Professor Invents Cheaper and Greener Way of Turning Sand into Silicon

Professor Invents Cheaper and Greener Way of Turning Sand into Silicon

A new method for turning silicon dioxide into crystalline silicon has been found

Samsung: We've Produced over 300 Million OLED Panels

Samsung: We've Produced over 300 Million OLED Panels

The display technology achieves a milestone 68 as tall as Mt. Everest

Bar Code Inventor Dead at the Ripe Age of 91

Bar Code Inventor Dead at the Ripe Age of 91

He passed away due to complications from Alzheimer's disease

Cooling Jets Enable Super-Thin Tablets and Laptops

Cooling Jets Enable Super-Thin Tablets and Laptops

Dual piezoelectric cooling jets from GE officially launched

  • Sci Pry
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 14th, 2012
Brain-Machine Interface Controls Humanoid Robot Successfully – Video

Brain-Machine Interface Controls Humanoid Robot Successfully – Video

Allows people to transfer their consciousness, so to speak

  • iPad
  • By Filip Truta
  • November 5th, 2012
Apple’s New iPads Sell 3 Million Units in Three Days

Apple’s New iPads Sell 3 Million Units in Three Days

Apple announces milestone sale for its diminutive tablet PC and upgraded iPad 4

Seagate Has Shipped Two Billion Hard Disk Drives

Seagate Has Shipped Two Billion Hard Disk Drives

It took 32 and a half years, but Seagate has managed it somehow

  • Storage
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • August 17th, 2012
233 HDDs' Worth of Data Successfully Stored in a Tiny Drop of DNA (Video)

233 HDDs' Worth of Data Successfully Stored in a Tiny Drop of DNA (Video)

A bionegineer and geneticist at Harvard treat DNA like a digital storage device

Researchers Build True Random Number Generator for NFC Chips

Researchers Build True Random Number Generator for NFC Chips

The processor relies on memristors and generates random numbers at 1 KHz rate

Scientists Find Way to Give SSDs 50 Thousand Times More Capacity

Scientists Find Way to Give SSDs 50 Thousand Times More Capacity

SSDs could overcome the capacity difference between them and HDDs

Researchers Demo Efficient Carbon Nanotubes Without Special Requirements

Researchers Demo Efficient Carbon Nanotubes Without Special Requirements

That is to say, they can be constructed using existing manufacturing processes

Company Invents Flexible, Partially Transparent Solar Panels

Company Invents Flexible, Partially Transparent Solar Panels

The technology has some similarities with OLED displays

Wireless Internet to Remote Locations Improved by 80%

Wireless Internet to Remote Locations Improved by 80%

A new research breakthrough boosts multi-hop wireless networks

  • Games
  • By Andrei Dumitrescu
  • April 17th, 2012
Monster Energy Trick Battle Mode for MUD Gets Detailed

Monster Energy Trick Battle Mode for MUD Gets Detailed

Motocross simulation will offer 14 bikes, 84 riders

  • Games
  • By Andrei Dumitrescu
  • April 3rd, 2012
2012 FIA Sanctioned WRC 3 Rally Simulation Launches in October 2012

2012 FIA Sanctioned WRC 3 Rally Simulation Launches in October 2012

Players will get more simulation options and better graphical quality

  • Storage
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • March 20th, 2012
Seagate Enables 60 TB HDDs with 1 Tb of Data per Square Inch

Seagate Enables 60 TB HDDs with 1 Tb of Data per Square Inch

People who thought hard drives were doomed may change their tune

Cloak of Invisibility Invented, Works on Microwave Spectrum Only

Cloak of Invisibility Invented, Works on Microwave Spectrum Only

Creates a photo negative, of sorts, instead of refracting light

 
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