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23 hours ago | News
According
to recent data released by Google, the search engine giant has logged
more than 2.5 million requests in the last 11 months to remove links
believed to be violating Microsoft’s copyrights. This exceeded the
number of complaints about material produced by entertainment companies
pushing for tougher online piracy laws.
May 25 | News
As malware threats expand into new domains and increasingly focus on industrial espionage, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are launching a new weapon to help battle the threats: A malware intelligence system that will help corporate and government security officials share information about the attacks they are fighting.
May 23 | News
Some
37 cameras shot 132 musicians running through the score of Gustav
Holst's "The Planets” on the specially-blacked out stage at Watford
Colosseum, just outside London, early this year. That footage has been
used by a London museum to put the conductor's baton in visitors' hands,
allowing guests to direct a virtual orchestra using 3D motion sensors.
May 23 | News
New research from North
Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven "tumbleweed" Mars
rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain—findings
that could also help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA)
design the best possible vehicle.
May 23 | News
Ion bombardment of metal surfaces is an important, but poorly understood, nanomanufacturing technique. New research using sophisticated supercomputer simulations has shown what goes on in trillionths of a second. The advance could lead to better ways to predict the phenomenon and more uses of the technique to make new nanoscale products.
May 22 | News
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers will present a new mathematical framework that allows computer scientists to reason rigorously about sloppy computation. The framework can provide mathematical guarantees that if a computer program behaves as intended, so will a fast-but-inaccurate modification of it.
May 21 | News
Multiphysics,
COMSOL’s software environment for modeling and simulating any
physics-based system, recently received a major update. New capabilities
in version 4.3 include three new discipline-specific add-on modules,
fast and powerful meshing, a new "Double Dogleg" solver for mechanical
contact and highly nonlinear simulations, and numerous user-inspired
enhancements.
May 21 | News
Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. The new method, called Kaleidogami, uses computational algorithms and tools to create precisely folded structures.
May 18 | News
With
the advent of the solid-state transistor and semi-conductor-based flat
panel display technology, the vacuum tube has virtually disappeared from
consumer electronics. But a team of researchers in Korea and at NASA’s
Ames Research Center have combined the best traits of both technologies
to create a vacuum channel transistor just 150 nm long.
May 18 | News
The
search engine giant has spent the past two years poring through online
encyclopedia Wikipedia, the CIA Factbook and other sources to expand a
database of 12 million items that it picked up as part of its 2010
acquisition of Metaweb. On Wednesday it used this massive database to
launch a new feature that provides a summary of vital information
alongside main search results.
