Top 10 inventions in the field of computer

	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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	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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	Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...Surgery can take a huge step towards the future due to a new surgical robot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine. It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a lea...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...ormal combination of proteins in the human body. After running a series of tests with blood of sick and healthy animals, the scientists were able to identify changes in serum. They do not want to stop here and they try to make this ability statistically stable. Later on Rotello plans to make the 'nano-nose' identify different kinds of cancer cells and other diseases. Such a nose device, sniffing out illnesses is not...
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	Software Programmers Cannot Reach Supercomputers
...cing companies, have all announced that the multicore chips production will soon be well under way. This year Intel announced details on its 80 cores fingernail sized chip. "In five or six years, laptop computers will have the same capabilities, and face the same obstacles, as today's supercomputers... this challenge will face people, who program for desktop computers, too" said the senior research scientist for Informat...
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	There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too
...An African student from Malawi has become a successful blogger 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 d...
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	Scientist Predicts Humans Will Marry Robots
...British scientist was awarded a PhD by the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, for his work claiming that marriage between robots and human will become common in the near future. David Levy, an artificial intelligence scientist wrote a thesis Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners where he says that robots can become even more suitable partners for humans. In his work he explains that changing views on...
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	Most Spam comes from the USA, says SophosLabs
... - 2.4%; Romania - 2.3%; Mexico - 1.9%; Other countries - 33.9% Carole Theriault , security chief at Sophos said that even though every week the police arrest a few spammers, the USA remains on top of the top spammer-countries. The expert added that this level of spamming is not just a matter of a few highly motivated cyber-criminals, because spammers all over the world use thousands of 'zombie' computers located on...
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	Nanotubes Can be Produced from Bacteria
...Scientists discovered that living bacteria can produce semiconducting nanotubes that have a great potential for their application in electronics, nanotechnology and other fields of material 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 M...
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	Tongue Drive System to Operate Computers
...mmands to control the computer mouse. The individuals repeated several motions left, right, up and down, single- and double-click to perform computer mouse tasks. The results of the trials showed 100 percent of commands were accurate with the response time less than one second, which equals to an information transfer rate of approximately 150 bits per minute. Scientists also plan to test the ability of the system...
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	Scientists Create World's Fastest SuperComputer
...000 trillion operations per second. The computer, called RoadRunner, is twice as fast the previous fastest computer IBM's Blue Gene system, which was 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. RoadRunn...
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	Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled
... Recent studies showed that the surgeons who play video games are more skilled. It seems that video games contribute to a more precise technique of using different medical instruments. The February issue of Archives of Surgery states that there is a direct link between having video game skills and the abilities of a surgeon to perform a laparoscopic surgery. The term laparoscopy refers to surgeries that are made by wat...
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	Only 13 % People Have Internet Access
...The availability of cutting Internet access costs was discussed at the Global Alliance on information technology for development meeting, which took place in the Silicon Valley, California. More than 100 heads of high-tech firms and companies took part at the meeting. The meeting also housed the representatives of non-government organizations, mass media and United Nations. The aim of Global Alliance on information techn...
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	Storm virus attacks blogs
...ies. Storm virus presents a real danger as it interferes in social networks. A lot of people who visit blog journals are not aware of the threat that may come from the common discussion on related topics with the author they trust. A link that will appear in blog's author site will lure them to check out an interesting video. One of Symantec engineers, Eric Chien, said that some bulletin boards were already spammed. ...
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	IBM and Cisco: Attempt to Unite the Communication Software Developers
...IBM and Cisco announced their common effort in creating a unified platform for communications and collaboration. The idea of this project is to provide the developers of different communication services with one single platform, rather then a series of them and from different vendors. The current platform will be based on Eclipse and OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative), as stated by the representatives of IBM and Ci...
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