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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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GPUs may have big parallel processing performance, but that ultimately doesn't matter if applications don't support it, so it is understandable that NVIDIA would eagerly announce if an important software gained such support, not to mention four.
Indeed, according to its new press release, LAMMPS, GROMACS,... |
10 November 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Researchers proved that a small army of socialbots can easily infiltrate Facebook by fooling all the protection mechanisms into thinking they are actually human users. In a paper called “The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money”, scientists revealed how they created 102 bots that wer... |
3 November 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Stretching graphene transistors may have grabbed attention a short time ago, but the invention from Cornell University could leave even more people awed.
Cutting right to the chase, a study co-authored by Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza details how transistors can be made with natural cotton fibers.
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29 October 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Continuing with the string of graphene research breakthroughs, some researchers from Korea discovered a way to make the carbon-based material stretch when part of a transistor.
Graphene is not the first material that researchers tried to use in making stretchable, transparent electronic components.
This didn'... |
28 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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At the Emerging Technology Conference that was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a group of researchers has shown evidence that gamers are able to interact with their favorite titles just by using their brain waves.The scientists worked with a number of volunteers and were able to detect and interpret... |
24 October 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Scientists made a study that shows it would be possible to identify psychopathic murderers by the way they speak or write, certain traits of personality being encrypted in the way they express themselves.“Previous work has looked at how psychopaths use language,” revealed Jeff Hancock, Cornell professor o... |
17 October 2011
02:28 GMT |
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Graphene has been getting mentioned in the media more and more often lately, and it looks like it is happening again, this time courtesy of the folks at MIT.
Graphene is one of the most versatile materials ever invented and it is, for the most part, seen as the next big leap in technological advancement.
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12 October 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Graphene is one of the materials expected to revolutionize technology as a whole, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer figured he may as well make a hefty investment into the research efforts.
No matter how good an idea, it just never gets to the point where it can help society advance if there is no money backing... |
7 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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A study found that all the new inventions on the IT industry have caused users to change the way they spend their time, to the point where brands might lose customers if they don't keep track of this process.
The past few years saw the IT industry going through a serious shift in perspective, even if it isn&... |
3 October 2011
10:01 GMT |
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One piece of news that recently popped up on a few sites talked about how researchers at the University of Washington were helped in crucial research linked to the development of better medicine to fight AIDS by gamers who used the Foldit online video game.The mechanics of the game are pretty simple and allow any pla... |
1 October 2011
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Cloud computing has proven to be too strong a pull for Advanced Micro Devices to ignore, the processing and video product maker having decided to set up a base of operations in China.
Cloud computing consists of providing consumers and enterprise/business users with web-based storage, centralized.
This would ... |
30 September 2011
09:59 GMT |
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If there is any dream associated with technology, it is the desire to see it learn and adapt according to people's needs, and this is precisely what Intel seeks to hep accomplish through its new research center.
Intel has initiated and participated in many research endeavors, some of which go beyond its main... |
27 September 2011
08:22 GMT |
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It is well known that electric cars can only be driven short distances, this being their biggest downside. No matter how energy efficient they are, people are still giving it a second thought.However, a team of Japanese researchers from Toyota Central R&D Labs and Toyohashi University of Technology is currently worki... |
26 September 2011
08:55 GMT |
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A new research paper has shown that players engaged in the online video game Foldit have managed to determine, through crowdsourcing, the optimal structure of a very important protein that could be one of the main elements needed to develop new drugs that can reduce and even eliminate AIDS from the body of a patient.... |
20 September 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A new project set to prove that orange peels could be used to power our cars is currently underway at the University of York, under the guidance of Professor James Clark.The British scientist has reportedly come up with a revolutionary method of producing biofuels. Dubbed OPEC (Orange Peel Exploitation Company), the ... |
20 September 2011
07:50 GMT |
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The researchers at the U.S. Air Force Academy have tested their ocean wave energy converter on the largest scale to date. This means the converter's technology readiness level, or TRL, can now be increased from Level 3 to Level 4.
A TRL Level 4 means that a component of a system has been validated in a field ... |
19 September 2011
07:10 GMT |
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There are many things that can make the current IT industry better, and the new invention from the University of Leeds might just become one of the ones with a wider and visible impact.
At the moment, laptops, digital cameras, mp3 players, mobile phones and many other portable consumer electronics rely on recharg... |
13 September 2011
03:24 GMT |
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There will come a day when we will no longer have to remember to pack liquid sunscreen to go to the beach, as long as we remember to take a pill, researchers promise. Coral holds the key to effective protection against the sun for both skin and eyes. In a context in which many still assume sun lotions are optional, o... |
1 September 2011
15:41 GMT |
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NVIDIA has been holding GTC issues for quite a while time already, each one meant to promote its products and attract prospective researchers and programmers, so it is no real shock to learn that the outfit is already preparing for the December edition.NVIDIA's international series of GPU Technology Conference ... |
30 August 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Samsung's potential deal with HP may still be up in the air, but the same cannot be said about its newfound partnership with Universal Display Corp., a company based in the US.Users may or may not have stumbled upon a certain rumor that says a certain company's PC division will be bought by another.For tho... |
23 August 2011
05:23 GMT |
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While working on its new CPUs and marketing existing ones, Intel seems to be enjoying something of a respite, one that it, apparently, decided to fill with new research projects and investments.There are many things that large companies like Intel occupy themselves with, and this extends to more than just making the... |
4 August 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Doing away with cables is something that more or less the entire IT industry wants to accomplish, so any leap in wireless research is looked upon favorably, like the one that he Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin, Germany, is bragging about.One limitation that light h... |
1 August 2011
10:18 GMT |
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Water and technology normally don't mix well, to put it lightly, but a group of researchers managed to turn the table on this fact and develop a memory device that actually works very well in wet environments.As end-users know, the easiest way to destroy an electronic of any kind is to pour some water on it in ... |
15 July 2011
05:03 GMT |
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NVIDIA's CUDA technology is something that prospective programmers have to first learn about before they can exploit, so NVIDIA entered a tight relationship with Stanford University.NVIDIA has made itself known for many things over the years, the most recent being high-end mobile graphics solutions and mobile p... |
5 July 2011
10:23 GMT |
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