Spacex next cargo mission could be delayed to investigate first stage engine loss. Engine loss did not prevent successful cargo delivery

Aviation Week – NASA says operations aboard the International Space Station should not be affected if the SpaceX CRS-2 cargo delivery mission currently slated for January slips as a result of the ongoing investigation into the first-stage engine loss that occurred on the Oct. 7 CRS-1 mission. The supply cache delivered to the station in …

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Oak Ridge National Lab Debuts the 20 petaflop Titan supercomputer

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more …

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Spacex Dragon returns from the Space Station and we again have Sample Return Capability

Today at 12:22 p.m. PT, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth from the International Space Station, safely splashing down approximately 250 miles off the coast of southern California. “This historic mission signifies the restoration of America’s ability to deliver and return critical space station cargo,” said SpaceX CEO and Chief Technical Officer Elon Musk. “The …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128

The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128 is up at Atomic Power Review If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128

The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128 is up at Atomic Power Review If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Reviews

1. USA Today – The phone will launch with the Android 4.1 mobile operating system. It’s also the first Samsung phone for the U.S. to house a powerful quad-core processor. I’ve had a chance to check out the T-Mobile version for more than a week. Despite a few networking snags — T-Mobile’s 4G network was …

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Samsung’s third quarter smartphone shipments double Apple’s

Samsung shipped more than twice as many smartphones as Apple Inc. in the third quarter, as the South Korean company dramatically expanded its lead over its U.S. rival, according to ABI Research. Worldwide handset shipments decreased 1.9% YoY to 387.3 million units in Q3 2012, according to new data from market intelligence firm ABI Research. …

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Samsung’s third quarter smartphone shipments double Apple’s

Samsung shipped more than twice as many smartphones as Apple Inc. in the third quarter, as the South Korean company dramatically expanded its lead over its U.S. rival, according to ABI Research. Worldwide handset shipments decreased 1.9% YoY to 387.3 million units in Q3 2012, according to new data from market intelligence firm ABI Research. …

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Ultracompact on-chip silicon optical logic gates

Arxiv – All-optical integrated circuits for computing and information processing have been pursued for decades as a potential strategy to overcome the speed limitations intrinsic to electronics. However feasible on-chip integrated logic units and devices still have been limited by its size, quality, scalability, and reliability. Here we demonstrate all-passive on-chip optical AND and NAND …

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Ultracompact on-chip silicon optical logic gates

Arxiv – All-optical integrated circuits for computing and information processing have been pursued for decades as a potential strategy to overcome the speed limitations intrinsic to electronics. However feasible on-chip integrated logic units and devices still have been limited by its size, quality, scalability, and reliability. Here we demonstrate all-passive on-chip optical AND and NAND …

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