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Oregon crabber banking on a good season
Mitch Zimick's hands are a blur, wrapping fishing line from his elbow to his hands into a tight coil, bound for the round, steel crab pot stacked in front of him.
5 hrs ago | JAVA Developer's Journal
Visual WebGui to Reveal Cloud Application Platform
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer Gizmox, the developer of A Visual WebGui, today announced that it will reveal A its A application platform atop Windows Azure and its development framework, A VWG platforms offers a push-button .NET desktop legacy application migration path to Windows Azure.
9 hrs ago | R & D
Better way to harness waste heat
New MIT research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, and turn it into usable electricity.
Brown, IBM Unveil Multimillion-Dollar Supercomputer
The supercomputer is the most powerful computational system in Rhode Island and will be used by researchers statewide to tackle "grand challenges" affecting Ocean State residents in climate change, education, energy and health.
Mentor Graphics Delivers Optimized Android Development System for the ...
EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 18, 2009 - Mentor Graphics Corporation , a leading provider of embedded Linux and Android solutions , today announced its delivery of the Android Development System for the Texas Instruments Incorporated OMAP35x processors based on ARM Cortex -A8 technology.
Lenovo ThinkPad X100e a oenetbooka and ThinkPad Edge ultraportables leak
Talk about Lenovo's supposed first ThinkPad netbook is getting even more intriguing, with details of not one but two upcoming ultraportables in the company's flagship range.
Intel shareholder wants execs to pay $2.7B in fines
An Intel Corp. investor, frustrated that the chip maker has been hit with $2.7 billion in fines and settlement payments, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware against the company and its top executives.
Supercomputer market growth hinges on 3D Web
Supercomputer developers were issued a "call to action" to address the needs of the "3D Web" at the SC09 conference here.
Google has its own plan for Netbooks
There's still an awful lot about Google's Chrome OS project that remains up in the air, but Thursday's demonstration did reveal a bit about how Google thinks the Netbook should evolve.
ARM, MIPS accelerate Android push
Processor makers ARM and MIPS Technologies are both aiming to simplify and accelerate the use of netbooks, MIDs , set-top boxes and picture frames that run on Google's Android software platform.
Microsoft fights back with IE 9
With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft showed Wednesday it's trying to retake the browser initiative.
Supercomputing centers acknowledge Amazon influence
PORTLAND, Ore. - Amazon.com Inc. is to high performance computing what McDonald's is to food: fast, cheap, but with a limited menu.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it will conduct further studies before implementing a plan to ban raw, untreated Gulf Coast oysters during months when they are most likely to be infected with a harmful bacterium.
Asus Eee line gets NVIDIA's Ion
Asus and NVIDIA have just announced that several new models of the award-winning Asus Eee line are shipping with NVIDIA's Ion chipset .
Harnessing waste heat from laptop computers and cell phones may...
ScienceDaily - In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency.
Capitol Corridor train engine overhauled to burn the cleanest among passenger trains in California
A greener era in train travel has rolled into the Bay Area with the debut of an engine overhauled for $826,000 to run cleaner than any other diesel passenger train locomotive in the nation.
Insects may have consciousness and could even be able to count, claim experts
Insects with minuscule brains may be as intelligent as much bigger animals and may even have consciousness, it was claimed today.
TSX surges to highest close of the year amid higher energy stocks, Loblaw earns
The Toronto stock market closed at its highest level of the year Tuesday amid higher energy stocks and a solid earnings report from grocery chain Loblaw Companies Ltd.
Scientists model cat's brain with huge supercomputer, a step toward a better-reasoning machine
Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain - an effort that tests the limits of technology.
Fastest Supercomputer in the World is Devoted to Solving its Problems
At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet - climate change, renewable energy, new medicines - rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up.
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