New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency by 50%
A startup company based in Vancouver has developed a new kind of generator that could harvest much more energy from the wind. The design could not on read more
Video: Chevy Volt Takes Charge In New York City
Check out the engineering behind Chevy Volt. Seems like a neat car. read more
NVIDIA Announces Tesla Personal Supercomputer
NVIDIA and its worldwide partners today announced the availability of the GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which delivers the equivalent compu read more
Top 500 Supercomputer List
The new Top 500 Supercomputer list is out. The top two both break the Petaflops barrier: LANL's IBM "RoadRunner" and ORNL's Cray XT5 "Jaguar. read more
USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase
Tighten your seat belts. Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfol read more
AMD jumps into the netbook fray
AMD announced that it was developing processors for netbooks, aiming to supplant Intel's dominance in the space. read more
DNA strands prove effective as fiber optic conduits
Bo Albinsson and his team at Chalmers University of Technology (CUT) have demonstrated that self-assembling strands of DNA can be used as nanoscale f read more
A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea
Mr. Wallach thinks he has come upon a new idea in computer design in an era when it has become fashionable to say that there are no new ideas. So far read more
Apple's Core Could Soon Include In-House Chips
Recent moves by Apple suggest that the phone and computer manufacturer wants to reduce its dependence on Intel by branching out into a new market: ch read more
Dell offering White Spaces connectivity with future Laptops
Dell said it will be adding a new option for wireless connectivity in future laptops. The company plans to install radio chips that will be capable o read more
Wireless USB startup WiQuest officially closed
WiQuest Communications Inc. officially closed its doors today, the first of perhaps several casualties to fall among ultrawideband chip designers. Th read more
Plastic wires rival copper at 20 percent the weight
ElectriPlast conductive polymer enables wiring that is 80 percent lighter than copper and yet has the same conductivity, according to its inventors I read more
Nehalem - Intel's new Core i7 gives them a big new lead
Intel took the embargo off its latest Core architecture revision, Nehalem (pronounced Nuh hay lem). The reviews are in and Core i7 is a force to be r read more
First chip to bring 10Gbit Ethernet over copper to server motherboards
Two chip makers have teamed up to create what they claim is the first chip to bring 10 Gbit Ethernet over copper to server motherboards. Mellanox Tec read more
The future of wireless
Here's a solution that might bring software-defined radio to a handheld consumer device near you. read more
Wirelessly, Home Security Becomes a D.I.Y. Project
The NYTimes reports that pre-wired home security installations by alarm companies are on the way out. Thanks to wireless window and door sensors and read more
HDMI gets nod as interface for 3DTV
The Consumer Electronics Association has started standards work aimed at enabling home systems to play stereoscopic 3-D video. The group's first step read more
Silicon fiber optics debut
By inserting crystalline silicon into the core of conventional optical fibers, Clemson University researchers hope to harness the embedded semiconduc read more
Sony Patents Break-Apart Reconfigurable Controller
This new controller isn't just another revision of the Sixaxis; rather, it looks like a complete overhaul of the form and function of the device, res read more