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All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=57958Anything related to new tech...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5795838013210FUBHOGoogle and NASA Launch Quantum Computing AI Lab The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab will use the most advanced commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave Two. technologyreview.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288984125/16/2013 1:44:47 PMFUBHOGovernment Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers technologyreview.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288815405/8/2013 1:18:58 AMFUBHOMemory Implants A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories. Excerpt: technologyreview.com  Next, to assess whether such a chip could serve as a prosthesis for a damage hippocampal region, the researchers investigated whether they could bypass a central...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288663304/30/2013 11:20:38 AMFUBHOStanford Researchers Build Complex Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes A simple sensor circuit made of hard-to-handle but promising carbon nanotubes is a first step in making the materials practical for computing. By Katherine Bourzac on February 27, 2013 WHY IT MATTERS Carbon nanotubes could help make computers ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287526792/28/2013 4:21:01 PMFUBHOResearchers create CMOS-compatible, 30nm programmable graphene transistor By Sebastian Anthony on February 26, 2013 at 8:36 am 7 Comments [graphic] Electronic engineers at Japan’s GNC and AIST research centers have successfully created graphene transistors that are constructed and operated in a way that redefines ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287504162/27/2013 6:32:37 PMFUBHOThe nuclear reactor in your basement climate.nasa.gov  February 13, 2013 By Bob Silberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory How would you like to replace your water heater with a nuclear reactor? That’s what Joseph Zawodny, a senior scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, hopes to help bring about. It would tap t...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287291622/15/2013 7:03:13 PMFUBHO A fiber-optic method of arresting epileptic seizuresFebruary 5, 2013 [+][graphic] UC Irvineneuroscientists have developed a way to stop epileptic seizures with fiber-optic light signals, heralding a novel opportunity to treat the most severe manifestations of the brain disorder. Using a mouse model of temporal l...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287080422/5/2013 2:07:17 PMFUBHO Defect-free graphene discovery could led to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices New method could open the way to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices with applications in fields such as electronics, energy, and healthcare February 5, 2013 [+][graphic] A team led by Oxford University sc...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287080372/5/2013 2:06:47 PMFUBHOODMs reportedly to receive storage product orders from Facebook Aaron Lee, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 2 January 2013] Facebook reportedly plans to outsource new storage product orders to Taiwan-based ODMs with both Quanta Computer and Wistron having a chance to land the orders, according to sources fro...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=286400151/2/2013 11:00:34 PMFUBHO December 12, 2012 Programming the Xeon Phi Michael Feldman Want to be the first one on your block to have a program running on Intel's new Xeon Phi coprocessor. There's a good in-depth article and how to go about this over at Dr. Dobb's Journal. Author Rob Farber goes through the different programming models av...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2863127612/28/2012 11:12:47 PMFUBHOScientists Probe Possibility That We Are Living In A Computer-Simulated Universe By Gene Ryan Briones on 12/11/2012 07:54 PST Scientists from the University of Washington are exploring the possibility that our world, and the vast universe, is merely a simulation made by some supercomputers of the future. Interestingl...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2860099912/13/2012 7:31:50 AMFUBHOHouse approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands December 6, 2012 [graphic](Credit: ITU) The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a Senate resolution introduced by Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that calls on the U.S. government to oppose United Nations control of the In...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2858968212/6/2012 9:55:42 PMFUBHOIBM simulates 530 billon neurons, 100 trillion synapses on supercomputerNovember 19, 2012 [graphic]A network of neurosynaptic cores derived from long-distance wiring in the monkey brain: Neuro-synaptic cores are locally clustered into brain-inspired regions, and each core is represented as an individual point along t...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2855881211/19/2012 9:06:29 PMFUBHOGoogle Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700MbpsStartup founder: "It’s unbelievable. I’m probably not going to leave the house." by Cyrus Farivar - Nov 13 2012, 7:35pm CST STARTUPS146 [graphic] Mike Demarais posted this to Twitter during the first few minutes that Google Fiber went live in his Kan...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2854802511/14/2012 3:55:29 PMFUBHO Preserving the self for later emulation: what brain features do we need? October 30, 2012 by John Smart [graphic](Credit: iStockphoto) Let me propose to you four interesting statements about the future: 1. As I argue in this video, chemical brain preservation is a technology that may soon be validated to inexp...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2853678711/9/2012 2:16:32 PMFUBHONetflix may have had a tough time with investors, but it’s still a big hit with consumers, with none of its competitors even coming close to it in terms of usage: That’s one of the key take-aways of Sandvine’s new Global Internet Phenomena Report, which points out that Netflix now accounts for 33 percent of peak resid...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2852990211/7/2012 12:22:12 PMFUBHORapture of the nerds: will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race? A gathering of experts on artificial intelligence becomes a search for deeper meaning By Ben Popper on October 22, 2012 11:00 am Hundreds of the world’s brightest minds — engineers from Google and IBM, hedge funds quants, and Defen...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2849046010/22/2012 1:29:04 PMFUBHOFor the past year, we've been following the story of the Chinese developer BSB, who is planning to build the world's tallest skyscraper -- the entirely prefabricated 220-story building is set to break ground next month, and the building is expected to take just 210 days to build.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2848875310/21/2012 2:33:17 PMFUBHODeep Inside Intel semimd.com  By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down with Mark Bohr, senior fellow at Intel, to talk about a wide range of manufacturing and design issues Intel is wrestling with at advanced nodes—and just how far the road map now extends. SMD: Will EUV make 10nm? And if it ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2848410310/19/2012 1:09:45 AMFUBHOWorld's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules Controversial US businessman's iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions • What is geoengineering? • Canadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific' Martin Lukacs guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 201...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2848201710/18/2012 11:59:43 AMFUBHOThe race to bring quantum teleportation to your world There's an international quantum teleportation space race heating up October 5, 2012 [+][graphic]Schematic of quantum teleportation beaming particles from a satellite to two ground stations (credit: IQOQI Vienna) Around the world, countries are investing time an...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2845879110/7/2012 3:25:06 PMFUBHOSelf-driving cars a reality for 'ordinary people' within 5 years, says Google's Sergey Brin Everyday folk will have access to cars that drive themselves within five years, the Google executive predicted By James Niccolai September 25, 2012 06:56 PM ET computerworld.com  IDG News Service - Google is known for sett...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284340629/26/2012 4:51:23 AMFUBHO'Google on steroids': Scientists create chemical brain August 22, 2012 Northwestern University scientists have connected 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into one giant computer network -- a chemical Google on steroids. This "immortal chemist" will never retire and take away its knowledge but instead will ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283550868/23/2012 7:38:16 AMFUBHOWhat Comes After FinFETs? semimd.com  By Mark LaPedus The semiconductor industry is currently making a major transition from conventional planar transistors to finFETs starting at 22nm. The question is what’s next? In the lab, IBM, Intel and others have demonstrated the ability to scale finFETs down to 5nm or so. If ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283418378/16/2012 9:43:50 PMFUBHOImaging global brain connectivity can predict how intelligent you are 'Global brain connectivity' with a part of the left lateral prefrontal cortex explains 10 percent of variance in individual intelligence August 2, 2012 [+][graphic]New research suggests as much as 10 percent of individual variances in human intelli...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283096088/2/2012 10:48:43 AMFUBHOEUV Remains Elusive By David Lammers semimd.com  Intel’s decision to invest as much as $4.1 billion in ASML has raised overall confidence levels in EUV lithography, and should allow the Dutch lithography vendor to funnel more funds into the stubbornly difficult effort to raise the EUV source power. ASML has said i...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283087488/1/2012 9:46:21 PMFUBHODSA Moves To R&D Pilot Lines semimd.com  By Mark LaPedus Directed self-assembly ( DSA), an alternative lithography technology that makes use of block copolymers, is still in the R&D stage for semiconductor production. But as the exotic patterning technology continues to make astounding progress, there are signs...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283049227/31/2012 1:57:28 PMFUBHOThe strange neuroscience of immortality July 30, 2012 http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-strange-neuroscience-of-immortality Neuroscientist Kenneth Hayworth believes that he can live forever, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. But first he has to die. “The human race is on a beeline to mind uploading: We will pr...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283033087/30/2012 9:52:34 PMFUBHOHP Memristors Will Reinvent Computer Memory ‘by 2014' By Caleb GarlingEmail Author July 11, 2012 | 12:04 pm [graphic]By the end of 2012, HP may introduce a new breed of electrical building-block: the memristor. Image: Luke Kilpatrick/Flickr HP is two and half years away from offering hardware that stores ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282677207/15/2012 8:34:34 AMFUBHOHP estimates it will have a 'technologically viable' memristor by 2014 By Evan Rodgers on July 11, 2012 08:29 pm http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/11/3152038/hp-kavli-foundation-memristor-2014 HP originally claimed that it would be shipping memristor products by 2013, but a recent presentation by Stan Williams ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282630337/12/2012 6:15:34 PMFUBHOHOW ATOMIC SCALE DEVICES ARE TRANSFORMING ELECTRONICS After more than a decade of research advances, we are learning to measure and manipulate matter to create fundamentally different electronic devices. Three experts discuss what makes those devices unique, how nanotechnology is likely to affect computing, and wheth...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282494717/6/2012 9:02:47 AMFUBHOhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282429807/2/2012 9:51:08 PMFUBHO Hewlett Packard Envisions Memristor-Based Mobile Devices in 2014 - 2015.HP's Smartphone/Tablet Vision for 2015: Unbreakable Display, Memristor Storage, Cloud-Powered [05/30/2012 11:20 PM] by Anton Shilov Hewlett Packard invented memristor technology in 2008 and then (in 2010) announced plans to manufacture ReRAM bas...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282018996/12/2012 10:45:41 AMFUBHO The Soar Cognitive ArchitectureJune 6, 2012 Author:John E. LairdPublished:MIT Press, 2012 [+][graphic]In development for thirty years, Soar is a general cognitive architecture that integrates knowledge-intensive reasoning, reactive execution, hierarchical reasoning, planning, and learning from experience, with the g...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=281908146/6/2012 12:04:17 PMFUBHO Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping projectJune 1, 2012 [+][graphic]Projections from a motor cortex AAV injection (credit: CSHL) Neuroscientists at at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reached an important milestone today, publicly releasing the first installment of data from ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=281865126/4/2012 12:50:37 PMFUBHO Samsung researchers propose graphene 'barristor' eetimes.com  Peter Clarke5/18/2012 9:01 AM EDT LONDON – A research team from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Yongin, Korea) has proposed a novel three-terminal device that could overcome previous problems integrating graphene into circuits. The term bar...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=281540235/18/2012 10:32:42 AMFUBHO Status Quo for ReRAM • In-depth understanding of resisKve switching mechanism, formaKon energy for nano-conducKve ?lament: Good progress made • On-state and o?-state conducKon mechanisms: Progress for on-state, but s*ll a lot of room for o?-state • E?ects of electrode and addiKonal element doping: ac*ve electro...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=281028564/24/2012 3:29:25 PMFUBHO Boron-treated carbon nanotubes soak up oil from water repeatedly April 17, 2012 [+][graphic] This carbon nanotube sponge created at Rice University can hold more than 100 times its weight in oil. Oil can be squeezed out or burned off, and the sponge reused. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) Researchers a...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=280872404/17/2012 12:43:06 PMFUBHOPanel ponders many-core ICs tripping 'the singularity' Peter Clarke 3/28/2012 12:09 PM EDT SAN JOSE, Calif. – Will the rapidly increasing processing power being enabled by many-core processors cause the advent of machines with super-human intelligence, an event sometimes referred to as the singularity? That was t...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=280436423/28/2012 6:24:56 PMBrian SullivanAmazon.com to Acquire Kiva Systems, Inc. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Kiva Systems, Inc., a leading innovator of material handling technology. Amazon has long used automation in its fulfillment centers, and Kivas technology is anothe...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=280227363/19/2012 5:37:42 PMFUBHOChip Makers Mull Plans to Insert DSA at 14nm By Mark LaPedus and David Lammers semimd.com  Faced with the dreaded multi-patterning era and delays with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, chip makers are taking a harder look at a technology that could save the day for the industry: directed self-assembly (DSA). In...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=280222633/19/2012 2:25:10 PMGlenn PetersenFor iRobot, the Future Is Getting Closer By CHRISTOPHER DREW Neew York Times Published: March 2, 2012 [graphic] iRobot The iRobot 310 SUGV can gather information in dangerous conditions and lift up to 15 pounds __________ BEDFORD, Mass. — Ever since Rosey the Robot took care of “The Jetsons” in the early 1960s...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279870083/3/2012 4:45:27 AMFUBHOOxford Nanopore unveils mini-DNA reader By Clive Cookson, Science Editor February 17, 2012 5:09 pm A young British company has made a powerful entry into one of the fastest-moving and most competitive fields of technology – gene sequencing for science and medicine. Oxford Nanopore, set up in 2005, unveiled on Fri...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279565452/17/2012 5:16:52 PMFUBHOA mazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011 By Marshall Kirkpatrick posted by Glenn Peterson ReadWrite Cloud January 30, 2012 9:00 PM Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year. "As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279188111/31/2012 6:09:30 PMFUBHODavos wowed by device that reads 'code of life' in hours January 29, 2012 by Dave Clark medicalxpress.com  lifetechnologies.com  invitrogen.com  A miracle machine that cracks the code of life within hours and could revolutionise healthcare was the talk of Davos, grabbing the imagination of a forum otherwise shrouded...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279139991/29/2012 6:35:08 PMFUBHOReRAM Gains Momentum in ‘Universal Memory’ Race By Mark LaPedus, SemiMD senior editor Resistive RAMs (ReRAMs) are one of several next-generation candidates to succeed NAND flash or other memory type, but there are material, production and cost issues associated with the technology. Elpida, Hynix, IMEC, Micron, Panas...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2781383712/8/2011 8:19:21 PMFUBHOIBM’s 3 big chip breakthroughs explained By Stacey Higginbotham Dec. 5, 2011, 10:32am PT No Comments inShare34 [graphic]IBM has made three breakthroughs that could help chips continue following Moore’s Law. Monday at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM showed off the first racetrack memory dev...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2780720812/6/2011 10:15:41 AMFUBHOTSMC seeing tight capacity for 28nm processes Cage Chao, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Friday 25 November 2011][graphic] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) continues to see orders heat up for advanced 28nm technology, despite a general slowdown in the semiconductor industry, according to industry sour...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2778594611/25/2011 12:44:24 AMFUBHOThe end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/11/the-end-of-an-era-internet-explorer-drops-below-50-percent-of-web-usage.ars By Peter Bright | Published about 11 hours ago [graphic] A couple of interesting things happened in the world of Web browser usa...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2774279511/2/2011 8:06:13 PMFUBHO Micron / Samsung TSV stacked memory collaboration: a closer look Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology have created an industry group to collaborate on the implementation of an open interface specification for a new memory technology called the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC). [graphic] More infomation on the Hyb...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2774072411/1/2011 10:40:21 PM