TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

China signs onto PNG's world-first undersea mine

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

Canada-based mining firm Nautilus Minerals said Tuesday it had signed China's Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group as the first customer of its pioneering Papua New...

Mechanical tests for SHEFEX

Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)

The SHEFEX II (SHarp Edge Flight EXperiment) spacecraft successfully withstood vibration on a shaker and spinning at two rotations per second. These tests repre...

China official sides with Proview in Apple dispute

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

A top Chinese official on Tuesday sided with a Chinese firm involved in a legal battle with Apple over the iPad trademark, suggesting the US giant could lose th...

New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls

Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)

Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers at UT Dallas. They have designed an image...

SciTechTalk: Apple rumors du jour

Apr 22, 2012 (UPI)

In the world of Apple rumors -- a strange demimonde that can frequently be observed feeding on itself -- the favored topic of the moment appears to be the scree...

Raytheon's Space Fence System Detects and Tracks Space Objects

Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon's Space Fence recently completed a comprehensive Preliminary Design Review (PDR) demonstrating the S-band radar's technical maturity in its ability to ...

Hollywood studios lose landmark download case

Apr 20, 2012 (AFP)

Top Hollywood film studios Friday failed in their attempt to stem the flow of illegal downloads when they lost a landmark appeal against an Australian Internet ...

US judge allows tech 'poaching' suit to proceed

Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)

A US judge has given a green light to a lawsuit charging Apple, Google, Pixar and other technology-driven firms with colluding to keep salaries in check by agre...

Microsoft-Amazon.com pressed for clean 'cloud'

Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)

Activists rappelled down a Seattle office building Thursday to get Microsoft and Amazon.com to use clean energy to power datacenters running services based in t...

U.S. Navy Awards Test Devices Contract for High-Cycle Fatigue Research

Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)

The U.S. Navy recently awarded Test Devices, a Hudson, Massachusetts-based rotational testing company, a Research and Development Contract for advanced High Cyc...

The sea as a rubbish tip

Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)

Large quantities of globally produced plastics end up in the oceans where they represent a growing risk. Above all very small objects, so-called microplastic pa...

Bristol researchers solve 70-year-old mystery

Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)

In 1942, an 'unidentifiable' aromatic compound known as stipitatic acid was first isolated from fungi. By 1945 the structure was solved but it was so unique tha...

Greenpeace says cloud computing 'dirty'

Apr 18, 2012 (UPI)

Environmental group Greenpeace has criticized Apple and Amazon for the inefficient use of energy at their cloud computing service U.S. data centers. Greenpeace ...

Google chief defends Android in court

Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)

Google co-founder Larry Page stuck to his guns in a San Francisco court on Wednesday, testifying that the Internet giant did nothing wrong when it built the And...

X-rays create a window on glass formation

Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have for the first time visualised the transformation of powder mixtures into molten glass. A better understanding of this process will make it possi...

New Technique Helps Ensure Reliability of Microelectronic Devices, PV Cells and MEMS Applications

Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)

Taking advantage of the force generated by magnetic repulsion, researchers have developed a new technique for measuring the adhesion strength between thin films...

Raytheon Delivers US Navy's First Dual-Frequency Sonar

Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon has completed delivery of the electronics for the AN/SQQ-90 tactical sonar suite, the complex sonar for the first ship of the U.S. Navy's DDG 1000-clas...

Shooting at ceramics

Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)

Producing thin ceramic components has until now been a laborious and expensive process, as parts often get distorted during manufacture and have to be discarded...

Smartphones wallets going mainstream: survey

Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)

Using smartphones or tablets as digital "wallets" will be common within a decade, largely replacing cash and credit cards, according to a Pew Research survey re...

Topological Transitions In Metamaterials

Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)

The ability to control the flow of electrons using engineered materials is fundamental to the information technology revolution, yet many properties of matter a...