"[ Sanjay G. Mavinkurve's] case highlights the technology industry’s argument that the United States will struggle to compete if it cannot more easily hire foreign-born engineers." In the middle of what is considered as the rough economic crisis since 1929, this article...
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Cost has been the main factor inhibiting large scale use of solar energy, an abundant and clean form of energy. A large portion of this cost goes for solar panels that contain photovoltaic cells necessary for converting the sun’s energy into a usable form...
opinion by Chaitanya S | 38 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago 610 views | 14 recommendations | 4 comments
Researchers at UC Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have begun a project that ultimately hopes to find a replacement for silicon in the solar industry. The use of silicon is...
" And the journey continues. Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror continues to unpack the secrets in the Biblical texts. The correlation of Abraham’s journey with our cyber journey goes much further and deeper. In the narrative...
"Another cluster of Web and media companies announced layoffs yesterday, among them blogging software company Six Apart, Wired, and Al Gore's Current. It was enough to cause plenty of panic at Valley...
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New breakthrough type of silicon "generates hundreds of times more current than conventional silicon"; potential uses include x-rays, night vision, digital photography, in vitro imaging, infrared detectors, etc. More environmentally friendly and cheaper than current...
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"A new authorization bill would give the White House more oversight of the Homeland Security Department's much-beleaguered cybersecurity efforts. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on...
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"Saudi Bin Laden Group plan a $3 billion smelter here to help create 500,000 jobs. Jazan will also attempt to build Saudi industries in silicon processing, agri-technology, textiles, food processing, and...
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"Thirty-nine years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed "The Eagle has landed" from the Sea of Tranquility, NASA on Sunday turned its eyes toward the moon, gazing both forward and backward in time. For the...
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Some interesting thoughts on the role of technology in making the world better. I disagree with a couple of Haque's contentions. Alot of money has been going into green technologies. According to Goldman Sachs investment increased from $400 billion in 2003 to $3 trillion in...
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If you find Sci-Fiction, and legends interesting, you will like this f\very much."The South Korean government plans to build two robot-themed parks close to Seoul—one in the bustling seaport of Incheon and...
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"Almaden Research Center - Image Credit: The Almaden Research Center (IBM) Racetrack – The Future Of Computer Memory SystemsA new way and concept of looking at retrievable, stored memory has just...
" Researchers in the United States and Singapore have developed a fully functioning silicon integrated circuit that can be bent, stretched and folded.Traditional circuits are made on thin, rigid silicon wafers,...
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An early morning fire on Saturday swept through Building 25 at IBM's Cottle Road campus in San Jose, Calif., according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News. The building, which opened in 1957 but had been vacant since 1996, was the site where the flying hard disk...
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Bad news first: Intel's new transistor-laden chip will be expensive--techradar.com guesstimates somewhere in the $5,000 USD range.The Good news is you probably won't need it. It's for high-end servers.Still...
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