How ions stick to surfaces greatly influences vital processes in everything from water purifiers to batteries. For decades, scientists have debated the mechanics of such binding, or adsorption. Certain ions in water didn't ...
Materials Science
Feb 6, 2019
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Robert W. Taylor, who was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern personal computer, has died. He was 85.
Internet
Apr 15, 2017
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The next generation of toys could be controlled by the power of the mind, thanks to research by the University of Warwick.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 15, 2016
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To help moderate the energy needs of increasingly power-hungry supercomputers, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have released an application programming interface (API) with the goal of standardizing measurement ...
Hardware
Nov 12, 2014
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The demand for even faster, more effective, and also energy-saving computer clusters is growing in every sector. The new asynchronous programming model GPI from Fraunhofer ITWM might become a key building block towards realizing ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of experts in human-computer interaction at the University of St Andrews have found that gesture-based Natural User Interfaces (used to control televisions, computers and games consoles like the Wii and ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 29, 2013
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The New York Times website is undergoing a major overhaul in an effort to become "cleaner" and more engaging, and also to improve the presentation of online ads.
Internet
Mar 13, 2013
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Every year thousands of people in Europe are paralysed by a spinal cord injury. Many are young adults, facing the rest of their lives confined to a wheelchair. Although no medical cure currently exists, in the future they ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 8, 2013
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Twitter on Wednesday made it easier to run ad campaigns using tweeted messages in a move that promised to ramp up the company's money-making potential and prospects for a stock market debut.
Business
Feb 20, 2013
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NASA's next Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to study the little-understood lower levels of the sun's atmosphere has been fully integrated and final testing is underway.
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2013
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