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Haptics in Industry: Enhancing Interaction and Efficiency

Perhaps people do not realize it, but haptic technology is already in our lives. Vibrating phones, gaming controllers and force-feedback control knobs in cars,…

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GÉANT2 helps drive high speed supercomputer projects

The speed of collaborative research using Europe's network of supercomputers will be advanced by a major upgrade announced today. The Distributed European…

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Exploring Five Dimensions of Online Gifts in Innovation

Now, computer scientist Jörgen Skågeby of Linköping University in Sweden writing in the International Journal of Web Based Communities, explains how there are…

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IMEC Advances FinFET Technology for Next-Gen CMOS Scaling

FinFETs are a promising approach to address short-channel effects and leakage issues when scaling CMOS towards the 32nm node and beyond. Doping fluctuations in…

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Silterra and IMEC Advance Joint Technology Development Project

The technology will be ready for production in the second half of 2008 or earlier and will, among other things, utilize low-K inter-metal dielectric and the…

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NASA Satellites Capture China’s Yangtze River Dam Progress

NASA's Landsat satellites have provided detailed, vivid views of the dam since construction began in 1994. The Yangtze River is the third largest river in the…

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Evacuation Software Maps Optimal Routes for Millions of Vehicles

Suppose, for instance, that a disaster occurred in Southern California and suddenly 700,000 vehicles headed for the Arizona border” How would transportation…

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ESA Advances Quantum Communications for Secure Satellite Links

The experiment allows ESA to take a step closer to exploiting entanglement as a way of communicating with satellites with total security. Quantum entanglement…

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SSTL Embraces New Era for Galileo’s Rapid Deployment

The agreement calls for more competition to be introduced so that the system can be procured quickly for rapid deployment of Galileo by 2012. This means that…

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Elsevier’s Inteleos Poised to Launch Integrating Technology for Drug Tracking and Analysis

With the Inteleos UI, pharmaceutical and biotech professionals will be able to compare and contrast information from multiple data sources – both internal and…

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Delft University of Technology research might prevent asphalt damage

Water damage to asphalt is a major expense. It also results in an increase in traffic delays because roads often have to be closed during repair work. This…

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EU project to bridge digital divide in Latin America

The BRASIL (Broadband to Rural America over Satellite Integrated Links) project, whose motto, 'Broadband any Place via Space', reflects its mission to harness…

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Research into IT Design Recognized

The IT University of Copenhagen each year identifies exceptional research which both contributes new knowledge and specifies how the new insight can be used….

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Ancient Glacier Mummy’s Mystery Unraveled by CT Scan Insights

A lesion of a close-to-the-shoulder artery has been found thanks to a CT scan or multislice computed tomography, finally clarifying the world-famous glacier…

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Satellite Communications Boost Security at G8 Summit

The provision of a ground station and associated satellite capacity will enable the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Technisches Hilfswerk – THW) to…

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Smart Digital Paper: New Innovations from Mid Sweden University

Research teams at the Mid Sweden University forestry industry research program Fiber Science and Communication Network (FSCN) are working on the fourth…

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