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Smiley emoticon turns 30 The computer symbol for "not serious" or now more generally "happiness", made up of a colon, dash and a right parenthesis, was born into existence on September 19, 1982, when it was posted on an online bulletin board by Carnegie Mellon computer scient...
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Close-up look at Nokia's new Windows phones Nokia has unveiled its first handsets powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system See more
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Astro-WISE Information System
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Title: Astro-WISE Information System Authors: Willem-Jan Vriend, Edwin A. Valentijn, Andrey Belikov, Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn Astro-WISE is a scientific information system for the data processing of optical images. In this paper we review main features of Astro-WISE and describe the current st...
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A second life in Africa On 30 August 2012, 220 computer servers from CERN, Switzerland, will start a journey to be delivered to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in Ghana, Africa. This will provide a new computing centre for KNUST and boost African physics onto the inte...
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Software Sustainability Institute
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National campaign launched to recruit Fellows to understand how software can help research The UK's Software Sustainability Institute is on the lookout for a team of researchers to take part in its new Fellows programme to develop a better understanding of the way that software is used in research...
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Graphics Processing Unit
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Title: A pilgrimage to gravity on GPUs Authors: Jeroen Bédorf, Simon Portegies Zwart In this short review we present the developments over the last 5 decades that have led to the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for astrophysical simulations. Since the introduction of NVIDIA's Compute Uni...
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Asia Submarine-cable Express
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Asia's fastest data cable links Tokyo to Singapore A new high-speed undersea data cable has opened to traffic in Asia. The 7,800km Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) connects Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. It transfers data via an optical fibre system at 40 gigabits per second,...
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Microsoft Surface
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Microsoft Surface is a planned series of tablet PCs designed and marketed by Microsoft. The Surface will be available in two versions, "Surface" and "Surface Pro". "Surface" will run the Windows RT operating system and use an ARM CPU. "Surface Pro" wi...
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IBM PC
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The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. Read more
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Commodore 64
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It's back... and better than ever! The new Commodore 64 is a modern functional PC as close to the original in design as humanly possible. It houses a modern mini-ITX PC motherboard which comes in two configurations. The C64x Ultimate (C64x-UL) has a Dual Core 525 Atom processor and the an nVidia ION2 g...
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Open Science Grid
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Collaborative computing, pioneered at UWMadison, helped drive LHC analysis When scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced the appearance of a new particle among the pieces of smashed protons, Miron Livny saw a huge scientific success. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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NASA Earth Exchange
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New NASA Supercomputer Facility Set to Advance Earth Research NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX). This new facility is a virtual...
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Power Supplies
After years of endless diatribes from tech sites of all stripes, it would seem that the Power Supply has finally begun to receive its proper due as a key core component to any computer system. With the dawn of the Dual Core, Dual Video Card (or quad even) CPU, users basically ha...
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Augmented Reality
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Augmented Astronomical Telescope
Andrei Lintu and Marcus Magnor, from the Max Plank Institute for Informatics in Saarbrucken, Germany, have created a tool to project a image upon another image seen through the eyepiece of a telescope.
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Amplifier
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Researchers Develop New Amplifier to Study the Universe Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, both in Pasadena, have developed a new type of amplifier for boosting electrical signals. The device can be used for everything from studying st...
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