Archive: 09/23/2005
High hopes for Sony's cut-throat plans
When Howard Stringer took over the helm of Japanese electronics giant Sony in June, many expected the Welsh national to be merciless in sacking people and closing down factories in an effort to boost profits.
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Mars Doubles In Brightness
Ready to be amazed? Step outside tonight around midnight and look east. About halfway up the sky you'll see the planet Mars. It looks like an intense red star (as photographed here on Sep 8 by Stan Richard ...
Sep 23, 2005 |
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Physicists Measure Tiny Force That Limits How Far Machines Can Shrink
University of Arizona physicists have directly measured how close speeding atoms can come to a surface before the atoms' wavelengths change. Theirs is a first, fundamental measurement that confirms the ide ...
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Sep 23, 2005 |
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From shared to distributed memory systems for applications
Shared-memory computing applications have never taken particularly well to operating on distributed-memory systems, at least until now. A possible solution has emerged, of interest to NASA and IBM, and is being tested on ...
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The Rise Of The Body Bots
Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories.
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Text messaging for businesses climbs
Customer-service technicians at Kodak photo developing units glance at their mobile phones when they receive a text message from their dispatcher. They get reminders, directions and instructions for their next project, and ...
Sep 23, 2005 |
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Entry screening won't stop SARS, flu
Screening air passengers as they arrive at British airports is unlikely to prevent importation of either SARS or influenza, researchers in London report.
Sep 23, 2005 |
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New weather model predicts Rita
An advanced research weather model run by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., is watching Hurricane Rita.
Sep 23, 2005 |
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A unique marine symbiosis is studied
A symbiosis of bacteria and a marine worm found by Monterey Bay, Calif., researchers is believed the only one solely using marine mammals for nutrition.
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