22/06/2005

Sony shareholders approve Howard Stringer as new CEO

Sony shareholders Wednesday approved making Welsh-born former television journalist Howard Stringer the iconic Japanese company's first foreign CEO as the electronics giant struggles to preserve an edge.

TOP500: IBM Dominates Global Supercomputing

In what has become a closely watched event in the world of high-performance computing, the 25th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released today at the 20th International Supercomputing ...

Early mammal could bite like a snake

A small mammal that lived around 60 million years ago had poisonous fangs that enabled it to bite like a snake, the first time that an extinct mammal species has been found with this capacity, a new study says.

AMD introduces new AMD Turion ML-40

AMD today introduced a new level of performance for highly mobile business professionals with AMD Turion 64 mobile technology model ML-40, the latest addition to AMD’s popular 64-bit processor family optimized for ...

No promise of space station completion

The new head of the U.S. space agency says scientists are still working to determine the final shape of the proposed International Space Station.

The Making and Breaking of Microtubules

Microtubules are active protein polymers critical to the structure and function of cells and the process of cell division. In a living cell their growing ends constantly elongate and retreat in a thrashing frenzy of polymerization ...

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