News tagged with information capacity

Disconnect between wireless demand and capacity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report from the Global Information Industry Center at the University of California, San Diego examines the projected disconnect between U.S. wireless infrastructure capacity and consumer ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New semiconductor nanowire laser technology could kill viruses, improve DVDs

A team led by a professor at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has made a discovery in semiconductor nanowire laser technology that could potentially do everything from kill viruses to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information

Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions like ".jpg" or ".png" signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more efficient format, reducing ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

How much information is there in the world? Scientists calculate the world's total technological capacity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Think you're overloaded with information? Not even close. A study appearing on Feb. 10 in Science Express calculates the world's total technological capacity -- how much information humank ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

New device for ultrafast optical communications

A new device invented by engineers at UC Davis could make it much faster to convert pulses of light into electronic signals and back again. The technology could be applied to ultrafast, high-capacity communications, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 1