The Catholic Church Gives Blessing to Confession iPhone App
Posted by admin in Mobile technology on 09. Feb, 2011 | 0 Comments
Lord Have Mercy Little iApps You can’t buy absolution—at least, not anymore—but $1.99 will help you get there. A new app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch has been “developed for those who frequent the sacrament and those who wish to return” in what is the first known imprimatur to be given for an [...]
IBM Launches Five-Year Effort To Develop Quantum Computing
Posted by admin in Computers on 11. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Quantum Computer Courtesy D-Wave Ramped-up research efforts at IBM and other labs in the U.S. and Europe could lead to more powerful and more prevalent quantum computers in the near future. IBM is breathing new life into a quantum computing research division at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, reports New York Times. The computer [...]
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 [...]
