Apple unveils new slimmed down, streaming-focused Apple TV
Posted by admin in Computers on 02. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Apple’s shrunk down Apple TV The “one more thing” at Apple’s September 1 event was an updated Apple TV. Apple has certainly cranked up the ol’ shrink ray for a form factor that is 80 percent smaller than the previous generation. The rumored addition of apps didn’t eventuate nor did the rebranding to “iTV” but, [...]
Nanoresonators Form Super-High-Resolution Display, With Pixels Eight Times Finer Than iPhone’s
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 28. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
It’s Only Blurry Because It’s Magnified The world’s smallest University of Michigan logo, magnified thousands of times. Apple is justifiably proud of their so called "retina display", but a new display technology promises to make it look like about as sharp as a worn out 1977 Sylvania Superset. This picture might look fuzzy, but that’s [...]
First Spintronic Computer Memory Device Successfully Built in Lab
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 11. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
EPROM Traditional electronic computer memory, made by Texas Instruments. For years, particle physicists and computer scientists have been promising us vastly improved memory chips based on the spin of individual electrons, but concrete advances have been awfully elusive. Now a team at Ohio State has put together a working device to test spintronic memory, and [...]
Japanese and American Duo Nearly Doubles Pi Record, Using Home-Built Computer
Posted by admin in Computers on 06. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Calculating Pi at Home A screenshot from the software that set the new record Shigeru Kondo spent some $18,000 to build a desktop Windows computer that, over the course of three months, shattered the world record for calculating pi. Running in the 54-year-old system engineer’s home, where he lives with his wife and mother, the [...]
Microsoft’s Terapixel Project Creates Clearest, Biggest Night Sky Map Yet, Using More Than 3,400 Telescope Photos
Posted by admin in Computers, Space on 18. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Terapixel Night Sky Microsoft’s Terapixel project, part of Microsoft Research, stitched together more than 1,700 pairs of photographic plates from two powerful telescopes to create the clearest, largest night sky map yet. First they gave us a high-res tour of Mars — now Microsoft has made the largest and clearest night-sky map ever. It’s a [...]
