Phoenix chip needs 30,000 times less power when in sleep mode than comparable chips

Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a new microchip that uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and ten times less power when working than other comparable chips on the market. Read more…

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A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The microorganism’s ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system. Read more…

Normally fragile and brittle silicon chips have been made to bend and fold, paving the way for a new generation of flexible electronic devices.

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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign build a new browser from scratch to help keep hackers at bay.

Convinced that all modern Web browsers suffer from "fundamental design flaws" that expose users to nonstop hacker attacks, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are building a new browser from scratch, with security as the killer feature.

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A tiny chemical “brain” which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented.

The molecular device - just two billionths of a metre across - was able to control eight of the microscopic machines simultaneously in a test.

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A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people’s clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry.

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Being detected while sailing in hostile enemy waters is never pleasant as British sailors discovered last year in Iran, and has always been somewhat of a problem for Navies the world over.

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An online tool has tipped up that allows Arabic speakers to write Arabic using the English alphabet.

Language Analytics LLC, said its Yamli.com enables Arabic speakers to more easily access the Interweb.

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It’s official, Creative Labs is joining the open specification/code bandwagon for the X-Fi series. Earlier this week we shared that through the Open Sound System there is now open-source support for the Sound Blaster X-Fi. The OSS sbxfi driver had contained three files that were copyrighted by Creative Labs and were labeled confidential. Inside of these files were code for the X-Fi PCI registers as well as functions for initializing these sound cards and other hardware-related tasks. We now know that 4Front Technologies hadn’t acquired this X-Fi code illegally or through some back-room maneuvering, but that Creative Labs is interacting with both the OSS and ALSA projects.

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