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Memory manufacturers are shipping samples of DDR4 memory chips, the next generation of computer memory technology, and preparing to produce them en masse. That means that memory modules based on the faster, more power-efficient memory technology could start shipping on servers (where its benefits are in the greatest demand) by 2013.
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The immensely popular LCDs screens that are found everywhere in the modern home (television, computer, laptop, cellphones, etc) use less energy than CRTs, the previous technology, but they are still far from being optimally efficient. Only about 8% of the light emitted by a LCD's backlight makes its way out, and the rest is wasted. But that might be about to change thanks to a new filter that could boost that efficiency by more than 400% and allow around 36% of the light to pass through.
New Filter Could Make LCDs >400% More Efficient : TreeHugger
CASE Solar Power Glass
The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) has finally developed the stylish solar power glass after lengthy years of research. The system is constructed of rows of pyramid-shaped glass receptors, which will change their directions all the time to keep track of the sunlight. All the energy is stored in a small photovoltaic cell built in the center of each pyramid. The transparent design not only makes the system eye-pleasing and attractive, but means light could pass through the system more effectively for energy storage.
Shunpei Yamazaki Yamazaki (No. 1) in a lab outside Tokyo, with a circuit he developed that is fabricated on a piece of glass; it will allow computer monitors to be no thicker than a pane of glass. From left, Leonard Forbes (No. 6), Salman Akram (No. 8), Warren Farnworth (No. 7), and Gurtej Sandhu (No. 5) in a clean-room environment at Micron's headquarters in Boise, Idaho. Straeter (No. 10) and Weder (No. 3) photographed at Highland Supply Corp. in Highland, Illinois. At right is a plastic sleeve for a flowerpot invented by Weder.
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Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human intelligence through technological means. [ 1 ] Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon , beyond which events cannot be predicted or understood. Proponents of the singularity typically state that an "intelligence explosion" [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a key factor of the Singularity where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds. This hypothesized process of intelligent self-modification might occur very quickly, and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human. The term "intelligence explosion" is therefore sometimes used to refer to this scenario. [ 4 ]
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