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Internet in space, but a few bumps in the road
More than 1 billion people on Earth use the Internet worldwide, but  it may not be long before the power of the Internet is available to people in space.
“Interplanetary” Internet capabilities could one day allow users “to access information and to control experiments taking place far […]

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Semiconductor can trap, detect and manipulate electron spin at 20 degrees Kelvin 

Quantum computing is still out of reach for most mainstream industries, but continuing research in the field is making the technology more accessible. A team of engineers at the University at Buffalo have developed a semiconductor that can trap, detect and manipulate the […]

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Indianapolis (IN) - During a phone conference today, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth made the comment that he’s seeing Ubuntu move into spaces which are not just horizontal migrations away from UNIX or other Linux distributions.  He’s actually seeing Ubuntu as a cost-effective and viable out-of-the-box alternative OS on new machines, even as a Windows replacement.  […]

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Microsoft has planned to release its third service pack (SP3) for Windows XP. This is good news for those who do not plan to upgrade to Vista anytime soon or for those who choose to downgrade their Vista to Windows XP (Microsoft provides downgrades for unhappy VISTA users). Windows XP seems to become a “loved” […]

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Next-generation GPUs are the fastest things on the planet — if they were released a year ago
Traditionally the Fall graphics refresh has been the battle of the titans — ATI and NVIDIA both would debut behemoth video cards in an attempt to snag the headlines from one another.Much of that changed when AMD acquired ATI […]

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The Nobel Prize is synonymous to many with developments and inventions that revolutionize a particular field. This year the Noble Prize in Physics has gone to French scientist Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg.
The pair won the 2007 Noble Prize for physics for their discovery of the phenomenon of “giant magnetoresistance,” or GMR. This phenomenon […]

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In the course of writing a research paper, surveys/interviews are one of the most popular means of a methodology approach. The aim of surveys is to get the best data/opinion representation of the population that you are targeting. Since doing an exhaustive survey of the whole population is not feasible, a good representation of the […]

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Sony introduced the world’s first OLED TV, which is quite a looker, carries a high price tag, and is only available in Japan
At 3 millimeters thin, Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV seems to float on the air. The almost paper-thin display hovers ethereally mounted on a beam, which is juxtaposed onto a thick […]

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Lately, my USB thumbdrive was infected with a trojan virus, Boot.exe. Most probably, the virus was written onto my thumbdrive from one public computers that I usually frequent. I was notified by the existence of the virus when my anti-virus started complaining that it found a Trojan in my thumbdrive. Since the virus is a […]

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