A series of initiatives are under way at SAP with the goal of bringing its business applications much closer to the ease of use and eye-catching visuals provided by consumer applications, particularly ones made amid the boom in mobile ...
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MIT researchers are using nanotechnology to help doctors detect cancer in their patients sooner, increasing their odds of beating the disease. To diagnose cancer, doctors look for specific proteins secreted by cancer cells. The problem ...
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Google has moved a step closer to making good on its promise to support "Do Not Track" in Chrome by the end of this year. Chromium, Google's open-source project that feeds code into Chrome, released a build last week that includes the Do ...
Cook Medical has presented three-year data from Zilver PTX trial, which demonstrated 70.7% primary patency in the superficial femoral artery at 36 months using Paclitaxel-eluting stents. The controlled, randomized trail compares to ...
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Scientists at Princeton University say they have used nanotechnology to make tests to detect diseases,such as cancer and Alzheimer's,3 million times more sensitive. That means what researchers are calling a breakthrough in nanotechnology ...
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Internet2 is nearing completion of its OpenFlow-enabled 100G Ethernet software-defined network for testing service delivery of applications for Big Data compilation and research,among others. At this week's Summer 2012 ESCC/Internet2 ...
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Bill Moggridge, the British-born industrial designer credited with the creation of the first laptop computer in 1982, has died of cancer aged 69. Until his death, Moggridge was best known for his design of the Grid Compass, the first ...
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Pope Benedict XVI used his first tweet to bless the approximately 648,000 people who followed him before he had even made his first Twitter appearance. Pope Benedict XVI posts his first tweet using an iPad on ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg,FL,USA has provided a two day plasma processing workshop at Stanford University's Nanofabrication Facility(SNF). Presentations addressed both fundamental and advanced plasma ...
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San Diego-based driving intelligence solutions provider, SmartDrive Systems, has raised $47m in additional venture funding, led by Oak Investment Partners, New Enterprise Associates and the new investor Stanford University. According to ...
For its next generation of supercomputers,Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O(input/output)of individual nodes.The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect,called Aries,and a new routing topology that together ...
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A new battery technology may pave the way for cheap,long-lived power storage that can quickly pump electricity into the grid to compensate for fluctuating renewables like wind and solar. Developed by Yi Cui and colleagues at Stanford ...
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA has been awarded a$2.1m contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)to enhance the thermal efficiency of gallium nitride(GaN)circuits used in high-power radar and other ...
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Most US citizens do not want any information collected about which websites they visit, according to a survey by the University of California. But nearly 90% of those polled said they had never heard of the do not track (DNT) mechanism, ...
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A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 major universities from around the world,including Harvard,Stanford,the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. ...