Solar cells self-assemble in 'salad dressing'

Your salad dressing could become an electronics factory, if work from the University of Minnesota bears fruit.

So long Chartered and thanks for all the chips!

It’s been a long time in coming, but today AMD Fab spin-off, GlobalFoundries, announced it had finally finished integrating Chartered Semiconductor into one big fab family under the unified name and brand of GlobalFoundries.

'Wet' computing system aims to mimic brain processes

Researchers at the University of Southampton are embarking on a project to develop a new kind of information processing technology inspired by the chemical processes in living systems.

Has the Mars Lander survived the winter?

NASA is to start listening out for radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander next week, although it doesn't hold out much hope.

Rambus trial pulls in the chip glitterati

A trial starts in San Francisco today, prompted by semiconductor design Rambus that threatens to drag in a long list of the rich and famous in Silicon Valley.

Google threatens China over massive cyber attack

Google has threatened to halt operations in China after identifying a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" against its corporate infrastructure.

Ron Jeremy says pirating porn is immoral

Porn is not immoral, but piracy is, was the firm message being delivered by Adult industry star Ron Jeremy as he spoke to TG Daily in Las Vegas.

Mysterious object hurtles towards Earth

Astronomers have reportedly spotted an unknown space object hurtling towards the planet Earth.

Big Brother is RFIDing you

One of the eerier, more big brotherish bits of tech on display at this year’s CES in Las Vegas was a "specimen" ID card from Samsung combining both RFID and OLED to produce biometric video of one’s floating, unsmiling head from all angles.

Mozilla takes on Internet Explorer with Firefox 3.6

Mozilla's recently introduced Firefox 3.6 release candidate (RC) has scored 94 out of 100 on the popular Acid 3 test.

Fermi die means high Nvidia silicon costs ahead

There are some benchmarks. Or some Powerpoint slides. As TG Daily reported earlier, Nvidia flew in a gaggle of European journalists just when CES was all done and dusted, to brief them on Fermi, expected to be formally announced on Sunday week, January 17.

Report: Apple prepping dual-core iPhone for April launch

Apple is reportedly preparing to launch its next-gen, dual-core 4G iPhone in April 2010.

Google upgrades cloud-based Docs with full file support

Google has upgraded its free, cloud-based Docs suite by supporting "all file types" and increasing maximum upload limits to 250MB.

Facebook's Mafia Wars is sort of a compulsive disorder

I'm a recent convert to Facebook and was invited to join Mafia Wars - an online game - by one of my pals on the social networking site.

Sony develops next-gen Blu-ray format for PS4

High-level Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida recently told Play3 that the future Playstation 4 will use optical storage discs such as Blu-ray for its game library.

Google grovels over Nexus One SNAFUs

They say that after roses, roses there come thorns, thorns. And that's certainly been the case with Google's Nexus One experience.

Tech industry ready to spend, spend, spend

An upbeat report from Forrester suggests that 2010 will see a significant recovery in the level of spending in the tech industry.

Baidu: Hacking war breaks out between Iran and China

Iranian hackers brought down Baidu, China's biggest search engine, this morning, and battle ensued - but nobody has any idea why.

Body scanners will transmit and store passenger images

A document obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) using Freedom of Information Act laws, clearly demonstrates that scanners used at US airports will store and transmit passenger images.

Internet dashboards encourage dangerous driving, say campaigners

Google and Intel are working on internet dashboards for drivers - and are already getting flak from road safety organisations.