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Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier

Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier

Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego, have recently reported setting a world-record, by sorting huge amounts of data in minimal time. This record might have significant impact on various industries that rely on data management, since the ...

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A CPU that Stores Data

A CPU that Stores Data

Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated for the first time the concept of a vital magnetic characteristic of specifically fabricated semiconductor devices. The team hopes that this breakthrough could lead to smaller and faster ...

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High-Speed Internet in…Trains

High-Speed Internet in…Trains

Scientists from the University of York in England are taking mobile entertainment to the next level with a new technology, designed to significantly broaden the range of services currently available to train passengers worldwide. The researchers, from the Department of ...

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USB 3.0 Unleashed – First Products – 2010

USB 3.0 Unleashed – First Products – 2010

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group released the USB 3.0 specifications at the first SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference in San Jose, California, held on on Monday, November 17th. The completion of the specification, the technical map for USB 3.0 – also ...

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25GB in 70 seconds with USB 3.0

25GB in 70 seconds with USB 3.0

At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2008, USB-IF President, Jeff Ravencraft revealed that the new specifications for USB 3.0 would be fully released on November 17 at the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference in San Jose. The USB 3.0 architecture ...

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Touch Me to Transfer Data

Touch Me to Transfer Data

A group of technology companies have joined forces in developing a new method for rapid data transfer between devices, called TransferJet. The new ‘close proximity wireless transfer’ technology automatically initiates the transfer of files such as high resolution videos, music, ...

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Micro Phased Array for Rapid Data Transfer

Micro Phased Array for Rapid Data Transfer

Electrical engineers at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have developed the world’s most complex “phased array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), this device is expected to find ...

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Improving Optical Fiber Accuracy

Improving Optical Fiber Accuracy

A team of scientists from the Material Research Institute (MRI) at Pennsylvania State University have developed a device that efficiently makes laser-to-fiber and fiber-to-fiber connections within optical fiber packages. Their invention, which offers a new economically viable method for aligning ...

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Laser Hard Drives on the Horizon

Researchers from the Netherlands and Japan have succeeded in flipping the value of a magnetic memory bit without any external magnetic field interference. Instead, they flashed a very short pulse of circularly-polarized laser light at it. This method is about ...

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