Microsoft’s bumbling management and Zuning of Tablets

Semiaccurate – Microsoft unveiled not one but two tablets, called ‘Surface’. Only one is WART (Windows 8 on ARM Runtime) based, SemiAccurate’s sources say it is a Tegra CPU, the other is x86, probably an Atom. Either way, Microsoft just did the dumbest and most self-destructive thing imaginable, and did it with their usual lack …

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Planetary Resources Looks at Kickstarter support of additional space telescopes

MSNBC Cosmiclog – Planetary Resources, the billionaire-backed private venture that’s aiming to hunt down and mine near-Earth asteroids, is looking for suggestions about projects that could attract extra funding through Kickstarter-style campaigns. “To offer you a chance to actually get involved, we’ve been tossing around the idea of adding additional capacity in our production run, …

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MIT LENR device publicly running for 6 months but Mainstream Researchers Still Able Block Funding

Energy Catalyzer – A Low Energy Nuclear Device (LENR) device in Professor Peter Hagelstein’s lab at MIT has been running since January (nearly six months) and may have produced 1000 times the energy of a comparable chemical reaction. The device is the NANOR created by Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy Inc. Hagelstein revealed details of …

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Graphene Drumheads Tuned to Make Quantum Dots

Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead of changing the sound, stretching graphene has a profound effect on the material’s electrical properties. Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of …

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Nanowire Transistors two times smaller

A*Star Research – A new design reduces the areal footprint of nanowire transistors by a factor of two. Researchers have now integrated two transistors onto a single vertical silicon nanowire, pushing the areal density limit of nanowire transistors even further. The researchers used wrap-around gates, or ‘gate-all-around’ gates, in the making of their device. These …

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Plasmonic Silver Nanostructures for many sensings applications

A*Star Research – Silver nanostructures exhibit a resonance feature that is useful for a multitude of sensing applications. A dual-disk ring (DDR) structure with broken symmetry and weakly dissipating material, silver, is proposed to achieve Fano resonance in visible wavelength range. Symmetry breaking of a metallic ring is realized by placing two disks inside the …

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Fujitsu Develops World’s First Compact, High-Output, Single-Chip 10 GHz Transceiver Using GaN HEMT

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first single-chip transceiver using gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology that features an output of 6.3 W and that operates at a frequency of 10 GHz. The chip footprint is reduced by over 90% which enables more compact radars and wireless …

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50 gigapixel point and shoot camera from off the shelf parts

Nature – Gigapixel camera catches the smallest details. In mass production, this will enable gigapixel cameras and video cameras for about $1000. Super-capable cameras and sensors will make it easier to program artificial intelligence and robotics to do more useful things A prediction that I made in 2006 was that Gigapixel cameras would be common …

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DARPA Synapse Project Status

SyNAPSE is a DARPA-funded program to develop electronic neuromorphic machine technology that scales to biological levels. More simply stated, it is an attempt to build a new kind of computer with similar form and function to the mammalian brain. Such artificial brains would be used to build robots whose intelligence matches that of mice and …

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Japan has approved the restart of Ohi nuclear reactors

USA Today – Japan’s government on Saturday approved bringing the country’s first nuclear reactors back online since last year’s earthquake and tsunami led to a nationwide shutdown, going against wider public opinion that is opposed to nuclear power after Fukushima. Despite lingering safety concerns, the restart could speed the resumption of operations at more reactors …

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Regenerated cells may restore vision after corneal dysfunction

Eurekalert – Regenerative medicine, or the use of specially grown tissues and cells to treat injuries and diseases, has been successful in treating disorders of a number of organs, including heart, pancreas, and cartilage. However, efforts to treat disorders of the corneal endothelium, a single cell layer on the inner surface of the cornea, with …

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