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Hong Kong police gets Cofee boost
News By tapping on Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, Hong Kong police deploy fewer technical experts when gathering PC evidence at crime scenes.
Tags: Business applications, Software engineering/development, Open Source, Officer, Hong Kong, Tool, Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, software, Linux
Dude, Putin is so not getting a Dell
News commentary At Davos, Russia's prime minister tells Michael Dell his country doesn't need help and his residents "are not invalids".
Tags: Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Davos, PC Company, World Economic Forum, Ina Fried, News.com, founder, Prime Minister, CNET Networks Inc.
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nanoscale transistors.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, NIST, Chip, Flaw, transistor, theory, researcher, scientist, IEEE
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News U.S. government-funded project at Berkeley Labs plan to develop a superfast network capable of sharing large amounts of research data.
Tags: Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications, Department Of Energy, Juniper Networks Inc., U.S. Department of Energy, supercomputer, financial, network, scientist, Ethernet
Researchers still uncertain whether cellular phones are safe
News Leading scientists gathering in Washington, D.C., this week say more research is needed to once-and-for-all determine whether cell phones pose major health risks.
Tags: Cellular phones, DNA, Conference, Wireless, researcher, scientist, health care, American Cancer Society, Cellular phones
LHC on course for November restart
News The giant particle accelerator should restart in mid-November, and could commence high-energy experiments before the end of the year.
Tags: Hardware, Magnet, Gillies, Beam Collision, CERN, Beam, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, Hardware
Robo-scientist makes gene discovery--on its own
News Scientists designed "Adam" to carry out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention.
Tags: Robot, Robotics, Bot, Robot, Yeast, Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, U.K., researcher, scientist
Cern celebrates 20 years of the Web
News At an event at the European Centre for Nuclear Research, Berners-Lee acknowledged the role of the center on the development of the World Wide Web 20 years earlier.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, CERN, Next Computer, Tim Berners-Lee, scientist, Web Site, WWW, Web, Internet
IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
News Initiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency.
Tags: Supercomputing, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, DARPA, Tool, Computer, News.com, blog
Tech innovations for tough times
News Companies like GE are using alternative techniques, such as a method pioneered back in Stalin's Soviet Union called "theory of solving inventor's problems", to make R&D more efficient.
Tags: Innovation, Business development/management, R&D, General Electric Co., Training, Tool, Innovation, Soviet Union, TRIZ, GEN3 Partners
IBM earmarks US$100M for mobile research
News It will invest US$100 million over the next five years in a drive to develop new mobile services for the enterprise and emerging markets.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Insurance Company, IBM Corp., Mobile, GPS, analytics, Emerging Market, Mobility, scientist, Mobile/Wireless
One step closer to age of nanowire transistors?
News IBM-Purdue researchers say nanowires may work in making PCs, consumer electronics because they form the same way every time.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Electronics, Manufacturing, Purdue University, Catalyst, Chip, Particle, Gordon Moore, Silicon
FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats
News An Oklahoma City man has been arrested after allegedly threatening on the micro-blogging site to turn a tax protest into a massacre.
Tags: Security, Open source, Twitter, Oklahoma City, FBI, GPS, phone, web technology, mashup, scientist
The final frontier: Solar power from space
News California utility PG&E has contracted with stealth company Solaren to capture solar energy with satellites in space for delivery to Earth via radio frequency.
Tags: Green IT, Satellite, PG&E Corp., Pacific Gas & Electric, Renewable Energy, radio frequency, Earth, scientist, California, radio
LHC restart gets reset to June
News Famous CERN particle accelerator could be rebooted when warm weather returns, following repairs as expensive as US$16 million stemming from a September helium leak.
Tags: Innovation, CERN, Monitoring System, Spokesperson, Particle Beam, Alps, monitoring, member state, scientist, analysis
