Blekko, a Silicon Valley startup trying to build a spam-free search engine, is getting some love from Russia.

Technology - Internet

Sep 29, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

In the same way that computing power moved from mainframes to the desktop in the 1980s, it’s now moving from the desktop to handheld devices. But that’s putting new demands on chip designers. Because ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Dec 08, 2011 3.7 / 5 (3) 3 |

Intel Corp. is touting a hybrid laptop 0.8 inches (20 mm) thick with sleek tablet computing features and ultra-sharp visual images that it hopes will create a market bridging traditional PCs and tablet computing.

Electronics - Hardware

May 31, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to sources inside the company, Lenovo is hoping to release a 23-inch tablet PC by the end of this year. The source, William Cai, is a senior specialist in marketing at a Lenovo. ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Apr 13, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

The White House on Thursday is expected to unveil its proposal to enhance the nation's cybersecurity, laying out plans to require industry to better protect systems that run critical infrastructure like the electrical grid, ...

Technology - Internet

May 12, 2011 not rated yet 1

Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To maintain the regular doubling of computer power that we now take for granted, chip makers have been giving chips more "cores," or processing units. But ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Feb 23, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Home and office energy conservation must focus on more than developing computers, appliances and other electronics that require less power to operate. Engineers say there are big energy-efficiency ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 14, 2011 2 / 5 (1) 3 |

Scientists using new mathematical and computational techniques have identified six influenza A viruses that have particularly close genetic relationships to the H1N1 "swine" flu virus that swept through the United States ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Jun 13, 2011 3.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

University of Florida researchers say their supercomputer, named Novo-G, is the world's fastest reconfigurable supercomputer and is able to perform some important science applications faster than the Chinese supercomputer ...

Electronics - Hardware

Feb 15, 2011 4.6 / 5 (5) 0 |

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are an increasingly popular technology for use in energy-efficient lighting. Researchers from North Carolina State University have now developed a new technique that reduces defects in the gallium ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jan 25, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

Galaxy -- an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research -- is now available as a "cloud computing" resource. A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 08, 2011 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for using multi-core chips more efficiently, significantly enhancing a computer's ability to build computer models of biological systems. The technique ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Jun 09, 2011 2.6 / 5 (5) 2 |

An economically feasible way to store solar energy in existing residential power networks is the subject of an award winning paper written by two Virginia Tech electrical engineers and presented at an international conference.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Aug 17, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 4

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it had acquired Liquavista, the pioneer of a new screen technology that the South Korean giant hopes will boost its liquid crystal display (LCD) business.

Technology - Business

Jan 20, 2011 not rated yet 0

In an article about to be published in European Physical Journal Plus, Daan Frenkel from the University of Cambridge, UK, outlines the many pitfalls associated with simulation methods such as Monte Carlo algorithms or oth ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 29, 2013 4.8 / 5 (6) 4