Activision jumps into kids' game with 'Skylanders'
(AP) -- To impress kids these days, it's not enough to make another video game. Mere action figures won't do, either. So Activision is merging the two.
(AP) -- To impress kids these days, it's not enough to make another video game. Mere action figures won't do, either. So Activision is merging the two.
Software
Oct 16, 2011
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NJIT researchers received a top honor for their ideas on better ways to ensure the integrity and long-term reliability of data stored at potentially untrusted cloud storage providers. "Towards Self-Repairing Replication-Based ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 4, 2013
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As antitrust regulators continue to scrutinize the year's biggest tech deal, Oracle's planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, competitors in the high-end hardware business and open-source software market have wasted ...
Business
Aug 7, 2009
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In 2020, each person in the world is producing about 1.7 megabytes of data every second. In just a single year, that amounts to 418 zettabytes—or 418 billion one-terabyte hard drives.
Nanophysics
Dec 9, 2020
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Successfully managing, preserving, and sharing large amounts of digitally-based data has become more of an economic challenge than a technical one, as researchers must meet a new National Science Foundation (NSF) policy requiring ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 5, 2011
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Researchers from IBM today demonstrated the future of large-scale storage systems by successfully scanning 10 billion files on a single system in just 43 minutes, shattering the previous record of one billion files in three ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 22, 2011
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Google Inc. said Wednesday that it will sell its own tablet computer, the Nexus 7, based on its Android operating system.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 28, 2012
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Our lives depend on our electronics – our cellphones and computers. In turn, our electronics depend on a special class of elements known as rare-earths. Computers, cellphones, electric vehicles, televisions, and more are ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2014
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Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can work on a far smaller scale, recording data within individual cells. One way to do that is to create ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 1, 2012
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When it officially came online at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in early January 2012, Gordon was instantly impressive. In one demonstration, it sustained more than 35 million input/output operations per second—then, ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 26, 2013
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