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Wireless startup LightSquared files for bankruptcy

LightSquared Inc., which hoped to create an independent wireless broadband network in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.

Technology / Telecom

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Trillion-frame-per-second video

By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (41) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Iran to launch observation satellite on nuclear talks day

Iran will launch next week an experimental observation satellite, on the day of talks with world powers over its controversial nuclear programme, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Kinecthesia: Students hack Kinect to help visually impaired (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite amazing advances in computers and cameras, people with serious visual impairments are often aided with the most basic technology imaginable: a cane.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Old life capable of revealing new tricks after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaea are among the oldest known life-forms, but they are not well understood. It was only in the 1970s that these single-celled microorganisms were designated as a domain of life distinct ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Teenage 'spokesman' for hackers Team Poison arrested in UK

British police said Thursday they had arrested a 17-year-old suspected spokesman for Team Poison, a hacking group that has claimed responsibility for a series of high-profile cyber-attacks.

Technology / Internet

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Greying Singapore taps robots, games in rehab

Six months ago, Singaporean retiree Soon Eng Sam, 70, suffered a stroke that paralysed the left side of his body.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 01, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New camouflage technology from BAE hides war machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- BAE Systems says it has a camouflage system that can render battle machines like tanks invisible or even seen as other objects in the immediate environment to protect against attack. The 'cloak' ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report

Automatic safety under water

The Suba system aims to become to diving what the automatic pilot is to flying. Developed by a student from EPFL, it will be released to the market by his start-up company: Pandora Underwater Equipment, starting ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cisco challenges Microsoft takeover of Skype in EU

Networking company Cisco said Wednesday that it is challenging Microsoft's $8.5 billion takeover of Skype at the European Union's top court to ensure Microsoft won't block other video conferencing services.

Technology / Business

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

GE, Nissan join hands on electric cars

General Electric and Nissan, maker of the all-electric Nissan Leaf, said Friday they will team up over the next two years to explore ways to promote the use of electric vehicles.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Analyzing energy potential

Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment - from sources such as light or vibrations - may be enough to meet these ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pioneering bio hacker group finds home

(PhysOrg.com) -- A garage lab for research in biotechnology seeking bigger digs for an open science lab has opened its doors in Sunnyvale, California. Instead of sponsorship from big corporations and government, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

The incredible shrinking circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just when it seemed that microchips couldn't get any tinier, a technique developed by researchers here at the University of Cambridge Engineering Department could lead to chips which are not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Why NHL goalies prefer wooden sticks?

Goalies in the National Hockey League overwhelmingly continue to use wooden sticks largely indistinguishable from those used decades ago by their mask-less predecessors.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Tool

A tool is a device that can be used to produce an item or achieve a task, but that is not consumed in the process. Informally the word is also used to describe a procedure or process with a specific purpose. Tools that are used in particular fields or activities may have different designations such as Instrument, Utensil, Implement, Machine, or Apparatus.

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