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Simplified Management in the Real World with VMware vCenter Operations
With so much of your network becoming virtual, it can be difficult to visualize and manage things. Check out this webcast to learn more about simplified management in a virtualized world.
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HP announces a containerized datacenter sale
With the announcement of Purdue University's purchase of an HP POD container some of the veil is pulled away from the container market.
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'Microring' wireless devices could nix wires in homes, offices
Purdue University researchers have developed a system capable of converting ultra fast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency signals using "microring resonators." The technology could apply...
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A 'simpler' invisibility cloak
Still far from what you've seen on Star Trek, the development of technology to cloak objects--currently too small to see anyway--is heating up. Researchers at Purdue University report that they've...
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Towards low-cost LED lighting
You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and...
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A refrigerator inside your laptop?
Even if the semiconductor industry is working on it, computer chips are big energy spenders. And new cooling systems will be needed in the future. Purdue University engineers think they have a...
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New approach gives Purdue serious computing power
Purdue University will be replacing its current research computing clusters on May 5th with one of the world's largest supercomputers. While this isn't especially surprising at a school known for...
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Cellphones to detect dirty bombs?
Purdue University engineers are developing a system which would use a U.S. network of cellphones to detect dirty bombs and nuclear weapons. They say that 'such a system could blanket the nation...
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Simulating planes flying at Mach 6
Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, such as the X-51A aircraft being built by Pratt & Whitney and Boeing, should start to fly in 2009. And if everything goes according to plan, missiles...
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Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attack
Researchers at Purdue University have completed a computing simulation to detail what likely happened to the World Trade Center when an airline struck the North Tower in the Sept. 11, 2001...
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Photos: College students the picture of inefficiency
Ferris State and Purdue University students celebrate their first- and second-place wins at annual Rube Goldberg competition for complex machinery.
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Spectroscopy on the go with new, portable tech
Purdue University has helped develop a handheld sniffing system that can detect bacteria, drugs or any other residue of interest. Applications range from food safety to homeland security. In this...
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Jay Leno uses indie YouTube video; NBC gets it taken down
Internet outcry rises after Jay Leno uses a YouTube video without permission and NBC removes it with a copyright claim takedown.
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Digital foreplay, virtual houseflies among Carnegie Mellon work (videos)
End-of-term projects from Golan Levin's Interactive Art and Computational Design class give us a peek at what kinds of technological mischief our future geniuses are getting up to in school.
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Sex Tech: Reddit vs. Romney, Sex Addiction, Spankable Robot, Tumblr Sued
Tumblr sued by Perfect 10, Reddit vs. Mitt Romney, Japanese robot butt for spanking, no science for sex addiction.
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Twitter teams up with UC Berkeley to offer course in Big Data
Interested in programming? Some students at UC Berkeley will soon have the chance to view Twitter from an insider's perspective.
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Are universities reluctant to use iTunes U?
Is iTunes U a viable platform for school systems to implement?
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Spotify for iOS goes universal; gets iPad love
Huzzah! Spotify for iPad has arrived in the form of a universal iOS app that was released today.
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Oxford University IT staff 'somewhat overwhelmed by Mac malware'
In a pair of candid blog posts, a member of Oxford's network security staff says the Flashback malware episode is the worst they've seen since the Blaster worm of 2003. And Apple is "making...
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A thousand days in the life of the infrared universe (photos)
The Infrared Array Camera aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been busy capturing nebulae of cold dust, peering inside obscured dust clouds, and detecting faint emissions from distant...
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Nanosponges soak up more than 100x their weight in oil
Rice, Penn State researchers laced carbon nanotubes with boron to create reusable oil-soaking sponges that show promise for environmental cleanup, among many uses.
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