TECH SPACE - BIO FUEL DAILY

iPhone 5 rollout draws big crowds worldwide

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

Apple fans queued in Asia, Europe and North America on Friday for the new iPhone 5, which appeared set to break sales records despite lukewarm reviews and compl...

Maps fiasco mars Apple's big iPhone launch

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

Melting bridges, misplaced landmarks, and major cities disappearing: Apple's glitch-ridden maps program released in its new mobile software has customers fuming...

Using a laser to 'see' the smallest world

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

A multi-university team has employed a high-powered laser to dramatically improve one of the tools scientists use to study the world at the atomic level. The te...

Angling for gold

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

A study on how gold atoms bond to other atoms using a model that takes into account bonds direction has been carried out by physicist Marie Backman from the Uni...

YouTube seeking education video 'gurus'

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

YouTube on Friday was searching for education "gurus" with knowledge to impart to fast-growing ranks of students turning to online videos for lessons. The globa...

New NIST screening method identifies 1,200 candidate refrigerants to combat global warming

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids ...

Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract to Solidify Long Range Radar Requirement for 3DELRR Program

Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)

The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a nearly $36 million contract for the next part of its Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar (3DELRR) prog...

New tool gives structural strength to 3-D printed works

Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)

Objects created using 3-D printing have a common flaw: They are fragile and often fall apart or lose their shape. "I have an entire zoo of broken 3-D printed ob...

French strike threatens to take shine off iPhone 5 launch

Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)

The reviews are almost universally glowing and the queues are dutifully forming at Apple stores across the world, but in France the much-hyped release of the iP...

Taiwan LCD titan fined $500 mn for price fixing

Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)

A US judge on Thursday fined Taiwan's AU Optronics $500 million and sentenced two former executives to prison for rigging prices of displays for smartphones, co...

Gaia Payload Module Integration Completed

Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)

Integration of the Flight Model of the Gaia Payload Module has been completed. It has undergone acceptance vibration testing; thermal balance and thermal vacuum...

Astrium wins DEOS contract to demonstrate in-orbit servicing

Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)

Astrium is preparing a new technology mission for the maintenance and disposal of satellites. At the ILA Berlin Air Show, the DLR Space Administration announced...

Capturing defective satellites in space - DLR awards contract to Astrium

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

A service satellite captures an uncontrollable satellite in space, repairs or refuels it and, at the end of the mission, ensures that the defective satellite is...

Less wear, longer life for memory storage device

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

Probe storage devices read and write data by making nanoscale marks on a surface through physical contact. The technology may one day extend the data density li...

US judge won't lift Samsung tablet ban

Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)

A judge has refused to lift a ban on US sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computers as legal brawling continued between the South Korean electronics titan...

Solving bubble troubles: new surface can prevent liquid explosions or even frost

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

Explosions caused by boiling liquid could be reduced by suppressing the liquid from bubbling, according to a new University of Melbourne study. The research, wh...

e2v chosen to supply high performance imaging sensors for Japan's X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

e2v has been chosen to provide imaging sensors to form part of the next generation of focal plane imaging sensors in the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron...

International team of physicists makes discovery about temperature in convection

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

An international team of physicists is working to ascertain more about the fundamental physical laws that are at work in a process known as convection, which oc...

Apple rallies past $700 amid iPhone euphoria

Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)

Apple shares closed above $700 for the first time on Wall Street Tuesday, amid optimism about the tech giant as it launches its new iPhone 5. Apple closed up 0....

Boiling Water Without Bubbles

Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)

Every cook knows that boiling water bubbles, right? New research from Northwestern University turns that notion on its head. "We manipulated what has been known...