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Research has developed a way to weave textile fibers covered with nanowires into garments so that the wearer's body movement generates power. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputers
The hijacking of several domain names belonging to the agency responsible for coordinating the allocation and assignment of domain names and IP addresses.Article link: http://doi.i
Photographers have long used software to edit, crop, remove flaws from, or otherwise enhance their photos. Now, musicians have similar options, and Celemony Software is about to release...
Supercomputers can quickly perform complex calculations and thus have become useful in many settings. But they also traditionally require large amounts of energy for their operations...
A technology that enables handheld devices to show holographic images. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2008.315
Privacy concerns about technology that lets advertisers measure the viewership of billboards and other public displays. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.
In nanosoccer tournaments, nanorobots compete based on their performance in a series of timed agility drills, including one involving dribbling glass disks the width of a human hair...
The University of Washington’s Phalanx system would utilize any large group of voluntarily participating computers as a shield against botnet traffic. This could including existing
Hewlett-Packard researchers have developed memristors, a fourth type of basic passive circuit element to go along with resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Memristors could help build...
A standards organization is finalizing an ultrafast version of the popular universal serial bus plug-and-play hardware interface designed to better meet the needs of devices requiring...
Stanford University researchers have developed a way to increase the length of time that lithium-ion batteries can power laptops, digital cameras, cellular phones, and other portable...
Software that would let a cell phone with a camera work like a computer mouse or eventually even as an interface or scrolling device for use with public information displays. Article...
A new way of stealing encryption keys stored on computer hard drives by chilling a dynamic RAM chip. Article Link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2008.162
A prototype digital camera that would use 12,616 lenses to take 3D photos. Article Link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2008.162
UK-based IBM researchers have developed the SiSi (say it, sign it) system. It uses speech-recognition technology to convert a conversation into text and then translation technology
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is working on a faster version of the Bluetooth short-range wireless-connectivity technology. It initially decided to base high-speed Bluetooth
A researcher and software architect with the One Laptop per Child project has taken an innovative approach to eliminating the need for antivirus products in the computers that OLPC
Several vendors are cooperating to develop virtualization standards. This would let products from virtualization firms work together, an important development for both vendors and users...
The US Federal Communications Commission plans to auction five blocks of wireless spectrum in the 700-MHz frequency band. The FCC is reserving some of the spectrum for open access,
Purdue University researchers have developed a way to use pulse shaping to finely control ultrafast laser pulses’ spectral properties to create faster optical-communications approaches....
Wireless-network operators are looking at an approach that could let them increase the bandwidth of their third-generation cellular technology, which currently provides less performance...
Cadence Design Systems has developed an approach that would increase chip performance by running wiring diagonally as well as horizontally and vertically, as is the case now between...
In their ongoing arms race with security vendors, hackers have developed an increasingly popular type of cyberattack that serves a Web page with malicious code only once to any computer...
Intel has developed an approach, using new antennas and signal-transmission technology, to greatly increase Wi-Fi’s transmission range without losing bandwidth. The company envisions...
