Technologies
IBM Aims to Cool Chips With Water
A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, researchers at IBM have said.
Scientists at the firm have shown off a prototype device layered with thousands of “hair-width” cooling arteries. They believe it could be a solution to the increasing amount of heat pumped out by chips […]
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Games Consoles ‘Not Green Enough’
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not doing enough to eliminate potentially harmful chemicals and metals from their games consoles, Greenpeace has said.
The body examined materials used inside the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Greenpeace said that while all three machines complied with European laws, the consoles still contained harmful […]
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Researchers Make First Automated Surgery Milestones
by Shane McGlaun - DailyTech.com
Rudimentary robot was able to perform simple surgical procedures without human assistance.
Doctors and surgeons already make use of some types of robots to perform procedures where the precision of the operation required is often more than a human can consistently offer. Some researchers say that the day when these robots can […]
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New Company Deploys Adhesive Solar Panels For Roofs
by Jason Mick - DailyTech.com
Move over screws and racks, new adhesive mounted panels are gaining steam.
DailyTech recently reported on the growing interest in solar power, both public and private, being fueled by enterprising startups like Sungevity. However despite current methods of streamlining installation and reducing costs via optimizations, the installation process remains costly, slow, […]
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Xbox Manager Slams Sony for Every PlayStation 3 Misstep
by Marcus Yam - DailyTech.com
Microsoft pulls no punches in pointing out PS3 mistakes.
Console wars are the sweet fuel to all fanboy discussions, and whenever a representative of a particular games company says something particularly scathing about the competition, explosions are sure to follow.
Xbox product manager Aaron Greenberg recently spoke out in an interview with Destructoid […]
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Victorian ‘Supercomputer’ is Reborn
by Maggie Shiels - BBC News
The world of computing could have been very different to that of today had a machine that was designed over 150 years ago been built at the time.
That is the view of Doron Swade, the man who is behind realising the creation of the famed Difference Engine No 2 which […]
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