Defkalion is shutting down its forum. Defkalion claims that their next announcment in a few months (presumably with a press release and press conference) will be that of a successful and certified product. Defkalion may or may not deliver in a few months or later this year or next. We will see. Blacklight Power is …
Digitimes – Viewing that the adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean) in the second quarter and appeal for adopting Android 5.0 and Windows 8 in the same tablet PC, according …
Challenges of Exascale Computing by Nvidia Chief Scientist (45 pages) Instruction level parallelism (ILP) was mined out in 2000. Historic scaling is at an end! To continue performance scaling of all sizes of computer systems requires addressing two challenges:Power and Programmability. Much of the economy depends on this. Now voltage is held nearly constant Halve …
IEA projects oil demand to rise to 92 million barrels per day by the end of 2012 World oil supply in July rose by 0.6 mb/d from June, to 88.7 mb/d, with non-OPEC production up by 0.4 mb/d. Rising Canadian production offset lower UK production. Non-OPEC supply is now seen averaging a lower 53 mb/d …
Watching TV for an average of six hours a day could shorten the viewer’s life expectancy by almost five years, indicates research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The impact rivals that of other well known behavioural risk factors, such as smoking and lack of exercise. Other research has shown that lifelong …
Google (GOOG) said Monday that it will pay $12.5 billion to acquire phone-maker Motorola Mobility. The deal, which has been approved by the boards of both companies, will give Google its own hardware products and allow it to compete more closely with phone- and tablet-makers such as Apple (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and the new alliance …
Controlling arbitrary quantum operations using additional degrees of freedom. (a) Logic circuit in which quantum operation O is implemented on a register of qubits (target register), conditional on the logical state of a single control qubit. (b) Our approach to implementing the circuit in (a). The target information carriers are four dimensional systems with logical …
China has released more preliminary results from the 2010 census * The population of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and of servicemen on the mainland of China was 1.340 billion. * The population of Hong Kong was 7097600 persons. * The population of Macao was 552300 persons. * The population of Taiwan was …
With clocks, we measure the numerical order of a material change, i.e., motion running in space. There is no experimental evidence that clocks measure time. It is convenient to replace the concept of time with the numerical order of material change. This view corresponds more adequately to the physical world and resolves Zeno problems of …
By 2013-2016, there will be a shift to HSPA+ at 84 mbps to 168 mbps and LTE advanced at up to 1 Gbps LTE Advanced deployment will start in 2013 in South Korea. Norway and Hong Kong and Japan will also lead the way to faster communication speeds. Millimeter wireless will enable tens of gigabits …
DSP chips are powering the race to 4G in next generation base stations Next-generation base stations speed mobile connectivity with SDRs, hard-coded accelerators, and multicore CPUs. EDN covers the DSP, FPGA technology that is going into the new base stations. To build a 4G modem, you must start with the PHY (physical) layer, Layer 1 …