Kenneth Tucker

New technology under development at The Ohio State University is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue inside the body.

A silicon circuit, coated with a protective layer and immersed in fluid that mimics human body chemistry. Researchers at The Ohio State University are developing low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue inside the body. Credit: Ohio State University.

in contrast to its traditional photo-voltaic 'dual-axis' counterparts, the device incorporates a fully rotational weatherproof natural optical tracking device that is adequate for functioning on inclined surfaces and curtain walls, empowering any building surface. the new solar generating concept has capabilities that concentrate diffused daylight or moonlight for a more effective site context application.

A small team of researchers at Bell Labs in New Jersey has built a camera that has no lens. Instead, as they explain in their paper they've uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, the camera uses a LCD array, a photoelectric sensor and a computer to create always in-focus pictures.

The capsid is critically important for HIV replication, so knowing its structure in detail could lead us to new drugs that can treat or prevent the infection. The capsid has to remain intact to protect the HIV genome and get it into the human cell, but once inside, it has to come apart to release its content so that the virus can replicate. Developing drugs that cause capsid dysfunction by preventing its assembly or disassembly might stop the virus from reproducing.

The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers aboard the International Space Station in association with NASA, has announced that the Windows XP computers aboard the ISS have been switched to Linux. “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”

The worldwide server market took a dip last quarter, and it could slide even further if the virtualization, server consolidation and cloud-provider outsourcing trends continue.

Google is intending to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and blimps.

University of New Hampshire professor Yitang Zhang — solves one of mathematics’ oldest problems, the twin primes conjecture.

Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco.

Facebook announced at the annual Interop networking conference in Las Vegas that the Open Compute Project will design a top-of-rack switch that can boot pretty much any networking software a customer wants. The switch would provide an alternative to vendors like Cisco, Arista Networks, and Dell's Force 10 division, Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain operations at Facebook, told Ars last week.

ORLANDO, Florida -- On January 25th at 23:30:26 UTC, the largest known prime number, 2^57,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.  With 360,000 CPUs peaking at 150 trillion calculations per second, 17th-year GIMPS is the longest continuously-running global "grassroots supercomputing"^[1] project in Internet history.

El Paso Electric Co. (EE) agreed to buy the power for 5.79 cents a kilowatt-hour, according to a Jan. 22 procedural order from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. That’s less than half the 12.8 cents per kilowatt-hour average price for new coal plants, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.