Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The ARM Cortex™-A15 MPCore™ processor is highest-performance licensable processor the industry has ever seen. The 32nm and 28nm parts should ship in 2013. The Cortex-A15 MPCore processor has an out-of-order superscalar pipeline with a tightly-coupled low-latency level-2 cache which can be up to 4MB in size. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software We are entering a neurotechnology renaissance, in which the toolbox for understanding the brain and engineering its functions is expanding in both scope and power at an unprecedented rate. According to Ed Boyden, an Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering, and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the MIT …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Paris Basin has an area of ~170,000 km2, encompasses most of the northern half of France and extends into Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany. IHS has identified three possible unconventional hydrocarbon plays in the Paris Basin, France: the Lias Shale oil play, the Permo-Carboniferous Shale gas …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters – Solvent-Mediated End-to-End Assembly of Gold Nanorods We demonstrate a new method for the bottom-up assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles, showing that alkanethiol molecules can induce controlled end-to-end assembly of gold nanorods in mixed water/acetonitrile solutions. The assembly is driven by solvent-mediated …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software One of the defining features of the connections between neurons is that they become stronger when neurons fire together; hence the phrase “neurons that fire together, wire together”, a phenomenon otherwise known as Hebbian learning. Various experiments have shown that this effect is most pronounced early …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Russian President Medvedev has prioritized fast reactor technology in 2009 and assured the projects sufficient federal spending amid Russia’s uneasy recovery from the global economic crisis. The government has allocated 110.4 billion rubles ($3.6 billion) for research in this and other nuclear energy areas until 2020 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries by Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institute Middle class definition used is those spending $10-100 per day. Some interesting things to notice is that the projection is for the world economy to get to 200 trillion in 2005 dollars …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Naweed Syed’s lab cultivated brain cells on a microchip. The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine scientists who proved it is possible to cultivate a network of brain cells that reconnect on a silicon chip—or the brain on a microchip—have developed new technology that monitors brain …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in using new “metamaterials” for radical advances in optical technologies, including ultra-powerful microscopes and computers and a possible invisibility cloak. The metamaterials have been plagued by a major limitation: too much light is “lost,” or absorbed by metals such as …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Techonomy is trying to get a movement going. A bias toward action. There is a lot of opportunity in the 5 exabytes of data but there is also danger. Danger of ignoring tacit knowledge. It is more about the how and less the what and the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy China came close to surpassing Japan in 2009 and the disclosure by a senior official that it had now done so comes as no surprise. Indeed, Yi Gang, China’s chief currency regulator, mentioned the milestone in …