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Harnessing Waste Heat from Laptop Computers, Cell Phones May Double Battery Time

New research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from ...  > full story

Cat Brain-Based Computer: Scientists Perform Cat-Scale Cortical Simulations and Map the Human Brain

IBM has announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for ...  > full story

Counterfeit Euros Are Detected With an Optical Mouse

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 ...  > full story

Glimpsing a Greener Future: Computer Model Foresees Effects of Alternative Transportation Fuels

It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only ...  > full story

• Technology
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  Mobile Computing
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  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
• Privacy Issues
  Computer Science
  Biometric
  Information Technology
  Technology
  Hacking
   

  '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
• Information Technology
  Internet
  Hacking
  Encryption
  Photography
  Computer Programming
   

  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
• Genetics
  Life Sciences
  Biology
  Biotechnology
  Evolutionary Biology
  Computational Biology
   

  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
• Influenza
  Bird Flu
  Cold and Flu
  Viruses
  Hacking
  Infectious Diseases
   
  

  Scientists Put Interactive Flu Tracking at Public's Fingertips

  November 17, 2009 — New methods of studying avian influenza strains and visually mapping their movement around the world will help scientists more quickly learn the behavior of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus, Ohio State ... > full story
• Computer Modeling
  Energy and the Environment
  Computer Science
  Distributed Computing
  Renewable Energy
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' Supercomputer Is World's Fastest

  November 17, 2009 — An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ... > full story
• Computer Science
  Distributed Computing
  Computer Modeling
  Information Technology
  Artificial Intelligence
  Communications
   
  

  Tennessee's Kraken Named World's Third Fastest Computer, ORNL's Jaguar Is No. 1

  November 17, 2009 — East Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings. The Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers places University of Tennessee ... > full story
• Optics
  Nanotechnology
  Chemistry
  Physics
  Engineering
  Inorganic Chemistry
   
  

  Small Optical Force Can Budge Nanoscale Objects

  November 17, 2009 — 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 nanometers. That's enough to completely switch the ... > full story
• Quantum Computers
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Quantum Computing
  Hacking
  Encryption
   
  

  'Universal' Programmable Two-Qubit Quantum Processor Created

  November 16, 2009 — Physicists have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing the submicroscopic world -- ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Internet
  Artificial Intelligence
  Hacking
  Computer Science
  Encryption
   

  Listen, Watch, Read: Computers Search for Meaning

  November 16, 2009 — Researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant ... > full story

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