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Computer in Wrapping-Paper Form
Investigators SUNY Binghamton are giving factory production of solar energy cells a modern makeover. Their new approach includes the use of "continuous electronic...
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Computers
A trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professors has launched a new high-performance computing center that will expand access to the supercomputing...
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3D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
Businesses in the South Park district of San Francisco generally sell either Web technology or sandwiches and burritos. Bespoke Innovations plans to sell designer...
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Electric Skin That Rivals the Real Thing
Two separate research groups have developed pressure-sensing devices that can match human skin in sensitivity and flexibility.
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Fujitsu to Release Wireless Charging Tech in 2012
Fujitsu said Monday (September 13) that it has overcome design hurdles for a mechanism for wireless charging of electronic devices and that the company plans...
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'Slow Light' on a Chip Holds Promise for Optical Communications
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Brigham Young University have developed an optical device that has the slowest-ever light propagation...
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Intel and Arm to Battle For the Hearts of Smartphones
Intel is aiming for a slice of the smartphone market with a new chip with built-in graphics.
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Apple Blinks in Apps Fight
In an uncharacteristic about-face, Apple Inc. loosened its control over software development for its iPhones and iPads as the company feels heat from a U.S. antitrust...
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Cracking Flight's Mysteries
Harvard University engineers are developing minuscule aerial robots that could one day be used to investigate areas that are too hazardous for humans. The robot's...
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CLA Chemists, Engineers Fabricate High-Speed Graphene Transistors
UCLA researchers say they have fabricated the fastest graphene transistors ever using a nanowire as the self-aligned gate. Their fabrication technique enabled...
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Student-Built Satellite Scheduled for Launch
A 6.5-pound satellite scheduled for launch on November 19 is to become the first stand-alone spacecraft built by University of Michigan students to go into orbit...
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New Process Promises to Revolutionize Manufacturing of Products
University of Waterloo scientists have developed Multiple Memory Material Technology, a new manufacturing process that they say makes smart materials even smarter...
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Scientists Develop Device to Enable Improved Global Data Transmission
University of Southampton researchers have developed a data transmission system that could benefit optical communications networks by eliminating phase noise from...
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Computer Scientists Leverage Dark Silicon to Improve Smartphone Battery Life
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon"—the...
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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Researchers Create Robot That Can Pair, Fold Socks
University of California, Berkeley researchers have developed a robot that can pair and fold socks. The robot can determine whether a sock is inside out based on...
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Researchers Develop New Piezoelectric Logic Devices
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated...
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Technology Assists Multi-Tasking Motorcycle Officers
A motorcycle police officer on an urgent call faces huge information processing and decision-making demands. A new European research project aims to prevent potentially...
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Nano Switches that Store More Data Head to Market
An electronic component that offers a new way to squeeze more data into computers and portable gadgets is set to go into production in just a couple of years.
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