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Smartphone App Illuminates Power Consumption
A new application for the
Android smartphone shows
users and software
developers how much power
their applications are
consuming. ... > full story
New Computer Cluster Gets Its Grunt from Games
Technology designed to blast
aliens in computer games is
part of a new GPU (graphics
processing units) computer
cluster that will process
research data thousands of
... > full story
Extensive Valley Network on Mars Adds to Evidence for Ancient Martian Ocean
Scientists have used an
innovative computer program
to produce a more detailed
global map of Mars' valley
networks. It shows the
... > full story
Small Optical Force Can Budge Nanoscale Objects
With a bit of leverage,
researchers have used a very
tiny beam of light with as
little as 1 milliwatt of
power to move a silicon
structure up to 12
... > full story
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New Tool for Helping Pediatric Heart Surgery
November 24, 2009 — A team of researchers has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help surgeons plan for a life-saving operation ... > full story -
Physicists Move One Step Closer to Quantum Computing
November 23, 2009 — Physicists have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum ... > full story -
Building the Smart Home Wirelessly
November 19, 2009 — Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a new article suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications devices could soon provide seamless multimedia ... > full story -
'Fingerprinting' RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
November 19, 2009 — Engineering researchers have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of ... > full story -
Harnessing Waste Heat from Laptop Computers, Cell Phones May Double Battery Time
November 19, 2009 — New research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric power ... > full story -
P2P Comes to the Aid of Audiovisual Search
November 19, 2009 — Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new ‘query by example’ methods, ... > full story -
Technique Finds Gene Regulatory Sites Without Knowledge of Regulators
November 19, 2009 — A new statistical technique allows scientists to scan a genome for specific gene-regulatory regions without requiring prior knowledge of the relevant transcription factors. The technique has been ... > full story -
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Cat Brain-Based Computer: Scientists Perform Cat-Scale Cortical Simulations and Map the Human Brain
November 18, 2009 — IBM has announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling ... > full story -
Counterfeit Euros Are Detected With an Optical Mouse
November 17, 2009 — The sensor of some optical mice can be used to easily and cheaply detect counterfeit euros, according to a study published by researchers in Spain. Almost 80 percent of counterfeit coins discovered ... > full story -
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Glimpsing a Greener Future: Computer Model Foresees Effects of Alternative Transportation Fuels
November 17, 2009 — It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor. Look into Shane Stephens-Romero's crystal ball -- a computer ... > full story
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