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Telecom Jun 30, 2016

New undersea cable will speed US-Japan connection

An undersea cable backed by Google and Asian companies aimed at boosting trans-Pacific broadband was put into service on Thursday, the consortium announced.

Mar 16, 2005

New microSD Memory Card - World's Smallest Memory Card

At CTIA WIRELESS 2005 held here today, the SD Card Association (SDA) announced plans to finalize specifications for a new, super-compact memory card this Spring. The microSD card, expected to be the world's smallest memory ...

May 10, 2005

Toshiba Unveils Triple-layer 45GB HD DVD-ROM Disc

Toshiba Corporation today announced development of a triple-layer HD DVD-ROM (read-only) disc with a data capacity of 45 gigabytes, 50% more than the 30-gigabyte dual-layer HD DVD-ROM disc already announced and enough to ...

Hardware Sep 4, 2007

'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops

NEC has launched two new series of laptops with a unique security feature called "face pass" -- or, in Japanese, "kao pass."

Optics & Photonics Sep 9, 2016

Researchers prototype system for reading closed books: New method identifies letters printed on first 9 pages of a stack

MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.

Aug 5, 2005

NEC Develops High-Power Organic Radical Battery for Data Backup during Power Failure

NEC Corporation today announced that it is developing a high-power organic radical battery ("ORB") used to protect IT equipment such as desktop PCs from losing data during power supply interruption. The film packed ORB demonstrates ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Jun 13, 2011

World's first Content Addressable Memory stores data without using power

NEC Corporation and Tohoku University announced today the development of the world's first content addressable memory (CAM) that both maintains the same high operation speed and non-volatile operation as existing circuits ...

Space Exploration Aug 14, 2017

NASA Reignites Program for Nuclear Thermal Rockets

In its pursuit of missions that will take us back to the moon, to Mars, and beyond, NASA has been exploring a number of next-generation propulsion concepts. Whereas existing concepts have their advantages – chemical rockets ...

Consumer & Gadgets Oct 30, 2009

Two Retinal Imaging Display Devices at Prototype Stage

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC and Brother are both developing wearable prototype devices that use Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology to project images directly on the wearer's retina. NEC's gadget is designed to interpret foreign ...

Quantum Physics May 17, 2023

Team demonstrates quantum advantage on optimization problems with a 5,000-qubit programmable spin glass

Over the past decades, researchers and companies worldwide have been trying to develop increasingly advanced quantum computers. The key objective of their efforts is to create systems that will outperform classical computers ...

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