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With Draft Standard, 3d Web Closer to Reality
The Khronos Group and Mozilla have announced the release of WebGL, a new standard for enabling Web browsers to support three-dimensional (3D) graphics. The draft...
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Ibm: Envisioning the World's Fastest Supercomputer
IBM will release a new Power7 chip next year that could lead to the development of the world's fastest supercomputer. The IBM Blue Waters project supercomputer...
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Smart Grid Potential Gated By Broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently held a field hearing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss the role of the communications...
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Darpa's Latest Challenge: Locate These 10 Balloons
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will award $40,000 to the first person who can complete a new social-networking challenge. DARPA wants to...
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New Standard Lets Browsers Get a Grip on Files
The World Wide Web Consortium has published File API, an interface draft that Web browsers can use to better manipulate files and is part of a larger effort to...
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Hackers Create Tools For Disaster Relief
The first-ever Random Hacks of Kindness recently took place in Mountain View, Calif., bringing software developers together to focus on how technology could be...
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Wi-Fi Certification Might Be Tweaked For Smart Grids
The Wi-Fi Alliance has formed a task group to determine what standards need to be modified to ensure Wi-Fi is the tool of choice for smart-grid applications. The...
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Microsoft's Mundie: It Needed to Solve Global Woes
Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie gave a speech at Harvard University on Tuesday (Nov. 3) to discuss coming "disruptions" in computing...
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New Wi-Fi Spec Challenges Bluetooth
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced Wi-Fi Direct, a new Wi-Fi specification that supports standard Wi-Fi data rates and enables Wi-Fi-enabled devices within about...
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'state of the Internet' Assessed
Internet attacks came from 201 different countries in the second quarter of 2009, up from 68 countries in the first quarter, according to a report released Thursday...
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White House nveils Cloud Computing Initiative
The Obama administration has introduced a cloud computing policy that aims to lower infrastructure costs and reduce the environmental impact of government computing...
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Opencl: Parallel Programmers' New Best Friend
Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system features the Open Computing Language (OpenCL), new parallel programming technology that Apple hopes will become a standard...
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IBM Tops Green500 Supercomputer List
Big Blue's supercomputers are among the greenest in the world. The June Green500 list, published by Green500.org, showed that 18 of the top 20 greenest supercomputers...
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Americans See Science as Lagging Here
Both the American public and researchers have a high regard for scientific advancement. But they disagree over the standing of science in the U.S. A full 84 percent...
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Intel Toots Its Research Horn For Chips and More
Intel's recent Research Day provided demonstrations and previews of the variety of projects that extend beyond the company's core computer processor business....
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Microsoft's Project Natal: What Does It Mean For Game Industry?
Microsoft stunned the video game world on Monday with the announcement of its forthcoming "Project Natal" technology, full-body motion-sensitive technology that...
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How Technology Lifts Pixar's 'up'
If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own...
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FCC Develops Strategy For Rural Broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a broadband strategy for the rural United States that cautions against relying on a single technology...
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In Search of a Do-It-Yourself Wall-E
There has been an explosion in hobbyist or do-it-yourself (DIY) robotics, with one recent example being a 16,000-member community attempting to individually create...
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