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Google?s Buckyballs doodle costs people money, drives users away

...easy to spot the guilty party: Google. To be specific, Google’s Buckyballs celebration doodle was consuming 100% of my CPU. Closing and reopening IE8... Read more

5 September, 2010

Buckyballs get spintronics cash injection from ERC

Graphene might be stealing all the headlines, but other forms of carbon are still making waves in the emerging field of... Read more

22 January, 2012
What is graphene?

What is graphene?

...into cloth to make lightweight and flexible body armour. And what about buckyballs — another member of the fullerene family? These football-shaped arrangements of 60... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

Google's blobby mystery doodle consumes more CPU than Flash video (updated)

...make up the letters flee from your mouse pointer. And like the Buckyballs doodle I wrote about recently, it’s a resource hog. In Microsoft... Read more

7 September, 2010

Smartphones, sports cars, tablets, datacentres and IE9

...Doodles. Shown above is Doodle team member Jennifer Hom working on her Buckyball doodle sketch on the Wacom tablet that she and the rest of... Read more

28 September, 2010 by silicon.com staff

Researchers move toward plastic chips

...than doubled the temperature at which carbon-60--also known as the "buckyball"--can behave as a superconductor. Batlogg, a native of Austria, is known... Read more

12 October, 2001 by Dietmar Müller

Flashy balls make for mega-memory

...electrons?). Back in reality-land, though, researchers at Cornell have proposed popping buckyballs - think graphene sheets formed into football-like spheres - into flash memory structures... Read more

22 April, 2008

Pencil + sticky tape = desktop supercollider + post-silicon processors

...a hexagonal honeycomb structure. By the 1980s, some examples had been found – buckyballs, where the honeycomb wraps to form a sphere, and nanotubes, where it... Read more

6 November, 2007

Graphene - watch this space

...one atom thick. Think of it as an unrolled nanotube or unpicked buckyball. Long thought impossible, about four years the stuff was discovered and, delightfully... Read more

7 March, 2007

IBM announces nanotube breakthrough

...existing chipmaking techniques." Carbon nanotubes, cylindrical carbon molecules with structural similarities to buckyballs, have extraordinary properties; they conduct electricity better than metals, are stronger than... Read more

24 March, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

IDF: Future computers take a new form

...power-hungry components get rid of their heat: diamond films, carbon-60 buckyballs and phase-change alloys that melt into the surface of the processor... Read more

28 February, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...s carbon in the form of fullerenes -- otherwise known as buckminster fullerene, buckyballs, and other cute names beginning with nano -- where the atoms form into... Read more

18 September, 2001

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...s carbon in the form of fullerenes -- otherwise known as buckminster fullerene, buckyballs, and other cute names beginning with nano -- where the atoms form into... Read more

18 September, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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apexwm

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Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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