Computer inventions

	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...ition the OLED is much more efficient than the light bulb used today. Currently these devices are applied in mobile phones and MP3 players. However, such OLED is not quite reliable for large TV or computer screens. In order to make the device more efficient so later to launch it to mass market, the international consortium of researches, Modecom, headed by the University of Bath, United Kingdom, started a three-year...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...s replaced by protein molecule when the latter bound to the receptor. This way, the more the fluorescent molecule was displaced, the more light produced. The results were subsequently analyzed by the computer. During the experiments the scientists ran tests with 56 different proteins and proved that the signals produced by the receptors could be then used to distinguish among various proteins. The 'nano-nose' was accur...
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	Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled
...ideo games on surgical skills. Apart from surgery, the study showed that video games contribute to improving motor skills, eye-hand coordination, visual attention as well as depth perception and computer competency. Dr. James Rosser, who works at Beth Israel Medical Center and who is also the senior author of the study, mentioned that it might be possible to use video games as a tool that can help surgeons in thei...
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	Storm virus attacks blogs
...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect. The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti...
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	Microsoft's Antivirus Causes Damage
... the issue. He said that this problem was reported over a year ago and though the issue was fixed in the 1.0 release and it never appeared in the beta version but it did in the new 1.5 release. In a Computerworld statement, the spokesperson of the software giant outlined that the company is fixing the problem of the antivirus that mistakenly deleted the .pst files of Outlook and the .dbx files of Outlook Express when it ...
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	Search Information Will Go Private
...ine for millions of people, Google, announced that the servers won't keep the information on the users' searches forever. Until recent times, Google kept the search information linked with certain computers around the world. However from now on the system will make this information anonymous after 18 to 24 months. According to Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel at Google, the company made this decision after numero...
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	To live or die - computer will decide
...Are you ready to entrust your destiny to a computer? Researches say that a new computer program can make life-or-death decisions for disabled people better than their closest relatives. A new research conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH) introduced a software program that can calculate all the pros and contras for further treatment of the seriously ill patients based on the mathematical formula. The decisio...
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	Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless
...d to get Internet access 44 percent are simply not interested in anything that Internet provides. The survey found that 22 percent do not have the opportunity to pay for the Internet or to purchase a computer. Among the participants in the survey, who do not intend to subscribe to the service, 17 percent said that they do not know how to use the Internet. Fourteen percent stated that they are more likely to use the servi...
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	20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...nd their dealers sold from 12 to 15 million home desktops, having the Windows XP Home Edition pre-installed as their main OS. Mr. Silver said that considering the fact that all these 12 to 15 million computer owners have been offered a free or a cheaper upgrade to Windows Vista, then the figures are not so impressive as Microsoft want us to believe. ...
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	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
...with its animated cursors. Microsoft's officials mentioned that an attacker might be able to take advantage of Windows' vulnerability by using a Web page or e-mail message that comprises a certain computer code. In its advisory the company's officials stated that when viewing a Web page, previewing or reading an encoded message, or opening an e-mail attachment that includes a malware, the hacker can make the affecte...
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	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...Microsoft would pay big companies from $2 to $10 annually per user (payment was to be made in credits for Microsoft's products or training services). So the more searches a company would make via its computers, the more money, or credits, it would earn. And then Microsoft starts seeking for 30 companies with not less that 5,000 computers at their disposal, which would cooperate with Microsoft by installing a small comp...
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	Invisibility is now one step closer
... "cloaked". Those objects that are situated in the background will be visible but the ones that are cloaked not. Vladimir Shalaev, the university's Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, mentioned that the invisibility of the cloaked objects is provided by the cylindrical array of nano-needles. Despite all the upper mentioned advantages, the theoretical design, however, according to S...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
... B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t...
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	Secret US military data was disclosed thanks to porn images
...exchanged porn files with another officer at work. The naval officer intended to copy adult images that came along with the data on Aegis military system taken by accident from another officer's computer. Thus when he swapped the files with the petty officer of the lower rank, the latter was carelessly given the access to top secret information. As it was reported by Defence Ministry the petty officer, whose nam...
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