Jules Verne said in Around the World in 80 Days: “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” Today, that is truer than ever before. Did you ever think it would be possible to communicate so easily with anyone around ...
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The presence of FontanaArte at Europuce featured a prestigious collection designed to high technical and aesthetic level as it coming out from a collaboration of work with designers of international renown. For public view April 14-19 was ...
Researchers at Ghent University and nanoelectronics R&D center Imec of Leuven, Belgium have demonstrated interaction between light and sound in a nanoscale area using a silicon photonic nanowire (R. Van Laer et al, Nature Photonics (2015); ...
The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions of approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Nanotechnology ...
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New research, published in Earth and Planetary Research Letters, led by scientists from the University of Cambridge, used plankton – tiny bugs, whose shells litter the ocean floors. By drilling into the seabed scientists can extract ...
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Ten years ago, most cell phones had single-color displays, and they were primarily used to make phone calls. Now glance at the phone in your pocket, think about its capabilities beyond dialing a number, and you will have some sense of the ...
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A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
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The fundamental idea is that, all crystals are glasses but all glasses are not crystals. We use crystal wares and glass wares in our houses, mostly for decorative purposes. Different types of spectacle glasses are widely used in our ...
IDG News Service - While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who presented their ...
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ISACA has released insights from its 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. The results from this study confirm an understanding of the risk posed by employee activities with both work and personal devices. For example, a consistently high ...
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IDG News Service-In the world of high-frequency trading,where being ahead of the competition by a few milliseconds can mean profits worth millions of dollars,finance firms are increasingly looking to decades-old microwave technologies for a ...
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MIT researchers have found a way to observe how electrons move in the class of materials known as topological insulators. Topological insulators are exotic materials,discovered just a few years ago,in which the electrons demonstrate ...
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When the team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research,more commonly known as CERN in Switzerland,recently made the landmark discovery of the Higgs boson particle,an important function in the experiment was carried out by ...
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UK-Entertainment lighting specialist White Light has been involved with what The Guardian newspaper has described as an'innovative art project'-NVA's Speed of Light,running in Edinburgh for the duration of this year's Festival. An ...
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