http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. When local police came calling with child porn allegations last January, former Saint John city councillor Donnie Snook fled his house clutching a laptop. It was clear that the computer contained damning data. Six months later, police have finally gathered enough evidence to land him in jail for a long time to come. http://phys.org/news289664502.html Technology Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:21:49 EST news289664502 Amid much speculation on the future of the "smartwatch," the consensus is growing: the time is right. http://phys.org/news283939461.html Electronics Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:30:02 EST news283939461 (Phys.org)—A team of scientists from several research centers in South Korea, has succeeded in building a logic circuit that is based on switchable magnetism, rather than electronics. They describe their research and a prototype they've built in a paper they've had published in the journal Nature. http://phys.org/news278837969.html Physics Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:59:37 EST news278837969 (Phys.org)—IEEE has adopted a new standard, 802.11ad, which marks the advent of 7Gbps wireless. The newly approved standard will be commercially known as WiGig, and the technology behind WiGig is seen as a step forward for wireless mobile use; data transfer rates will be over ten times the maximum speed previously enabled within the IEEE 802.11 standard. This involves fast speeds over short distances; the standard will deliver 7Gbps speeds over 60GHz frequencies. http://phys.org/news277731817.html Technology Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:00:01 EST news277731817 Intel said it would step up efforts to make chips for smartphones and other mobile devices by targeting emerging markets and the rapidly growing "value" segment. http://phys.org/news276842123.html Electronics Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:35:33 EST news276842123 Silicon's crown is under threat: The semiconductor's days as the king of microchips for computers and smart devices could be numbered, thanks to the development of the smallest transistor ever to be built from a rival material, indium gallium arsenide. http://phys.org/news274345461.html Technology Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:04:45 EST news274345461 Is a Microsoft Surface tablet priced at $499 good enough to entice you away from that Apple iPad you might be considering? http://phys.org/news269868461.html Electronics Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:00:01 EST news269868461 As part of ongoing research to help prevent and mitigate disruptions to computer networks on the Internet, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have turned their attention to smartphones and other hand-held computing devices. http://phys.org/news268389549.html Technology Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:39:17 EST news268389549 This fall, Microsoft is embarking on one of its biggest series of launches ever, with new versions or updates of nearly all its products and services, from Windows to Windows Phone, Office to Windows Server. http://phys.org/news267444100.html Technology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:40:03 EST news267444100 Mobile computing devices will probably overtake the personal computer as the most common means for accessing the Internet worldwide sometime in 2013 and it may not be a seamless transition, according to Eli Tilevich, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. http://phys.org/news263213524.html Technology Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:52:11 EST news263213524 Tablet computers are expected to overtake notebook PCs by 2016 as consumers shift to newer devices like the Apple iPad, a survey said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news260529464.html Technology Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:18:02 EST news260529464 India is set to release an upgrade of its ultra-low-cost computer tablet, the 40-dollar "Aakash-2", after the first edition was criticised for its quality and distribution. http://phys.org/news259913077.html Electronics Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:04:54 EST news259913077 A new survey conducted by Intel Corporation and commissioned by TNS to explore American attitudes towards travel and technology finds U.S. vacationers feel anxious when traveling without their mobile computing device, angry when they cannot access power sources to charge these devices and annoyed when others take uninvited glimpses of their computer screens, potentially compromising their personal information. http://phys.org/news259490065.html Technology Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:35:24 EST news259490065 (Phys.org) -- Today, electronic touch pads are widely found on laptops, tablets, and other computing devices. Less common uses, but gaining in popularity, are book covers and food labels. These and other low-tech applications become possible as touch pads become extremely inexpensive, with applications ranging from beer bottle labels to disposable medical device labels. Now a team of researchers from the US and France have developed paper-based electronic touch pads that cost just 25 cents per square meter, a price at which touch pads can simply be thrown away when no longer needed. http://phys.org/news255869344.html Technology Thu, 10 May 2012 11:49:20 EST news255869344 (PhysOrg.com) -- Bridges, trails, piers, and trees are familiar territory words for world travelers but for Intel workers they are more importantly code words and a number of them that are planted on the Intel roadmap have leaked. According to recent reports, Intel plans a Valley View Atom chip that has Ivy Bridge graphics. Intel's insider description of the new Valley View is as a "CedarView-like chip but with an Ivy Bridge graphics core." http://phys.org/news251791202.html Electronics Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:01:11 EST news251791202 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists were able to measure for the first time how charge is distributed within a single molecule. This achievement will enable fundamental scientific insights into single-molecule switching and bond formation between atoms and molecules. Furthermore, it introduces the possibility of imaging the charge distribution within functional molecular structures, which hold great promise for future applications such as solar photoconversion, energy storage, or molecular scale computing devices. http://phys.org/news249542986.html Nanotechnology Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:30:13 EST news249542986 A new phenomenon might make computing devices faster, smaller and much more energy-efficient. Moving so-called skyrmions needs 100,000 times smaller currents than existing technologies and the number of atoms needed for a data bit could be reduced significantly. Now a team of physicists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the University of Cologne developed a simple electronic method for moving and reading these skyrmion data bits. The journal Nature Physics reports on their results. http://phys.org/news249051618.html Physics Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:25 EST news249051618 (PhysOrg.com) -- Matthew Doty, assistant professor in the University of Delaware Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is co-author of two papers exploring novel methods for assembling quantum dots to control how electrons interact with light and magnetic fields for applications in next generation computing devices and solar energy capture. http://phys.org/news241270940.html Nanotechnology Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:43:01 EST news241270940 Scientists have successfully demonstrated that they can build some of the basic components for digital devices out of bacteria and DNA, which could pave the way for a new generation of biological computing devices, in research published today in the journal Nature Communications. http://phys.org/news238156228.html Biology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:31:09 EST news238156228 The use of new technology is helping students to become real 'science investigators'. Researchers funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have developed a software toolkit that shows how such an approach sparks and sustains students' interest in science. http://phys.org/news236595632.html Other Sciences Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:00:43 EST news236595632 The next version of Windows is being billed as a radical reinvention of Microsoft Corp.'s flagship operating system - the most extensive overhaul since Windows 95. http://phys.org/news235141939.html Technology Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:12:52 EST news235141939 Microsoft is rolling out the digital red carpet for the full Windows 8 unveiling next month the company's developer conference. http://phys.org/news232899357.html Technology Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:40:01 EST news232899357 (PhysOrg.com) -- The folks over at Intel have come up with an interesting prediction, one that may make all of you feel a little bit foolish for buying a laptop, and a netbook or a tablet. They are predicting that as time goes on the form factors in the mobile device market will break down and the distinctions between the devices will be largely a moot point. Companies will instead make multi-purpose smart computing devices. http://phys.org/news229789234.html Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:20:46 EST news229789234 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Arizona have achieved a breakthrough toward the development of a new breed of computing devices that can process data using less power. http://phys.org/news227856931.html Physics Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:36:04 EST news227856931 (PhysOrg.com) -- Google, and eight other already approved companies are likely to soon be joined by Microsoft as they all take a giant leap into the great "white space" unknown. Because bandwidth for computing devices has become ever more precious as more and more computing systems have sought to go wireless, companies such as Google and Microsoft have been furiously working on systems that could access portions of the spectrum traditionally reserved for television signals. Because such bandwidth is allocated and run by the FCC however, rules must be followed, such as only using bandwidth not already allocated to someone else, most notably, television stations. http://phys.org/news225535794.html Technology Wed, 25 May 2011 09:51:03 EST news225535794 Sales of tablets and smartphones will outnumber personal computers this year as consumers begin using a wider variety of devices to access the Internet, according to a study by the Deloitte consulting firm. http://phys.org/news216554000.html Technology Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:53:47 EST news216554000 At the Intel Labs' annual Research at Intel media event today, Intel Corporation Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner announced a new research division, called Interaction and Experience Research (IXR), that is focused on defining new user experiences and new computing platforms. The innovations coming out of the labs are expected to help re-imagine how we will all experience computing in the future. http://phys.org/news197130126.html Technology Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:40:03 EST news197130126 A drug information interface system developed by two University of Alberta researchers has been shown to help in dealing with visual and motor impairments, which can make sorting, holding and indentifying pills a challenge as we age. http://phys.org/news179670513.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:50:01 EST news179670513