Research From Duke University Moves Us One Step Closer To Optical Computing By Kevin Carbotte Researchers at Duke University have developed a device that could pave the way for microchips to use photons rather than electrons to process and transmit data.
Mars Rover Has 'Amnesia' With Worn Out NAND Memory By Niels Broekhuijsen It seems that one of the Mars Rover Opportunity's NAND memory banks has been worn out, giving the rover Amnesia.
Intel, SwiftKey Develop New Comm System For Stephen Hawking By Niels Broekhuijsen Together with SwiftKey, Intel has developed a new communications system for Stephen Hawking.
Apple Looking at Solar Power Converters By Daniel Starkey The US Patent office has published a patent application from Apple Inc. titled "Power management systems for accepting adapter and solar power in electronic devices."
Russian Meteorite Impact Captured on Security Camera By Daniel Starkey While it may be a few months after the fact, it also seems that the rock, still moving at many times the speed of sound, was captured on a household security camera.
Gogo to Roll Out In-flight Text and Talk for Flights By Daniel Starkey Soon you will always be connected and reachable.
UK Petrol Stations to Scan Shoppers Faces for Targeted Ads By Jane McEntegart New monitors will scan your face and eyes to determine your age and gender.
Successor to the SR-71 Blackbird is on the Horizon By Daniel Starkey Skunk Works, the semi-top secret military aircraft development arm of Lockheed Martin, is looking into a follow-up to its infamous SR-71 Blackbird.
IBM Using Super Quiet Rooms for New Nano Research By Daniel Starkey IBM has finished its first noise-free laboratories at the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology centers in Zurich, Switzerland.
DARPA Commissions Research into Brain Implant By Daniel Starkey The Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, has commissioned a $70 million project that will allow it to monitor the brain in real-time.
Google Wants To Extend Your Life By Kevin Parrish Google seems to be searching for the Fountain of Youth.
IBM Creates Software Environment for Brain-like Chips By Marcus Yam Researchers making chips and software to think like you do.
UK Scientists Invent Scalpel That Can 'Smell' Cancer By Jane McEntegart Technology stands to improve the effectiveness of cancer surgeries.
British Scientists Form UK Branch of SETI By Jane McEntegart Scientists and academics form network dedicated to discovering if we really are all alone in the universe.
PayPal Researching Payments in Space with PayPal Galactic By Jane McEntegart Do you plan on paying for that Martian ice cream, sir?
Researchers Create Transistors for 'Ultimate Scaling' Beyond 10 nm By Tarun Iyer This “all-gate approach” utilizes a “forest of nanowires all under control of the same gate.”