Technology development firm Versatilis LLC of Shelburne, VT, USA has spun out VerLASE Technologies LLC, a new venture in lasers and solid-state lighting that aims to further develop and commercialize technology that it has been developing ...
Tags: Green laser, Lights, Lighting
Researchers at University of Notre Dame and Kopin Corp have developed high-performance nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels [Ronghua Wang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, ...
Tags: semiconductor, high electron mobility transistors, InGaN
Cisco Systems plans to release a new patch for a vulnerability in its VoIP phones after the first patch did not fix the problem,which could allow an attacker to eavesdrop on conversations. The vulnerability is one of several discovered by ...
Tags: Cisco, fix broken patch, VoIP phones, new patch for a vulnerability
BioPhotas has gained the US marketing rights for its light therapy device,designed to treat acne,muscle and joint pain,muscle and joint stiffness,muscle spasm,arthritis and compromised local blood circulation,following the US Food and Drug ...
Tim Berners-Lee may be the celebrated British "father" of the world wide web as we know it, but a hugely important ingredient of the modern internet was switched on 30 years ago yesterday, as the US government's ARPANET started running the ...
Tags: world wide web, internet, TCP/IP communications, ARPANET
IDG News Service-Oracle researchers are"winding down"development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. Fortress was meant to provide a superior ...
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IDG News Service - It looks like a bull, trots at the speed of a wolf and carries equipment like a pack mule, but does it have a place on the battlefield of the future Researchers are conducting a two-year study of a robot that promises to ...
Tags: DARPA, Robotic Mule, four-legged robot, LS3 program
One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they ...
Tags: Organs, Chip, Harvard, Human Body, Silicon
Ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) of Columbia, SC, USA has been honored with the Tibbetts Award for the role it has played in R&D for the US Government under the Small Business ...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have presented the shortest-gate working transistors yet built using III-V channels [J. Lin et al, IEDM, session 32.1]. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors ...
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IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips "cognitive computers", claiming that they are able to learn ...
Tags: IBM, computer chip, cognitive computers, Unveils Chips
The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions has released a new version of its wireless network security visualization tool, MeerCAT Pro Version 4.0. NORTHPORT, NY, August 26, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- MeerCAT, a visualization tool ...
Tags: Secure Decisions, MeerCAT, wireless network, security visualization tool
Normally if you find a rogue outlet strip, or a user happens to bring his or her own surge protector to use you might not think much of it. Thanks to a new device called the Power Pwn, though, it might soon be cause for concern. A company ...
Tags: outlet strip, surge protector, Power Pwn, hacking tool
At a launch event for the school's new wireless technology research center, MIT PhD student Swarun Kumar presented technology for a new autonomous vehicle that recognizes when it may be in danger of striking other cars and pedestrians. ...
Tags: MIT, wireless technology, autonomous vehicle, wireless star
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has received a$2.7m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)to triple the power handling performance of ...