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Submission + - MIT's hybrid microchip to overcome silicon size ba (itnews.com.au)

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schliz
schliz writes: "MIT researchers have successfully embedded a gallium nitride layer onto silicon to create a hybrid microchip. The method could be further developed to combine other technologies such as spintronics and optoelectronics on a silicon chip. It is expected to be commercialised in a couple of years, and allow manufacturers to keep up with Moore's Law despite today's shrinking devices."

Comment Re:92% efficiency?? (Score 4, Informative) 327

by tancque (#29375733) Attached to: Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants

I live nextdoor to Germany, in the Netherlands, and here airconditioning in homes is not very common. I assume it's the same in Germany.
It can be hot, of course, but never for very long. "Airco" is considered to be a luxery. And hot water is still needed in the summer.

Just be sure not to install such a system near your carefully stored wines in the cellar.
Games

Maxis Launches Spore API Contest 35

Posted by Soulskill from the not-the-three-letters-they're-known-for dept.
Today EA Maxis announced the beginning of a development contest for their new Spore API. They're calling on players to submit useful and interesting apps and widgets, and they've provided samples to show the kinds of ideas they're looking for. The samples include an update list for creations by game buddies, a creature dueling app, a creature tournament app, and a variety of viewers.
Space

Submission + - Holes found in black hole theories -No black Holes

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a discovery that may have profound implications, an Indian theoretical physicist and his British collaborator have given a surprising new twist to one of the great mysteries about black holes. More...
Data Storage

Submission + - Dutch reject USB flash drive tax

Submitted by Sandburd
Sandburd writes: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/13/dutch_reje ct_levy_on_usb_keys/ Dutch minister Hirsh Balin has rejected calls to levy a copyright tax on flash drives. The tax was proposed by the SONT (Stichting Onderhandelingen Thuiskopievergoeding) claiming that about 20% of the flash drives contains music and otherwise copyrighted materials. However after a heated debate the proposal was rejected by the minister.
Security

Submission + - Aussie video surveillance leaves rivals for dead

Submitted by
raasdnil
raasdnil writes: "ARNnet reports that ‘National ICT Australia has developed an operating system and software package designed to recognize and match positive identifications of faces from distance and impaired angles that leaves current technology for dead.

‘The project, called iBox, has been developed by NCITA's Safety and Security group and has already secured considerable investment from multinational conglomerate Trantek. The technology converts analogue video data into a digital format which can be then used for motion detection, facial recognition, and behaviour prediction.’"
Robotics

Submission + - Nanotechnology leading to molecular machines

Submitted by dr_nomad_x
dr_nomad_x writes: a number of enticing research papers on the use of catalysis and molecular motors to produce movement. One paper mentioned sounds particularly useful: an overview of progress on Synthetic Molecular Motors href="http://dottrans.blogspot.com/">Read More...
Censorship

Submission + - Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Submitted by Forrest Kyle
Forrest Kyle writes: A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has recieved multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. From the article, "'Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,' said the professor. 'I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal.' Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...recently claimed: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science.'"
Windows

Submission + - Indian reseller discover the cost of MS addiction

Submitted by
the_womble
the_womble writes: "It looks as though Indian resellers have found out the hard way how the Microsoft monopoly works. After decades of being tacitly encouraged to sell pirated copies of Windows, they now find themselves being forced to pay up.

Are people dependent enough on MS for this to work in countries where the cost of a Windows license relative to incomes is several time higher than in developed countries? Will this open more opportunities for FOSS? I live in Sri Lanka, a country where MS backed off from a planned crackdown because even corporate users threatened to switch if they had to pay."

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