TECH SPACE - BIO FUEL DAILY

Nov 18, 2012 (SPX)

Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan the world's most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy-efficient. Titan came in at number ...

Google's Android is eating Apple's lunch

Nov 17, 2012 (AFP)

Smartphones and tablets powered by Google's Android software are devouring the mobile gadget market, eating into Apple's turf by feeding appetites for innovatio...

Andrews Space To Manufacture Sinclair Rods

Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)

Andrews Space (Andrews) has announced they have signed an exclusive agreement with Sinclair Interplanetary (Sinclair) of Toronto, Canada to begin selling and ma...

Raytheon submits Space Fence proposal to the USAF

Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon has submitted its proposal for the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program. Space Fence, a large, S-band radar to be based in Kwajalein atoll, will be cap...

Lockheed Martin Submits Space Fence Radar Proposal to USAF to Detect and Track Orbital Objects

Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin has submitted its final contract proposal to build Space Fence, an advanced ground-based radar system that will improve the way the U.S. Air For...

Larger version of Kindle Fire tablet unleashed

Nov 15, 2012 (AFP)

Amazon on Thursday began shipping a large-screen, high-definition version of its popular Kindle Fire tablet computers ahead of schedule in a holiday season chal...

Apple and Samsung rule smartphone market: study

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

Industry trackers crowned Apple and Samsung global smartphone market kings on Wednesday, saying they accounted for nearly half of handsets sold in the third qua...

Afghan women learn literacy through mobile phones

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

Afghanistan has launched a new literacy programme that enables Afghan women deprived of a basic education during decades of war to learn to read and write using...

US to station powerful radar, space telescope in Australia

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

The United States military will station a powerful radar and a space telescope in Australia as part of a major refocusing of priorities towards Asia, the two co...

Sweet approach may produce metal casting parts, reduce toxicity

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Based on a new discovery by researchers at Oregon State University, the world's multi-billion dollar foundry industry may soon develop a sweet tooth. This indus...

36 in one fell swoop as researchers observe impossible ionization

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Using the world's most powerful X-ray laser in California, an international research team discovered a surprising behaviour of atoms: with a single X-ray flash,...

Samsung plans no settlement with Apple: executive

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

A top Samsung executive said Wednesday that the South Korean electronics giant had no plans to follow Taiwanese firm HTC in seeking a settlement over its patent...

Quality products from rubber residues

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Rubber residues can be downcycled to floor coverings and safety crashpads, and for the first time, also processed into high-quality plastics. A new kind of mate...

Erosion has a point and an edge

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Erosion caused by flowing water does not only smooth out objects, but can also form distinct shapes with sharp points and edges, a team of New York University r...

Jawbone Up fitness wristbands get in shape

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

Wireless earpiece maker Jawbone on Tuesday released redesigned UP wristbands that combine fashion with smartphone lifestyles to help people along paths to impro...

New Google smartphone sells out

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

The latest Google smartphone sold out in the some countries within an hour of its release on Tuesday. Nexus 4 handsets made by South Korea's LG Electronics were...

Online TEDTalks hit billion-view milestone

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

Videos stemming from TED, the gathering of the brilliant, famous and influential, passed the billion-view milestone on Tuesday. The number continues to rocket w...

Chinese LED firm plans record investment in Taiwan

Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)

A leading Chinese maker of energy-saving light bulbs plans to invest Tw$2.35 billion ($81 million) in a Taiwanese peer, in the biggest single investment from Ch...

Making a better invisibility cloak

Nov 13, 2012 (SPX)

The first functional "cloaking" device reported by Duke University electrical engineers in 2006 worked like a charm, but it wasn't perfect. Now a member of that...

Cray supercomputer named world's fastest

Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)

A Cray supercomputer at the US government's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was named Monday the world's fastest, overtaking an IBM supercomputer at another Ameri...