News tagged with analog
Ancient Greek calculating device continues to reveal secrets
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's known as the Antikythera mechanism, a metal gear driven device found over a century ago on a sunken Roman ship, near the island of Antikythera, that for just as many years has had scien ...
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Cell-inspired electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, ...
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Is this how simple life got complicated?
A new study has created an analog of what researchers think the first multicellular cooperation might have looked like, showing that yeast cells—in an environment that requires them to work for their food—grow and ...
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Researchers Develop World's First Digitally-Processed Gigabit-Class High-Speed Transceiver Chip
Fujitsu Laboratories and the University of Toronto announced their joint development of a new processing method for transceiver chips used in gigabit-class high-speed data transmission over wirelines.
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Friday is final curtain for analog TV signals
(AP) -- The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital. And this time, they really mean it.
Jun 10, 2009 |
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New Wi-Fi Technology Using White Spaces
(PhysOrg.com) -- A wireless internet network that uses portions of the old analog TV spectrum may one day become a reality. The plans for a computer network that uses "white spaces," which are empty fragments ...
Aug 20, 2009 |
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The cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed
Applied mathematicians dissected the morphology of the plantain lily (Hosta lancifolia), a characteristic long leaf with a saddle-like arc midsection and closely packed ripples along the edges. The simple ...
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Power consumption cut by 50% with Panasonic's 32-bit microcomputer
Panasonic Corporation has successfully developed a new series of 32-bit microcomputers with built-in flash memory which contribute to energy-saving and system cost reduction of in-car electronics, office equipment, ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Departure of chip-design legend Bob Pease prompts outpouring in Silicon Valley
Bob Pease is a genuine Silicon Valley rock star who I never would have heard of had he not lost his job, or left his job. It's not entirely clear which.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Toshiba's new technology cuts phase noise in oscillation ICs for wireless communication
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed noise reduction technology that reduces jitter in radio-frequency signals, cutting phase noise by up to 90 percent. This breakthrough opens the way for a further migration ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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TV companies have a year to pipe down loud ads
(AP) -- Shush, already. That's the message the Federal Communications Commission is sending with new rules that force broadcast, cable and satellite companies to turn down the volume on blaring TV commercials.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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700,000 callers phone digital TV hot line
(AP) -- Nearly 700,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday.
Jun 13, 2009 |
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Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, melodies
Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Are you ready for digital TV?
(PhysOrg.com) -- If everything goes as planned, on Feb. 17 the long-awaited switch from analog to digital broadcasting will take place and millions of analog television sets across the nation will go black. Temple University ...
Jan 20, 2009 |
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