128 gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory chip which is now in mass production. Built using SanDisk's 19-nm process technology, the chip uses SanDisk’s three-bit per cell (X3) tech that allows the company to build NAND flash memory products with the ability to read and write three bits of information in each memory cell.
So what does this all mean for the general consumer? More storage packed into the same form factors we know and love today like smartphones, tablets and even ultrabooks. The 128 Gb NAND flash memory chip can store 128 billion individual bits of information on a single silicon die 170-mm2 in size.
"At 19-nm, SanDisk is deploying its ninth generation of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND products and fifth generation of X3 technology," the company said in a press release. "This combination of manufacturing and technical expertise helps SanDisk pack more information into each memory cell making it possible to create a smaller, denser NAND flash memory chip."
In addition to the chip's announcement, the company also said it will be presenting a paper at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco on Wednesday that outlines how its patented advanced all bit line (ABL) architecture was used to achieve an X3 write performance of 18 MB/s. The paper will detail how this achievement can be extended to certain product categories that use MLC NAND flash memory.
Products based on the 128 Gb three-bit per cell technology began shipping late last year, but SanDisk is just now starting to ramp into high volume production. The chip itself was developed jointly by teams from SanDisk and Toshiba at SanDisk’s Milpitas campus, led by Yan Li, director of Memory Design at SanDisk.
The team has also developed a derivative 64 Gb, X3 NAND flash memory chip based on the 128 Gb version which is compatible with the microSD format. SandDisk is ramping up the production of this chip as well.
According to Deadline, the Academy award nominated actress has landed the lead role of Princess Diana in Ecosse Films' "Caught in Flight."
"It is such an honor to be able to play this iconic role -- Princess Diana was loved across the world, and I look forward to rising to the challenge of playing her on screen," Watts said in a statement.
Apple Android apps match.
SIRI = IRIS
Like a lot other coied over stuff from iPhone to Android IRIS is another example.
One of the biggest market driving force for iPhone 4S is siri that can do NLP correctly and respond accordingly.
A team of indian android developers have tried to do do same as. Unfortunately its speed and NLP is not as good as SIRI. Some times you have to speak lil loud and make it work.
Still just a quick test with a system that took 8hrs to put together and is released as an early alpha in the Android Market. The takeaway message is that Apple can’t afford to stand still: if a small team of developers can create something like Iris in less than a day, the combined mass of Google’s developers is capable of much, much more. Ice Cream Sandwich is just the start of it.
To make physical things work in real work with a phone require a machenical extention. But once in a while engineer comes up with an idea that can blow your mind or a candel.
A genious idea of which turns your phones speaker into the world's worst personal fan, is just one of those apps.
The Japanese tradition of growing artistically shaped trees created the miniature bonsai. French artist Vivien Muller takes the bonsai concept a step further, creating artistically shaped miniature trees with solar-panel leaves to charge your gadgets. The Electree is a charging station that juices up mobile devices via USB, powered completely by light.
It's up to the user to position the 27 leaves, or solar panels, in an orientation that optimizes efficiency. The panels rotate freely, allowing the user to create an unlimited number of shapes. Energy produced during the day is stored in a 13,500 milliampere-hour-capacity battery hidden in the base. Mullen explains how he borrowed the design from nature.
A DNA based Genetics Research recently, confirms Inherited Human Intelligence, providing the first direct biological evidence for a genetic contribution to people's intelligence. The research study was jointly conducted by University of Manchester scientists, working with colleagues in Edinburgh and Australia.
The study examined more than half a million genetic markers on every person in the study. The new findings were made possible using a new type of analysis invented by Prof. Peter Visscher in Brisbane. As well as the findings in people from Scotland and England, the team checked their results in a separate group of people from Norway.
Sage Wallower, 28, and Brian Hogan, 22, were also ordered to collectively pay the Cupertino-based tech giant $250 in reparations for the smartphone prototype they sold to a writer for Gizmodo, said District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. The DA's push for a five-day jail sentence was denied by San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Stephen Hall, who instead said the men must complete 40 hours of community service. The case drew international attention after Gizmodo posted a detailed peek in April 2010 at the features and look of the top-secret phone, which Hogan found in a Redwood City bar.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs personally contacted Gizmodo to get the phone back. Though Waller, of Emeryville, and Hogan, of Redwood City, were eventually charged with misdemeanor misappropriation of lost property, the blogger who bought the device was not. Prosecutors believed Jason Chen would claim he was protected by journalistic freedoms when he acquired the phone.
Waller's attorney, Elizabeth Grossman, said the sentence was appropriate given the minor circumstances of the crime. Once Hogan discovered the phone, he enlisted Waller's help in finding a buyer, prosecutors said. After shopping the device around to some tech media sources, they struck a deal to sell the phone to Chen for $5,000. Hogan's attorney said his client is deeply remorseful for what has turned out to be a really bad choice he made after a few drinks.
According to analysts at Goldman Sachs Microsoft is making a handsome amount of patient license. Microsoft has already made similar royalty deals with several other Android device makes, most notably among them is HTC. Samsung and HTC account for over half of all the Android phones sold in the U.S. over the past year. The most notable company that has not signed a deal with Microsoft is Motorola who is the third largest Android maker in the U.S. With Google buying Motorola, we don't see a royalty agreement being made any time soon between Microsoft and Motorola either.
The reason Android device makers are signing deals with Microsoft is pretty simple, because they don't want to be sued. In an interview Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith said, "So far we have not seen a single Android device that does not infringe on our patents." In order to protect themselves from being sued by Microsoft, and ultimately paying more these companies are cutting hedging their bets and paying Microsoft upfront.
There has been no official word from Microsoft, Samsung, or HTC as to what patents in particular are being infringed upon, but Microsoft has a history of infringement cases against Linux-based products. It is rumored that HTC's royalty deal with Microsoft is for around $5 per Android device sold, so it would be safe to assume that Samsung's agreement is in that area too. Part of Samsung's agreement is the company's continued support of Microsoft phones, which basically means that Samsung now is agreeing to keep making Windows Phone devices. In a report released earlier this year it was estimated that Microsoft is making more money from HTC selling Android phones than it is selling its own WP7 devices.
The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km with much higher accuracy than previous studies conducted with accelerator neutrinos. The measurement is based on high-statistics data taken by OPERA in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Dedicated upgrades of the CNGS timing system and of the OPERA detector, as well as a high precision geodesy campaign for the measurement of the neutrino baseline, allowed reaching comparable systematic and statistical accuracies.
Scientists across the world, and even at CERN - home of the Large Hadron Collider - have been sceptical about the OPERA finding. The OPERA measurements, if independently confirmed, would mean that, in theory, information could be sent into the past, making time travel possible. "Time travel seems to be the go-to topic when faster-than-light particles are mentioned, but don't hold out hope for a TARDIS just yet," physicist Dr Jonathan Carroll at the University of Adelaide wrote on The Conversation website, referring to a time-travelling machine featured in the British television drama Doctor Who.
But he said it was more likely the OPERA finding was the result of a mistake in the calculations or experiment. "The much more likely scenario is that the analysis has overlooked some seemingly insignificant but critical aspect, and that re-analysis will led to a very good agreement with the speed of light. "Should that be the case, the followup press release will no doubt refer to the 'Phantom of the OPERA'." Another physicist likened the CERN discovery to flying carpets, saying: "This is ridiculous what they're putting out.
If you do manage to catch a chunk of satellite its not going to make a fortune. US government forbids you from selling it on eBay. The burned chunk will remain the property of the United States and must be turned over to local police.
The space agency predicts that the debris from the 20-year-old Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has a 1-in-3,200 chance of hitting a person, a scenario they consider "extremely remote". It is mostly likely the expensive shards will plummet into the sea, NASA said.
Most of the 6.5-tonne craft will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, but NASA debris experts say that at least 26 large pieces of the satellite will survive the scorching temperatures of atmospheric reentry. The climate taster has been orbiting the Earth, sampling the ozone layer and chemical compounds in the upper atmosphere. When the $750m UARS satellite was launched in 1991, NASA intended it to last for three years.
But it kept going until 2005 when NASA ordered the satellite to burn its remaining fuel and prepare for a suicide dive to Earth. The last of its fuel is now gone, and the UARS has been gradually pulled closer to Earth. Some recent solar activity has also advanced its descent. This activity can cause the Earth's atmosphere to heat and expand, increasing drag on spacecraft.
Android's Ice Cream Sandwich is still at least a month off, but that doesn't mean Google can't help developers to start preparing for the update. Today Google updated its official Android developers blog instructing Honeycomb app developers how to update their apps for the transition to Ice Cream Sandwich. Sadly the blog post doesn't give us any hints as to an exact release date, but it did provide developers with plenty of useful information.
Honeycomb developers have two options either make your app only useable on tablets, or to embrace Ice Cream Sandwich and allow your apps to be used on any size device. Clearly Google recommends the second option, seeing how Ice Cream Sandwich will be used on phones, tablets, and whatever else they can think of. Google developers are shown how to make a single app display as though it was custom built for both large and small screens.
Now a single app can adjust to whatever device it is being used on, without having to download different versions of the same app for both tablets and phones. Since first announced there has been very little information coming out of Google about the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich update. The only information we know for sure is that it will unify the user experience for Android users with a single operating system. Due to the fact that Google is instructing Honeycomb developers how to plan for phones it seems as though Ice Cream Sandwich will be more like Honeycomb than Gingerbread.
The followup to Google's current-generation Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS that's affectionately known as Ice Cream Sandwich won't even be arriving until October or November, according to Google. Which, according to thisismynext.com, may or may not be Jelly Bean. The tech blog cites one "trusted source" as saying Jelly Bean is a done deal.
What Jelly Bean has going for it, of course, is that Google has so far named each successive new version of Android and some important updates to the OS after a tasty treat that follows an alphabetical pattern. And while Ice Cream Sandwich is assumed to be a major version update from Android 3.0 to Android 4.0, Google hasn't actually made that official yet. Jelly Bean could be Android 5.0, but that's not official either.
Thisismynext.com thinks Jelly Bean makes a lot of sense because "the pickings are fairly slim for desserts with 'J' names." Maybe, but Google has been known to get creative with its Android codenames. Jelly Roll would be a nice twist on the more generic Jelly Bean, with the bonus of being an homage to jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton as well as a somewhat dated but naughty metaphor. Speaking of metaphors, here's a mix of them: If Google does decide to throw us a curveball with Android 5.0 (or whatever the "J" stop turns on the Android train turns out to be), perhaps it will go with Javvarisi, the Tamil term for pearl sago, a tapioca like starch that's used in sweet pudding dishes.
