News tagged with computer power
Cloud to tackle money laundering problem
(PhysOrg.com) -- Money laundering is estimated at $1.3 trillion worldwide - a huge problem. Now European researchers are using cloud computing services to boost anti-money laundering efforts by tracking suspicious ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Mind-reading computers turn heads at high-tech fair
Devices allowing people to write letters or play pinball using just the power of their brains have become a major draw at the world's biggest high-tech fair.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Cloud technology to combat cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cloud services provided over grid technology are helping to treat cancer patients, thanks to an enormous effort by European researchers working closely with industry.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Earth-shaking research to predict devastation from earthquakes
The computational science expertise at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory is playing a key role in enabling researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Architects and engineers bridge the grid chasm
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the technology adoption cycle, a chasm separates powerful new technologies from the SMEs that could most benefit from them. Now, thanks to European researchers, architects and engineers are building a ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Scientists find an equation for materials innovation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton engineers have made a breakthrough in an 80-year-old quandary in quantum physics, paving the way for the development of new materials that could make electronic devices smaller and ...
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Near-threshold computing could enable up to 100x reduction in power consumption
(PhysOrg.com) -- While electronic devices have greatly improved in many regards, such as in storage capacity, graphics, and overall performance, etc., they still have a weight hanging around their neck: they’re ...
Feb 17, 2010 |
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Google demonstrates phone that translates text
(AP) -- Stumped by foreign languages when you're traveling? Google Inc. is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera.
Feb 16, 2010 |
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PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way
(PhysOrg.com) -- At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the world are quietly working together to solve the largest and most basic mysteries of our galaxy.
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Researcher to track spread of disease, malware and power outages
An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $750,000 federal grant to formulate a mathematical framework that can track the spread of pandemics among populations and malware ...
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Grid computing for the masses
(PhysOrg.com) -- Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists making computers smart enough to see connections between brain's neurons
(PhysOrg.com) -- C. elegans, a tiny worm about a millimeter long, doesn’t have much of a brain, but it has a nervous system — one that comprises 302 nerve cells, or neurons, to be exact. In the 1970s, a team ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Dartmouth researchers help secure the power grid
Dartmouth researchers are part of the national Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid team that has been awarded a five-year $18.8 million grant from the US Department of Energy with contributions from the US ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Intel aims for the cloud as businesses ramp IT spending
Intel Corp. affirmed this week what many analysts have been talking about for some time: That a corporate spending wave is about to hit -- and a big part of it will come from the cloud.
Jan 17, 2010 |
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MP3 co-creator wants to smarten-up dumb devices
A German electrical engineer who helped make MP3 players a reality has turned his attention to making "dumb devices" act smart.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 11, 2010 |
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