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Submission + - Breakthrough Grows Graphene on Silicon Substrate (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn on Monday February 01, 2010 @08:07AM

eldavojohn writes: A new paper entitled Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon toward Graphene-Silicon Fusion Electronics published by a group of physicists at Tohoku University in Japan has demonstrated that they can grow graphene on a silicon substrate and pair that technique with conventional lithography to create a graphene-on-silicon field effect transistor. For quite sometime we've been discussing the supermaterial graphene being used like silicon improving everything from memory density to transistors. Given this demonstration, are we witnessing the start of a new era in electronics or are there more hurdles to clear before the manufacturers adopt this fabrication process and embrace graphene?

Submission + - Why Has No One Made A Great Gaming Phone? 1

Submitted by andylim on Monday February 01, 2010 @06:09AM

andylim writes: According to Engadget, John Koller, Sony’s head of PlayStation marketing, recently said that "Apple's entrance into the portable gaming space has been a net positive for Sony. When people want a deeper, richer console, they start playing on a PSP." What's odd though is that everyone knows that the mobile phone gaming market is a huge and yet neither Sony nor Nintendo has made a gaming phone yet. Recombu.com thinks that Nokia could enter the space with PSP-like devices and it has come up with a concept phone called the Ovi Orion, which would bridge the gap between phone and console, "If the iPhone is Wii, then Ovi Orion would be Xbox and offer Xbox Live style features. A serious gaming phone for serious gamers."

Submission + - Nokia N900 Linux smartphone running OS X 10.3 (www.tuug.fi)

Submitted by Rovaani on Monday February 01, 2010 @05:39AM

Rovaani writes: (via The Nokia Blog). Here is a video of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3 From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: "I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone EVER to run the full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is. "

Submission + - Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video (nycaviation.com) 1

Submitted by longacre on Sunday January 31, 2010 @11:47PM

longacre writes: An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available.

Submission + - Roman Army Knife predates Swiss by 1800 years (dailymail.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 31, 2010 @11:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Daily Mail describes an "intricately designed Roman implement, which dates back to 200AD... made from silver but has an iron blade. It features a spoon, fork as well as a retractable spike, spatula and small tooth-pick. Experts believe the spike may have been used by the Romans to extract meat from snails." But is it a Roman Army Knife, or an Army Knife of Rome?

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:07PM from the snack-is-going-to-be-on-the-floor-today dept.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."

The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer 876

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 18, 2009 @08:21AM from the overdriven-pet-peeves dept.

davidmwilliams writes "Those of us who work in technology have a jargon all of our very own. We know the difference between CPUs and GPUs, between SSD and HD, let alone HD and SDTV! Yet, our users are flat out calling everything 'the hard drive.' Why is it so?" As much as I hate to admit it, this particular thing drives me nuts. You don't call the auto shop and tell them that your engine is broken when your radio breaks!

Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" 301

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:26PM from the after-honeynets-let's-try-bugzappers dept.

Heise Security reports that a 'team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed. Quite the reverse, for in theory it can be rapidly eliminated using software developed and at least partially disclosed by Georg Wicherski, Tillmann Werner, Felix Leder and Mark Schlösser. However it seems in practice the elimination process would fall foul of the law.'

Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs 510

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 19, 2008 @10:57PM from the butter-is-better dept.

Heise.de's Kernel Log has a look at the ext4 filesystem as Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches for it into the kernel main branch. "This signals that with the next kernel version 2.6.28, the successor to ext3 will finally leave behind its 'hot' development phase." The article notes that ext4 developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) is in favor of ultimately moving Linux to a modern, "next-generation" file system. His preferred choice is btrfs, and Heise notes an email Ts'o sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List a week back positioning ext4 as a bridge to btrfs.

A Robot To Destroy Breast Cancer Cells 81

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2008 @01:03AM from the tunnelling-tumor-terminating-terrapin dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays cancerous cells, the robot will then insert a probe into the breast until it reaches the tumor. The probe will then burn the cancer cells until they are destroyed.' This looks great, but the researchers have only built a prototype. After they refine this robot, they'll need to go through clinical trials and obtain FDA approval. So this is not a robot that will appear on the medical market before several years."

Comment Wet dream... (Score 1) 67

by Lindus on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @10:43AM (#21420933) Attached to: Meet the Drivers Behind NASA's Mars Rovers

I am sorry but these women are every geek's wetdream. They're intelligent, goodlooking and have fabulous jobs. The envy quotient for many of us is immeasurable. Their partners/husbands et. al better be good to these women or we'll take them "around the corner" to beat some sense into them. :)

All in all it is absolutely great these women are so successful in these areas of science that has for a long time been seen as an old boys club. Kudos to them and let's hope they'll have more prosperous careers going forward.

With hopes they all have a great time, /Lindus

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