The CSIRO is expected to this week announce the launch of a new supercomputer, which uses a cluster of GPUs (graphical processing units) to gain a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
IBM smartphone software translates 11 languages
Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.
Hosted as an internal IBM service since August 2008, n.Fluent offers a secure real-time translation tool that translates text in web pages, electronic documents, Sametime instant message chats, and provides a BlackBerry mobile translation application.
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Hosted as an internal IBM service since August 2008, n.Fluent offers a secure real-time translation tool that translates text in web pages, electronic documents, Sametime instant message chats, and provides a BlackBerry mobile translation application.
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Burned skin healed with human embryonic stem cells
A French study has shown that human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can be potentially used to produce skin grafts for people with large, serious burns.
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StratCom commander: New nukes needed
The military’s top officer in charge of nuclear weapons issued a warning Thursday about the state of the nation’s nuclear programs, saying that new nuclear weapons need to be developed and lamenting the declining numbers of nuclear experts and scientists.
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Employee Monitoring Software legally promotes productivity
The software provides Internet monitoring, computer activities and employee attendance monitoring without any spying functions, like, recording chats, emails content, screens or keystrokes.
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High-Tech Space Gloves Win NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge
Glove designers walked away with a total of $400,000 in prize money at NASA's second Astronaut Glove Challenge yesterday. The U.S. space agency awarded the money because the private glove designs beat the in-house version, and NASA may incorporate the designs into the Constellation spacesuit intended for next-gen astronauts returning to the moon.
Rat Brain Modelers Denounce IBM's Cat Brain Simulation as "Shameful and Unethical" Hoax
The Blue Brain project leader says that IBM's simulated brain does not even reach an ant's brain level.
IBM's claim of simulating a cat cortex generated quite a buzz last week, but now the head researcher from the Blue Brain project, a team whoworking to simulate their own animal brain (a rat's), has gone incandescent with fury over the what he calls the "mass deception of the public."
IBM's claim of simulating a cat cortex generated quite a buzz last week, but now the head researcher from the Blue Brain project, a team whoworking to simulate their own animal brain (a rat's), has gone incandescent with fury over the what he calls the "mass deception of the public."
First Gallium-Based FinFETs
Purdue researchers take compound semiconductors into the third dimension.
Silicon researchers envision that future generations of transistors will evolve from the flat structures they are now to three-dimensional devices called FinFETs, where two or more narrow fins are the critical features.
China Stealth -- Maybe, Maybe Not
By means fair and foul, China has assembled the technical know-how to build a more advanced fighter. Its latest indigenous design is the J-10 which went into service in 2007, but military and industrial leaders say they will field a stealthy, supercruise aircraft in 8-10 years.
Supercomputing for the Masses
The price of supercomputers is dropping quickly, in part because they are often built with the same off-the-shelf parts found in PCs, as a supercomputing conference here last week made clear. Just about any organization with a few million dollars can now buy or assemble a top-flight machine.
Big Bang Atom Smasher Sends Beams in 2 Directions
The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said.
Intelligence Ops Greatest Chinese Threat to U.S.
With new submarines, destroyers and mine warfare ships, China's Navy is clearly benefiting from modernization financed by the nation's rapidly growing economy, a new report tells U.S. lawmakers.
But a more shadowy Chinese force probably poses a greater immediate threat to the United States - that is, China's secretive army of intelligence collectors and cyber warriors, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Iranian Air Defense Exercises to Start Nov. 22
Iranian air defense forces will conduct five days of maneuvers involving simulated attacks on the country's nuclear sites, a senior air defense commander said Nov. 21.
"From [Nov. 22] we will start a big aerial defense maneuver that will last for five days ... covering an area of some 600,000 square kilometers in north, southwestern Iran and parts of south and central Iran.
"From [Nov. 22] we will start a big aerial defense maneuver that will last for five days ... covering an area of some 600,000 square kilometers in north, southwestern Iran and parts of south and central Iran.
Britain Orders Dragon Runner Robots for the Troops
KinetiQ North America subsidiary Automatika recently announced a GBP 12 million (about $20 million) urgent operational contract from the UK’s Ministry of Defence to supply almost 100 of its small Automatika Dragon Runner robots, associated spares and technical services, for use in Afghanistan.
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