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By Rob Waugh UPDATED: 17:48 GMT, 8 September 2011 Computer maker IBM has gone into partnership with a glue specialist to create 'skyscraper' computers - building huge sandwiches of silicon chips by sticking layer after layer of chips covered with tiny components together.
IBM's computers of the future will look like... sandwiches?
Sep. 6, 2011 — After an 18-month shutdown to upgrade the machine and four months of commissioning, the Joint European Torus (JET), the world's largest magnetic fusion device, is ready to start new experiments. The inside of the vessel now has a completely new wall. JET is the first fusion machine to test the materials that will be used inside the next-generation international experiment, ITER.
World’s largest fusion experiment back in operation
While US Android users are all full of glee that they're finally getting the Samsung Galaxy S II in the United States, a far more significant Android smartphone is being developed... In China. It's faster than any other smartphone, has a beautiful and fluid user interface, top-notch hardware quality, a dual-partition setup so you can keep using the phone while it updates...
The Cheap Android Phone Is Here, But It's Not What You'd Expect
I think some of the stuff is lovely - like the solar system coming out of the TV, but most of it just creeps me out. I don't want everything to be on glass, it just makes everything less tangible and less personal, almost cold.
A beautiful but creepy vision of the "smart glass" future
Sony shows wearable 3-D personal theater
TOKYO – Sony says it will start selling a head mounted display that provides a 3-D theater of music videos, movies and games, targeting people who prefer solitary entertainment rather than sitting in front of a TV with family or friends. Sony Corp . said Wednesday that the 60,000 yen ($800) "HMZ personal 3-D viewer" is set to go on sale Nov. 11 in Japan, and is planned for the U.S. and Europe, perhaps in time for Christmas, although dates have not yet been set.Get ready for the next bull run in GOLD
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Flickr/GilbertoFilho (CBS) - Let's agree that there are differences between nerds, geeks and dorks.The bacteria behind the Black Death has a very unusual history. Its ancestor is an unassuming soil bacterium and the current strains of Yersinia pestis still infects thousands of people annually, but no longer cause the suite of horrifying symptoms associated with the medieval plagues. The radical differences between the two versions, in fact, led some to suggest that we have been blaming the wrong bacteria.