Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks when the first paper of results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle collector mounted on the outside of the International Space Station, will be submitted to a scientific journal, said MIT physicist Samuel Ting, AMS principle investigator. It will …
BBC News – Duke University fitted rats with an infrared detector wired up to microscopic electrodes that were implanted in the part of their brains that processes tactile information. The researchers say that, in theory at least, a human with a damaged visual cortex might be able to regain sight through a device implanted in …
Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper polled 135 mayors in communities located near Japan’s 50 nuclear plants. 54 per cent would accept reactor restarts Only 18 per cent were against the restarts 28 per cent chose not to clarify their position two did not give valid answers. The results reflect the harsh economic reality in many of the …
1. Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) revealed on Friday that it may give the approval to restart some of the country’s idled reactors as early as next summer, only after they pass safety inspections beginning in the spring. While only two of Japan’s nuclear reactors are currently online, they were given approval under provisional safety …
Gartner – Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a 3.1 percent decline from the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales accounted for 39.6 percent of total mobile phone sales, as smartphone sales increased 46.9 percent from the third …
A new World Bank-commissioned report warns the world is on track to a “4°C world” marked by extreme heat-waves and life-threatening sea level rise. The report is over 70 pages long. The global community has committed itself to holding warming below 2°C to prevent “dangerous” climate change, the sum total of current policies—in place and …
Stony Brook University unveiled its latest engineering feat, a 1.5 billion pixel Reality Deck. The Reality Deck, a 416 screen super-high resolution virtual reality four-walled surround-view theater, is the largest resolution immersive display ever built driven by a graphic supercomputer. Its purpose and primary design principle is to enable scientists, engineers and physicians to tackle …
CNet – 2013 will have smartphones with higher resolution 5 inch screens as the dominant phone Japan Display revealed yesterday that the mega joint venture — consisting of Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi’s manufacturing prowess — started mass production of a 5-inch 1,080-pixel LCD screenbound for future smartphones.As for specifics, the upcoming IPS LCD display by JDI contains a …
Toronto Globe and Mail – Dwave is preparinng to launch a 512-qubit product before the end of 2012, the company has proven that it can roughly double the number of qubits every year. DWave first showed off its 512 qubit chip in late 2011, but it has taken about one year to prepare it as …
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 …
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 …