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More than a game: Exploring new digital frontiers
May 3, 2013 2:03 pm | by Eurekalert! | CommentsA groundbreaking new initiative led by the University of York, with partners at Cass Business School, part of City University London and Durham University Business School, aims to unlock the potential for scientific and social benefits in digital games.
Icahn Enterprises 1Q net income surges
May 3, 2013 12:31 pm | by The Associated Press | CommentsIcahn Enterprises LP, the investing vehicle for billionaire Carl Icahn, said Friday that its net income climbed in the first quarter. Earnings rose to $277 million, or $2.50 per unit, from $49 million, or 48 cents per unit, a year ago. Revenue nearly doubled, rising to $5.32 billion from $2.68...
Going negative pays for nanotubes
May 3, 2013 11:53 am | by Rice University | CommentsA Rice University laboratory’s cagey strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films. The latest step toward making macro materials out of microscopic nanotubes depends on cage-like crown ethers that capture potassium cations.
China emerging as new force in drone warfare
May 3, 2013 11:43 am | by CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press | CommentsDetermined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China's security forces considered a tactic they'd never tried before: calling a drone strike on his remote hideaway deep in the hills of Myanmar. New light has been cast on China's unmanned aerial vehicle program, which has been quietly percolating for years and now appears to be moving into overdrive.
Taiwan probes insider trading in chip takeover
May 3, 2013 11:22 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsProsecutors are probing alleged insider trading connected to a $3.8 billion takeover of a Taiwan chip design company. Prosecutor Huang Mou-hsin said late Thursday that just before MediaTek's board approved a deal to buy its main rival MStar Semiconductor last June, four officials from the two companies bought shares of MStar.
Vietnamese adoption of eco-friendly appliances on the rise
May 3, 2013 10:48 am | by GFK | CommentsIn the past 12 months, households in Vietnam have been spending more on household appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines. GfK retail audit in Vietnam revealed a significant growth in their combined overall market value by 14 percent over the previous year, albeit a slightly lower volume demand of 2 percent.
Robotic insects make first controlled flight
May 3, 2013 9:21 am | CommentsIn the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped along a preset route through the air.
Dual-color lasers could lead to cheap and efficient LED lighting
May 3, 2013 9:18 am | by Eurekalert! | CommentsA new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using light emitting diodes (LEDs) universally for cheap and efficient lighting.
B&N to add Google Play app store to its Nook HD
May 3, 2013 12:25 am | by MAE ANDERSON - AP Retail Writer - Associated Press | CommentsBarnes & Noble is teaming up with Google to vastly increase the number of apps available on its Nook HD tablets. The bookstore chain says it will add Google's Play app store to its 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch HD+ products in the U.S. and U.K. via a software update Friday. The move expands the...
Hearing the Russian Meteor, in America
May 3, 2013 12:00 am | by Georgia Institute of Technology | CommentsNew research could let vehicles, robots collaborate with humans
May 3, 2013 12:00 am | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | CommentsYou get into your car and ask it to get you home in time for the start of the big game, stopping off at your favorite Chinese restaurant on the way to grab some takeout. But the car informs you that the road past the Chinese restaurant is closed for repairs, so you will not make it home in 30 minutes unless you choose a different food outlet. You select a nearby Korean restaurant from the options the car suggests, and set off on the c...
Teradata's Q1 profit down 35 percent
May 2, 2013 6:33 pm | by The Associated Press | CommentsData management company Teradata Corp. reported Thursday its first-quarter profit dropped 35 percent as the company got off to what its CEO acknowledged was a slow start to the year. Net income at Teradata, which helps financial, marketing and other companies store and analyze data, fell to $59...
Intel's CEO pick sticks to tried-and-true formula
May 2, 2013 6:10 pm | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | CommentsIn picking Brian Krzanich as its next CEO, Intel Corp. stuck to a familiar playbook amid a game-changing shift in computing that has raised worries about the future of the world's largest chipmaker. Ever since Intel co-founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore ceded their roles as the first two...
Intel names Krzanich as chipmaker's next CEO
May 2, 2013 2:44 pm | by PETER SVENSSON - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | CommentsIntel's chief operating officer, Brian Krzanich, will become its next CEO in two weeks, tasked with steering the world's largest chipmaker through an industry shake-up that is seeing tablets and smartphones overshadow Intel's base in personal computers. Intel, one of the pillars of Silicon...
Book: A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults
May 2, 2013 2:43 pm | by Yale UniversityYale University | CommentsYaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email....
