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developed by computer and electrical engineers at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) and Harvard university, could change the field of robotics.


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"It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.


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including the miniaturization of motor parts, computer controls and sensors and manufacturing that uses lightweight but strong materials.


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"Those applications could include better solar cells,"smart"coatings, new kinds of computers and all kinds of other devices or components.


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and his team used computer software to design a modified version of yeast chromosome III which they called syniii


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#World's fastest supercomputers could take science to the next level With computing technology continually getting smaller,

you may look at modern day room-sized supercomputers and balk. But if you're impressed with all the things your tablet can do,

imagine the power of a computer so big that it needs its own room. The announcement that the U s. Department of energy is planning to spend $425 million to build two supercomputers that are 5 to 7 times faster than any supercomputer in history is big news

and it could lead the way to major advancements in science research, reports Reuters. Most of that cash,

$325 million of it, will be designated for the construction a supercomputer to be named"Summit,"for Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,

and another to be named"Sierra"at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The remaining $100 million will go toward research into future supercomputing advances to eventually build computers that are even faster.

Summit and Sierra will operate at 150 petaflops and 100 petaflops respectively, which is the unit of measurement for supercomputer performance.

Basically that means that the machines can perform as many as 150 million billion floating-point operations (or FLOP) per second.

By comparison, the world's highest performing computer at present, the Tianhe-2 in China, performs at"just"55 petaflops. The first-ever supercomputer to reach 1 petaflop was built as recently as 2008.

"according to a press release by Nvidia, one of the manufacturers of the new computers'components. Summit, however, will be made available to researchers worldwide who can apply for time with the powerful technology.

The faster the computer, the more detailed models that can be created. Natural systems, such as Earth's climate, are extremely difficult to model because of their immense complexity."


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and he said he going to start hovering his mouse over a computer that he wants and an Xbox One.


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Just like a regular printer the machine takes its instructions from a computer. Using software a 3-D representation of the food is created


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in order to create superfast computers that can communicate and transfer data instantaneously, but learning to control the quantum data has proven difficult.

reports PC Mag. It's particularly significant because silicon is the same material used to build conventional computers,

meaning that the technology could potentially be mass-produced using the same sort of equipment currently used for chip manufacturing.

"The capability of building a quantum computer from materials already widely used for building conventional computers might be this study's most significant accomplishment, however.


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And, according to Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, cooking was the perfect skill to test the robots'progress."


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#This stick could be the end of the personal computer as we know it Fifteen years ago,

I would see people move into apartments and fill their living rooms with a big desktop computer, a big TV and a stereo system with giant CD racks.

and worked with Toronto's Julia West Home to design beautiful furniture that turned your computer into an entertainment center, much like those console Hi-fi systems from the'50s.

500) and the ipod and the laptop got rid of the big desktop and the stereo system.

and I became convinced that it was going to become our default computer, writing in Treehugger:

After five years of using my computer monitor for entertainment, even I broke down and bought 42 inches of fun.

a complete computer that runs Windows 8. 1 (or Linux) that you can plug into the HDMI port of your big TV.

I was building powerful computers into pretty boxes to act as entertainment centers; today I can just plug a computer that costs less than a retail box of software into my TV if

I need a computer at all, which except for work I don't. Now I can spend all day on the sofa in front of the TV

and nobody can complain, because the computer has ceased to be a thing. It now just an accessory.

In 1977, the late Ken Olsen, CEO of minicomputer manufacturer DEC, famously said here is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

He was quoted out of context but he still had to live that down for the rest of his life.


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they use software like Autocad to build the structure in the computer piece by piece.


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Every day, they spent around half an hour in total on five computer-based tests designed to stretch their working memories.


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which stores data and applications online rather than on individual computers. And he recently implemented an internal management tool in


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an electrical and computer engineer at Rice university in Houston, Texas."The data-points that matter will be different in a picture of the Eiffel Tower and a picture of your mother,


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Japan s flagship K#supercomputer project narrowly escaped being shut down after auditors questioned whether Japan needed to host the world s fastest computer.

Fast-forward to 2013, and Shinzo Abe, head of the newly elected Liberal Democratic party-led government,

he told reporters after a tour of the supercomputer facility on 11 january. Science is a big winner in the government s massive#10.3-trillion economic stimulus package, approved by the cabinet on 15 january.

and significant boosts for many big scientific facilities (see Big winners)# including#8. 4#billion for data links between the K supercomputer and Japan s universities.


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is the first step towards constructing an organic computer that uses networks of linked animal brains to solve tasks.

from creating organic computers to uniting different parts of the same brain that have been cut off by damage or disease.

And if it is to build a computer, "the proposition is speculative and the evidence underwhelming.


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or run cars or mobile devices. Hydrogen has a high energy density and is completely clean, burning to leave behind only water vapour as waste.

potentially delivering hydrogen for fuel cells in mobile phones, computers or even cars. Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,


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Barclay and his colleagues used computer modeling to identify potential false positives and then rule them out with additional observations from the ground.


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#How to turn living cells into computers Synthetic biologists have developed DNA modules that perform logic operations in living cells.

To that end, researchers at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) in Cambridge have devised a set of simple genetic modules that respond to inputs much like the Boolean logic gates used in computers."


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#Wireless brain-computer interface streams thought commands with the speed of an Internet connection Following more than a decade of engineering work,

a wireless brain-computer interface could finally give paralyzed people the ability to control everyday devices like TVS, computers,

From this point the original thought command becomes available as a control signal for computers.


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or ipad via a Bluetooth connection (Android app coming soon). Using the app, you chose the kind of session, the intensity as well as the length of a session.


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and computer vision (CV) and machine-learning (ML) techniques enable reliable, valid measurement of pain-related facial expressions from video.

The computer vision techniques used in the study are based on the Facial Action Coding system (FACS),


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Wearable Device Changes Your Moodthe technique could also be used to create a new kind of brain-computer interface.


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and tablets you might consume are the real deal. Back in 2014, the company was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.


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and double as portable power-packs for computers or other kit used in the field. But existing methods for creating usable hydrogen gas from water require a lot of electricity.


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#Baby model cosmos grows up to look like the real thing A supercomputer simulation has tracked the evolution of the universe from a mere 12 million years after the big bang until the present day.

and supermassive black holes pulling in material that gets too Close to run the simulation the team used several supercomputers in Europe and the US each

By contrast an ordinary computer might have just one. The entire simulation took 16 million CPU hours

which means that running it on a single normal computer would take nearly 2000 years.


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and Asus has a quantum dot notebook. nd there nothing in between that quantum dots can address,


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These engineered bacteria could also be used as biological computers Lu says adding that they would be particularly useful in types of computation that require a lot of parallel processing such as picking patterns out of an image.


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As part of the Mediated Matter Group, he focused on converting a robotic arm to a computer controlled arm, capable of printing projects, like houses.

and, much like manufacturing a standard computer chip, starts with creating silicon wafers, which act as a template for the final product.


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They then developed computer software that visually renders iddeninformation, such as a robot possible routes, and its perception of an obstacle position.


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Then the lipidoid-RNA complex was injected automatically guided by a computer vision algorithm. The system can be adapted to target any organ


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and Microsoft DOS paving the way for personal computers in the 1980s. Before those components became available,

hobbyists built computers using software that didn work with different computers. At the same time, powerful mainframes were only available to a select few

engineers could build computers around the standard processor and create software on the operating system, without needing to know details of the underlying hardware. ee doing the same thing for the drone space,


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ut we really hope to radically tilt the whole landscape of how we think about computers and user interface. n


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or lab bench but the team is also working on a portable version that is about the size of a small electronic tablet.


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and devised Medeye a bedside medication-scanning system that uses computer vision to identify pills

In a computer-vision class in the Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory he saw that advances in 3-D object-recognition technology meant computers could learn objects based on various characteristics.


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and oil rigs these simulations require intensive computation done by powerful computers over many hours, costing engineering firms much time and money.

that uses precalculated supercomputer data for structural components like simulated egosto solve FEA models in seconds.

that used that technique to create a mobile app that displayed supercomputer simulations, in seconds, on a smartphone.

A supercomputer first presolved problems such as fluid flow around a spherical obstacle in a pipe that had known a form

A supercomputer precalculates individual components, such as, say, a simple tube or a complex mechanical part. nd this creates a big data footprint for each one of these components,


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We believe there s an opportunity to sit between any human-to-computer or human-to-human interaction point capture data

In using Affdex Affectiva recruits participants to watch advertisements in front of their computer webcams tablets and smartphones.

if you showed the computer an expression of a person that s somewhat surprised or subtly shocked it wouldn t recognize it el Kaliouby says.


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a 3-foot cube that comes with multiple laser engines a control computer power supplies and an output head for welding


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Now this wireless electricity (or Witricity) technology licensed through the researchers startup Witricity Corp.#is coming to mobile devices electric vehicles and potentially a host of other applications.

At present Witricity technology#charges devices#at around 6 to 12 inches with roughly 95 percent efficiency#12 watts for mobile devices and up to 6. 6 kilowatts for cars.

An expectationthese days Gruzen sees wireless charging as analogous to the evolution of a similar technology Wifi that he witnessed in the early 2000s as senior vice president of global notebook business at Hewlett packard.

At the time Wifi capabilities were implemented rarely into laptops; this didn t change#until companies began bringing Wireless internet access into hotel lobbies libraries airports and other public places.


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but it could also be a computer in a locked box under your desk. Any cellphone app online service or big data research team that wants to use your data has to query your data store


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or processing units a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes.


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That distortion can be detected by force-resistive sensors via a carefully designed mechanical system (similar to the sensors used in computer trackpads),


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#The incredible shrinking power brick While laptops continue to shrink in size and weight, the ower bricksthat charge them remain heavy and bulky.

and Justin Burkhart SM 0 FINSIX has developed the world smallest laptop adapter, called the Dart.

The 65-watt Dart can power most laptops, smartphones, and tablets. By November, FINSIX aims to deliver its first shipment of around 4, 500 Darts to Kickstarter backers and other customers.

flat-screen TVS, gaming consoles, laptops, electric bikes, and air conditioners, while reducing the cost of manufacturing.

the company started focusing on laptop adapters. In traditional adapters, an array of switches flip to one state and take in AC voltage from a wall outlet,

In that analogy, the bucket is the adapter that collects the water (electricity) from a full tank (outlet) and dumps it into an empty tank (laptop battery.


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which can then be recombined using a computer algorithm to recreate the 3-D structure. f you have one light-emitting molecule in your sample,


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At Greentown employees engage in computer modeling and design build electronics and circuit boards develop algorithms


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At the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in June Hamed Pirsiavash a postdoc at MIT and his former thesis advisor Deva Ramanan of the University of California at Irvine will present a new activity

They found that according to metrics standard in the field of computer vision their algorithm identified new instances of the same activities more accurately than its predecessors.


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One is the computer algebra system Macsyma, whose initial development at MIT in the 1960s was a milestone in artificial-intelligence research.


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which houses computers for automation and control, and expandable 20,000-gallon treatment units. In these units, microbes called xoelectrogensexecute a unique process, electromethanogenesis which is being used for the first time ever in treating wastewater.


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Herr s experience commercializing a computer-controlled knee joint designed by his group for the Icelandic company Ossur inspired him to launch iwalk in 2006.


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based on computer analysis. But translating that theoretical work into a practical material proved daunting: In order to reach the desired energy density the amount of energy that can be stored in a given weight


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The filtering could also be applied to display screens on phones or computers so only those viewing from directly in front could see them.


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Using a computer algorithm that traces the shapes of neurons and groups them based on structural similarity,

Using a computer algorithm, they traced along the many branches, known as dendrites, that extend from each cell to connect with other cells.


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For example the program has produced the first of a planned series of science centers a simple concrete building outfitted with computers


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#Bringing the world reboot-less updates It s an annoyance for the individual computer user:

This is so the computer can switch to the modified source code. Imagine however having to update

or thousands of computers operating in large companies and organizations: It can have a significant impact in lost time

and money as computers and online services shut down sometimes for hours. To avoid downtime organizations will usually wait for low-traffic periods to update

But Ksplice s novelty is that it constructs hot patches using the object code binary that a computer can understand instead of the source code computer instructions written

Programmers might also need to resolve ambiguity in the code say choosing the correct location in computer memory

The second technique called run-pre matching computes the address in computer memory of ambiguous code by using custom computation to compare the pre code with the finalized running kernel (run code.


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The algorithm which makes subtle changes to various points on the face to make it more memorable without changing a person s overall appearance was unveiled earlier this month at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Sydney.

which people will actually remember a face says lead author Aditya Khosla a graduate student in the Computer Vision group within CSAIL.


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According to Patrick Kenny a principal research scientist at the Computer Research Institute of Montreal i-vectors were devised originally to solve the problem of speaker recognition or determining whether the same speaker features on multiple recordings.


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the computer will lop off the bits that don fit. n machines, integers have a limit,


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#Better robot vision Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision.

Gary Bradski vice president of computer vision and machine learning at Magic Leap and president and CEO of Opencv the nonprofit that oversees the most widely used open-source computer-vision software library believes that the Bingham


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On the software side, computer vision and machine-learning algorithms stitch together the images, extract features,


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Software uploads these disparate images to a mobile device and stitches them together rapidly into full panoramic images.

that a mobile device uses to quickly grab those images ecause a burning building probably isn going to have Wi-fi,


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which are needed for brief transmissions of data from wearable devices such as heart-rate monitors, computers, or smartphones, the researchers say.


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Nevertheless, the researchers were able to use powerful computers to accurately solve their CFD model,


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Power electronics is a ubiquitous technology used to convert electricity to higher or lower voltages and different currents such as in a laptop power adapter

and laptop power adapters one-third the size or even small enough to fit inside the computer itself. his is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change electronics

Major applications CEI is currently using its advanced transistors to develop laptop power adaptors that are approximately 1. 5 cubic inches in volume the smallest ever made.


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The technology uses mobile phones and tablets to collect data on where people are and how theye moving.


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The finding has the potential to increase graphene's use in computers as in computer chips that use electronic spin to store data.


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the Rice team used sophisticated computer modeling to show it's possible to rip nanoribbons


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The team's most recent advance also brings the field closer to realizing carbon nanotube transistors as a feasible replacement for silicon transistors in computer chips and in high-frequency communication devices,


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The technology we've developed might just be the first big step in building a single-molecule sequencing device based on ordinary computer chip technology said Lindsay.

This made it impossible to use computer chip manufacturing methods to make devices said Lindsay.


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Applied Nanofilms and Wintek a company that makes flat panel displays for notebooks and touch screens in Ann arbor Michigan provided matching funds.


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This new transfer technique gets us one step closer to using Mos2 to create flexible computers Cao adds.


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#Engineers efficiently'mix'light at the nanoscale The race to make computer components smaller and faster

That doesn't work for a computer chip.""To reduce the volume of the material and the power of the light needed to do useful signal mixing,

Being able to manipulate that quality in one wave with another allows for the fundamentals of computer logic."


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The central technological revolution of the 20th century was the development of computers, leading to the communication and Internet era.

A computer with the memory of the average laptop today was the size of a tennis court in the 1970s.

Yet while scientists made great strides in reducing of the size of individual computer components through microelectronics,

they have been less successful at reducing the distance between transistors, the main element of our computers.

and extremely expensive to miniaturize an obstacle that limits the future development of computers. Molecular electronics, which uses molecules as building blocks for the fabrication of electronic components,

which could in turn be used in computers, are DNA molecules. Nevertheless, so far no one has been able to demonstrate reliably and quantitatively the flow of electrical current through long DNA molecules.


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the new mobile device would likely cost ten times less, around $10, 000.0


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#Team reveals molecular structure of water at gold electrodes When a solid material is immersed in a liquid the liquid immediately next to its surface differs from that of the bulk liquid at the molecular level.

David Prendergast a staff scientist in the Molecular Foundry and researcher in the Joint Center for Energy storage Research (JCESR) has developed computational techniques that allow his team to accomplish this translation Using supercomputer facilities at Berkeley Lab


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and let the computers figure it out.""""It's just so expensive and time-consuming to test out a new process,


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Using powerful supercomputers researchers at UWA discovered that graphene nanoflakes can significantly enhance the rates of a range of chemical reactions.


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The National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded scientist theorized correctly that he could adapt it to separate carbon nanotubes rolled sheets of graphene (a single atomic layer of hexagonally bonded carbon atoms) long recognized for their potential applications in computers

and tablets smart phones and other portable devices photovoltaics batteries and bioimaging. The technique has proved so successful that Hersam


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Postdoctoral researcher Menno Veldhorst lead author on the paper reporting the artificial atom qubit says It is really amazing that we can make such an accurate qubit using pretty much the same devices as we have in our laptops and phones.


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and meticulously planned using computer design software. Using the software the researchers design three-dimensional frameworks of the desired size

This capability should open up entirely new strategies for fields ranging from computer miniaturization to energy and pathogen detection n


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The new structures can lead to sensors and chips for future devices like smartphones computers and medical equipment.


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Their experiments show that future computer chips could be based on three-dimensional arrangements of nanometer scale magnets instead of transistors.


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to computer logic architectures that replicate the versatility and response time of a biological neural network.""While more investigation needs to be done,


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The majority of today's touchscreen devices such as tablets and smartphones are made using indium tin oxide (ITO)


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"A tool like this could be interfaced with a laptop to provide high-quality screening capability to save lives in poor countries in remote parts of the world,


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"Personal electronic devices such as smart phones, ipads, etc. can last much longer before recharging.""In addition to potential commercial applications, there are many military uses for the technology.


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and light along the same tiny wire a finding that could be a step towards building computer chips capable of transporting digital information at the speed of light.


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Supercapacitors have an expanding range of applications as their capabilities increase from powering computer memory backup to powering electric vehicles.


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and tablets a


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#Biomimetic photodetector'sees'in color (Phys. org) Rice university researchers have created a CMOS-compatible biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red green


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"Being able to keep mobile devices working for longer, or do away with batteries completely by tapping into the stray energy that is all around us is an exciting concept.


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#Used-cigarette butts offer energy storage solution A group of scientists from South korea have converted used-cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be integrated into computers handheld devices electrical vehicles and wind turbines to store energy.


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and has become essential to the integrated circuits and transistors that run most of our computers.


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which can be hidden in cell phones and mobile devices.""PETN has more nitro functional groups and is more electron deficient than the DNT we detected in our experiments,


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#Supercomputers reveal strange stress-induced transformations in world's thinnest materials (Phys. org) Interested in an ultra-fast unbreakable and flexible smart phone that recharges in a matter of seconds?

A Columbia University team used supercomputers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to simulate


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#An anti-glare anti-reflective display for mobile devices? If you've ever tried to watch a video on a tablet on a sunny day,

you know you have to tilt it at just the right angle to get rid of glare or invest in a special filter.


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cleaner and less power-hungry technologies since the days the personal computer fit atop a desk,

since way to smaller and smaller laptops, smartphones and devices that most of us carry around in our pockets.

and share electrons level of control that makes them ideally suited for computer-like circuitry."


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"or RRAMUTTING-edge computer components that combine logic and memory functionsesearchers have shown that the metal particles in memristors don't stay put as previously thought.

cheaper chips and computers inspired by biological brains in that they could perform many tasks at the same time.

Computers built with memristors would encode information in these different resistance values, which is in turn based on a different arrangement of conducting filaments.


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