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Culprit found for latest LHC leaks
News Cern has revised the restart date of the LHC several times since the experiment was put out of action last September by an electrical fault. According to the latest estimates, the particle acceleration experiment is unlikely to restart before mid...
[August 3, 2009, 16:01]
Scientists 'teleport' atomic particles
News In NIST's teleportation experiment, there is no physical movement. The NIST experiment works by putting three atoms in a confined area, called a trap, filled with gold electrons and lasers. Teleportation -- "sending" atoms, or at least their...
[June 18, 2004, 12:05]
Public houses go well and truly public
News If the experiment is successful, Webcams could be introduced in more than 1,000 Whitbread pubs throughout the UK -- not the best of news for those planning secret trysts or husbands trying to get away from their wives for the evening.
[February 23, 2001, 6:12]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News The report comes as the US Department of Defense prepares to launch the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), a system that will let absentee military voters in 50 counties in seven states place their votes; the...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Distributed computing gets top marks
News The protein experiment, however, provided a solid example. And though distributed computing projects have had some success when it comes to mathematical challenges -- one group found the largest prime numbers, while another group deciphered a...
[October 23, 2002, 13:58]
LHC restart pushed back further
News However, the plan now is to restart the experiment in late summer next year, Cern's head of communications James Gillies told ZDNet UK on Friday. According to the document, written by Jorg Weninger, a member of the operations group, 'Plan A' called...
[November 28, 2008, 13:47]
Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Hence, it seemed like a jolly fun experiment to put the next generation of Microsoft's operating system on what barely qualifies as a first-gen netbook. Either way, it was a fun experiment to carry out.
[November 19, 2008, 10:31]
Nintendo reveals online plans
News George Harrison, vice president of marketing for Nintendo of America, said that Nintendo's open approach allows game publishers to experiment with subscription models, other versions of paid online content or free services.
[May 14, 2002, 8:58]
Hidden Filename Extensions and Assumed Idiot Users
Talkback An social experiment I would like to run would be have the Users sign a voluntary reimbursement agreement. Obviously this entire experiment could be un-done by the pointy-haired bosses caving in to User pressure to get it changed back OR showing...
[May 7, 2009, 10:04]
Internet voting gets stamp of approval
News Michigan's experiment comes as Internet voting is drawing both interest and criticism. Other Election.com assets were purchased by Accenture, which had planned to run the Pentagon's balloting system, called Secure Electronic Registration and Voting...
[February 10, 2004, 10:30]
Braille is key to new storage technology
News In December, researchers at the University of Oklahoma revealed details about an experiment that allowed them to reproduce an image that was encoded and stored for an instant within a liquid-crystal molecule.
[January 24, 2003, 7:36]
Intel's convertible Classmate in action
News The Classmate's tilt sensor can then experiment with their properties in motion. Here, Algoryx chief executive Kenneth Bodin is adjusting an experiment to reproduce a well-known album cover, using a stylus and touch input.
[January 16, 2009, 15:21]
Video wall enters third dimension
News With visualisation you can blow (the experiment) up and take a much better look at it from.all angles" before even committing the design to paper, Haine said. Though scientists have long used computers to run virtual experiments and map new areas...
[May 24, 2002, 12:30]
Nuggets: Nikon CoolPix 990 is a top-class challenger
News Quality of the images was excellent, although you are advised to experiment often with the camera settings to see which work best in specific circumstances. Manual exposure gives creative control, but do experiment
[December 22, 2000, 8:03]
How to build your own supercomputer, HP-style
News The version of the e-pc used for I-Cluster is sealed, meaning no hardware tweaks could be made, and the experiment uses standard networking equipment as well. Richard said the experiment showed that there is a linear relationship between the number...
[October 4, 2001, 17:12]
A very Wiki situation
Leader Cynics would find it easy to declare ‘I told you so’ following Miliband’s sharp exit from his experiment with Web 2.0. Defra deserves some credit despite the abortive result of this Wiki experiment but only because of the poor showing of its peers.
[September 7, 2006, 17:25]
Virtually CD-free: the future of music?
News The Cordless Recordings label is an ambitious experiment in several ways for Warner Music, which has increased its focus on digital distribution since being sold by parent company Time Warner in late and going public earlier this year.
[November 14, 2005, 16:40]
Esquire tests wiki ethos
News Andy Baio, who posted a link to the Esquire experiment on Waxy.org: Links suggested the project provides a particularly apt example of how Wikipedians handle articles. The idea I had — which Jimmy [Wales, Wikipedia's founder] loved — is that I'd...
[September 30, 2005, 16:45]
'Tennis-shoe glue' sticks circuits to chips
News The patterning molecules in IBM’s experiment are called diblock copolymers, said Black. The flash memory chips in this experiment were made on processes that are generally compatible with existing manufacturing tools, IBM said.
[December 8, 2003, 7:55]
Improve TCP/IP performance in W2K registry
News You can check the MTU size for your environment by opening a command prompt on your administration workstation and typing PING -F -I [MTUsize] [gateway] where MTUsize is the size you want to experiment with and gateway is the gateway of your network.
[October 8, 2002, 14:24]
