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Researchers Layer an Electronic Junction Into Optical Fiber
Pennsylvania State University researchers have developed a method for embedding an electronic junction into optical fiber, which could lead to more streamlined...
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Double-Sided Touchscreen Changes When You Fold It
Juergen Steimle, working with developer Mo Khalilbeigi and his team at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, has developed a range of foldable displays...
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Poll: Most Back Obama's Use of Drones
As the 2012 election approaches, there’s one area where President Barack Obama can feel confident he has broad voter support—his military policies and use of drones...
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Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here
The object, vaguely pink, sits on the shoulder of the freeway, slowly shimmering into view. Is it roadkill? A weird kind of sagebrush? No, wait, it's … a puffy...
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Engineers Boost Computer Processor Performance By Over 20 Percent
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a technique that combines GPUs and CPUs on a single chip, boosting processor performance by an average...
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Api: Three Letters That Change Life, the niverse, and Even Detroit
Sam Ramji met AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan on a speed date—or at least the tech world equivalent of a speed date.
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Slow Graphene Down, Speed Computers Up
Astonishing conductivity helped the discoverers of graphene win the Nobel prize in physicsin 2010. Now a way to switch off the easy flow of electrons in this wonder...
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Hp R&d Chief Shows Road to Terabyte Backplane
New technologies will be the key to dealing with the coming flood of digital data, says HP Labs director Prith Banerjee.
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Designing Windows 8, or How to Redesign a Religion
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest of all. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he's taken...
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Fast Phones, Dead Batteries
Days after buying his Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Nexus smartphone from Verizon Wireless, David Jacobs found himself switching off the fourth-generation broadband...
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Four Telescope Link-Up Creates World's Largest Mirror
Astronomers have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope linking four telescopes in Chile, so that they operate as a single device.
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How the View From a Comet Might Look
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is heading for a comet.
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Fast and Easy Programming
A European Union consortium known as ALMA is developing a tool chain based on open source software designed to simplify the development of software for embedded...
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Self-Steering Bullet Researched By U.s. Weapons Experts
A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the U.S. military.
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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web Giants Store Big
Consider the tech it takes to back the search box on Google's home page: behind the algorithms, the cached search terms, and the other features that spring to life...
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Graphene Competitor sed to Make Circuits
The first logic circuits made using atom-thick sheets of molybdenite suggest the material could be an alternative to graphene as a possible solution to the problem...
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Phase-Change Materials Can Fix Machine Memory Crunch
Phase-change materials (PCMs) could thwart the limits of digital memory and enable a massive increase in storage density. PCM's biggest advantage is that it can...
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Shrunken Servers Aim For a Greener Internet
As the cloud becomes more pervasive—driving everything from social networking to mobile apps—the computers that power it must guzzle more and more energy.
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DARPA Takes Aim at "achilles Heel" of Advanced Computing: Power
The power required to increase computing performance, especially in embedded or sensor systems has become a serious constraint and is restricting the potential...
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