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News Qualcomm Launches Technology Innovation with Advancements in the Always Connected PC and its Next-Generation Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platform
“Today at its second annual Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), made several customer, ecosystem and technology announcements aimed to deliver significant advancements and innovation in mobile and Always Connected PC technologies. Cristiano …
News Samsung Starts Producing First 512-Gigabyte Universal Flash Storage for Next-Generation Mobile Devices
“Setting a new threshold for mobile storage to handle ever-increasing amounts of multimedia content Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass production of the industry’s first 512-gigabyte (GB) embedded Universal …
“Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have developed germanium nanoparticles with improved photoluminescence, making them potentially better materials for solar cells and imaging probes. The research team found that by adding tin to the nanoparticle …
“Novel defect control in graphene enables direct imaging of trapped electrons that follow Einstein’s rules. The Science Imaging electrons can help scientists better understand exotic electronic states, such as electricity that travels through wires without loss. The team created …
““Two-dimensional materials” — materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick — are promising for both high-performance electronics and flexible, transparent electronics that could be layered onto physical surfaces to make computing ubiquitous. The best-known 2-D material is graphene …
“By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics. Light is desirable for use in computing because it can carry a higher density of …
“FAU researchers are participating in a project aimed at making the supply of renewable electricity more stable Grid operators need to do more than simply distribute the electricity generated by wind farms and photovoltaic plants. They also have to ensure …
“Computer scientists are to explore how children can stay safe and retain their privacy as they engage with the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT). Concerns about levels of computing literacy among young people, and the demands of future economies, has led …
“A long-standing challenge in physics has been finding evidence for dark matter, the stuff presumed to make up a substantial chunk of the mass of the universe. Its existence seems to be responsible for the structure of the universe and …
“A team of researchers led by Hideo Hosono at Tokyo Tech has shown that terahertz rays can be converted to light visible to the human eye. The finding is a breakthrough for functional materials research and could lead to the …