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New planet Kepler 22-b signals NASA’s move away from true discovery
There has been a lot of excitement this week about the announcement of the discovery of Kepler 22-b, a supposed “twin Earth” that exists in a habitable zone about 600 light-years away from […]
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Blue Waters petaflop supercomputer installation begins
Blue Waters will be one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet when it finally gets built. Its sustained performance is expected to exceed 1 petaflop, which will be put to good […]
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Nvidia unveils the GeForce GTX 690 with two Kepler GPUs
Last week AMD stole the limelight with the announcement it was moving to a 28nm process for the latest mobile Radeon GPUs. This week, it’s the turn of Nvidia, but with a new […]
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MacBook Pro to use Nvidia GT 650M GPU, 2.7GHz Ivy Bridge CPU
The big question surrounding the next refresh of the MacBook Pro laptops is whether Apple has opted for a significant redesign or just upgraded the internal spec. There’s increasing evidence to suggest...
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First alien Earth expected to be discovered in 2013
Lately, it seems every year we get some news from astronomers that some kind of Earth-like planet has been found. However, we still haven’t quite found a planet that is “another Earth.” Normally, […]
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Nvidia’s 2,688 shader GeForce GTX Titan graphics card leaks
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 is a difficult card to beat. Not only is it currently the best performing graphics card on the market, it’s also the most expensive (RRP $999) due to […]
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Nvidia launches the GeForce GTX Titan graphics card
Last week Nvidia’s new graphics card leaked to the press with a few hints as to what kind of performance jump we can expect. Today, Nvidia has officially launched that card as the […]
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Kepler-37b is the smallest exoplanet ever found by astronomers
It seems like astronomers are announcing the discovery of a new exoplanet every other day. It’s almost like there are billions of them up there, right? The most recent exoplanet spotted comes with […]
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Nvidia decides to start licensing its GPU tech and visual patents
There was a time when Nvidia’s complete attention was on providing PC users with the best graphics cards and GPUs. But then the market shifted, and mobile platforms arrived. So Nvidia also shifted […]
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Giants of Science: Tycho Brahe, astronomy’s most tumultuous genius
Duels, parties, murder mysteries and, oh yes, groundbreaking science abound in one of the most interesting scientific lives of all time.
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NASA developing plan for broken Kepler space telescope
NASA launched the Kepler telescope back in 2009 with a directive to search for Earth-like extrasolar planets. The mission was supposed to last at least seven years, but last spring tragedy struck the […]
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Could aliens be easiest to find while they die?
Rather than ask what life's beginnings might look like on another planet, astronomers are beginning to wonder how a planet might look as its biosphere comes slowly to its end.
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Cassini offers us a view of Titan’s oceans of natural gas
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed some truly stunning scans of the hydrocarbon lakes present on Saturn's giant moon, Titan.
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Nvidia’s 192-core Tegra K1 mobile chip runs Unreal Engine 4
Nvidia is promising games performance that exceeds PS3 and Xbox 360 on mobile devices using a 192-core Tegra K1 chip.
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Tegra K1 demonstrates a step away from smartphones for Nvidia
As they did last year, Nvidia took to the stage at CES this year to show off their next generation of mobile processors. While the new Tegra K1 is nothing short of mind […]
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NASA uses big data to confirm 715 strange new exoplanets
New analytical techniques have paid huge dividends for NASA, confirming a huge group of new and exciting planets outside our solar system.
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First Earth-like planet found in the habitable zone of a nearby star
NASA's Kepler, the planet-hunting space telescope, has spied the most Earth-like planet ever found, and it's sitting in the sweet spot for developing life.
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Kepler measures first alien day, and it’s incredibly fast
A new report lays out the incredibly quick rotation of Beta Pictoris b, an enormous planet that puts the Earth's day-night cycle to shame.
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Nvidia’s awesome Jetson Tegra K1 dev board on sale for just $1 per core
Want a ridiculously powerful — yet still relatively tiny — dev board for your next DIY project? Then you’ll want to scrape together $192 and order up Nvidia’s Jetson with the hot new […]
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Kepler Rising: NASA resurrects its planet hunter to great effect
NASA has resurrected its tailored planet finder Kepler, partially fixing it and putting it back on duty, all from millions of kilometers away.
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