Boffin-watch- The Inquirer

Nasa fires the Mona Lisa at the moon with a laser

Achieves one-way laser communication at planetary distances

Fri Jan 18 2013, 12:24

US boffins talk up photonic computing revolution

Opens the door for super fast computers

Fri Feb 24 2012, 14:53

Researchers fab a single atom transistor

Not by chance this time

Mon Feb 20 2012, 13:19

Microsoft shows off touchy feely surfaces of the future

It's NUI, a Natural User Interface

Tue Oct 18 2011, 11:05

IBM and 3M are developing semiconductor adhesives

Could build multi-chipped layered microprocessors

Thu Sep 08 2011, 14:17

IBM unveils chips that can mimic the brain

Chips capable of perception, action and cognition

Fri Aug 19 2011, 05:18

IBM announces a major memory breakthrough

Big improvement over flash memory

Thu Jun 30 2011, 13:55

SETI shelves its search for aliens

Lack of funding hangs up on ET

Wed Apr 27 2011, 10:59

World's largest rocket is revealed

Set for launch in 2013 or 2014

Wed Apr 06 2011, 12:11

Neurosky launches mind control headset

Telekinetic fragging

Tue Mar 29 2011, 15:18

Internet transparency tools for everyone gets wads of cash

You'll never guess who is funding it

Wed Mar 23 2011, 15:03

Motorola and Cox claim data transmission world record

Hybrid fibre coaxial will never be the same

Fri Mar 04 2011, 15:51

Boffins build a robot hand that types

Shakespeare not on the cards yet

Mon Feb 21 2011, 14:32

Man draws against machine in quiz show

Computers taking over on hold

Tue Feb 15 2011, 12:10

Swiss offer an alternative to silicon

500 years of democracy and peace produces Cuckoo clocks and a nano-transistor

Mon Jan 31 2011, 17:23

Phosphorous atom brings quantum computing closer, allegedly

Magnetic fields enable entanglement

Fri Jan 21 2011, 12:46

Computing powers General Motors electric pod car

It's like a big Segway

Fri Jan 14 2011, 10:52

NASA's Curiosity rover takes its first drive on Mars

One small six-metre drive is a giant leap for a small machine

Thu Aug 23 2012, 12:09

A tiny chip could replace some doctors

Swallow the surgeon medical care

Thu Feb 23 2012, 15:23

Researchers use CPUs to feed GPUs

Claim 20 per cent performance boost

Thu Feb 09 2012, 14:20

Boffins invent an operating system for cities

Urban OS can run a city using machines

Mon Oct 03 2011, 17:38

Amazon chief fails to deliver rocket to space

Unmanned spaceflight is a flop

Tue Sep 06 2011, 10:15

Homomorphic cryptography will save the cloud

No decryption needed on medical information

Tue Aug 09 2011, 16:39

Phase-change memory makes a debut

Smaller is better

Wed Jun 15 2011, 18:24

The future of Android interfaces

With advanced 3D techniques

Mon Apr 18 2011, 14:35

UK’s oldest working television heads for auction

1930s Marconi set could raise £5,000

Tue Apr 05 2011, 16:28

Invertebrates' neurons inform robot brains

I got rhythm

Mon Mar 28 2011, 14:03

Ultra low power memory could extend battery life

For phones or anything with a battery

Fri Mar 11 2011, 12:48

Quantum PC gets a step closer

But will it run Crysis?

Wed Mar 02 2011, 12:26

Light absorbing silicon could realise optical computers

its all about interference

Mon Feb 21 2011, 12:48

Frickin' nanolasers on chips herald new age of optoelectronics

You could fit many on a shark's head

Mon Feb 07 2011, 17:42

Scientists rewrite the memory books

Better booting through memory

Wed Jan 26 2011, 14:45

Boffins hack Kinect to perform robo-surgery

Hands free hack’n’slash

Thu Jan 20 2011, 15:58

Wireless car keys faulted

Signals not worth the air they are sent over

Fri Jan 07 2011, 17:21

Boffins ‘see' charge within a single molecule

Applications include molecular-scale computing devices

Mon Feb 27 2012, 16:06

Neutrino results could be down to dodgy wiring

Faster than light experiment in question

Thu Feb 23 2012, 15:17

IBM shows off sub-10nm carbon nanotube transistors

Graphene the way to success

Tue Dec 06 2011, 16:56

Nike is readying Back to the Future shoes

Air Mags set for launch this week

Thu Sep 08 2011, 14:23

Lightbulbs can be used to broadcast wireless internet

LiFi is coming

Thu Aug 25 2011, 17:16

USA wins Robot football World Cup

UK crashes out

Tue Jul 12 2011, 15:34

Laser smashes data transfer records

26 terabits per second with a single laser

Tue May 24 2011, 10:01

Fifty years since the first man in space

Whatever happened to the space race

Tue Apr 12 2011, 17:20

Scotland might see space flight launches

UK government has plans to overhaul space agency

Fri Apr 01 2011, 14:00

ZTE breaks data transmission world record

A staggering 10Tbps

Wed Mar 23 2011, 16:06

Fujitsu achieves 40Gbps optical fibre transmission

Power consumption more than halved

Thu Mar 10 2011, 16:46

Boffins build a chip on a pen tip

Bell’s law trumps Moore’s law

Thu Feb 24 2011, 15:15

IBM supercomputer thrashes human Jeopardy champs

Bow to our metal overlords

Thu Feb 17 2011, 12:03

Mind boggling computer tackles universal questions

But it doesn't do jokes in base 13

Tue Feb 01 2011, 14:17

Nanotechnology creates cool chips

Beats Intel, AMD and Nvidia to the punch

Mon Jan 24 2011, 18:01

Fruit fly reveals secrets of computing

Nervous system solves networking problem

Mon Jan 17 2011, 15:05

Popular Threads