Say goodbye to that annoying buzz created by overhead fluorescent light bulbs in your office or residence hall. Wake Forest scientists have developed a flicker-free, shatterproof alternative for large-scale lighting. The lighting, based ...
Retrofit lamp stories were the most popular according to LEDs Magazine web readership statistics, followed by financial stories, technology stories, and then product releases. Another year is coming to end, and we at LEDs Magazine are ...
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In response to a renaissance in all things 1950s,Varilight have created a new range of retro wiring accessories. The"Lily"range features a curved-edge,raised-profile faceplate in four pastel colours that echo the style of a decade that ...
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IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain ...
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The 'CRIME' attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure) traffic, one of the attack's creators ...
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The first diesel version of Stadler Rail's Flirt family of multiple units was unveiled by Tallinn passenger operator Elektriraudtee on December 13. Elektriraudtee signed two contracts with Stadler for new trains in August 2010.An order ...
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Energy efficiency is good solid worthy way to encourage home owners to switch to away from incandescent bulbs. But they might as well switch to compact fluorescent alternatives because they cost only a quid each. And then some of them ...
IBM and Orace reveal their new RISC chips IBM and Oracle unveiled their respective Power7+ and T5 RISC chips for servers at Hot Chips 2012 symposium in the US. Expected to be released by the end of 2012, IBM's new, eight-core Power7+, ...
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The new FX chips use new Piledriver multi core architecture Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has updated the FX family of its central processing units (CPUs) with the introduction of eight new chips. The new FX chips use new ...
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Light-emitting diodes are tiny electronic devices that emit far more light per unit of electricity than incandescent lamps or even compact fluorescents.But in the move to replace energy-gobbling incandescents,LEDs face a steeper climb in ...
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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that almost all browsers currently used in smartphones and tablets are unsafe, so much so that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when they are visiting ...
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The lighting, based on field-induced polymer electroluminescent (FIPEL) technology, also gives off soft, white light – not the yellowish glint from fluorescents or bluish tinge from LEDs. "People often complain that fluorescent ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has reported its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results for the period ending 28 September 2012. Revenue for the ...
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IDG News Service-Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization(RHEL)package,Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities. Released Wednesday,RHEV 3.1 allows administrators ...
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The EU Council of Ministers gave the green light, on 24 September, to a draft regulation amending existing energy labelling of electrical lamps for domestic use (apart from directional lamps) and extending these new provisions to ...
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