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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
05:01 GMT |
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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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Solar panels are definitely something that the IT market is trying to harness, seeking to make it so that the environment footprint on technology lessens as much as possible, but an alternative solar capturing solution might finally have become viable. Harnessing solar energy is something that scientists have been ... |
2 July 2011
05:40 GMT |
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There are many ways a company can gain recognition on the IT market, and it looks like Fujitsu's most recent accomplishment was earning the recognition of Network Strategy Partners (now part of ACG Research).Though it is best known for its many consumer products, Fujitsu, nonetheless, also directly assists serv... |
1 July 2011
10:12 GMT |
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Applications that use multiple CPU cores are growing in number, but the processors themselves could always do with some better capabilities, much like every other piece of hardware out there, and it looks like a team of researchers found a way to make this happen.Prefetching is one of the operations that a CPU core ... |
31 May 2011
10:19 GMT |
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Dell has been seeking to expand in the areas of networking design and development, as well as cloud computing and storage development, and it looks like a research facility dedicated to this might just come into being not too far in the future.Dell is one company that can safely be said to have taken by surprise at ... |
6 April 2011
05:54 GMT |
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A new study cited by The Economist comes to contradict all that we’ve learned at home and in school about how it matters who you are on the inside and how appearances don’t (or shouldn’t) count in all those important moments in life. As it turns out, they do. People who wear designer clothes with a ... |
4 April 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The future of the aviation industry is ensured; at least as far as aircraft design goes. Experts with Project NACRE (New Aircraft Concepts Research) present some of the airplanes that may fly within the next few decades. The research is already fairly advanced, and has produced a number of models already. Experts say... |
1 April 2011
11:06 GMT |
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While a certain compound might, at certain times, be seen as as the needed breakthrough for massive advancements in a certain field, sometimes there are alternatives, and while it isn't readily available, Silicine is this very thing for graphene.Currently, storage relies on platters and NAND chips, while batter... |
28 March 2011
08:05 GMT |
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3D has been slowly gaining traction as a display mode, but there are still various experiments being done with the concept, such as one involving engineers from the Ohio State University and a certain lens.There are many more uses for 3D than in the making of entertainment videos meant for the cinema or consumers ow... |
23 March 2011
05:10 GMT |
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3D technologies are something that display solutions developers have been getting more serious about over the past year, but it seems some researchers from a certain university went as far as creating a real 3D rabbit whose different parts can be seen depending on what sides it is beheld from. The idea of using nat... |
18 March 2011
06:47 GMT |
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It seems that the field of cooling research is not the only one that reached a milestone, as a certain team of scientists claims to have created a new laser diode with the potential to enable high-speed data transmissions applicable in many areas.Laser diodes are used in many pieces of hardware nowadays, like periph... |
17 March 2011
07:06 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that researchers have been trying to get touch input into just about any electronic imaginable, and it seems that they are now crossing boundaries and headed to other domains, like that of clothing.For years many research groups have been experimenting with bendable screens and special touch-... |
4 March 2011
10:17 GMT |
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Touch technology has definitely been evolving and it seems that combining it with other display assets has become easy enough that a screen large enough to need 3 computers to run was made with technologies generally available to display makers. Touch technology has started to show up on any and all sorts of device... |
14 February 2011
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Rambus may be better known for all the lawsuits it started and is still holding against various IT companies, but it seems that the company is still very much working on new technologies, such as differential signaling for SoC-to-memory interfaces.Rambus's most recent press announcement deals with its newest b... |
31 January 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Intel recently announced its decision to invest $100 million into U.S. university research, over the next 5 years, in order to develop new computing and communication technologies, the company planning to open Intel Science and Technology Centers across multiple universities throughout the year.
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27 January 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Since processors, one might say, have reached the point where their might is more than enough for whatever users may need, more emphasis is being placed on efficiency, and it seems Samsung and IBM want to optimize this particular aspect.Ever since mobile computers really took off, there have been laptops with capabi... |
13 January 2011
03:14 GMT |
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If you’re thinking about getting a pet and you don’t know which to choose between a dog and a cat, you may as well go for a border collie. Chaser, a border collie, has just been named the dog with the largest vocabulary in the world. Researchers at the Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, have ... |
23 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Even though a major part of the effort on the 3D market is currently concentrated around creating large panels without the need for glasses, analysts think that it will be the mobile segment that pulls the technology into the mainstream market.While 3D is not really anywhere near being mainstream, it looks as though... |
22 December 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Snacking while playing computer games or working at the computer is not a good idea. Similarly, having lunch under the same conditions is equally bad, with a recent study coming to prove that those who do so actually feel hungrier faster. Nutritionists often recommend not snacking mindlessly when in front of the TV, ... |
16 December 2010
13:21 GMT |
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We often hear jokes – or even more serious remarks – about how one needs to get one’s “beauty sleep,” meaning a minimum of 8 hours of sleep a night. A recent study gives some credibility to the myth. Which, at the end of the day, may not even be a myth after all. Swedish researchers have... |
15 December 2010
15:31 GMT |
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University of Victoria biomedical engineer Stephanie Willerth, a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Medical Sciences, carried out a groundbreaking research, that has made a significant contribution to understanding HIV and its treatment.
Along with her team, Willerth has... |
11 December 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Until now, diets forbade the slimmer even to think about the foods and ingredients that were off the menu. A new study could revolutionize weight loss management by encouraging dieters to imagine themselves eating whatever it is they’re craving for, as a means to curb the cravings. It would seem the approach di... |
10 December 2010
13:21 GMT |
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Using bacteria of some sort to create newer and better computers is not exactly a new idea, but it seems that researchers from University of California San Francisco have actually succeeded in forcing a certain bacteria to act as a logic gate.The main principle behind creating computers based on microscopic lifeform... |
10 December 2010
11:17 GMT |
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The Australian Solar Institute granted a major funding to the University of New South Wales, ensuring its lead role in the development of new technologies that will make solar energy cheaper and much more efficient than it is today. The School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Associate Professor, Gary Rose... |
1 December 2010
03:44 GMT |
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The Australian Research Council awarded $21 million to the University of Melbourne, in order to set up Stem Cells Australia – SCA.This funding for the SCA is part of the Australian Research Council’s Special Research Initiative in Stem Cell Science, and it this project will make Australia, one of the top ... |
30 November 2010
02:48 GMT |
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We're pretty sure that finding a relation between chip manufacturer Intel and football (or American football, for those of you living this side of the pond) is not exactly an easy task, but the truth of the matter is that the two are actually related, the company that's behind most of the chips in our compu... |
16 November 2010
14:21 GMT |
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If you want to know whether your man stands good chances of being rich one day or whether he’ll always remain Mr. Reliable, you don’t have to look any further than at his hands.A new study cited by The Telegraph says there’s a direct relationship between the length of the ring finger of a man and th... |
11 November 2010
14:31 GMT |
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