Star Trek Universal translator built
Microsoft has been showing off a Star Trek style universal translator. The system uses voice recognition and text-to-speech software, in one tool that can be used to easily communicate with folks who...
View ArticleAmateur team tracks US spy plane
A group of amateur sky-watchers has succeeded in tracking the movements of a recently-launched unmanned US spaceplane.Nine metres long with a 4.5m wingspan, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle was launched...
View ArticleStar Trek tractor beam created
A new tool uses a beam of light as a tiny 'tractor beam' to manipulate microscopic objects. Tel Aviv University's Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOTs) can manipulate up to 300 nanoparticles at a time....
View ArticleAMD offers women advice on how to score
AMD is offering women advice on how to get themselves a geeky boyfriend. We know that most advice in this direction has been directed to geeks who have been unable to find girls, but AMD seems to think...
View ArticleBoffins close to curing common cold
Scientists are close to achieving something that Dr Bones McCoy could not do on Star Trek – finding a cure for the common cold. The boffins who work at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge...
View ArticleAndroid gear can translate your conversations
Search outfit Google has worked out a way to turn its Android-powered smartphones into interpreters. The experimental software lets the handsets translate conversations in real time. Google added a...
View ArticleScientists put antimatter on standby for over 16 minutes
Star Trek-style interstellar travel edged a step closer with the news that CERN scientists have trapped antimatter particles for over 16 minutes. Antimatter has been baffling scientists for some time...
View ArticleUltra wideband used to create Star Trek 'Tricoder'
Scientists are looking towards the properties of ultra wideband transmitting technology to take another step towards making Star Trek a reality – creating a working Tricoder. Technology featured on the...
View ArticleStanley Kubrick invented the iPad in 1968
Samsung is claiming that Apple's insistence that Steve Jobs invented the iPad is overturned by science fiction. According to a new filing, Samsung has opposed the preliminary injunction Apple filed for...
View ArticleAMD's Rick Bergman ends up at Synaptics
Rick Bergman, who is not the same bloke who was behind stuffing up Star Trek and the god awful "family values" dinosaur series "Terra Nova", has found a new home as the new president and CEO of...
View ArticlePredict what the ioSafe lunatics do next, win some stuff
Indestructible hard drive mad-men at ioSafe are hosting another one of their pre-CES competitions. 'tis the season, a spokesperson tells us. All you have to do is correctly guess how they'll be testing...
View ArticleHawking wants a voice update
Top British brain Steven Hawking needs a new geeky assistant who can repair electronic devices with no instruction manual or technical support. The physicist is advertising for an assistant to help...
View ArticleAnother AMD suit plans to escape
Fabless chipmaker AMD has lost another key executive after Eric Demers, the chief technology officer for the graphics business, announced he is leaving. According to PC Mag, his role will be taken over...
View ArticleMenacing Big Bird steals the spotlight at bizarre Qualcomm CES opening
Sadly, we're not at CES this year. If we were, we'd have seen Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs talk through some boast-worthy figures about mobile chips before oddity after oddity swamped the show and turned...
View ArticleSherlock star cyber stalked
UK Star Trek and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch said that his new found fame has bought him a cyber stalker. Cumberbatch told the Daily Telegraph he could not work out how details of his personal...
View ArticleResearcher gets to warp speed on 1,966,080 cores
A team of boffins has managed to create a protocol which can carry out 7.8 million MPI tasks on 1,966,080 cores of the Sequoia Blue Gene/Q supercomputer system. According to the research spec this...
View ArticleCisco inspired by The Big Bang Theory
While Star Trek fans bang on about how their favourite show inspired mobile tech, Cisco has been taking its inspiration from situation comedy. The Big Bang Theory had an episode where one of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft readies its smart watch
Microsoft researchers are flat out trying to create a new watch to make sure it's ready when Apple and Samsung release theirs. According to the Independent, Redmond's crack team of Surface employees...
View ArticleSorry, Star Trek teleportation is impractical
Star Trek fans will be disappointed to hear that researchers at the University of Leicester have calculated the time and energy required to beam a complete person from the Earth’s surface to a location...
View ArticleSkype can do real time translations
Software king of the world Microsoft has opened its kimono on a "real-time" language translation feature for Skype. Chief executive Satya Nadella said Vole would launch a test version of the service,...
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