Stories about: Rice University

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    Space elevator enthusiasts face unanswered questions 13/08/2011 05:21:26

    Might solar energy provide the power needed to send cars up a space elevator? Could you build one fat elevator and split it into two? Can as many as six cars travel up and down a space elevator?
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    Future smartphones: How they will look, what they will do 12/08/2011 00:24:00

    As you're reading this article, developers, engineers, and product designers are working on the next great mobile technology. The mobile world is rapidly changing: Smartphones have gone from portable messaging and email devices to streaming-video machines that surf the Web at blazing speed and have cameras that rival point-and-shoots (and they also happen to make calls). What will smartphones look like in five years? Or ten? What sort of amazing things will they be able to do?
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    Super Wi-Fi has 100km range, is coming to save the day 29/07/2011 07:14:00

    Super Wi-Fi is inching closer to reality, and now the IEEE, the standards organization responsible for all things Wi-Fi, has published the IEEE 802.22 standard.
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    What a cyberwar with China might look like 31/03/2011 21:06:00

    It's August 2020. A powerful and rising China wants to bring the city-state of Singapore into its fold as it has with Hong Kong, Macau and Taipei.
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    Remote-controlled nanoparticles target cancer 18/03/2011 08:00:00

    Researchers at a Canadian university are using nanotechnology and a tiny remote-controlled magnetic sphere to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly to where they need to go.
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    Researchers one step closer to 'bootless' computer 18/10/2010 21:14:00

    Physicists at the University of California at Riverside have made a breakthrough in developing a "spin computer," which would combine logic with nonvolatile memory, bypassing the need for computers to boot up.
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    Nanotech, off-the-shelf lets doctors camera see cancer cells 26/06/2010 04:04:00

    Researchers have added nanoechnology to an off-the-shelf digital camera to help doctors distinguish healthy cells from cancerous cells in the human body.
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    Hollywood's secret celebrity geeks and closet nerds 17/03/2010 15:33:00

    We at Computerworld would be the last to say that science and technology aren't creative pursuits. Still, when most people say, "Oh, she's very creative," they're probably not talking about the subject's ability to perform higher math or engineer a network. Such people might be amazed to learn of the remarkable number of actors, directors, musicians and other celebrities who nurture an inner geek.
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    IBM launches eight-core Power7 processor, servers 09/02/2010 07:43:00

    IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time.
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    Virginia man gets prison time for online threats 02/10/2009 07:24:00

    An Oakwood, Virginia, man who used a social-networking Web site to make threats of school shootings throughout the country has been sentenced to four years in a federal prison.
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    Fast chip runs on fumes 10/02/2009 08:44:00

    Mobile computing devices that need charging once a day would need it just once a month with a new type of chip that uses a thirtieth of the power of conventional chips and is seven times faster by virtue of underlying logic that embraces error in its calculations.
 
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