Google has only been trialing its Project Loon balloons. But the internet-delivering devices may soon become a commercial reality thanks to a recent breakthrough involving machine-learning.
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A Japanese research team studying the NAND chips used in solid state drives has discovered a way to boost the speed of the devices by up to 300% with nothing more than a simple firmware update.
It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday it has figured out a way...
AMD has unveiled a new memory controller system which it claims will double the memory capacity on its high-end server and workstation systems. The G3MX technology will target memory intensive systems such as virtualisation servers...
Intel Corp. researchers are a step closer to creating chips that transmit data at high speeds using light instead of electrons, but products based on the technology appear to remain over the horizon. On Wednesday,...
Nichia Corporation of Japan has announced a new blue-violet laser that can fill up a 54GB double-layer disc at more than 10X record speed, compared to typical 2x and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format disc recorders. In...
Motorola's first Linux handset for the US market, the RIZR Z6, is also likely to be the first in the industry to run an "open" operating system - Linux, Symbian OS or Windows on a...
A University of Utah physicist took a step toward developing a superfast computer based on the weird reality of quantum physics by showing it is feasible to read data stored in the form of the...
InPhase Technologies reckons it can squeeze 200 gigabits on a single square inch of optical disk. This company showed off its holographic prototype at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas this...
The two major designers of graphics processing units are likely to significantly rise the amount of PCI Express graphics chips this quarter, but without ceasing to supply their AGP 8x products. The increase may be...
Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time. The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem in the US and Austria. The ability to transfer key...
Israeli researchers at Intel have achieved a breakthrough in chip development that will enable computers to operate at 10 times the current speed. In a development that promises to change the world of...
Today's Economic news reports that Intel and Toppoly have together developed LCD panels that will only draw three watts. The move is a breakthrough for Intel and the rest of us, because one of the...
REDMOND, Wash. -- Jan. 8, 2004 -- Consumers hooked on the high-speed Internet aren't the only ones who received a belated holiday gift with today's launch of the new version of MSN® Internet services. The...
Fujitsu has teamed up with NTT DoCoMo to produce advanced 3G handsets which offer animated characters for video conversations. The FOMA 900i series feature 'Chara-den' which are avatars that hide the sender's...
Six new Multiplayer skins have been added: US - General Wheathers US - II Corps Tank Commander US - II Corps Infantry UK - 10th Corps UK - 8th Army IT - Paracadutista...
Power-over-Ethernet chip to reduce network switch PoE components by nearly 90 per cent Power over Ethernet (PoE) company PowerDsine will start commerical shipments in January of a chip that it claims will...
Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. researchers will report on Tuesday that they have devised a way to dramatically increase the speed at which semiconductors can talk to each other. By placing...
Three game play clips for Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Breakthrough have been added to the Video Clips section on the Official Breakthrough website. Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Breakthrough is the new...
In Medal of Honor Allied Assault from Electronic Arts, players will assume the role of Lt. Mike Powell, member of the famed 1st Ranger Battalion who gets recruited by the OSS and battles through over...
The multiplayer game has been enhanced with the addition of Liberation Mode. In this mode, defeated players must be rescued by surviving teammates to continue the fight. In addition, players can drive tanks, artillery spotters...
EA reveals that a multiplayer demo for the next Medal of Honor Allied Assault expansion is due out in early September. Electronic Arts has informed us that a two-map multiplayer demo...
Madison, the third member of the Itanium chip family, is Intel's best shot to date at taking on Sun Microsystems and IBM in the market for high-end server chips. If the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker...
CHIP FIRM Advanced Micro Devices said it has designed a flash device which will speed the adoption of Bluetooth and GPS modules in personal digital appliances (PDAs). The eight megabit AM 29SL800D is a 1.8...
As U.S. Army Sergeant John Baker, players join the battle at Kasserine Pass in North Africa, race to capture Messina in Sicily, and finally repel the German army at the historic battle of Monte Battaglia...
SUMITOMI SAID it has started to mass produce two inch low dislocation gallium nitride (GaN) substrates, an essential component to violet lasers for use in Blu-Ray and Advanced Optical Disc machines. The company said it...
Chip maker AMD claims to have become the first in the semiconductor industry to achieve critical research milestones for next-generation transistor development. In lab work to be fully unveiled in June, AMD researchers say...
NANOTUBE TECHNOLOGY will feature in future televisions, NKK Corporation suggests, having developed a carbon nanotube shaped like a piece of tape. The company claims its tubes are pliable and are likely to be incorporated into...
THE JAPANESE National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology said it has created a humanoid like robot that can carry 6KG and can get up and lie down. The robot, called the HRP-2, is...
A remarkable achievement by Motorola in the new PowerMac computers promises to set the scientific world alight. Apple claims that "the faster-than-light processor speed gets an additional boost with an advanced cache...
A group of researchers based in Britain have managed to find new approaches to hardware addition and multiplication, two of the most basic functions of many modern-day chips. The new discoveries, it has been claimed,...
Thanks my mate Timan who sent this to me while looking for Eskimo Bob.. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo, TransGaming Technologies and Transitive Technologies will be unveiling a game-porting technology that can allow Windows-based x86...
Using a scanning transmission electron microscope, the team of researchers was able to directly image an individual 'antimony dopant' atom within crystalline silicon. Scientists at Bell Labs announced Thursday that they have...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. INTC.O has devised a new structure for transistors -- the tiny switches that make up semiconductors -- in a development it said could lead to microprocessors that run at...
Chip packaging is arcane, often overlooked and absolutely crucial to the future of the semiconductor industry. Intel will tomorrow unveil an entirely new design for the silicon and metal vehicles that connect...
Australian researchers have developed a technique to convert electrical signals on silicon into light, which some suggest could spark the next revolution in computing. Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have...
