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Beams all round as LHC progress accelerates
News Gillies told ZDNet UK that not only had scientists recorded the first collisions of protons on Monday, but that overnight one of the beams had been accelerated. Cern said in a press statement on Monday that the LHC had circulated two beams...
[November 24, 2009, 11:49]
Linear Systems Beams
Downloads Students manipulate weights on two balance beams to solve two simultaneous equations. Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context.
[July 17, 2001, 8:00]
Mickey Mouse beams into your car
News OnStar, a division of US automobile company General Motors, said last week it has signed a deal to bring Internet content from Walt Disney Internet Group to cars with Net access. The move is aimed at beefing up OnStar's automobile data service...
[July 23, 2001, 16:06]
Microsoft beams video to mobiles
News Software giant Microsoft said on Thursday that it is launching a wireless video delivery system for mobile devices in partnership with a pair of digital media content and applications makers. The software, called MobileVision, is meant to provide a...
[March 12, 2004, 10:25]
'Star Trek' auction beams up to eBay
News Some lucky "Star Trek" fan will have a chance to take the captain's seat in an upcoming auction available on eBay. Captain Kirk's command chair from the starship Enterprise will be one of some 374 mostly "Star Trek"-related lots that will go up for...
[June 21, 2002, 9:05]
Flash beams out of browser
News Software maker Macromedia on Wednesday released a test version of Central, a new add-on for its widespread Flash animation format that's intended to make Internet information easily available offline.
[September 25, 2003, 14:55]
Gyration Ultra Cordless Optical Mouse & Mobile Keyboard review
Reviews As you move the mouse, the waggly beams try to continue to move in the same direction as they did before; the battle between how they want to move and how they're being made to move creates Coriolis forces that measure movement up and down and...
[November 6, 2002, 8:20]
Intel splits light to speed chips
News Intel scientists split a light beam into two separate beams by passing it through silicon. They then used a transistor-like device to hit one beam with an electric charge, inducing a "phase shift" -- effectively moving the light wave along a bit...
[February 17, 2004, 9:30]
Large Hadron Collider up and running again
Blog The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a statement on Friday that particle beams are once again circulating in the LHC, and that a clockwise circulating beam was established at 10 PM local time.
[November 20, 2009, 23:03]
A look at the damage that halted the LHC
News The particle accelerator was damaged by a liquid helium leak in September, nine days into an experiment to test fundamental theories of physics by colliding beams of protons inside a 27km ring. The superconducting magnets, used to direct and focus...
[December 10, 2008, 15:55]
LHC on course for November restart
News James Gillies, head of communications for Cern, told ZDNet UK on Monday that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would probably be ready to collide beams of particles by mid-November. The magnets which will guide the beams are being powered up in these...
[October 5, 2009, 14:05]
Robo for Symbian UIQ
Downloads In order to move, our hero has to block laser beams that guard all passageways or destroy laser cannons. This objective can be reached by moving stones to block laser beams, using bombs to explode laser cannons or even, for the gaming Einsteins...
[November 6, 2008, 23:12]
Robo for Symbian UIQ v.3
Downloads In order to move, our hero has to block laser beams that guard all passageways or destroy laser cannons. This objective can be reached by moving stones to block laser beams, using bombs to explode laser cannons or even, for the gaming Einsteins...
[November 7, 2008, 0:13]
Robo for Symbian S60
Downloads In order to move, our hero has to block laser beams that guard all passageways or destroy laser cannons. This objective can be reached by moving stones to block laser beams, using bombs to explode laser cannons or even, for the gaming Einsteins...
[November 7, 2008, 0:06]
Robo for Symbian S60 v.3
Downloads In order to move, our hero has to block laser beams that guard all passageways or destroy laser cannons. This objective can be reached by moving stones to block laser beams, using bombs to explode laser cannons or even, for the gaming Einsteins...
[November 7, 2008, 0:12]
LHC sets world record for particle acceleration
News In the early hours of Monday morning, both the clockwise and the anticlockwise beams were accelerated to 1.18 TeV, giving the protons a speed of approximately 0.9997 times the speed of light. The first beams were injected into the LHC on 20...
[November 30, 2009, 15:01]
Case Study #2: Riverside Avenue Bridge, Greenwich
White Papers The truss's floor beams (themselves a 1925 alteration) were partly cut away to create clearance for four I-beams, which carry a new concrete-slab deck. Because it is adjacent to a railroad station, Riverside Avenue Bridge carries substantial traffic.
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Laser beams have many useful roles to play in IT. Only if Dr Evil has a thing for sharks with frickin' laser beams in their heads, he'll probably want to steal the MX1000 - it's a mouse with a frickin' laser beam.
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News Synchronisation between the SPS and the LHC to within a fraction of a nanosecond is crucial to the LHC project, which will involve sending particle beams around the 27km-long circular tunnel at unprecedented energies, then smashing them into each...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
LHC restart now on hold until September
News The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Cern, the organisation that built the LHC, announced on Monday that it expects the first beams to begin in September, with the first collisions expected by late October.
[February 10, 2009, 8:23]
