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DailyTech – Visual Circuits Harness the Power of the Human Brain Think your computer is fast? Check out your brain.

DailyTech – NASA Solves 30-year Mystery of Auroras NASA used its five THEMIS spacecraft orbiting the Earth to spot the trigger for the substorms that cause the aurora to develop. The trigger was very strong energy bursts in the Earth’s magnetic field. The THEMIS probes monitored the level of energy in the Earth’s magnetic field. [...]

DailyTech – Fresh Drinking Water From Salt Water Coming Using New Chlorine-tolerant Membrane New membrane will help to ensure many parts of the world have easy access to drinking water.

DailyTech – Texas Memory SSD Breaks Speed, Capacity Record Texas Memory says that its RamSan-440 can sustain a record setting 600,000 IOPS (input/outputs per second) and can be had with capacities of 256GB and 512GB. The RamSan-440 uses DDR2 RAM reports eWeek and can sustain 4Gbps random read and write speed with a latency of [...]

DailyTech – Lightning Car Company Shows Off All-electric Lightning GT LCC’s fast charge system allows the battery to charge to 80 percent in two or three minutes. Recapturing the remaining 20 percent will take another 7 or eight minutes according to LCC. The vehicle is said to travel 200 miles on a 10-minute charge.

DailyTech – SanDisk CEO: Vista is Not a Friend to [Our] SSDs At least, that’s what Sandisk’s CEO thought, even if their disks suck also in XP Read the entire article in the source link above. It is quite true that SanDisk’s SSD are woefully subpar in performance when running Windows Vista. Numerous benchmarks from [...]

DailyTech – EU Officials: Just 0.3% Of Sahara’s Sun Energy Could Power Entire EU The largest fully industrialized populus in the world could be entirely powered by a small fraction of solar desert energy, according to new plan

DailyTech – Geologists Find 90 Billion New Barrels of Oil in Arctic Race to claim begins

DailyTech – Harnessing Nanotechnology to Build Exotic Materials Europe looks into the finer points of nanotechnology.

DailyTech – New Cancer Drug Delivery Cuts Tumor Targetting From Days To Hours To accomplish this ultra-speedy delivery, researchers used gold nanoparticle vectors to deliver photodynamic therapy (PDT) drugs, a class of drugs that burn away cancer with light via wavelength energization, to tumors.  Case Western Reserve University graduate student Yu Cheng, one of the [...]

DailyTech – Researchers Peer Into Gold Nanoclusters Gold nanoparticles are widely used by researchers around the globe. Because they are stable and have defined electronic, electrochemical, and optical properties; they are useful for a great many types of work. However, until recently, how the particles’ structures were as stable as they are has been a [...]

Researcher to demonstrate attack code for Intel chips | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-14 | By Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service. Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel’s microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the [...]

Technology Review: Self-Cooling Microchips As computer chips are crammed with more and more transistors, they run hotter, and traditional cooling mechanisms–heat sinks and fans–are having trouble keeping up. But future chips might cool themselves with a special ­gadget that uses ionized air and an electric field to create a tiny breeze. In a so-called ion [...]

Japan’s Ancient Underwater “Pyramid” Mystifies Scholars Click on the source for the entire article Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago. That’s the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University [...]

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