GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier, recently ...
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Using non-secured public Wi-Fi hotspots can leave you vulnerable to identity theft,data theft,snooping,impersonation and malware infection.That's why so many people rely on public virtual private network services,but VPNs are no ...
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Soda blasting is a low pressure cleaning process using sodium bicarbonate particles, commonly known as baking soda, to clean virtually any surface without damage. It is similar to sand blasting yet many times safer and nonabrasive. The ...
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CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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Ceramic LED Lights: Substantially Lowering Manufacturing Costs Keeping LEDs Cool To enable today's LED lighting engines to achieve their highly touted life-spans, their operating temperatures must be kept within specifications, commonly ...
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Microsoft will not sell Windows 8 as a physical boxed product in China and instead will only distribute the OS through downloads and pre-installs on devices,in a move that could help the company drive consumers away from pirated copies of ...
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Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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A water storage tank is essentially a container that is used for safely storing water either above the ground or underground.It could be used for multiple purposes ranging from storing drinking water to harvesting rain water.Water tanks ...
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to crack down on buildings that have glass facades.Henceforth the civic body would allow only those buildings to have glass facades which can be dismantled. The BMC's move comes after two ...
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Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University has made a first demonstration of nitride semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) grown on silicon substrates using ammonia molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) rather than the ...
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Chinese smartphone maker GooPhone has been showing off promotional videos of its upcoming GooPhone 5.But to anyone who has been keeping their eye on leaked prototypes of Apple's next iPhone handset,it may look eerily familiar. The ...
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Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to gain a vantage point on the pace of change we're seeing in IT. To really get a grasp on it, though, I had to go back to Roman times. What I came away with was a confirmation that we are now ...
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a quantum silicon chip that they say guarantees"absolute security"for computers and smartphones.The technology could be available commercially in less than five years. Unlike ...
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Silicon photonics processors have been developed by a research team at Bristol University and are currently being commercialised by Nokia and Toshiba. "In the next three years we will demonstrate devices that will outperform computers for ...