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Nanophysics Jul 19, 2016

New nanoscale technologies could revolutionize microscopes, study of disease

Research completed through a collaboration with University of Missouri engineers, biologists, and chemists could transform how scientists study molecules and cells at sub-microscopic (nanoscale) levels. Shubra Gangopadhyay, ...

Consumer & Gadgets Jan 29, 2016

Shopping tips for buying a big screen TV for the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl represents not only the pinnacle of the football season, but also one of the peak periods for TV purchases.

Hardware Jan 13, 2016

Panasonic and Facebook develop optical disc-based data archive system for data centers

Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has developed Freeze-Ray, an optical disc-based data archive system in collaboration with Facebook. By collaborating with Facebook, Panasonic was able to design Freeze-Ray to ...

Consumer & Gadgets Jan 5, 2016

New TV tech promises sharper colors, but not much to watch

For years, TV makers have focused on making pictures sharper by squeezing more pixels onto screens. Now, their attention is shifting to improving the way sets display color, with a newish technology called HDR taking center ...

Other Jan 4, 2016

How Betamax bit the dust – and other tales of forgotten tech

Sony are to no longer make Betamax video cassette tapes – something that will come as a surprise to many people who thought that Betamax had long since bitten the dust. But 28 years after it lost the battle to the VHS (or ...

Consumer & Gadgets Nov 23, 2015

TV Buying Guide: Get out tape measure before shopping

If you're shopping for a TV, get out a tape measure and do some quick calculations before you head to the store. And count the number of gadgets you'll want to connect to your screen.

Consumer & Gadgets Nov 13, 2015

Post-Betamax, the format wars continue in a digital world

Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired.

Internet Oct 1, 2015

Anti-piracy battle unfolds in real time on Periscope, live-streaming apps

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vanquished his last opponent on Sept. 12, but as fans used live-streaming apps such as Periscope to broadcast the fight, they were also throwing punches at anti-piracy rules in real time.

Other Aug 6, 2015

Women tweet ilooklikeanengineer, among week's tech chatter

Thousands of female engineers, coders, self-described science nerds and other tech superstars joined a Twitter campaign this week to break down stereotypes about what engineers should look like.

Condensed Matter Jul 28, 2015

Study demonstrates rapid control of phase-changes in resonantly bonded materials

Rewritable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs owe their existence to phase-change materials, those materials that change their internal order when heated and whose structures can be switched back and forth between their crystalline ...

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