New inventions in the field of computer science & information technology

	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Tongue Drive System to Operate Computers
...Scientists developed a new revolutionary system to help individuals with disabilities to control wheelchairs, computers and other devices simply by using their tongue. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that a new technology called Tongue Drive system will be helpful to individuals with serious disabilities, such as those with severe spinal cord injuries and will allow them to lead more active and in...
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	Scientists to Develop World's Smallest High Performance Sensor
...time that anyone has combined these two nanotechnologies to develop a smart sensor. The traditional CMOS (Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) approach has many limitations so we needed to find a new approach," said Pr. Mizuta. After the opening of the new ECS Mountbatten building, scientists will be able to get a new electron beam lithography machine. The latter will help in making sensing devices to the nanoscale...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...ll' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thus it is not a specific smell that the receptors re...
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	Software Programmers Cannot Reach Supercomputers
...ce supercomputing. He outlined that soon people won't be able to get a computer that is not multicore. Because now multicore chips are becoming more and more popular, programmers are forced to learn new tricks. It is worth mentioning that not everything from the field of high-performance computing is ready for new multicore computers. "In industry, much of their high-performance code is not parallel," senior research sc...
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	There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too
...er just two weeks after he had seen the internet for the first time. William Kamkwamba got an opportunity to surf the net when he attended a TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to promote new ideas in the technology, design and entertainment fields. The 19-year-old high-school student was invited to the conference to share his personal experience of designing and building a windmill completely on his own. ...
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	Nanotubes Can be Produced from Bacteria
...erial science. Experts at the the University of California-Riverside and South Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology said that this scientific breakthrough might help in developing new nanoelectronic devices. Nosang Myung, one of the researchers and UCR Associate Professor and postdoctoral researcher Bongyoung Yoo found that bacteria Shewanella forms arsenic-sulfide nanotubes that have unique charac...
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	NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer
...a. It is worth mentioning that the prior Lunar Prospector mission spotted large volume of hydrogen at the moon's poles before smashing itself into a crater found on the South Pole of the moon. The new mission, entitled Lunar Crater and Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), is much larger. It will start on February 2009 and will focus on whether hydrogen is hidden on the moon's poles in form of frozen water. LCROSS...
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	Scientists Create World's Fastest SuperComputer
...s considered to be the fastest supercomputer, being three times faster than other supercomputers in the world. The RoadRunner was developed by the engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, and IBM Corp. from 13,000 of computer chips. RoadRunner is the world's first petaflop computer, meaning that it can perform 1,000 trillion operations per second. The daily performance of the computer can b...
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	Only 13 % People Have Internet Access
...Only 13 percent of people on the planet have access to the Internet. This statement was made by the United Nations News Center. The majority of Internet users (90 %) live in industrialized countries. The gap in the field of information technology between the developed countries and those that are in development, is continuously increasing. In its statement the UN News Center mentioned that most developing countries canno...
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	Search Information Will Go Private
...Today the main search engine 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 t...
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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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	Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits
... function MLnkMk(str) { s=''; for(i=0;i#iuuq;00xxx/uifsfhjtufs/dp/vl031170140280hpphmf`xjot`vtfofu`dpqzsjhiu`dbtf#!!ubshfu>#`cmbol#?Sfbe!npsf//=0b?'))) "Parker, who represented himself in the suit, publishes online under the name "Snodgrass Publishing Group". One of his publications was an e-book entitled "29 Reasons Not To Be A Nice Guy" and at some time he posted Reason 6 from this book onto a Usenet forum, the wo...
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	Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless
...About one third of U.S. households do not have any access to the Internet. But what is even more surprising they do not intend to get one. The reason is that households do not consider Internet to be useful for their every day lives. A technology market research firm located in Dallas, called Park Associates, outlined that 29% of households from the United States (which is about 31 million homes) do not even intend to g...
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	Football fans have bitten off the ears of a tavern keeper
...Dimitris Tsibibakis, a Greek tavern keeper, working at a health resort, lost both of his ears while trying to part football fans. The fight began in his tavern during a football match between Greece and Turkey. When he tried to part the fighting fans they have bitten off significant parts of his ears. According to an official source, a group of Bulgarian immigrants, who entered the tavern, starting screaming and suppor...
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