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Google turns Android smartphones into interpreters

Google on Wednesday began turning Android-powered smartphones into interpreters with experimental software that lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.

Technology / Software

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 12

Nvidia shows off Kal-El -- new quad-core processing chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia, well known for its graphics chips, has made a pretty big statement by releasing a video on Youtube showing the capabilities of its new quad-core processing chip for smartphones and ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

In nanorod crystal growth, nanoparticles seen as artificial atoms

In the growth of crystals, do nanoparticles act as "artificial atoms" forming molecular-type building blocks that can assemble into complex structures? This is the contention of a major but controversial theory ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google unveils faster Internet search (Update 2)

Internet powerhouse Google is giving Web searchers the thrill of speed with a turbo-charged engine that displays suggested Web links as fast as a person can type.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 11

Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images

Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Speech recognition leaps forward

During Interspeech 2011, the 12th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association being held in Florence, Italy, from Aug. 28 to 31, researchers from Microsoft Research will present work that dramatically ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Watching the engine of life, in real time, to understand how things go wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ruben Gonzalez views ribosomes—the minute particles in cells that make proteins—as the “machines” of life. Naturally, the associate professor of chemistry is interested ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists watch a next-generation ferroelectric memory bit switch in real time

For the first time, engineering researchers have been able to watch in real time the nanoscale process of a ferroelectric memory bit switching between the 0 and 1 states.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Power to the professors: A bold, new way to fund research begins at U-Michigan

A first-of-its-kind, real-time research funding initiative at the University of Michigan puts $15 million into the hands of professors to jumpstart new projects they believe in.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

UrtheCast to show live HD video of Earth from space (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- UrtheCast, a Canadian-based company, has announced a new project with a global scale, literally. The system will allow those of us who have not actually been in to space to see the earth from ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 weblog

Meltzone 2011: CCNY expedition to track life and death of supraglacial lake

How do you observe signs of climate change in real time? Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at The City College of New York, plans to be the first to catch sight of one dramatic indicator ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Under the microscope #16 - Nanowires

Nanowires growing in real time. Each nanowire is roughly 450 atoms wide.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Perfect welds for car bodies

Surface welding instead of penetration welding, allows a laser to produce a weld that is only visible on one side. But how do you control the laser power to prevent it burning a hole through the sheets of ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microsoft adds a collaboration feature to the Word Web App

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft is looking to make a move into Google's office suite functionality on the web. They announced on the Windows Live blog that they are adding a new feature to the Word Web App and ...

Technology / Software

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Real-time hurricane tracking available online

A compilation of hurricane data, including what some currently consider the most accurate real-time predictions of hurricanes, is available at hfip.psu.edu/realtime/AL2011/forecast_track.html.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast