue could be solved by Jessica Voorh...

8 May 2008
14:06 GMT

Your Number of Fat Cells Is the Same Since Adolescence

Whether you look like Peter Doherty or Michael Moore, there is a fixed number of fat cells in your body since adolescence, as revealed by a new research published in the journal Nature and carried out at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.This number of adipocytes (fat cells) seems to be achieved during teen years an...

5 May 2008
14:06 GMT

4 Things About Foraminifera

The Foraminifera ("Hole Bearers") represent a group of amoeba-related protozoa that produce a test (shell) which can have either one or multiple chambers, and in some cases can be extremely complex. The shells are perforated by holes through which the unicellular animal extends its "tentacles", called "pseudopodia", ...

18 April 2008
09:59 GMT

Toshiba's SpursEngine, Inspired by PlayStation 3's Cell Processors

Japanese manufacturer Toshiba has begun sampling units of its SpursEngine chip, a high-performance co-processor inspired from IBM's Cell processor, that powers Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. The new chip is designed to take care of intensive applications for graphics design and image manipulation. The ...

8 April 2008
09:31 GMT

How Red Wine Treats You of Cancer

French are real lover boys thanks to the consumption of red wine. Resveratrol, an antioxidant polyphenol found in red wine, red grapes and pomace (winemaking residue), has been proved by many researches to boost heart health, erection and to impede prostate cancer and tooth decay, while also hampering bacterial infec...

26 March 2008
17:41 GMT

The Umbilical Cord Can Regenerate Your Brain

The umbilical cord can make more than the belly button: it regenerates your brain. Human umbilical cord blood cells (UCBC) injected into old lab rats caused an improvement in the microenvironment of the hippocampus nucleus of the brain, accompanied by a rejuvenation of neural stem cells. The study carried out at the ...

17 March 2008
05:14 GMT

How to Build Your Own Supercomputer Using A Rack Of PlayStation 3s

The brand-new PlayStation 3 from Sony is surely one of the best recipes for having fun. If the average user would enjoy setting off into a difficult mission with Solid Snake in the Metal Gear series or smashing some alien creatures in the Alien versus Predator, some true tech geeks would put gaming consoles to new an...

29 February 2008
04:17 GMT

Solar Cells of the Future Will Mimic Moth Eyes!

The idea of solar cells is so cool! They would come with such cheap energy, and everybody would be a Captain Planet fighting pollution. But what many people still do not understand is that they are so inefficient at this moment. A new research published in "Applied Physics Letters" could come with a step further to t...

23 February 2008
06:33 GMT

Montalvo Cooks Opteron and Cell Hybrid Processor, Takes Intel Down

Montalvo Systems is secretly designing a new breed of energy-efficient multicore processor. The company has finished the design of a chip aimed at mobile computing. When it gets finished, it will be compatible with all the x86 software that can run on both AMD and Intel chips.Despite the software compatibility, the c...

15 February 2008
03:38 GMT

No More Men for Reproduction: Sperm from Female Cells!

One day, man's job in the family may be just to cut the lawn and change the light bulb when necessary. This is because researches like this one made at the University of Newcastle could put them out of the reproductive business. The team led by Professor Karim Nayernia has now created spermatogonia (the cells fr...

1 February 2008
05:52 GMT

How Did Life Appear?

Life is subdued to a continuous development. With each new generation, advantages increase, while disadvantages are removed, and new possibilities are exploited. An ancestral species forms several new species and can disappear, or to survive in its original form adapting to its own niche in the system. The result is ...

28 January 2008
10:11 GMT

Beating Lab Made Hearts!

Broken feelings may not be repaired through engineering, but broken hearts can be. In fact, heart attack kills annually 50,000 people, only in US, and it is experienced by 550,000. A new research published in "Nature Medicine" and carried on at the University of Minnesota is the first ever to have built a beating hea...

14 January 2008
02:50 GMT

Cell-phone Conversations Slow Down the Traffic

Until now, it has been well known that talking on your cellphone while driving could get dangerous. A new survey shows that talking on your mobile while in traffic may cause some delays as well. That's pretty logical as the one who's driving has to focus his attention not only on the traffic, but on the con...

3 January 2008
09:59 GMT

A New Way to Die

There are cases when death can be a really good thing. Imagine, for instance, the cancer cells. However, so far, only two ways of cell death have been known: apoptosis (when the cell destroys itself) and phagocytosis (when the cell is digested by another cell). Now a new type of cell death has been found: entosis, wh...

3 December 2007
05:44 GMT

Scientists Achieve Embryonic Stem Cells from the Skin!

In the end, there may be no need to kill human embryos for getting stem cells, as two teams have achieved embryonic stem cells from human skin cells. The newly induced pluripotent cells could turn into various cell types of the human organism. "The advantage of using [such] reprogrammed skin cells is that any cells d...

21 November 2007
02:48 GMT

New Technology Watches Brain Cells Multiplying

A few months ago few would have agreed that the adult brain keeps on forming new brain cells. But after researches confirmed the discovery first made in 1998, now they have at their disposal a technology to view stem cells in the brains of living animals (humans included) allowing the researchers to watch neurogenes...

20 November 2007
05:22 GMT

The Best Stem Cells - Discovered in the Menstrual Blood!

Cloning poses a huge ethic debate. That's why scientists have been focusing on various sources for getting stem cells, necessary for technologies of organ replacing. We have witnessed tests made on stem cells coming from skin, fatty tissue, bones, testicles, and now, from an unsuspected source: menstrual blood!T...

19 November 2007
04:43 GMT

Breakthrough: Mind-Reading Software Could Make Paralyzed People Speak!

In movies, machines and people can read your mind. Till we achieve that, a first step could be done, which would be quite a breakthrough: translate the thoughts of a paralyzed person into speech in a pioneering experiment. Jonathan Brumberg from Boston University revealed the results of his team at the meeting of the...

16 November 2007
05:45 GMT

Type O Blood Protects People Against Malaria!

500 million people in the tropics are infected by malaria, a disease caused by a protozoa spread by the female of the Anopheles mosquito. The parasite triggers fever, shivering, articulation pains, severe headache and vomit. Each year, 1.5 million people die of malaria, a child every 30 seconds. It is endemic in 101 ...

9 November 2007
03:25 GMT

The Odd Blood

The sickle cell anemia is one of the worst hereditary conditions connected to the African race. The mutant gene that causes it is delivered by both parents. In Nigeria, out of a population of 120 million, 1 million people suffer of the sickle cell anemia and 60,000 die annually of it. Haematids or blood's red ce...

1 November 2007
03:26 GMT

How Does the Retina Turn Light into Brain Visual Images?

90 % of the information we get about our environment comes through our eyes. Humans are visual beings. But how light turns into visual sensations is hard to explain. A new research published in Neuroscience sheds light on how the human and primate retinas turn light into signals going to the brain. The team funded by...

30 October 2007
08:08 GMT

Memory's Cell Base Discovered!

There is an intensive hunt for finding what's behind the memory, the very chemical of the recalling. Now a team at Georgia Institute of Technology has found some molecular interactions on cell surfaces that could work like the "memory", changing the way the cells will interact in the future. The paper has been p...

30 October 2007
07:07 GMT

Toshiba Displays an Alternative to the Cell CPU

Sometimes developing a new piece of technology in the computer hardware industry takes more resources that are available to a single company and then alliances and partnerships are formed, just like it was the case with the Cell processing units which were developed through a joint effort by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. Th...

21 September 2007
11:01 GMT

The Waterproof Glue of the Future?

These are more than simple Amoebas: the single-celled animals called Foraminifera, floating in the plankton, are amongst the most abundant organisms in the ocean's organic mass. Many produce bioluminescence seen in the ocean during the night and the largest species, even if they do not oversize a fingernail (whi...

19 September 2007
07:03 GMT

IBM Boosts Blade Servers' Performance

The blade server design is one of the most popular and successful designs around the server market as it allows a greater degree of flexibility than other models and comes with several practical advantages like decreased price, ease of expandability and so on while maintaining a high performance.In order to maintain ...

31 August 2007
09:13 GMT

Playing God: Scientists Could Create Synthetic Life in the Next 3 Years

Some scientists are playing God, and they're getting increasingly closer to actually succeeding in this game. Within 3 to 10 years, some research team could even create man-assisted "wet artificial life.""We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways - in fact, in w...

22 August 2007
03:10 GMT

Breakthrough: New Microscope Makes 3-D Movies of the Live Cells

Now, porn really can go down to a very low level. Scripts can include sperm cells and eggs or bacteria if you want. A MIT team has designed a microscope that acts like a camera generating three-dimensional movies of live cells. The device functions like a cellular CT scanner, giving researchers the opportunity to see...

14 August 2007
03:49 GMT

Green Tea Found to Be a Dandruff Slayer

That famous healthy British skin has its secret: green tea. Now, green tea could lead to a new treatment for skin disorders like psoriasis and dandruff, as found by a team at the Medical College of Georgia.The researchers performed tests on an animal model to study the inflammatory skin diseases, characterized by pat...

9 August 2007
07:15 GMT

By 2008, No More Implants: Stem Cells for Bigger Boobs

It's cleat that breasts are rather a sexual 'mark' than having a clear breastfeeding purpose in humans. Because otherwise it's hard to explain 300,000 breast augmentations and reconstructions performed in the US only in 2006, a triple number compared to 1997: any woman wants to feel attractive. Bu...

6 August 2007
14:11 GMT

New World Speed Record for Cell-Powered Vehicle

There are many advocates for the cell-powered vehicles as an environmentally friendly alternative to the standard gas and other oil-based fuel burning vehicles. But others say that the market won't embrace this variant as these vehicles would be too slow. Now, a group of Japanese students has come to prove the c...

6 August 2007
05:36 GMT


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