Amazon on Monday said it was sorry for a Web Services mishap that put online film streaming service Netflix out of commission on Christmas Eve.

Technology - Business

Jan 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

Netflix on Wednesday was blaming Amazon for an embarrassing outage that left millions of people unable to snuggle up with the online film streaming service on Christmas Eve.

Technology - Business

Dec 26, 2012 not rated yet 0

In a milestone that is expected to help Intel's push into the smartphone and tablet markets, the Santa Clara, Calif., tech giant finally has made its brainy microchips as energy-efficient as those from companies ...

Electronics - Hardware

Dec 18, 2012 not rated yet 1

Researchers at The Open University have devised a new method to understand the processes that happen when atoms cool which could lead to new materials for superconducting power grids and widespread use of magnetic resonance ...

Physics - Superconductivity

Dec 13, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 37

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) scientists have invented a 'sense-ational' device, similar to a string of 'feelers' found on the bodies of the Blind Cave Fish, which enables the fish to sense their ...

Technology - Engineering

Dec 12, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 2

The shift to smartphones and tablets became a landslide this year, crushing desire for laptop computers and pressuring manufacturers to adapt to the mobile Internet era.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Dec 12, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even incomprehensible, ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 10, 2012 4 / 5 (25) 67

(Phys.org)—Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today's electricity expenses, according to new research by the University of Delaware ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Dec 10, 2012 4.4 / 5 (16) 18 |

A new method that could give a deeper insight into evolutional biology by tracing directionality in gene migration has just appeared in EPJ Data Science. Paolo Masucci from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, at Uni ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 10, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—A team of interdisciplinary researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method for significantly increasing the heat transfer rate across two different materials. Results ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Dec 04, 2012 5 / 5 (7) 0 |

In a discovery that helps clear a new path toward quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have found elusive Dirac electrons in a superconducting material.

Physics - Quantum Physics

Dec 04, 2012 4.4 / 5 (8) 9 |

(Phys.org)—One of the challenges of understanding the complex behavior of animals is to relate the behavior to the complex processes occurring within the brain. So far, neural models have not been able ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Nov 30, 2012 4.3 / 5 (18) 15 |

An Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer named Beacon, deployed by the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) of the University of Tennessee, tops the current Green500 list, which ranks the world's fastest supercomputers ...

Electronics - Hardware

Nov 28, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon have found a way to exploit cloud-based Web browsers, using them to perform large-scale computing tasks anonymously. The finding has potential ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Nov 28, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 1 |

Quantum computers are devices—still largely theoretical—that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might do that is by exploiting "spin," a property ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Nov 27, 2012 4.8 / 5 (15) 3 |