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Light-Speed Computer Connection

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 - 18:23:34 - Anuradha Menon

Hot on the heels of a new supercomputer, plans for a new light-speed data line between the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Arizona...

New Firefox Minefield faster than Firefox 3

Saturday, October 25th, 2008 - 18:16:19 - Anuradha Menon

A colleague today showed me a cool, new browser that he's been using to browse the web at blisteringly fast speeds. The browser? Minefield. The...

Science Behind the Fastest Car of All Time

Friday, October 24th, 2008 - 14:05:01 - Anuradha Menon

When Andy Green puts his foot on the accelerator and tries to break the land speed record in 2011 he can be sure that some of the UK’s top scientists...

Broadband Speed Tests Questioned

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 - 12:08:50 - Ehud Rattner

Virgin Media has criticized some broadband speed tests, saying they rely on "dirty data". It said current tests were often inaccurate. It is...

The Fastest Bullet Train in Japan
Friday, October 10th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
Japanese company Kawasaki Heavy Industries recently announced the development of the country’s fastest high speed train...

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New Speed Record for Magnetic Memories

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 - 16:01:09 - Anuradha Menon

An experiment carried out at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has realized spin torque switching of a nanomagnet as fast as the...

Faster-Than-Light Information Transfer

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 - 20:15:53 - Ehud Rattner

Two photons can be connected in a way that seems to defy the very nature of space and time, yet still obeys the laws of quantum mechanics. Physicists...

Integrated Circuit Works Using New Excitons
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 - Anuradha Menon
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an experimental integrated circuit that works using...