- Astrophysicists Test Cosmological Defect Detector
Astrophysicists have built and tested the building blocks of a global detector capable of spotting topological defects in the cosmos as the Earth passes through them
- Qualcomm Wants to Be Famous
Qualcomm is already worth more than Intel. Now the chip maker wants everyone to know it.
Qualcomm sells chips that go inside TVs, BMW dashboards, game consoles, and, most important, one-third of smartphones sold. It did $19 billion in business last year, and its stock market value has surpassed that of rival Intel.
- The Perfect Parking Garage: No Drivers Required
With security, reliability, and legal issues yet to be resolved, the first self-driving vehicles will perform only specific tasks.
Drivers who use a parking garage in Ingolstadt, Germany, could be forgiven for thinking they’ve died and gone to commuter heaven. They can pull up outside, step out of their car, and let it drive into the garage to find a parking spot for itself. Later, they simply press a button on a smartphone app and their car will obediently return to the garage entrance.
- Why IBM Made a Liquid Transistor
IBM materials advance shows another promising path to replace the foundation of today’s computing technologies.
Researchers at IBM last week unveiled an experimental new way to store information or control the switching of an electronic circuit.
- How Access to Location Data Could Trample Your Privacy
The smartphone revolution will include unprecedented surveillance by companies hoping to make money from user data.
In addition to making it easier to stay connected, the smartphone boom seems likely to bring with it another, less welcome, result: unprecedented surveillance by companies hoping to make money off of your whereabouts and behavior.
- Amazon’s Remote Processing Vision
An Amazonian future of many screens and few processors.
A patent application envisioning a new future for computing has recently come to light, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is one of the applicants. The patent envisions “a remote display system including a portable display that wirelessly receives data and power from a primary station.” Basically, the idea would be for computing systems wherein most of the processing is done on a base station, and the environment around the base station is populated with numerous “dumb” terminals. This could lead to tablets that are very lightweight, according to the patent application (which is just that–a patent application–and should be taken with a grain of salt).
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