The human population of the world has trebled in the past fifty years from over 2 billion to 6 billion and will increase to about 12 billion in the life time of many of those living today. The farm animals needed to feed the human population has increased even more rapidly and by 2100 will [...]
Back in the mid-1990s, IBM was a joke in the supercomputing field, and Cray and Silicon Graphics were building the truly innovative and powerful machines and cheap x86-Linux clusters were just starting to get traction. IBM’s Power2 and PowerPC processors were 32-bit chips with nothing much impressive about them and its 64-bit PowerPC 620 and [...]
Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), has recently announced that it plans to officially unveil its new self-encrypting drive technology in a demonstration with Wave Systems’ Trusted Drive Manager application at the RSA(R) Conference 2009, April 21-23, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco California.
According to [...]
British scientists developed a robot fish that are to be released into the sea off north Spain to detect pollution. The robots were designed, and are being built, by professor Huosheng Hu and his team at the University of Essex, U.K.
If next year’s trial of the first five robotic fish in the northern Spanish port [...]
Sony’s Walkman line of portable media players got a drastic new look at CES this year with the announcement of a touch-screen, Internet-ready portable media player.
The X series Walkman was said to feature a 3-inch, 16:9 touch display-a clear nod to the popularity of Apple’s iPod touch (and iPhone). Much like its direct competitor, the [...]
Lenovo has confirmed the existence of the Pocket Yoga Touchscreen netbook by posting images in its photo feed. But a whole series of ‘leaked’ images of the Lenovo ‘Pocket Yoga’ have hit the net and show off a Lilliputian computer similar in layout to the ridiculously expensive Sony Vaio P in that it has an [...]
It’s no secret that Apple executives have been watching the booming netbook market closely. The mini-laptops, which have screen sizes of 10 inches or less and cost less than $500, have lately been the hottest-selling PCs. According to IDC, shipments of the devices reached 10 million units last year, with half of the units sold [...]
A single carbon nanotube can function as a radio that detects and plays songs. The nanotube radio was invented in 2007 by physicist Alex Zettl and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. Their invention performs a set of amazing feats: a single carbon nanotube tunes in a broadcast signal, amplifies it, converts it [...]
For decades, Virtual Reality has held out the hope that, one day, we might be able visit all kinds of places and periods as ‘virtual’ tourists. Well, folks, that day has arrived! The first virtual reality headset that can stimulate all five senses has been developed.
To date, though, Virtual Reality devices have not been able [...]
It seems that the worst international financial crisis in decades has not affected everyone. While many US companies struggle to survive, some technology companies have plenty of cash piles. Still, how are they planning to use them? Let us see some of these rich tech companies:
Cisco Systems Inc is the most cash-rich tech company [...]
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