University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale light sensor that can be combined with near-atomic-size electronic circuitry to produce hybrid optic and electronic devices with new functionality. The team, which also involved researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, reports in Nature Photonics that the development overcomes one of nanotechnology’s most daunting challenges. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Samsung Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch LCD display and Google’s latest Android 2.2 operating system, which allows for access to Flash videos and the Android app market. Samsung will also provide its own set of apps for the device. The ‘Readers Hub,’ Samsung’s unique e-reading …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Demis Hassabis – Combining systems neuroscience and machine learning: a new approach to AGI Neuroscience is rapidly teasing apart the functional roles of the brain’s components, and in some cases even the types of algorithms that they use. Machine learning, meanwhile, is producing a growing collection …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Brian Litt and Brain-Computer Interfaces: Past, Present and Future Brain-computer interfaces (aka Brain-Machine Interfaces or Neuroprosthetics), long of interest to science fiction writers and creative thinkers, became a government funded research discipline in the United States beginning in the 1970s. The vision of its architects at …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Newsweek coverage of how China is not displacing the USA The coverage of China’s global inroads has been profoundly short on context, particularly when it comes to how China is—and is not—surpassing the U.S. as a global power. China’s trade with regions like Africa and Latin …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Should a new war break out, Israel is determined to strike a devastating blow more quickly than it did during the last conflict, in which it failed in its objective of destroying Hizballah. Israel has publicly warned that it would destroy Lebanese civilian infrastructure and that …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This is a followup the article about the announcement of 700 planet candidates from the first couple of months of the space telescope Kepler’s operation. BTW: NASA Watch is pissed that the co-investigator of the Kepler Mission made the first release of Kepler results at the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A laser mounted on a warship’s gun turret obliterating a remotely piloted drone Built by Raytheon Missile Systems of Tuscon, Arizona, the 32-kilowatt infrared laser is shown illuminating and heating the wingtip and then the underside of what looks like a radar-seeking drone – until its …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new gel could soon eliminate painful fillings and root canals. * The technology doesn’t prevent cavities; it heals teeth by regenerating them. * Although this is good news for teeth, the research could also be applied to heal bones and other tissues in the body. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The design of the invisibility cloak consists of a spoke-like configuration of glass resonators, which form a magnetic resonance that is used to obtain the desired parameters of the medium. The illustration shows the glass cloak designed to hide a metal cylinder of 15 micrometers in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Cosmologists at UCL are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space. Neutrinos are one of the top candidates for dark matter. Although it has been shown that …