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Blogpost by Brian – June 30, 2010 at 5:06 PM : Greenpeace blog. I don’t know about you, but the leaders I want to follow aren’t the ones who say it’s too hard to break the world’s addiction to dirty energy. The politicians I want to elect aren’t bought off by oil lobbyists. The [...] The more mysteries that scientists unlock, the more opportunities emerge for the next generation of researchers to transform newfound knowledge into tomorrow’s breakthroughs that serve society. The Lemelson–M.I.T. Program recognized several potential breakthroughs Wednesday in awarding four of its $30,000 Lemelson–M.I.T. Student Prizes to those from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U.I.U.C.). [More] It’s amusing to reduce the development of next-generation electric- or hydrogen-powered cars to a binary paper-versus-plastic decision, but the companies making these cars and the infrastructure to support them are hoping there will be room for both. Hydrogen cars, in particular, have had a bumpy road thus far–the Obama administration has been at odds with Congress over whether to fund hydrogen fuel-cell research. Meanwhile, the first commercial models are not expected to hit the road until 2015, a few years after their hybrid and all-electric counterparts . [More] Responding to today’s report by the government’s Climate Change Committee, Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said: “This is exactly what our volunteers on the roof of Parliament have been saying today. We need a step change in politics to save the climate with less than 60 days until Copenhagen. “We agree with Lord Stern when he said today that we need a cross-party consensus with all politicians committing to fighting for the next generation and not just the next election.” [...]
Intel has started to produce the ultra-dense 32-nanometer chips it needs to bring about the next generation of processors. What’s that mean for you and me? Well, two things, depending on the architecture of the 32nm chips: faster computers, phones and more, or ones that use less energy. That’s because Intel is focusing on “systems on a chip” production (or SoCs), which allows the company to tweak each chip depending on what it’s going into. Raw power is fine for computers, for instance, but specialty instances of the processors — such as in phones and cars — require a little something different. It’s also this SoC-oriented approach that represents a departure for Intel, as the company will try to offer a variety of components it doesn’t normally include in the manufacturing process. This shift in direction is thanks, in part, to the $7 billion the company has invested to adapt its US plants for 32nm manufacturing. Intel wants to be the first to bring the 32nm technology to the market, with chips going into computers and electronics by the end of this year, and opening up the 32nm SoC line early next year. The 45nm chips we use now aren’t dead, however, according to the Wall Street Journal: In the meantime, Intel next week plans to discuss Jasper Forest, a 45-nanometer SoC targeted at products such as communications and data-storage equipment. On Thursday, it is expected to follow up with Sodaville, another 45-nanometer chip for digital TVs, set-top boxes and media players that combines its Atom microprocessor with circuitry for graphics, video and other functions. Via the Wall Street Journal [...]
Seagate‘s old FreeAgent Theater was a great way for people who wanted to play video and music from their PC but, for whatever reason, couldn’t be bothered to set up a home network. You just grabbed the FreeAgent disk module from its PC dock and slipped it into the dock at your home theater. Easy-peasy, if a little low-tech. The next generation of the device, the FreeAgent Theater+ does the same sneakernet trick, but it also adds the network element. Now that home theater dock can access your home network, streaming your content directly from your PC or the Net. Why have the hard disk at all then? It might help in playing back 1080p video through the HDMI output, which this gadget supports (unlike the last FA). The home theater dock sells for $150, but you can get it bundled with a 500GB drive for $290. A wireless option ($70) for the network connection is coming in October. We really like the progress here, and it’s about time this product got HDMI. But we’re finding more and more that the software on these babies really does matter (probably why so many people are doing things like putting Boxee on their Apple TVs), so it had better be good, guys, if you really want to compete with similar products like Netgear’s latest media receiver. Via Seagate [...]
The U.S. has the most advanced military organization the world has ever known. And it’s planning to keep that status. Already dozens of federal agencies, private contractors and intensely smart and motivated people are crafting new and sophisticated weapons that will give America the high-tech edge in warfare for years to come. Hit the jump to see what the next generation of fighting gear is going to look like — from firearms to fighter planes. [...] |
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