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ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer

Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL’s last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous…

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Siemens Unveils eTicketing System for Smarter Travel

This week, Siemens presents its eTicketing system at the ITS World Congress in Vienna. The system will demonstrate how easy it is to organize and invoice an…

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Data storage: Going with the grain

Despite the increasing competition from alternative technologies such as solid-state drives, magnetic disks remain an important data-storage technology. They…

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FuturICT FET Proposal Tops Competition for Innovation Project

FuturICT was rated 1st out of the 21 proposals received for the initial stage of the competition which asks for visionary and highly ambitious proposals around…

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Glove Keyboard May Alter Use of Devices with One Hand

It’s called a Gauntlet Keyboard, a glove device that functions as a wireless keyboard. Instead of tapping keys on a keyboard, the user simply touches their…

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Large Grant Boosts Innovation in Small Satellite Technology

The field of satellite technology is facing an upheaval that has already taken place in the computer industry: The mainframe computers of the 70ies have…

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New Pathway Discovered for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

The finding, by a team led by Princeton physicist Jason Petta, could eventually allow engineers to build quantum computers consisting of millions of quantum…

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International Research Boosts Power Line Communication Systems

Now, for the first time, a research agreement has been concluded with a Chinese partner, China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI). As part of this…

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World Health Summit: Instantaneous Genome Analysis Unveiled

Originally developed for corporate software and honored with the 2012 German Innovation prize, In-Memory Technology will also help in the future to analyze and…

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Graphene: A patterned template for molecular packing

Graphene’s versatile electronic, chemical and mechanical properties have placed it center stage in physical sciences research, with attention currently focused…

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New interactive system detects touch and gestures on any surface

The system identifies the fingers of a person's hand while touching any plain surface. It also recognizes hand posture and gestures, revealing individual users…

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How Will Smart Cars Affect the Future of Driving?

California, Nevada, and Florida have already made driverless cars street-legal, and continuing advances in the technology have led many to predict that the…

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Iowa State Researchers Developing ‘BIGDATA’ Toolbox to Help Genome Researchers

But there’s a problem: The latest DNA sequencing instruments are burying researchers in trillions of bytes of data and overwhelming existing tools in…

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Sandia Builds Android-Based Network to Study Cyber Disruptions

Sandia cyber researchers linked together 300,000 virtual hand-held computing devices running the Android operating system so they can study large networks of…

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Smartphone Teleradiology Advances Telemedicine Effectiveness

The study, the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a real-world telestroke network, was recently published in Stroke, a…

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Boost Security: Simplifying Access with Single Sign-On

Risk increases with comfort: “Single Sign-On” permits users to access all their protected Web resources, replacing repeated sign-ins with passwords. However,…

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