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A team of archaeologists recently discovered a new Roman-built structure in England. This would have not been particularly special if the structure weren't shaped like a wing. What's more, experts digging at the site have yet to discover any parallels for this building.
At this point, experts aren't s... |
23 January 2012
03:32 GMT |
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There hasn't been a completely new major instruction set architecture since 1991, but this has finally changed now that ICube has released the UPU. Put simply, the UPU is a chip that has both the computing and graphics instruction handled by a single processor core. Said core bears the name of MVP (Multi-thre... |
13 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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As governments all across the globe are supporting new ways of fighting air pollution and preserving nature, France might perform an extreme green makeover for one of its most important symbols: the Eiffel Tower.
The historical monument could look like a giant tree in the near future, due to a bold architectural pla... |
3 January 2012
07:51 GMT |
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At the beginning of a new year, many homeowners feel tempted to redecorate their cribs. Nowadays, design trends can be followed while using sustainable materials, for optimal results. Changing the wallpaper is always a major first step, improving the aesthetics of our homes and safeguarding our health at the same t... |
3 January 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Gisele Bundchen and her husband, Tom Brady, the famous football player, are one step closer to moving in their very own green nest, located in a classy neighborhood in Los Angeles. Bundchen has made a name for herself mostly due to her modeling career, but also thanks to her contribution as an ambassador for the Un... |
29 December 2011
06:48 GMT |
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Sustainable architecture is one of the hottest green trends spotted in 2011. However, only a few initiatives of this kind can compare to the original train car house designed and built by a German couple.
Recycling goes hand in hand with an ingenious idea inspired by a romantic story. Marco Stepniak and Vanessa Stal... |
27 December 2011
08:53 GMT |
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The auto industry is scaling up efforts to go greener. Recyclable car parts can be used in many ways, but two American architects take these pieces and exploit them in an ingenious, unconventional way, while building an eco-friendly house in Berkeley, California. Karl Wanaselja has worked in partnership with Cate L... |
16 December 2011
02:17 GMT |
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Apple is sparing no efforts to combine the power of innovative technology with a significant green boost offered by renewables. Recent change of plans regarding its new Silicon Valley headquarters involve a large solar panel roof. The green system is expected to rely on 5 MW solar array, proving enough energy for t... |
14 December 2011
03:40 GMT |
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A new project that will be completed in Seoul by 2015 seems to have drawn for inspiration on one of the most unfortunate tragedies in modern history: the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in NYC on September 11, 2001. Called “The Cloud” and designed by architecture firm MVRDV as part of the l... |
12 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Open64, an open source, optimizing compiler for multiple architectures, initially released in 2000, has now reached version 5.0. Open64 supports Fortran 77/95/2003 and C/C++, as well as the shared memory programming model OpenMP. This latest version brings a flurry of changes and updates, the full list being availabl... |
10 November 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Whether people believe it or not, it is quite possible that, within a decade or so, we'll already be living in a world of interactive buildings where practically every surface and every wall will respond to our presence in some fashion.
Pretty much everyone is at least loosely familiar with the Sci-Fi genre ... |
11 October 2011
08:30 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, argue in a new study that they were able to develop a new imaging technique, which enables them to use computer tomography (CT) in order to monitor how ants move and setup their colonies.
This approach allows for the creation of a four-... |
23 September 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Industrial designers are always in need of simple to use applications that come with Computer Aided Designs tools. If that is what you are looking for, LibreCAD is the application you need, an app that will help you create CAD projects free of charge.Computer Aided Design allows you to create professional architectu... |
24 April 2011
10:51 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of Greenwich's School of Architecture & Construction, are working on the development of a new kind of facing for buildings, that could gather water and even generate energy.Professor Neil Spiller, an architect and head of the University of Greenwich's School of Arch... |
13 January 2011
08:40 GMT |
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The University of Greenwich’s School of Architecture & Construction could create 'living' materials to cover buildings and help fight the effects of climate change, by using ethical synthetic biology.For the development of materials that could produce water in the desert or biofuels out of sunlight, a... |
5 November 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Halo: Reach is the newest first person shooter from developer Bungie and publisher Microsoft, telling the story of how humanity lost the planet of Reach to the forces of the Covenant and how the actions of a few Spartans influenced the events of the first two games in the series.Despite working with essentially the s... |
24 September 2010
18:41 GMT |
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After having been in development for years, the Bobcat and Bulldozer architectures from Advanced Micro Devices are finally getting ready to materialize into actual products, and the company is taking advantage of the annual Hot Chips conference to disclose some details, while still keeping quiet about the performanc... |
24 August 2010
03:34 GMT |
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As reported earlier, the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is about to experience a major earthquake. Experts have calculated that the area has a 33 percent chance of suffering the effects of a large tremor within the next 50 years. In immediate response to this new study, a small coastal community in... |
25 May 2010
07:03 GMT |
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The web has been veritably swarming with talk of Intel's next-generation architecture and rumors about when and where the market will eventually see it in action. These chips promise to better perform in practically all areas possible and, while they will most likely need a new platform to start off, they will d... |
14 April 2010
05:32 GMT |
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A team of British researchers at Cardiff University, sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), announces the development on a new type of computer software capable of producing audibility maps. The program basically simulates the proposed design of a room, and shows through playback... |
6 March 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Rambus has proudly unveiled its Mobile XDR architecture, which promises to yield mobile memory with a higher bandwidth at a lower power consumption. The technology is based on the innovations brought about by the Mobile Memory Initiative introduced last year. This architecture will supposedly enable a memory bandwidt... |
8 February 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Not too long ago, home computers were powered by single-core processors, which needed to be continuously improved so as to get more power out of them. In time, dual- and quad-core designs emerged, which meant that two or four cores were placed alongside each other, sharing the tasks they were assigned. Now, experts a... |
12 December 2009
06:40 GMT |
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While some go out of their way to disprove solid scientific data, others are really trying to mitigate the effects of climate change and global warming. One such person is University College London (UCL) Bartlett School of Architecture professor Dr Rachel Armstrong, who is proposing that next-generation buildings be ... |
27 November 2009
08:52 GMT |
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An international collaboration of architects, engineers and artists has recently released its plans for the new “digital cloud” that will adorn London's skyline pretty soon. The giant, inflatable structures would essentially float on its support pillars, and would be used primarily for displaying mul... |
11 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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New York City is highly renowned for its brick buildings, which have a characteristic reddish hue, and give certain streets a unique look. Over a period of three weeks, architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, both of whom are professors and researchers at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, will guide their amazing ro... |
27 October 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Urban architects undoubtedly have something special of their own, a fact that has been evidenced numerous times by the wide array of improvements and reconversions they brought to seemingly decrepit and abandoned structures. San Francisco architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello one day took a look at the San... |
8 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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For a good while now, people have been speculating on the bits and pieces of NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture, the much-anticipated GT300, which the company has been consistently keeping under wraps. Rumored to be scheduled for release sometime by the end of this year, or early next year, the new GT300 ... |
29 September 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Scientists were able recently to demonstrate that it's not only the genetic sequence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that makes it so dangerous, but also its architecture. The term is used to compare the way the virus is put together with an electrical diagram, for example. The experts in charge of the... |
6 August 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Engineers have recently unveiled a plan that a few years back might have seemed like a joke – to build a wall to mark the spread of the Sahara desert, so that the dunes stop spreading over yet-unaffected ground. The problem appears all over the Saharan borders, as fields and families are being displaced by the ... |
24 July 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois have created a new brand of polymers, which is able to shift color when it is stressed beyond its capacity, or overloaded. The innovation could benefit a wide range of applications, from building structures to designing more efficient climbing ropes or parachute cords. Basica... |
7 May 2009
05:38 GMT |
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In his new book, “Beyond the Bubble: The New Japanese Architecture” (Phaidon Press), University of Illinois (UI) architecture professor Botond Bognar draws attention to the fact that the US shouldn't turn to the architectural model employed by Japan in the mid-1990s, especially now, in times of econo... |
10 March 2009
04:34 GMT |
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The world's City of Culture (Cidade da Cultura), currently under construction in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, is the most complex architectural design in history. The decade-long work, scheduled to be finished in 2012, represents the culmination of our design capabilities as far as buildings and build... |
21 February 2009
05:01 GMT |
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A growing agreement of opinions among architects worldwide holds that almost everything that could have been done with conventional construction techniques has been done. As proof, we have the City of Culture, in Galicia, Spain, a mind-boggling architectural complex, and the newest innovation – the first rotati... |
17 February 2009
02:24 GMT |
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A team of scientists managed to invent a new piece of software that will aid engineers and architects to better project their work in a digital environment, with the help of a doodling tablet. The new program will allow for increased creativity among these professionals, as it will not feature the classic drag-and-dr... |
14 January 2009
06:18 GMT |
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Assessing the structural integrity of a building is a very complex task, and a very necessary one at that, especially in the event of an earthquake or other natural catastrophe that could damage the internal make-up of a very expensive building. Until now, outside sensors were used, small devices that recorded fluctu... |
6 January 2009
06:30 GMT |
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The acoustical magic of the Boston Symphony Hall is due to the fact that the architectural company that built it resorted, for the first time in history, to the services of a physicist. It was built based on the design of Leipzig's Gewandhaus, which was devastated later on, during World War II. Constructed ... |
15 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Researchers from Timelink – an environmental design company based in Dubai – have come up with the idea of building these carbon-free cities in order to accommodate people on a surface that covers about 10% of the area they would otherwise need. The term "ziggurat," which comes from the Akkadian lang... |
8 September 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Nvidia has officially gone public with its upcoming GT-200 graphics processor, after a long series of rumors. The company planned to talk about its new technology earlier this month during a press conference held in Munich (April 10), but the announcement would have arrived too close to the introduction of its Quadr... |
15 April 2008
11:49 GMT |
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IBM as the "king of the hill" on the server market is now officially announcing a new chipset architecture, named X4, for high performance x86 compatible server systems, just in time to be integrated alongside the new Intel platform for multiprocessor systems. The X4 architecture will be used on IBM servers that inte... |
6 September 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Intel announced that its designer teams are working on a new internal architecture for its processors that should address a number of performance bottlenecks and make improvements in the way several cores are connected and are communicating among them. This new processor architecture is going to mean a drastic change... |
29 August 2007
06:54 GMT |
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Now, things are somehow clear when it comes to serious audio: you're either into it or not, the middle road is very thin and few manage to walk on it. "In" and "out" do not relate to the money you spend with audio gear but are more closely bound to how you spend it and on what kind of gear.Some people prefer few... |
20 March 2007
12:07 GMT |
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