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(AP) -- At Jinja pier the rusty red hull of a Lake Victoria freighter sat barely afloat in water just six feet deep - and dropping. "The scientists have to explain this," said ship's engineer Gabriel Maziku. | |
 Review: Gaming PCs Surpass New Consoles(AP) -- The new video game consoles already look pretty wimpy compared with the latest gaming PCs. The Wii? Whatever. The Xbox 360? No match. The PlayStation 3? You can't find one, anyway. | |
New Chip Provides High-End Sound(AP) -- Veteran audio engineer Tony Bongiovi, who once worked with Jimi Hendrix, has been disappointed for decades that the equipment most people used to listen to music couldn't replicate the high-quality sound heard in ... | |
 Sandia researchers develop better sensor detection systemBy integrating readily available generic sensors with a more sophisticated sensor, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a detection system that promises to make it easier to catch perpetrators ... | |
 Google Advances Online Software Crusade(AP) -- Google Inc., a company synonymous with searching the Internet, hopes to define far more of the world's computing experience with a helping hand from schoolchildren. | |
 AMD Demonstrates World's First Native Quad-Core X86 Server ProcessorAMD today demonstrated the industry�s first native quad-core x86 server processor, achieving four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon. At the annual AMD Industry Analyst Forum, a server powered ... | |
Bell Labs' History of Inventions(AP) -- It's the birthplace of the transistor, the laser, the solar cell and the fax machine. Its researchers were the first to hear the echoes of the Big Bang. And now this American legend is part of a French company. | |
South Korea confirms bird flu outbreakSouth Korea on Saturday confirmed its first bird flu outbreak in three years after a strain of the avian virus was found in tests on dead birds. | |
 Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability, say researchersA $15 million upgrade to Sandia�s Red Storm computer has increased its peak speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops in a computing terrain in which a single teraflop was a big deal only 6 years ago. | |
 Sci-fi Life SupportIn Frank Herbert's epic ecological novel Dune (1965), set on the fictitious desert planet Arrakis in another star system, water is so precious that even perspiration and breath moisture are captured ... | |
Twenty-two Projects Keep Supercomputer Super BusyWith 54 teraflops of computing power, Oak Ridge National Laboratory�s Cray XT3 is helping solve scientific grand challenges, but scheduling the many research projects and keeping the massive machine operating at peak capacity ... | |
IMEC demonstrates multimedia decoding on reconfigurable processor with record power efficiencyIMEC developed a reconfigurable processor for video decoding achieving power efficiencies 6 to 12 times higher than state-of-the-art C-programmed processors. The processor was derived from IMEC�s C-programmable ADRES (Architecture ... | |
Speed is the name of the game for researchersCutting-edge computer technology designed for use in game consoles like the PlayStation 3 will power complex research software at The University of Manchester. Academics in several scientific and engineering fields will use ... | |
 Astronomers see inside a quasar for the first timeFor the first time, astronomers have looked inside quasars -- the brightest objects in the universe -- and have seen evidence of black holes.
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Expert says E. coli spinach outbreak may be hard to solveAs the U.S. Food and Drug Administration narrows the search for the cause of a nationwide outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 tied to bagged spinach, a specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences said the incident ... | |
