AMD today announced plans to extend its leadership position in graphics software with major enhancements to performance and compatibility for ATI Radeon graphics for consumer Linux users.
Software
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Paleontologists have long theorized that miniaturization was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary “leap” to take flight and so become what we call birds. ...
Archaeology
Sep 6, 2007
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Biomedical researchers at Boston University’s College of Engineering may have discovered the path toward developing better drugs capable of defeating so-called “superbugs,” bacteria that have developed resistance to common ...
Sep 6, 2007
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In 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't manipulate atoms. However, if atomic manipulation ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Sep 6, 2007
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Across the nation, beekeepers have seen hive after hive succumb to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD); a team of entomologists and infectious disease researchers now report a strong correlation between the occupancy of CCD and ...
Sep 6, 2007
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Apes bite and try to break a tube to retrieve the food inside while children follow the experimenter's example to get inside the tube to retrieve the prize, showing that even before preschool, toddlers are more sophisticated ...
Other
Sep 6, 2007
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Evil forces thrive in an unstable environment. At least, that’s the picture being painted in the first waves of data being reaped from the genome sequence of the fungal plant pathogen, Fusarium graminearum. The sequencing ...
Sep 6, 2007
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Days before a growing hurricane possibly batters a local coastline, meteorologists rush to predict just how strong its winds and rains may grow knowing that lives and an area’s economy may depend on their results. A new study ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 6, 2007
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Integrating technology from the original, ultra-premium QUALIA 004 SXRD front home theater projector first introduced in 2004, Sony Electronics today unveiled two full high-definition 1080p BRAVIA projectors (models VPL-VW200 ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 6, 2007
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As high-temperature superconductors (HTS) enter their third decade, the commercialization of reliable and energy-efficient HTS-technology is close to becoming a reality. This is the conclusion of a series of articles published ...
Condensed Matter
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