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The more expensive option billed as a fully fledged “multi-touch game machine.”   Founded upon open source plans for optical touch tables, the designers of the Playsurface hope to develop a versatile touchscreen table-top suitable for a variety of “blazingly fast” applications (yes, including gaming) supporting multpiple users. Though purely an input and display device,

New hacking technique imperceptibly changes memory virtual servers For the first time ever a team of Dutch hacking experts, led by cyber security professor Herbert Bos, managed to alter the memory of virtual machines in the cloud without a software bug, using a new attack technique. With this technique an attacker can crack the keys

AI could help make large data centres more energy efficient Artificially intelligent computer software that can learn, adapt and rebuild itself in real-time could help combat climate change. Researchers at Lancaster University’s Data Science Institute have developed a software system that can for the first time rapidly self-assemble into the most efficient form without needing

Head off a patent law that he says will favor big companies and hurt lone inventors like himself In Silicon Valley, Apple just won big against Samsung in the patent lawsuit of the year, after trading claims and counterclaims of pilfered product ideas. Across the country, in a federal court in Florida, an inventor named Mark Stadnyk

Inspired by Star Trek, biologists are enabling new experiments in virtual reality How do people orient themselves when they are in a new area? How do we use street signs or houses, for instance, to estimate the distance we have traveled? Put simply: how do we update our mental map? Neuroscientists have been studying such

After six years of painstaking effort, a group of University of Wisconsin—Madison materials scientists believes the tiny sheets of the semiconductor zinc oxide they’re growing could have huge implications for the future of a host of electronic and biomedical devices. The group — led by Xudong Wang, a UW–Madison professor of materials science and engineering,

Aerofex has currently limited human flight testing to a height of 15 feet and speeds of about 30 mph A resurrected hover vehicle won’t fly through dense forests as effortlessly as the “Star Wars” speeder bikes from “Return of the Jedi,” but its intuitive controls could someday allow anyone to fly it without pilot training.

FAU physicists demonstrate using a laser to control a current in graphene within just one femtosecond Controlling electronic current is essential to modern electronics, as data and signals are transferred by streams of electrons which are controlled at high speed. Demands on transmission speeds are also increasing as technology develops. Scientists from the Chair of

An earthquake measuring device is priced at about $20,000 but startup Grillo has developed a $50 alternative. The dream is to allow even developing nations affordable early warning devices that can warn against the destructive power of earthquakes. Although it can affect vast areas of land, there is no effective way to predict an earthquake