Google Inc. announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc., and a new operating structure to increase management scale and focus on its consolidated businesses. Under the new operating…
Samsung introduces 3rd generation V-NAND flash memory
Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 256-gigabit (Gb), three-dimensional (3D) Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory based on 48 layers of 3-bit multi-level-cell (MLC) arrays for use…
MIT team creates a superfluid gas in a record-high magnetic field
MIT physicists have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field. The magnetic field is a synthetic magnetic field, generated using laser…
E-laughter research shows “how we laugh in Facebook?”
Several weeks ago, Sarah Larson from The New Yorker, published a fun article about e-laughter (all the hahas and lols we use to communicate with our friends online) and their social subtleties….
Eye tracking technology allows paralyzed people to communicate independently
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego are developing high-tech assistive technology to help individuals with disabilities. Using the most advanced ubiquitous computing technologies, the project will look into helping people…