December 23, 2011 (TSR) – For the first time ever, it will become technologically and financially feasible for authoritarian governments to record nearly everything that is said or done within their borders — every phone conversation, electronic message, social media interaction, the movements of nearly every person and vehicle, and video from every street corner. [...]
Oct. 27, 2011 (TSR) – The Norwegian company Thin Film Electronics ASA (“Thinfilm”) together with Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a Xerox company, announced last week that they have produced a working prototype of the world’s first printed non-volatile memory device addressed with complementary organic circuits, the organic equivalent of CMOS circuitry. Thinfilm Addressable MemoryTM consists of Thinfilm’s [...]
WASHINGTON — NASA’s largest supercomputer is seventh on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Pleiades, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., supports more than 1,000 active users around the country who are advancing our knowledge about the Earth, solar [...]
China successfully launched a new communication satellite, the Zhongxing-10, from its Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province on early Tuesday. The satellite, carried by a Long March-3B rocket carrier, blasted off from the center at 0:13 a.m., said a statement from the center. According to statistics from the control center, the satellite successfully [...]
Iran successfully launched its Rassad-1 satellite into space on Wednesday, the country’s Arabic-language television channel Al-Alam said. “It was launched by the Safir rocket and put into orbit 260 kilometres (163 miles) above the Earth,” the television said. “It is capable of photographing the Earth.” The report said Rassad-1 (Observation-1) can revolve 15 times around [...]
The smartphones in our pockets are far more powerful than the desktop computers we dreamed of in the 1980s. This year they are outselling PCs – and soon they could replace our wallets as well. When he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes last summer, Tim Smith was given a blood sugar monitor, and a [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. Cisco predicts that the number of network-connected devices will be more than 15 billion, twice the world’s population, by 2015. The projected increase of Internet traffic between 2014 and 2015 alone is 200 exabytes, which is greater than the total amount of Internet Protocol traffic generated globally in 2010. On the verge [...]
A research project at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) could turn futuristic 3D-printers into affordable everyday items. Printers which can produce three-dimensional objects have been available for years. However, at the Vienna University of Technology, a printing device has now been developed, which is much smaller, lighter and cheaper than ordinary 3D-printers. With [...]
On October 28, 2010, China stunned the world by unveiling the world’s fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A and putting NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs to good use: A whopping 50-percent faster than the previous record holder, Tianhe-1A scores 2.507 petaflops in LINPACK benchmarking despite being half the size of a regular supercomputer. According to the press release, Tianhe-1A epitomizes modern heterogeneous computing [...]
E-book readers are lightweight and use little power, but most have a distinct disadvantage to colorful tablet computers: their black-and-white displays. But on Tuesday at the FPD International 2010 trade show in Tokyo, a Chinese company will announce that it will be the first to sell a color display using technology from E Ink, whose [...]
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