TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)

Mobile devices include an increasing number of input and output techniques that are currently not used for communication. Recent research results by Dr Eve Hogg...

Cost-effective titanium forming

Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)

Titanium is a material that offers excellent properties, however, it is costly and time-consuming to form. Fraunhofer researchers are now giving this multi-purp...

Safety glass - cut to any shape

Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)

Shock-resistance is the great benefit of safety glass. However, the cut of the glass pane can make this difficult: With conventional processes, only straight cu...

'Self-healing' concrete in real-world test

Oct 30, 2012 (UPI)

A "self-healing" concrete that can patch up cracks by itself is ready for outdoor testing, researchers at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands say. The...

Glass: characterizing with precision and efficiency

Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)

Glass can possess a quite diverse array of characteristics, depending on what ingredients one uses to modify it. A new process now makes the analysis of glass c...

Head of iPhone software out in Apple shakeup

Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)

Apple on Monday announced that the executive in charge of Maps, Siri and other software in its culture-changing iPhones is leaving as part of a shakeup in the u...

U.S. unveils new supercomputer

Oct 29, 2012 (UPI)

Graphic processing units first created for computer gaming have been used to create one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, U.S. officials say. The U.S...

Windows 8 phones out to stand apart from rivals

Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft on Monday set out to win over iPhone and Android gadget devotees with Windows 8 smartphones, new devices that emphasize individualism and unify digita...

Smartphones drive complaints spike in Australia

Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)

Complaints about mobile phones to Australia's telecoms watchdog jumped nine percent in a year, accounting for two-thirds of all gripes received due to growing s...

Outdoor wear often coated in harmful chemicals: Greenpeace

Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)

Outdoor clothing from top manufacturers is frequently contaminated with chemicals that are harmful to health and the environment, Greenpeace warned Monday. The ...

Russian Briz-M booster falls apart in orbit

Oct 29, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Russia's Space Defense Forces have confirmed that the Briz-M propellant upper stage fell apart in the near-Earth orbit on October 16. Space Forces spokesman Col...

Google unveils large tablet, revamped Nexus lineup

Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Monday unveiled a large-format tablet computer to compete against the original iPad as part of a revamped line of its Nexus devices, and touted a new ...

French Magpie start-up leaches gold from water with modern alchemy

Oct 28, 2012 (AFP)

A small French start-up company is selling a technology with a hint of alchemy: turning water into gold. It does so by extracting from industrial waste water th...

SciTechTalk: Windows 8 a Microsoft gamble?

Oct 27, 2012 (UPI)

Microsoft's introduction of its Windows 8 operating system last week has positioned the software as the Swiss army knife of the computing universe -- desktop, l...

A new take on the Midas touch - changing the colour of gold

Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)

Red gold, green gold - a ground-breaking initiative has found a way of changing the colour of the world's most iconic precious metal. A University of Southampto...

Record space junk cloud could threaten ISS: report

Oct 26, 2012 (AFP)

The explosion of a failed Russian rocket upper stage has created a space junk cloud of 500 pieces which could threaten the International Space Station, a report...

Microsoft-Apple redux: the empire strikes back

Oct 26, 2012 (AFP)

It used to be that Microsoft was the evil empire, and Apple the scrappy underdog. Now the roles are reversed, and Microsoft is challenging a dominant Apple, whi...

US DoE's Ames Laboratory improving process to recycle rare-earth materials

Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)

Recycling keeps paper, plastics, and even jeans out of landfills. Could recycling rare-earth magnets do the same? Perhaps, if the recycling process can be impro...

Droplet response to electric voltage in solids exposed

Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)

For the first time, scientists have observed how droplets within solids deform and burst under high electric voltages. This is important, the Duke University en...

Northrop Grumman Matures Laser Threat Terminator Technology to Address Emerging Threats

Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has matured the technology for enhancing the capabilities of its All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat Terminator (ASALTT) product line, deve...