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 [...]
Although It’s Been Said Many Times, Many Ways: The iPad is the Future
Posted by admin in Computers on 06. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
I’ve been using the iPad since Saturday. Here are my thoughts and impressions so far After a weekend using the iPad, I’ve realized I’m not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It’s not every day, or every year or maybe even every [...]
Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill is Magical
Posted by admin in Computers on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Don’t like that tree there? Just circle it, and Photoshop does the rest. Gone. Content-Aware Fill Let’s fill’er out Adobe Getting rid of annoying lens flares or an unwanted tree in Photoshop could get much less tedious with a new “content-aware fill” tool. Adobe’s sneak preview of the feature shows how formerly painstaking retouch jobs [...]
