Dublin students Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly win Young Scientist competition

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Interestingly, the project branched out from the work of the Irish mathematician Diarmuid Ó Mathuná who solved the problem in 2008. His results are published in his book Integrable Systems in Celestial Mechanics, which looked at the Kepler (two-body) problem and the Euler (two-fixed centre) problem. The exact title of Kelly’s and Doyle’s project was [...]

Plextor Brings Out M3 Pro SSD

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A 2.5″ form factor drive with a height of 7mm, making it compatible with standard notebooks and PCs, as well as ultra-slim notebooks. The following storage capacities will be available in early 2012: 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. The M3 Pro will deliver sequential read/write speeds of up to 540/450 MB/s and random read/write speeds of up [...]

HDD Industry Not Restoring to Normal Supply Until End of 2012

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Says Hitachi GST The global HDD industry will take one year to completely recover from the impact of flooding in Thailand and therefore will not be able to resume normal supply until the end of 2012, according to product vice president Brendan Collins for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Go to Source

Qnap Brings Out Intel Atom Powered Turbo NAS

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And VioStor NVR video surveillance systems QNAP Systems, Inc. unveils the next generation of its TuboNAS server lineup, along with its latest VioStor NVR video surveillance systems. In addition, the company debuts NAS Firmware (3.6) and a new storage expansion solution for its  Turbo NAS. Go to Source

Cache SSD Shipments to Explode

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Driven by Intel Ultrabook Initiative, said IHS iSuppli Booming sales of ultrabooks spurred by strong support from Intel Corp. will drive explosive growth in the market for cache SSDs in the coming years, with shipments set to soar more than a hundredfold by the end of 2015, up from less than one million units in [...]

World’s Smallest Magnetic Data Storage

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Built by IBM and German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, and squeezes a whole byte (8 bit) into as few as 96 atoms. A modern hard drive, for comparison, still needs more than half a billion atoms per byte. Go to Source

OnLive sneaks Windows 7 into the iPad

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We’re not playing games now Tablet fondlers can finally get some work done thanks to streaming cloud supplier OnLive, which now pipes the full Windows 7 experience from its data centres to punters’ palms.… Go to Source

Imagination uncloaks ‘over 20X faster’ smartphone GPU

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‘Rogue’ embraces heterogeneous future CES 2012  Imagination Technologies has revealed a pair of new GPU IP cores that it claims will supply new heights of performance to the likes of Apple, TI, Samsung and others who use the UK company’s low-power graphics cores.… Go to Source

Words With Friends Helps Save Man’s Life

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Addictive scrabble game Words With Friends helped save the life of an Australian man with heart problems, reports Ozarks First. Australian resident Georgie Fletcher met Beth Legler from Blue Springs, Missouri through a random Words With Friends game. Georgie’s husband Simon was experiencing some health problems, which Beth described to her husband Larry, who is [...]

Google launches second annual science fair

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Google has partnered with CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American, for what it says is the largest online science competition in the world. Students ages 13-18 are eligible to enter, either individually or in teams of up to three people. Google is accepting submissions until 1 April. “Students pose a question, develop [...]