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Advanced Micro Devices managed to get the long end of the stick in graphics sales during the first quarter of the year (2012). Sure, laptop chip shipments dipped about 2%, but desktop APUs (accelerated processing units) managed an 84% jump. Jon Peddie Research says so anyway. Coupled with boosts of 4% to desktop GP... |
22 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Computer makers have gone from keyboards and mice to touchscreens and, now, they are dabbling in other forms of machine-human interaction, especially motion control.
There are three things that people have always wanted to see their devices respond to: their voices, their movements and their very thoughts.
Nowada... |
22 May 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Samsung’s greatest R&D division, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology has reportedly published and detailed research on the Barristor in the journal Science on the 17th of May. This is the wonder chip that researchers were looking for. We’ve talked about the amazing properties of Graphene before ... |
18 May 2012
09:01 GMT |
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The people at Tokyo University, Japan, have done it again: they've broken a record, this time having to do with high-speed wireless communications.
A team from Tokyo University achieved 3 Gbps transfers over a 542GHz wireless connection, which falls under 300GHz-3THz, a band that is part of the terahertz spect... |
16 May 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Google has quietly added a very interesting tool to Google Docs dubbed Research. As the name would suggest, it's designed to help users when researching a subject. Basically it adds an embedded Google Search in a panel to the right. You can use it to search for stuff that's relevant for you and easily inser... |
15 May 2012
15:31 GMT |
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We've seen our share of disposable technological inventions, but the one presented most recently by a team of researchers may take the cake as far as usability is concerned.
Paper has been an essential part of our society for centuries, especially after the invention of the printing press in 1440-1450.
Now, w... |
11 May 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Silicene is a combination of graphene and silicon that reportedly has a significant chance to reach the semiconductor market before the well-known graphene. Silicene is a single-atom thick layer of silicone interposed in a graphene base and this combination could beat graphene to the components market because the ind... |
2 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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It really was only a matter of time before this happened, and we only hope that the technology doesn't work both ways.
After all, it would not be fun for you to put on a cap and direct your robot only for it to suddenly decide to control you back.
Anyway, a team of scientists from Switzerland's Ecole Poly... |
28 April 2012
06:54 GMT |
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Solar energy is one of the, if not the most, convenient natural resources, being essentially inextinguishable, so we'll definitely take notice of any breakthrough in this field.
It so happens that an upstart German company has set the foundations for what may be the future or energy harnessing.
Under the apt ... |
23 April 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Nowadays, the world is trying to bring Internet access more or less everywhere, but there are remote locations where broadband doesn't work that well, or at all.
The means for bringing wireless network signals to mountains and such are called “multi-hop networks” and have a tight limit on how much ... |
23 April 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Looks like the interest in convenient electronics devices is mounting, with a quarter of US consumers having the intention to buy such a thing before the second quarter of the year is out.ABI Research decided to conduct a survey to see how high smartphones, tablets, HDTVs and other items rank on the priority list of ... |
21 April 2012
06:33 GMT |
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Researchers at the North Carolina State University have reportedly published a scientific paper on a copper-graphene alloy that can be used as the building material for future heatsinks.The paper concludes that the new type of alloy will show much better cooling performance than current, pure copper solutions.Over th... |
16 April 2012
14:55 GMT |
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Japanese inventors either have too many ideas or just don't know what to do with their time. Why else would they actually come up with interactive posters, of all things?
Still, reality is reality: a research group from the Keio University has invented a technology that lets a photo of a person react when kiss... |
2 April 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Microsoft researchers Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley take a look at banking fraud from a different angle in their paper called Is everything we known about password stealing wrong. The experts highlight the fact that financial institutions are spending large amounts of money for protecting their customers passwor... |
28 March 2012
03:40 GMT |
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When looking at the state of the semiconductor market, iSuppli discovered something about 2011.
Apparently, Intel's overall chip market share was of 15.6%, quite a bit over the 13.1% of 2010.
In fact, it was the largest market share Intel has had during the last 10 years, which is really saying something.
Nee... |
27 March 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Twitter may not be the greatest source for predicting box-office revenue, at least not on a reliable basis. Research done by several people from Princeton University showed that there is no tight correlation between Twitter sentiment and box-office revenue.
There was also no link between Oscar winners and how Twitte... |
26 March 2012
05:31 GMT |
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The world renowned ICT firm Fujitsu, in collaboration with Nagoya University, developed a system that can detect phone phishing scams and other malicious plots based on characteristic keywords and voice analysis.
Because phone scams are an ever growing threat, researchers came up with this system that can allegedly ... |
22 March 2012
11:29 GMT |
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The Chair or Information Communication Technology from University College London, Yvo Desmedt, with the aid of a student called Shah Mahmood, uncovered a flaw in Facebook that allows cybercriminals to almost seamlessly gather data on other customers. According to The Register, the experts demonstrated that by levera... |
20 March 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Paper printing is an intrinsic part of life, all those tons of used paper go to waste eventually and there is always the need for more blank sheets in case someone wants to print something else.A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge in England may just have a solution to this problem, at least as far... |
16 March 2012
06:11 GMT |
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One of the most difficult moments for someone who is new to A House Divided or the entire concepts of Victoria II (the first game in the series does not qualify as training) is taking the first look at the User Interface and determining what is crucial and what is merely important.
To me personally, quite a lot of t... |
2 March 2012
18:31 GMT |
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A security company has developed a sophisticated way to identify if, during a phone call, the individuals on the other end of the line are who they claim to be. By analyzing the “line noise” of an audio call, experts can determine if a fraudster is trying to impersonate someone as part of a scam.
The org... |
29 February 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Another day, another blog about robots. This time, though, we've got something less about human interaction and more about automation. Some folks over at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab built a robot that can not only navigate trusses, but it can also work with them. That is to say, it can unscrew beams, m... |
24 February 2012
10:45 GMT |
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We've seen lots of robots crop up over the years, especially the past half a decade, and we seem to have finally reached the stage where humanoid bots can start to help around the house. The Romeo project has, as primary goal, the creation of a humanoid robot capable of carrying out menial tasks. That is to s... |
21 February 2012
03:21 GMT |
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The so-called “passive universal gripper” invented by a team of researchers from Cornell University and the University of Chicago has become the star of its own video.Rather than trying to recreate the human hand and the power of the opposable thumb, it relies on a technique so arguably basic that it leav... |
16 February 2012
08:50 GMT |
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Clothing has a lot of potential, even outside the realm of fashion, as a team of researchers from the Polytechnic School of Montreal were all too eager to show.
We've already seen fabric transistors, which were made out of cotton, of all things.
Now we are faced with what is essentially fabric made out of batt... |
9 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Thanks to a team of researchers from North Carolina State University, we may not have to wait until 2014 for faster hybrid APUs and CPUs to become available.
AMD said, during the Financial Analyst Day, that it would have “fully fused” accelerated processing units by 2014.
Fortunately, we won't ha... |
8 February 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Anyone wondering how long it will take for a true cloak of invisibility to be created, should probably start to accept that it will take a long time, but that does not mean progress isn't being made.It may just be that a new method of making something invisible, or at least simulating invisibility, has been fou... |
28 January 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Quantum computing is considered, by many, the next leap in technological advancement, so physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Harvard University have decided to team up. Hearing that researchers want to make a nanosized loudspeaker may give the wron... |
28 January 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Since Advanced Micro Devices wants its Fusion technology to be adopted by as many people as possible, it figured it was time to take a more active role in the teaching and promoting of heterogeneous computing.
What the Sunnyvale, California-based company did was work with the University of Illinois for the creation... |
17 January 2012
04:07 GMT |
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PETA volunteers and conservationists all across the Globe have a new reason for excitement, since a team of experts from Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies (EMFT) in Munich have finally come up with a green technology, seeking to stop laboratories from using animals to test new subs... |
11 January 2012
05:04 GMT |
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A global concern regarding the effects of climate change, accelerated by man-made pollution have determined scientists to come up with several solutions seeking to curb the ever-growing amount of CO2 emissions.
Molten salt, edible sponges, or the miraculous 'pollution glue' spread on the streets of London... |
6 January 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab experts have taken their time to analyze one of the phony advertisements we are presented with almost each day while surfing social media sites, especially Facebook.
If earlier we took a peak at an alleged secret tape leaked from Selena Gomez, this time security researchers came across a single server ... |
3 January 2012
09:19 GMT |
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After he gave HP around a month to patch up their vulnerabilities that affected some of their LaserJet printers, Ang Cui, the Columbia University researcher demonstrated his proof of concept at the 28C3 Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin, Germany.
In a one-hour demonstration, Cui explained how he managed to rev... |
3 January 2012
07:15 GMT |
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It turns out that you don’t need to know how to breach a company computer network or be a genius programmer to stop trains from running. Script Kiddiez that possess the skills to bring down a government site could easily bring rail networks to a standstill. Stefan Katzenbeisser, a professor at Technische Unive... |
3 January 2012
05:53 GMT |
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The NPD Group has carried out a survey of small- and medium-sized businesses in the United States and found that many are planning to spend considerable amounts of cash to deploy iPads in their organizations.Around 73 percent plan to buy tens of thousands of dollars worth of tablets in the next year or so. Most of th... |
29 December 2011
09:21 GMT |
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IBM decided it was time for its Watson supercomputer to start contributing to the wellbeing of mankind instead of just winning knowledge games.Watson showed its mettle by winning a game of Jeopardy! against two human champions.Now, servers like the ones that powered Watson during the Jeopardy! contest will help the ... |
27 December 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Researchers from ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, and UCI, Irvine, in the United States released a paper in which they reveal the results of their experiments done with the purpose of simulating a Global Positioning System (GPS) attack, similar to the one allegedly used by Iran to capture the RQ-170 warplane.
The paper c... |
22 December 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Using liquids in electronics is definitely not something that people are known to do, given the tendency of things to go up in smoke or down in flames, or both, when such substances are spilled all over them, or even just sprinkled. Things changes when the fluid in question is actually liquid metal and has what it ... |
21 December 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Quantum computers are seen by many as the next big step towards faster systems of all sorts, but they aren't exactly easy or affordable to build, not yet.
Now, though, a group of Air Force and Florida Atlantic University researchers have finally come up with a way to create them with off-the-shelf components. ... |
21 December 2011
03:43 GMT |
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A recent forensic analysis performed by researchers from ViaForensics showed that while Google’s Wallet application can be highly useful for smartphone owners, doing a good job protecting their assets, there are some issues that may be considered security risks. During the experiment, which was performed on a ... |
13 December 2011
07:44 GMT |
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A group of scientists from University of Portsmouth will try to teach the endangered Sulawesi crested macaques how to play with touch screens. The main goal is to convince the primates to use high-tech devices in order to express their choices, as a part of a study aiming to find new things about animal behavior. Th... |
7 December 2011
09:18 GMT |
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IBM isn't the only company to devise revolutionary memory, as Intel and ITRI want to make their own, one that is supposed to be both powerful and very power efficient compared to what exists today.
Back when we mentioned JEDEC and its DDR4, it became easy to see that the memory market isn't that good at p... |
6 December 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Researchers from the North Carolina State University released a paper in which they highlight the security issues that emerge from the fact that manufacturers and wireless carriers are allowed to modify Android operating systems to their own liking.
The study entitled "Systematic Detection of Capability Leaks in Sto... |
6 December 2011
03:39 GMT |
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This is one of those situations where proverbs could come in handy, about one man's trash being another's treasure or some such.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz figured how they might make use of the soot given off by candles to improve displays.
The substance does... |
5 December 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Translucent chitin isn't exactly something one would assume to exist, especially if people have any idea what chitin is, but there definitely exists, right now, a transparent crab shell. The reason for the existence of such a thing is because biologists from the university of Kyoto decided to turn a regular cr... |
2 December 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Teaching people about climate change through lectures will never work. Pablo Suarez has tested this method and seen people falling asleep in their chairs. After he threw Frisbees to the bored public gathered for a conference in Ecuador, he realized fighting climate change needs a new kind of boost to become popular. ... |
2 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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A researcher from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, created a programming language called Paragon that can determine, during the development process, if an application presents vulnerabilities.
According to H-Security, Niklas Broberg made Paragon as a part of his doctoral thesis entitled “Practical, F... |
26 November 2011
03:41 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the University of Victoria and the Peking University released a study in which they try to differentiate the legitimate posters from the paid posters known in China as the Internet Water Army.
They claim that paid posting became a job for the members of the Water Army, since they're ... |
24 November 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Short battery life is one of the main things about portable electronics that can really hurt a device's appeal, but such concerns may go away because of what Northwestern University made.
Northwestern University may have solved, or at least greatly reduced, the problem batteries of today have.
Granted, it isn... |
21 November 2011
04:32 GMT |
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Light really has become the foundation for the next breakthroughs in terms of data transmissions, so Stanford University researchers took it upon themselves to develop a new LED-based technology. Cutting right to the point, computer chips with LED-based optical communications will be about 2,000 times more efficien... |
17 November 2011
08:07 GMT |
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