Little submarine robots attacking cancer cells? Not quite, but nanodevices have a future in cancer therapy. From Scientific American: Carbon nanotubes–tiny straws of pure carbon–have many properties that make them attractive for applications as varied as nanoelectronics and nanofibers. Scientists are recruiting carbon nanotubes in the fight against cancer, too. A report published online this week by the Proceedings of ...
Read More »I want my IP-TV!
Excerpts from a Wired article this morning. Coming soon to a screen near you: IPTV…. While traditional cable systems devote a slice of bandwidth for each channel and then cablecast them all out at once, IPTV uses a "switched video" architecture in which only the channel being watched at that moment is sent over the network, freeing up capacity for ...
Read More »Relay season
Here’s the latest BlogPulse graphic of mentions of "Relay for Life" in the blogs they track. The graph spans six months.
Read More »End of the Windows Age?
Information Week had an interesting observation in an article about the beta release of Microsoft’s next-gen OS, Longhorn (aka, Vistaaaa!). It could be the last time an operating-system release matters this much. With computing’s center of gravity shifting from the desktop PC to online applications from competitors like Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., and to consumer electronics like Apple Computer’s ...
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