Technology

Nexus TDD-9000 Liquid Cooling: Laptop Accessory Of The Year For 2009?

Dutch firm Nexus Technology enters the market for laptop accessories with a new patented liquid cooling solution. The TDD-9000 is a soft black velvet blanket with inside a gel-like liquid. The patented liquid has unique heat dissipating characteristics an ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2009 - 11:09am

IPhone Users Set To Dominate Mobile Virus Market

If you own a computer you have probably gotten a 'virus' but there have been no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection despite the fact that over 80 percent of Americans now use these devices. A team headed by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, dir ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2009 - 10:08pm

Not Just TV- Too Much Technology Bad For Kids Also

Today’s children are coming of age immersed in a world video games, instant messaging and 3-D avatars  of themselves. Many have cell phones, laptops, and hand-held video games.  Heck, even robot pets are being raised in virtual worlds. What impact does thi ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2009 - 4:59pm

Robots May Be Your New Neighbors

A new robot house will be launched at the University of Hertfordshire tomorrow, Wednesday 27 May th. Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn and her team at the University’s School of Computer Science have taken their robots out of their laboratory and have them “liv ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2009 - 3:26pm

Not Your Dad's Holodeck- Really Virtual Reality

Far from being geeky and exotic, virtual reality could be the key to a new range of innovative products. European researchers and industrialists have come together to build a world-leading community ready to exploit that promise. Made famous by the ‘holode ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2009 - 1:57pm

The Good And The Bad Of Top-Level Domains

Last year, ICANN announced an “open season” on top-level domains, to start some time in 2010. This will dramatically expand the namespace for Internet domain names, and will allow cities, industries, and companies to register specific top-level domains fo ...

Article - Barry Leiba - May 28 2009 - 8:51am

DHS Begins Test Of Biometric Exit Procedures At Two U.S. Airports

DHS Begins Test of Biometric Exit Procedures at Two U.S. Airports, the next step toward deploying biometric exit procedures for international travelers. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today began collecting biometrics- digital fingerprints ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2010 - 5:43pm

E. Coli That Count May Mean A Future Synthetic Biology Computer

Biomedical engineers at Boston University have taught bacteria how to count.  The researchers have wired a new sequence of genes that allow the microbes to count discrete events, opening the door for a host of potential applications, which could include dr ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2009 - 10:50pm

Filling Gaps In The Human Genome

Sequence gaps in human chromosome 15 have been closed by the application of 454 technology. Researchers writing in Genome Biology have described a simple and scalable method for finishing non-structural gaps in genome assemblies. Manuel Garber worked with ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2009 - 10:17pm

Net neutrality and paying for usage

I’ve written about network neutrality before. It’s a difficult topic because of its different aspects, and because there are vehement opinions on all sides of it. Before I left the Internet Architecture Board, I started the process of setting up a network ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jun 2 2009 - 11:01am