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Article | 12/03/2013 Curiosity finds Mars could have supported life
Rock samples analyzed by NASA's Curiosity rover have shown conditions that could have supported ancient life on Mars.
Article | 12/03/2013 Heat Meter measures energy use in real time
A new, Wi-Fi connected device called the Heat Meter allows homeowners to track propane, natural gas or oil use in real time and compare their home's e...
Article | 8/03/2013 NIST, Stanford team to rescue early Tetris from digital oblivion
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University have partnered to save for posterity over 15,000 software programs c...
Article | 8/03/2013 Toothpaste inspires better solar panels, batteries at PARC
They say inspiration can come from the most unlikely places. For a scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, the Xerox-owned lab in Silicon Valley b...
Article | 28/02/2013 EU to coordinate space-debris tracking to protect its satellites
The European Commission on Thursday set out new plans to better coordinate the surveillance and tracking of space debris in order to protect satellite...
Article | 15/02/2013 Russian dashboard cameras, YouTube beam meteor explosion worldwide
As jumbled news reports of what appeared to be a meteor shower over Russia trickled out of the country, some of the best views of what happened were f...
Article | 13/02/2013 Tokyo subways to test how mobile content affects passengers
Tokyo's subways will soon offer a new mobile app with free Wi-Fi access, then track if the information it provides changes passenger habits.
Article | 12/02/2013 Japanese ad platform mixes image recognition, GPS, time data
One of Japan's largest ad agencies will soon launch a new ad platform that mixes image recognition software with GPS and time data from smartphones to...
Article | 4/02/2013 Panasonic doubles color sensitivity of digital camera sensors
Panasonic has developed a new way to drastically increase the color and light sensitivity of digital cameras including those used in smartphones.
Article | 23/01/2013 New molecules could bring super-dense, solid-state hard disk alternatives
A recent breakthrough in storage research may someday produce a new type of solid-state device that can be used like a hard disk drive and holds 1,000...
Article | 10/01/2013 IBM top patent producer 20 years running
IBM has always been bullish on patents and 2012 proved to be no exception. IBM once again amassed more patents than any other company in a single year...
Article | 19/12/2012 MIT research shows new magnetic state that could aid quantum computing
Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into futu...
Article | 15/12/2012 Ray Kurzweil joining Google
Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google.
Article | 14/12/2012 Fujitsu uses virtual shoppers to shorten cash register wait times
Tired of always picking the slowest checkout line at the supermarket?
Article | 10/12/2012 IBM advances silicon nanophotonics
IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which c...