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1. IBM simulates cat, maps human brain to improve chip tech

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   A cat can look at a queen Scientists at IBM said they'd made progress towards creating a computer system that will simulate and emulate the human brain for sensation, perception, action, interaction and ...

2. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... Global Foundries more flexibility and paves the way towards Global Foundries and Chartered for a merger. He said that the patent cross license was broad and covered all products, not just X86 disputes. ...

3. Asus introduces Superspeed USB 3.0 mobo

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 30 October 2009

   ... ports. USB 3.0, or Superspeed as it's known, is set to be introduced in a range of products including peripherals towards the end of this year and throughout 2010. The board, dubbed the Xtreme Design ...

4. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... and Doubt towards a challenging product has its roots in political negative campaigning. We certainly saw George Bush, the ex-US President; use this to great success during his election and John McCain ...

5. Global warming debate hots up

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Monday, 12 October 2009

   ... over claims that it misrepresented the views of one of the climate change sceptics it interviewed. Less voice is given to those who point out that all scientists can do is work their way gradually towards ...

6. Free Software Foundation goes mad

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   ... in my inbox. Come on, we all want to help the little guy, but not the wide-eyed wino staggering towards us demanding a few bucks because he has a unicorn to feed. That’s what 9mm automatics were invented ...

7. Be afraid... the message of subliminal advertising

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Monday, 28 September 2009

   ... to emotional information. We can't wait for our consciousness to kick in if we see someone running towards us with a knife or if we drive under rainy or foggy weather conditions and see a sign warning ...

8. California Democrat endorses Net neutrality bill

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 18 September 2009

   ... director Markham Erickson. "Over the next weeks, we look forward to renewed action in both the House and Senate towards our goal of keeping the Internet open and free for speech and innovation." Erickson ...

9. First rocky exoplanet is identified

   (Space/Space Features)

   Wednesday, 16 September 2009

   ... planet, dubbed Corot-7b, orbits a rather unremarkable star, now known as Corot-7. It's located towards the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn) at a distance of about 500 light-years. Slightly smaller ...

10. Here comes the quarter-of-a-million dollar man

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 13 September 2009

    ... it can't quite replicate these abilities - but it says it can go a long way towards it. And it's totted up the bill. The nearest thing to Austin's bionic eye is the Argus II, an artificial retina developed ...

11. AMD unveils Vision technology for the masses

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    ... a fourth level - Vision Black - during the first quarter of 2010. Vision Black is reportedly geared towards desktop users and is designed to enable the "highest end capabilities" of a PC. Vision-oriented ...

12. Optical computer does its first math

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

      The first ever calculation has been performed by an optical computer. It wasn't a really hard sum - finding the prime factors of 15 - but it's a huge step towards the creation of a quantum computer. ...

13. Law makes an ass of donkey bloggers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 02 September 2009

    ... donkey expounds on the many benefits of living in Azerbaijan and praises the government for 'its positive attitude towards donkeys'. Bloggers Andnan Haji Zadeh and Emin Milli were later arrested in a restaurant ...

14. Viewers still want analog mobile TV

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    Despite moves towards digital television, the use of free-to-air analog mobile TV is set to increase by a massive six times in the next four years, according to a report.Sunnyvale, CA – Despite moves towards ...

15. Paint your house green with solar cells

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... or wall. “You’d have to paint the light-absorbing material and a few other layers as well,” Korgel said. “This is one step in the direction towards paintable solar cells.” Korgel uses light-absorbing ...

16. Driverless cars pull up at airport

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... is credited with launching the railway era, 180 years ago. But the museum is also looking towards the future. Exhibited alongside the steam locomotive will be two ULTra Personal Rapid Transit vehicles, ...

17. Carmack: id Software to develop new rendering engine

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... interestingly we are coasting towards some fundamental physical limits on things. We've already hit the megahertz wall and eventually there's going to be a power density wall from which you won't get more ...

18. Apple offers $50 shades for 15-inch MacBook Pro

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... creates a smooth, seamless surface." However, Apple's move towards glossy screens have been harshly criticized by video and image editing aficionados, who claim that the displays complicated color matching. ...

19. Large Hadron Collider to start up at half power

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 07 August 2009

    ... the machine. Thereafter, with the benefit of that experience, the energy will be taken towards 5 TeV per beam. At the end of 2010, the LHC will be run with lead ions for the first time. After that, the ...

20. Intel lets Facebook users put spare time to good use

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... Thru Processors participants can decide which cause they want to their contribute processor power towards.  These include Climateprediction.net and Africa@home. Climateprediction.net aims to predict ...

21. Microsoft sets Windows 7 upgrade prices

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 31 July 2009

    Microsoft has published a list of price points for various Windows 7 upgrades. The corporation also extolled the virtues of Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU), a utility geared towards customers 'whose PC needs ...

22. UbiSoft pledges to cut software piracy

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... so we are working to put new figurines and new elements in the box that will change that for the future," said Guillemot. "We see a different attitude towards piracy in the US than in Europe. We made a ...

23. Chrome to get hardware accelerated 3D graphics

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    ... to complete our first step towards integration. Chromium is the open-source project that underlies Chrome itself and Spencer said that he will be making the Windows build of Chromium dependent upon building ...

24. iPhone "cannibalizes" sales of traditional iPods

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... its focus. The company is far from abandoning the iconic music player, but we expect Apple to shift much of its innovation focus away from the iPod and towards the iPhone, which is now likely making more ...

25. NEC, Renesas combine will outsource chip production

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... take designs from big companies like NEC and print their chips for them. But that doesn't mean that NEC will shut down its own fabs - it will carry on making semiconductors for cars. The trend towards ...

26. Global Foundries wants firms to delay moving to larger wafers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... reason Global Foundries is pushing against a trend towards larger wafer sizes is because it doesn't really have a great deal of choice. The capital investment required to create a 450mm fab and the equipment ...

27. Nokia targets social networking addicts with Symbian Surge

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    Nokia has announced a new Symbian handset geared towards social networking addicts. The S60 features a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, multi-tasking capabilities and Flash support. San Francisco (CA) ...

28. Intel roadmap details sneak out under the radar

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... Core 2 Extreme XE 2GHz, Core 2 Quad P2 1.73GHz and Core 2 Quad P1 1.6GHz - will be ready to launch towards the end of September, along with the Celeron SU2300 and Celeron 743 aimed at ultra-thin notebooks. ...

29. EA declares end to Tiberium wars with C&C 4

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

    ... - find humanity on the brink of extinction as Tiberium renders the earth almost entirely uninhabitable. Meanwhile, the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and the Brotherhood of Nod are forced to work towards ...

30. Apple files patents to improve the iPhone

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

      Cupertino company Apple has filed several patents this week which point the way towards improvements it hopes to bring to its run-away success, the iPhone. Cupertino company Apple has filed several ...

31. Meet your new boss: Google

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ...  Chrome OS is geared towards netbooks initially and its reach will be limited, but we remember that 96% of all netbooks sold today are running a, let’s be honest, an outdated operating system called Windows ...

32. Rubik's Cube inventor gets round to new game

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 05 July 2009

    ... spheres are weighted, so they are constantly pulling towards their original position as the puzzle is turned. "Just when you think you’ve got a ball in the right position, chances are the inner spheres ...

33. Chip sales rose in May

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 July 2009

    ... a move towards high end phones in the month. ...

34. New type of black hole discovered

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... such long sought after intermediate mass black holes." The new source, dubbed HLX-1 (Hyper-Luminous X-ray source 1), lies towards the edge of the galaxy ESO 243-49. It is ultra-luminous in X-rays, with ...

35. China admits defeat in Green Dam row

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... computers and those in public internet cafes. It insists that it will continue to work towards 'perfecting the pre-installation plan', added Xinhua. See also: Chinese Prime Minister gets PC letter Sony ...

36. HTC confirms native Flash support for Android Hero

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    ... complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step towards full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future." John Wang of HTC explained that the Hero ...

37. IBM scientists get a step closer to nanoscale computing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 14 June 2009

    ... step towards building computing elements at the molecular scale - computing elements that could be much smaller, faster and more energy-efficient than today's processors and memory devices. In collaboration ...

38. SEMI says fab spending to decline by 51 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009

    ... the trend. Major investments by chip company Intel help towards a total spend of $1 billion. Intel is moving to a 32 nanometre process. SEMI said 19 fabs closed in 2008 and 35 fabs will close this year, ...

39. Globalfoundries starts work on NY Fab

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    ... jobs. Globalfoundries has completed a development agreement with the Towns of Malta and Stillwater, agreeing to hand over $5 million, including $1 million towards the creation of a 32-acre public recreation ...

40. Intel intros thin notebook styles

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    ... believes. The 32 nanometer chip for desktops are codenamed Clarkdale and Arrandale, while the Lynnfield CPU, available towards the end of this year, will give 40 percent better performance than Penryn, ...

41. Panasonic chief thinks India is its savior

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    ... - he thought that Panasonic will "pull out" of unprofitable operations. He looks towards developing markets such as India and has learned a lot from major Indian combine Tata and its famous Tata Nano. ...

42. Facebook bars some Holocaust deniers, but allows others to remain

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... hate or merely express ideas. "We are sensitive to groups that threaten violence towards people and these groups are taken down. We also remove groups that express hatred towards individuals and groups ...

43. Spirit rover stuck in Martian sand

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 11 May 2009

    ...  Part of the problem is that only five of Spirit's six wheels are working after a mechanical failure three years ago. Spirit was driving around a low plateau towards a pair of volcanic features named ...

44. AMD posts controversial virtualization value math

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... to this question since it was AMD’s post. And reading such a post on AMD’s site you can expect that the evaluation environment is skewed towards AMD’s advantages. For example, AMD admits that Nehalem offers ...

45. EPA details renewable fuel strategy, reaching 36 billion gallons by 2012

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 05 May 2009

    ... include 16 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuels, 15 billion gallons of conventional biofuels, and 4 billion gallons of advanced biofuels 1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel. “As we work towards ...

46. Boeing preps 787 for first flight

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 03 May 2009

    Boeing is inching the 787 Dreamliner towards its first flight scheduled to take place late this quarter. The company said that the plane has been moved to the flight line and fuel testing. Chicago ...

47. Why Apple needs Microsoft to survive the coming OS battle

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... Google model and appears to be leaning towards their solutions already. If they go, they will likely take the industries they own with them (financial and automotive), creating the biggest potential technology ...

48. Apple not green, perhaps light green, in power purchases

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... The extra power purchases go towards funding projects with “free” green power and could even expand to provide employees with green power that has been paid for by the employer. For example, Dell purchases ...

49. Microsoft confirms Windows 7 RC coming next week

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 26 April 2009

    Microsoft is racing towards a public release of Windows 7. The first release candidate will be made available to the public on May 5, the company said. Redmond (WA) – Microsoft is racing towards a ...

50. AMD optimistic although future is murky

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 April 2009

    ... 7 will spur sales of its graphics products towards the end of this year, while it will release Congo at the end of this month. As far as the spun off Global Foundries is concerned, currently AMD is its ...