News tagged with tape
NASA shuts down its last mainframe computer
NASA has just powered down its last mainframe computer. Umm, everyone remembers what a mainframe computer is, right? Well, you certainly must recall working with punched cards, paper tape, and/or magnetic ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2012 |
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'Cell assay on a chip': solid results from simple means
(PhysOrg.com) -- The great artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci once said that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research engineer Javier Atencia ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Vinyl records make the world go around again
In the brave new world of MP3 players, compact discs are dying, cassettes are Stone Age, and old-fashioned vinyl records... they're back!
Jan 22, 2012 |
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Two missing BBC 'Doctor Who' episodes found
Two classic 1960s episodes of the BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who", thought lost forever, have been found, the British Film Institute said Monday.
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Theft of data on 4M patients part of wider problem
The theft of a computer containing information on more than 4 million patients of a major Northern California health care provider may be among the largest breaches of health care data in recent years, but it's far from ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Sony chairman credited with developing CDs dies
(AP) -- Opera singer Norio Ohga complained about the quality of Sony tape recorders before he was hired by the company, developed the compact disc and championed its superior sound. Love of music steered ...
Apr 23, 2011 |
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Scientists discover fractal pattern in Scotch tape
(PhysOrg.com) -- Clear cellophane tape – which can be found in almost every home in the industrialized world – may seem quite ordinary, but recent research has shown otherwise. In 2008, scientists ...
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Racetrack memory
Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that's 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks. EPFL Professor Mathias Klaui is working on a new kind of "racetrack" memory, ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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A Walkman Obit: Remembering the portable player
(AP) -- The Walkman, the Sony cassette device that forever changed music listening before becoming outdated by digital MP3 players and iPods, has died. It was 31 years old. ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 25, 2010 |
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50 TB Per Tape Cartridge: Japanese Researchers Develop Ultra High Capacity Tape Media
Hitachi Maxell and Tokyo Institute of Technology today jointly announced the development of ultra high capacity tape media with ultra thin nano-structured magnetic film by using of facing targets sputtering ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 19, 2010 |
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Glue, fly, glue: Caddisflies' underwater silk adhesive might suture wounds
Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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IBM Research Sets New Record in Magnetic Tape Data Density (w/ Video)
IBM researchers today announced they have demonstrated a world record in areal data density on linear magnetic tape - a significant update to one of the computer industry's most resilient, reliable and affordable data storage ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Robots climb up the wall (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotics scientist from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheeba, Israel, has developed four different kinds of robots that climb up walls.
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Faster, easier way to access audiovisual assets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of hours of old shows sit collecting dust in the basements of TV and radio broadcasters. Digging through these audiovisual treasure troves is becoming faster and easier thanks to ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Happy 30th birthday, Walkman
Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 01, 2009 |
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