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| New graphene nonoflakes enhance solar conversion efficiency |
3/10/2014 |
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"Because graphene is pure carbon, its charge conductivity is very high. We want to maximize the energy being absorbed by the solar cell, so we are increasing the ratio of the donor to acceptor and we're using a very low fraction of graphene to achieve that."
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| Spin Waves Cut Logic Power |
3/7/2014 |
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A research team is using electron spin to cut the power consumption of logic devices dramatically.
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| U.S. PlayStation CEO will step down |
3/7/2014 |
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Sony Computer Entertainment America President and CEO Jack Tretton will end his nearly 20-year run and step down from his position at the end of the month.
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| Facebook Overpaid for WhatsApp |
3/6/2014 |
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Before Facebook (FB) paid $19 billion last month for text-messaging service WhatsApp, Google considered it Overpaid.
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| Walmart slashes iPhone prices |
3/6/2014 |
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Walmart announced price cuts Wednesday on the Samsung Galaxy S4, as well as for Apple’s 16-gigabyte iPhone 5s and 5c, for customers signing two-year contracts with AT&T and Verizon.
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| 6 Million PS4 Worldwide |
3/4/2014 |
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Sony reports that the next-gen video game console has topped 6 million units sold globally.
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| NAND Up, NOR Down in Flash |
3/3/2014 |
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The worldwide market for memory appeared to present a great divide between NAND Flash, which is doing very well, and NOR Flash, which continues to struggle.
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| IBM layoffs 2014, 13000 expected |
3/3/2014 |
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IBM has confirmed that it's laying off a portion of its workforce in order to focus on new priority areas, like the cloud, analytics, and cognitive computing.
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| Tesla soliciting site to build large battery plant |
2/28/2014 |
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Tesla and partners including battery maker Panasonic will invest between $4 billion and $5 billion to build the factory, which would supply battery packs to Tesla's Fremont, California, assembly plant.
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| TD-LTE will catch on in China |
2/28/2014 |
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Qualcomm and Marvell appear to have led rival vendors in the race to win more orders since the two companies have already deepened their deployments in the segment.
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| Ford maps out 70m surroundings for self-driven car |
2/28/2014 |
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The trial vehicle uses a rotating Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) sensor located on the roof to scan the surroundings with a range of some 70m. The data generated are transformed in real-time into a virtual 3D map that contains all the objects detected in proximity to the vehicle.
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