News tagged with powerful computers

One of Apple's first computers for sale at auction

Going ... going ... going crazy for the Apple 1.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Flame virus a new age cyber spy tool

The Flame computer virus that smoldered undetected for years in Middle Eastern energy facilities confirmed fears that the world has entered a new age of cyber espionage and sabotage.

Technology / Internet

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Samsung begins Europe sales of Galaxy S III smartphone

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries, hoping to cement its lead ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Computer model used to pinpoint prime materials for efficient carbon capture

When power plants begin capturing their carbon emissions to reduce greenhouse gases – and to most in the electric power industry, it's a question of when, not if – it will be an expensive undertaking.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Engineering a safer world

Innovations in software and technology are creating increasingly complex systems: cars that park themselves; medical devices that automatically deliver drugs; and smartphones with the computing power of desktop ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SDSC's Trestles supercomputer speeds clean energy research

A team of Harvard University researchers has been allocated time on the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego to perform computational calculations ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Chips as mini Internets

Computer chips have stopped getting faster. In order to keep increasing chips’ computational power at the rate to which we’ve grown accustomed, chipmakers are instead giving them additional “cores,” or ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user's geographical location, sending information about the user to advertisers and downloading ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Faster computational methods could simulate the power and signal integrity of next-generation electronic systems

The overall performance of modern computers and communications networks is dependent on the speed of electronic components, such as transistors and optical switches, as well as the quality of the wire network ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Smarter computing systems make society better

Smarter computing systems can help give our lives a big boost - in education, healthcare, transportation, security and even the environment. But these computing systems need to be adjusted constantly, to help ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Innovative 3-D designs can more than double solar power generated from a given area

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

More energy efficient transistors through quantum tunneling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania State University have announced breakthroughs in the development of tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs), a semiconductor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

When ions get closer: New physical attraction between ions in quantum plasmas

Nowadays, ever smaller and more powerful computer chips are in demand. German physicists have discovered a new physical attraction that accelerates this progress.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the alphabet of data processing is growing: Research team generates flying 'qubits'

The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with single electrons, called quantum bits, or qubits. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers propose method to eliminate wasted energy in computer processors

In today's computer processors, much of the power put into running the processor is being wasted.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 9 | with audio podcast