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In two papers published in the December 1 issue of the top scientific journal Nature, investigators describe two possible explanations for an extremely-weird gamma-ray burst astronomers detected on Christmas Day 2010.
The event was first detected by the NASA Swift spacecraft, and cataloged as GRB 101225A. The main r... |
1 December 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Experts operating the NASA Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission pointed the satellite towards the aircraft carrier-sized asteroid 2005 YU55 on Wednesday, November 9. This was when the space rock flew closest to Earth during its latest flyby.
Numerous professional and amateur telescopes were trained on the asteroid, but th... |
11 November 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Astrophysicists are convinced that there is something they are not seeing in the Cosmos: a source for the X-ray background that dedicated telescopes are observing. Now, they propose that black holes smothered in dust, hidden at the cores of active, but undetected galaxies, are responsible for this. This pro... |
13 May 2011
14:11 GMT |
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The Cosmic X-ray Background (CXRB) permeates the Universe, and some of its sources have been known for years. But it's only know that astrophysicists manage to confirm an older theory, showing that hidden black holes are partially responsible for the background's existence.Investigators say that supermassiv... |
21 January 2011
08:13 GMT |
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The NASA American space agency has recently identified, through its SWIFT satellite, the oldest-ever-detected gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the Universe, originating some 630 million years after the Big Bang. This means that the star that collapsed to generate the GRB ended its life cycle a good 370 million years before t... |
29 April 2009
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Is it a bird? Is it an airplane? No, actually it's sort of both. It may not be Superman, either, but the small unmanned Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) called RoboSwift is supposed to be capable of quite impressive feats which are sure to leave the commission of the MAV08 competition in awe. The small airplane is des... |
8 December 2008
11:24 GMT |
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It seems that, these days, everybody is trying to create only unique flip phones, and LG makes no exception to that. Together with Alltel, it has released a new mobile – the Swift, which is equipped with new keypad technology.Created for energetic persons, the Swift brings as innovation the Fastap Press-to-Expe... |
14 November 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Noise has always been the main obstacle in the wide-scale implementation of personal wind turbines on private homes. The high number of decibels didn't allow for too much sleep at night, and that was coming from just one turbine. A whole block of them, and there wouldn't have been any more windows. But now,... |
28 October 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has offered a new example of its commitment to building a payments platform for customers using its technology through a partnership with Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. The new agreement inked at Sibos 2008 between the Redmond company and SWIFT is designed to take to the next l... |
16 September 2008
06:28 GMT |
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On January 9, researchers from Princeton University pointed NASA's Swift satellite in the direction of the NGC 2770 galaxy, hopping to the see afterglow of a supernova explosion known as SN 2007uy, which had occurred only one month before. Instead, the team got a struck of luck and captured a five minute X-ray b... |
22 May 2008
03:38 GMT |
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The Taiwanese AMD subsidiary spilled the beans earlier this week on the company's APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), also known as the Fusion chip. As its name suggests, Fusion is a new breed of chips, similar to Intel's Larrabee project, which combines both GPU and CPU technologies onto a single silicon di... |
16 May 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices intends to get back the company's lost graphics market share with the advent of its highest-end graphics processor in the RV770 family. According to AMD, the company expects its shares to rise substantially immediately after the new graphics cards are released on the market. The AMD roadma... |
12 March 2008
10:03 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has serious intentions of merging the function of three vital chips, the graphics processing unit, the core logic and the CPU into a single chip, called "Swift", company officials revealed today. The chip is due to emerge in the second half of the next year and is part of the "Accelerated Compu... |
14 December 2007
06:46 GMT |
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Swifts are amongst the fastest birds, and even if they resemble swallows, they are in fact related to hummingbirds. A swift weighs a few tens of grams, but with its sickle shaped wings they can reach 160 km (100 mi) per hour. Swifts are the birds the term aerial suits best as they catch food (insects), eat, drink, co... |
1 December 2007
07:06 GMT |
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Microsoft technology, with a focus on the Windows operating system, is a natural step in the evolution of the infrastructure behind a 200 years old bank in Europe. KAS Bank is but one example of the over 8,000 financial institutions across the world that use the SWIFT interface software and messaging services. Since ... |
4 October 2007
02:49 GMT |
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BizTalk Server is a Microsoft solution designed to help with the management of systems and process, from the perspective of integration and automation in the context of global supply chains. Sibos 2007 is the stage where the Redmond company detailed the evolution of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in relation to SWIFT. Micros... |
2 October 2007
09:39 GMT |
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