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Lockheed Martin Submits Space Fence Radar Proposal to USAF to Detect and Track Orbital Objects

Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin has submitted its final contract proposal to build Space Fence, an advanced ground-based radar system that will improve the way the U.S. Air For...

Apple and Samsung rule smartphone market: study

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

Industry trackers crowned Apple and Samsung global smartphone market kings on Wednesday, saying they accounted for nearly half of handsets sold in the third qua...

Samsung plans no settlement with Apple: executive

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

A top Samsung executive said Wednesday that the South Korean electronics giant had no plans to follow Taiwanese firm HTC in seeking a settlement over its patent...

Afghan women learn literacy through mobile phones

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

Afghanistan has launched a new literacy programme that enables Afghan women deprived of a basic education during decades of war to learn to read and write using...

Erosion has a point and an edge

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Erosion caused by flowing water does not only smooth out objects, but can also form distinct shapes with sharp points and edges, a team of New York University r...

36 in one fell swoop as researchers observe impossible ionization

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Using the world's most powerful X-ray laser in California, an international research team discovered a surprising behaviour of atoms: with a single X-ray flash,...

Quality products from rubber residues

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Rubber residues can be downcycled to floor coverings and safety crashpads, and for the first time, also processed into high-quality plastics. A new kind of mate...

US to station powerful radar, space telescope in Australia

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

The United States military will station a powerful radar and a space telescope in Australia as part of a major refocusing of priorities towards Asia, the two co...

Sweet approach may produce metal casting parts, reduce toxicity

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Based on a new discovery by researchers at Oregon State University, the world's multi-billion dollar foundry industry may soon develop a sweet tooth. This indus...

Jawbone Up fitness wristbands get in shape

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

Wireless earpiece maker Jawbone on Tuesday released redesigned UP wristbands that combine fashion with smartphone lifestyles to help people along paths to impro...

Online TEDTalks hit billion-view milestone

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

Videos stemming from TED, the gathering of the brilliant, famous and influential, passed the billion-view milestone on Tuesday. The number continues to rocket w...

Chinese LED firm plans record investment in Taiwan

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

A leading Chinese maker of energy-saving light bulbs plans to invest Tw$2.35 billion ($81 million) in a Taiwanese peer, in the biggest single investment from Ch...

Making a better invisibility cloak

Nov 13, 2012 (SPX)

The first functional "cloaking" device reported by Duke University electrical engineers in 2006 worked like a charm, but it wasn't perfect. Now a member of that...

New Google smartphone sells out

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

The latest Google smartphone sold out in the some countries within an hour of its release on Tuesday. Nexus 4 handsets made by South Korea's LG Electronics were...

Cray supercomputer named world's fastest

Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)

A Cray supercomputer at the US government's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was named Monday the world's fastest, overtaking an IBM supercomputer at another Ameri...

The Van Allen Probes

Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)

Earth's magnetism has captured human attention since the first innovator noticed that a freely moving piece of magnetized iron would always align itself with Ea...

Buzz building for debut of Wii U videogame console

Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)

Pre-orders for Wii U have been hot ahead of the Sunday release of the new Nintendo videogame console that the Japanese electronics titan hopes will catapult it ...

Head of Windows unit leaves Microsoft

Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft on Monday announced that the head of its Windows unit is leaving in a management shake-up that comes just weeks after the release of a new generation ...

India unveils new version of 'world's cheapest tablet'

Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)

India has launched a new version of its ultra-low-cost tablet computer with a quicker processor and an improved battery, on sale to students at the subsidised p...

A New Technique to Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation

Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)

The complexities of traveling to and working in space present challenges to astronauts that NASA scientists and engineers have been working on since Neil Armstr...