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Assembly errors quickly identified

If errors creep in during the assembly of components, costly post-processing is often the consequence. Automatic testing is difficult, especially where individual products are concerned. Now there is a new ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Survey finds majority of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors

Sixty percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to research published today in the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) scholarly publication, Public Relations Jo ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Intel introduces 400GB and 800GB Solid-State Drive 910 series for data centers

Intel Corporation introduced last week the Intel Solid-State Drive 910 Series (Intel SSD 910 Series), a super high-performing SSD to address rigorous data center storage demands driven by cloud computing, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Novel coding technique patented

Over the past decade, tablet computers and smartphones have taken the world by storm, in no small part due to the way in which they can be switched on almost instantly. The race has been on to develop computers that can similarly ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

TDK launches eSSD series: Single chip Solid State Drives (SSD)

TDK Corporation has developed the eSSD series, a single chip 3Gbps SSD with serial ATA interface that uses multi-chip technology to integrate the TDK SSD controller GBDriver RS3 with NAND type flash memory ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

First patent on low density parity check coding with soft decision decoding for spin-torque transfer MRAM

Researchers at the A*STAR, Data Storage Institute (DSI), have filed a patent on low-density parity-check (LDPC) coding with soft decision decoding, which is an advanced error correction coding scheme for spin-torque transfer ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Automated stress testing for Web 2.0 applications helps Web developers find programming errors

Web applications such as Google Mail, Facebook and Amazon are used every day. However, so far there are no methods to test them systematically and at low cost for malfunctions and security vulnerabilities. ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts recommend measures to reduce human error in fingerprint analysis

A new report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has documented 149 potential sources of human error in the analy ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New secret dispersion technologies that protect against data falsification without needing extra disc capacity

NEC Corporation announced today the development of secret dispersion technologies that safely and securely disperse and save confidential information, even in open environments such as cloud computing networks.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At Yale, quantum computing is a (qu)bit closer to reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Yale University have taken another significant step in the development of quantum computing, a new frontier in computing that promises exponentially faster information processing ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Hand counts of votes may cause errors, says new study

Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to 2 percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British police 'inadvertently' share emails of crime victims

Britain's biggest police force apologised on Thursday to more than 1,100 victims of crime after admitting it had "inadvertently" shared their email addresses with other victims.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Automakers embrace high-tech in safety drive

Automakers displaying the latest technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) are relying on sensors, digital cameras and connectivity in a drive towards a common goal -- eliminating accidents.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

How to break Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law is a useful scapegoat for human error: "If something can go wrong, it will." But, a new study by researchers in Canada hopes to put paid to this unscientific excuse for errors by showing that the introduction ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Quantum error correction in solid state processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Liquid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has been successful for quantum information processing,” Osama Moussa tells PhysOrg.com. “However, there are some questions about scalability and ot ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature