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World's slimmest keyboard is PAPER-THIN and turns ANY area into a touchscreen

04/09/2013 21:49
  British scientists have invented a flexible computer keyboard that is as thin as a piece of paper and can turn any area into a touch-sensitive surface. Tech company Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) claims its keyboard is the world's thinnest, at half a millimeter thick and offers consumers a...

Solar Powered UAV to Replace Satellites?

04/09/2013 21:47
Satellites, regardless of their function, are expensive. Between development, launch costs, and maintenance a single satellite can cost millions of dollars to keep in orbit. However, in a bid to change the rules of the satellite game Titan Aerospace has introduced a new high altitude UAV to replace...

Microsoft buys Nokia’s phone business

04/09/2013 21:39
Microsoft is buying Nokia’s cellphone handset business as part of a $7.2 billion deal, the two companies announced Monday. The acquisition represents an aggressive move by Microsoft to compete in the smart-devices market, as the company transforms itself into a devices-and-services business. “To...

Data Storage: Maintaining Privacy On the Cloud

02/09/2013 21:51
A data-sharing scheme utilizing an encryption manager shows the way towards low-cost, flexible and secure cloud storage services. Wider adoption of cloud storage services by organizations has been hindered by security and privacy issues. A consequence of storing data on the cloud is that, by its...

Optics: Nanotechnology's Benefits Brought Into Focus

02/09/2013 21:49
 Conventional lenses, made of shaped glass, are limited in how precisely they can redirect beams of incoming light and make them meet at a point. Now, a team led by Zhengtong Liu at the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore, has proposed a novel approach to 'superlens'...

NuSTAR Delivers the X-Ray Goods

02/09/2013 21:45
Sep. 2, 2013 — NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray images of the cosmos. The first batch of data from the black-hole hunting telescope was made publicly available Aug. 29, via NASA's High Energy...
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