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Purdue Newsroom — New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chipsPurdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips. The fins are made not of silicon, like ...
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Google's Chrome OS revealed -- with video! -- EngadgetGoogle had a low-key event today to preview Chrome OS, its new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. Things are still pretty early -- it's not even in beta yet, let alone on shipping products -- but that's the first official screen shot right there, and the big features are all ...
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Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots - Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewScientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society. The report will include concerns some researchers have voiced about the legal and ethical use of artificial intelligence. Most computer ...
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IBM parks beta cloud on development and test servers • The RegisterIBM on Thursday kicked off a free public beta of a new cloud computing development and test environment that's hosted on Big Blue's machines. The company also added new tools and services made special for testing cloud-based apps in a private cloud. IBM Smart Business Development and Test on ...
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World's fastest supercomputer models the unseen universe | DVICEIt's hard to tell what the universe looks like, especially since it takes billions of years for the light from most of it to reach us. It's even more difficult to visualize the 70% of the matter in the universe that's invisible. That's why scientists bring out the heavy iron, IBM Roadrunner, ...
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ARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier | Hardware - InfoWorldARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier Small, inexpensive, power-efficient new chips from Intel and ARM are enabling the new wave of mobile devices -- and setting the two companies on a collision course For once, Intel knows how it feels to be the underdog. Over the past ...
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NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepositoryNSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository by Devin Coldewey on November 1, 2009 There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy ...
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Spintronics Go All-Electric (photonics.com | Oct 2009 | News and Features)Spintronics Go All-Electric CINCINNATI, Oct. 28, 2009 -- An innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means has been A multidisciplinary team of University of Cincinnati researchers created the all-electric spin electronics, or spintronics. ...
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Minding the Planet: What's After the Real Time Web?In typical Web-industry style we're all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us call "The Stream," is not an end in itself, it's a means to an end. So what will it enable, ...
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