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Intel debuts 48-core processor that could reshape how PCs are built - Dec 3, 2009

Crave Each node on the SCC chip includes two x86 cores with its own memory cache. Pushing several steps farther in the multicore direction, Intel on Wednesday demonstrated a fully programmable ... Read story »

Research: Predictive texting makes kids less thoughtful - Aug 12, 2009

Crave Onscreen QWERTY keyboard on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Scientists--what would we do without them?--reckon that predictive texting teaches children to act first and think later. New research suggests that increased use ... Read story »

People still spend 12 hours per week on the Internet - Jul 29, 2009

Crave The amount of time people spend online has not increased since last year, according to a report released by Forrester on Monday. Perhaps more interesting, however, is the reason for ... Read story »

Scientists use virus to help build battery - Apr 7, 2009

Crave Angela Belcher, an MIT professor, holds a display of the battery she helped build via a genetically modified M13 virus. The battery (the silver-colored disc) is being used to power a ... Read story »

Study reveals that Google is actually good for your brain - Oct 15, 2008

Crave We know Google is going to take over the world one day (note how we write it as a matter of when, not how). And the fact that it gives ... Read story »

Singapore research breakthrough to usher in low-cost solar cells? - May 2, 2008

Blogs Against a background of ever-rising oil prices, a research from Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) looks set to make waves by reducing the cost of solar cells? ... Read story »

Mobile number portability still on track for Q2 launch - Mar 3, 2008

Crave Over dinner recently, my friend was ranting about her angst with a local mobile telco provider and, in the end, she decided to jump ship to its competitor. After the new ... Read story »

New computer interface: Blow on the screen - Nov 15, 2007

Crave Perhaps huffing at your computer might get you somewhere if research at the Georgia Institute of Technology comes to fruition. Shwetak Patel and Gregory Abowd from Georgia Tech have published a ... Read story »

Researchers focus on electronic eye camera - Aug 13, 2008

Crave Click on the above image to see how the 256-pixel electronic eye camera will work. Researchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have created a camera with a layout ... Read story »

Rehashing the spiral light over Norway incident - Dec 10, 2009

Blogs There was a spiral light over Norway in the morning local time, yeah, it's a dark place. If this did not kindle hopes of a Stargate opening over northern Europe in ... Read story »

US Air Force enlists 2,200 PS3 for their Cell processors - Nov 24, 2009

Crave Engineers outside of the game industry continue to find uses for the powerful Cell processors housed within Sony's PlayStation 3. Last week, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center ... Read story »

Sneak Peek: BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac - Jul 24, 2009

Features Research in Motion has announced that it will make its BlackBerry Desktop Manager available for Mac. We have a look at what it is offers. Read story »

For teens, the future is mobile - Sep 2, 2008

Crave Marketers recently convened to figure out how best to reach teens on the Internet. The answer: It's all about the mobile phone. Advertisers are clamoring to reach teens in digital environments ... Read story »

Images and video of BlackBerry Bold 9700 spotted - Oct 6, 2009

Crave The release of Research in Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9700 is imminent, and business users everywhere are waiting for the device, which sports a leatherette trim, a trackpad instead of a rollerball, ... Read story »

First glimpse of iRobot's putty-like ChemBot - Oct 15, 2009

Crave For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBot we first told you about ... Read story »

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