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The new Apple iPad is displaying a full battery when it still has an hour to charge, Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies said after testing the new tablet’s display.
“The new iPad continues to charge for about 1 hour after it claims to reach 100%. This affects the battery run time if you stop charging when [...]
New iPad Lies About Charging Status
ipad-battery
The new Apple iPad is displaying a full battery when it still has an hour to charge, Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies said after testing the new tablet’s display.
“The new iPad continues to charge for about 1 hour after it claims to reach 100%. This affects the battery run time if you stop charging when [...]
Your Belly Button May Be Home to Unkn...
If you’ve ever wanted to go venturing into some uncharted cave in search of exotic species yet unknown to science, then please extend your index finger and place it into your belly button. Done? Okay, now welcome to the habitat of potentially some 1,400 bacterial strains — hundreds of which may be unidentified. According to biolog [...]
Real U.S. Stealth-Tech Advantage: Its...
For more than 20 years, the U.S. Air Force had a world monopoly on radar-evading technology — and with it, a huge advantage over any rival. Several generations of stealth fighters and bombers, from the earliest F-117s to the 1990s-vintage B-2s and today’s F-22s, have helped win wars, take down regimes and exert U.S. influence across the globe [...]
Siemens successfully concluded R&...
Having set a new energy saving benchmark for seawater desalination, Siemens is now poised to transition their ground-breaking technology to the product development phase. As a result of an R&D initiative that commenced in October 2008, a demonstration plant was built in Singapore to treat seawater to drinking water quality. The results, w [...]
Microsoft’s Bing search engine ...
Microsoft’s Bing search engine will provide English-language search results for Baidu, China’s largest search engine, the companies announced Monday.
Further details of the deal, including its financial terms, weren’t disclosed.
The move follows Google’s decision last year to pull its search engine from China’s m [...]
Moore’s Law,Is it still Struggl...
We’ve been hearing for years that Moore’s Law is about to meet its Waterloo, and we better start doing something about it. Now.
If you’ve ever wondered why it’s so important to do something now, then consider the following statistics, which Freescale Semiconductor trotted out during its Freescale Technology Forum last [...]
Student-designed device could make di...
There are approximately 1.5 million people worldwide who require regular hemodialysis treatments, due to the fact that their kidneys are no longer able to clean their blood. Clinicians generally reuse the same access point on each patient’s body, for routing their blo [...]
Science explodes at African lake
The depths of Africa’s Lake Kivu harbor untold quantities of carbon dioxide and methane gases that could provide abundant electricity to millions of Rwandans and Congolese settling along its shores. But those gases could suddenly release, killing everything in and around the lake.
“Understanding whether you can find scenarios that [...]
Inside Secure and ZTE Working to Brin...
Inside Secure, a leader in semiconductor solutions for secure transactions, today announced it has expanded its partnership with ZTE Corporation to integrate Inside’s near field communication (NFC) technology into ZTE’s GSM and next-generation TD-SCDMA smartphone platform, which is based on the Android OS. The NFC solution Inside [...]
The Energy Storage Issue
When talk turns to alternative sources of power, one of the big issues that always tends to come up is the matter of storage. The reason so much discussion revolves around this is that the predominant alt energy sources — wind and solar — only generate power at certain times. Unlike hydro or coal/gas-powered utilities that are capable of con [...]
A Bike That Uses Its Brakes for a Spe...
For more than 150 years New York City’s Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (more commonly called The Cooper Union) has finished its school years with an annual event showcasing student projects in the areas of art, architecture and engineering. Of the more than 300 projects on display this year were several inventions [...]
Chevrolet Sonic To Start Under $15,00...
General Motors said Friday that pricing for its new Chevrolet Sonic will start at just under $15,000 when the sub-compact car hits dealer lots this fall. Base models of the 2012 Sonic will start at $14,495 including the destination charge, but excluding tax, title, license and dealer fees. Its standard equipment includes 10 airbags, power doo [...]
Three cylinder 1.0-Liter EcoBoost-Sma...
It’s a sign of the times that Ford is gearing up to launch the smallest capacity engine, with less cylinders than any it has previously produced. The new 1.0-liter EcoBoost will be launched globally in all small Ford cars, and in addition to recognized technologies employed by Ford in its EcoBoost engines, such as turbocharging, direct [...]
Microscopic Worms Could Help Open Up ...
The worms — from The University of Nottingham — were flown into space onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. They spent 11 days in orbit onboard the International Space Station more than 200 miles above Earth.
Many of C. elegans‘ 20,000 genes perform the same functions as those in humans. Experts in human physiology from the Sc [...]
Microscopic Technology could lead to...
A team from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) used the equipment to determine the structure of protein molecules in the body that can cause cancer if they stop working properly. The facility, known as Octopus (Optics Clustered to Output Unique Solutions), allowed the researchers to examine the molecules while they were sti [...]
