CSIRO secures wireless patent win

This is excellent news for Australia's premier scientific research organisation, The CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), which for the past few years has had to seek external funding due to government cutbacks. Hopefully, wins like this will...

Look Ma no Wires

" Intel Hopes to Bring Free Energy to Mobile Devices Agam Shah, IDG News Service Dec 5, 2008 4:00 pm"Now wireless Computing takes it a step further,  just think you would not have to plug in your cell phone every night to ensure you don't miss that important call in the...

World's fastest supercomp for science

The attempts to make powerful computing system is always on. America's Department of Energy's (DOE) has developed a high-performance computing system .Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been proclaimed the world's fastest supercomputer for...

Cray Unveils Personal Supercomputer

Ray Kurzweil, in The Singularity is Near, predicts that by 2020 personal computers will have the same processing power as human brains. For now, Cray, the supercomputer manufacturer, has just come out with a $25,000 supercomputer that runs on 110 volt current and is small...

Big step in tiny technology [Breakthrough opening doors to molecular computing]

Another breakthrough in lithography is happening as physical limits are being reached in conventional processes for creating computer processors. Molecular computing will be here soon.Also see this recent article:Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage...

Quantum Leap: Researchers have controlled the position of a single electron ...

"An international team of researchers has shown that it can control the quantum state of a single electron in a silicon transistor--even putting the electron in two places at once. Their discovery could help pave the way toward a practical quantum computer. Quantum computers...