News tagged with technology gap

The trustworthy cloud

Not a week goes by without reports on security gaps, data theft or hacker attacks. Both businesses and private users are becoming increasingly uneasy. However, when it comes to technologies like cloud computing, trust and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung starts new chip line to boost flash memory

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it has begun mass production at a new line to raise production of flash memory chips used in tablets and smartphones.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

No elder left behind: Researchers say designers can help close tech gap

While more older adults than ever are using cell phones and computers, a technology gap still exists that threatens to turn senior citizens into second-class citizens, according to Florida State University researchers.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

EU sets out new science plan

(AP) -- European authorities and industry must increase funding for scientific research and improve cooperation to try to close the technology gap with the United States, the European Commission said Tuesday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Integrated sensors handle extreme conditions

A team of Case Western Reserve University engineers has designed and fabricated integrated amplifier circuits that operate under extreme temperatures – up to 600 degrees Celsius - a feat that was previously impossible.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UH students develop prototype device that translates sign language

Too often, communication barriers exist between those who can hear and those who cannot. Sign language has helped bridge such gaps, but many people are still not fluent in its motions and hand shapes.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find new properties of the carbon material graphene

Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since the extremely strong and thin carbon material was discovered in 2004. Just one atom thick, the honeycomb-shaped material has several remarkable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Autonomous-driving Volvo convoy takes road in Spain

(Phys.org) -- In the annals of “whatever happened to that big idea” is the 2009 announcement of road trains linking cars in a convoy, a scheme planned for Europe’s motorways. The lead vehic ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Prehistoric cold case links humans to Tasmanian megafauna extinctions

A team of Australian and New Zealand researchers have discovered fresh evidence that could finally unravel the mystery of what killed Tasmania's giant marsupials over 40,000 years ago.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

New York is vying to become global high-tech hub

(AP) -- Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex ...

Technology / Business

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Social media used to collect information on marine wilderness

(Phys.org) -- Researchers from Murdoch University's Cetacean Research Unit are working with colleagues from Duke University in the US and Marine Ventures Foundation on an innovative project that will use social ...

Biology / Ecology

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

How environmental effects regulate genes

Swiss researchers provide evidence that a protein in the cell nucleus responds to environmental stimuli like a kind of sensor, regulates genes accordingly and thus exchanges information with the cell memory. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Availability of hydrogen controls chemical structure of graphene oxide

A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Iron-based superconductors exhibit s-wave symmetry

(Phys.org) -- Condensed-matter physicists the world over are in hot pursuit of a comprehensive understanding of high-temperature superconductivity, not just for its technological benefits but for the clues ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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