News tagged with data source

Cryptographic attack highlights the importance of bug-free software

A padlocked icon in a web-browser or a URL starting with https provides communication security over the Internet. The icon or URL indicates OpenSSL, a cryptography toolkit implementing the SSL protocol, or a similar system ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Map making, made easy: Web platform lowers barrier to collaboration

Soon, scholars worldwide will have an easier time creating, publishing, and sharing maps and other geospatial data, thanks to the release of WorldMap, an open source software platform that fills the growing ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Einstein offers easy-to-use genome analyzer to scientific community

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a desktop genome analyzer and browser that allows biologists to rapidly and easily analyze and process their high-throughput data. The ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Free Software Foundation takes aim at Gmail

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Free Software Foundation is at it again, promoting their laudable, if potentially unrealistic, goal to have all software released under a free software license. Their latest target for information freebies ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 35 | with audio podcast weblog

Install and Forget: Batteryless Radio Sensors

Siemens has developed a variety of energy autarkic radio sensors that draw the energy they require for operation from their surroundings. The technology can be used to automatically monitor facilities in remote ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Telemedicine in the making: Moca source code released

Moca, an MIT student organization, today announced the release of the Moca source code, a set of foundational building blocks for telemedicine and mHealth applications that use wireless networks to connect ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nokia N900 now available in US

Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Cloud computing brings cost of protein research down to Earth

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center in Milwaukee have just made the very expensive and promising area of protein research more accessible to scientists worldwide.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's SkyView Delivers the Multiwavelength Cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0