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May 1, 2008

The Mysterious Memristor

Researchers at HP have solved the 37-year mystery of the
memory resistor, the missing 4th circuit element.

"Super Bowl" Cancelled?

The big picture

37 Years of Moore's Law

The data

A Difficult Time For Depression Devices

Mood-disorder treatment has eluded the makers of brain
stimulators. Will the next round of research fare better?

Ausra Makes Solar Thermal Simple and Cheap

A start-up decades in the making may accelerate the
solar-energy revolution

...And More Forum

China Doubles Wind Watts

Trumping rivals in wind energy despite dismal returns

Energy-Efficient Ethernet

Ethernet connections waste lots of watts. It need not be so

Forum: Our Readers Write

Gordon Moore's Next Act

The man behind Moore's Law is tackling biodiversity, the future of engineering education, and the secrets of the galaxies

Her First DARPATech

Back story

I See You

In Defense of Dumb

Gadgets don't necessarily get better when you give them brains

It's Not Easy Being Lean

In seven months, a chip-fabrication plant reduced
wafer-manufacturing costs by 12 percent and cycle time by 67
percent. How'd they do it?

Jeannine Mosely: Paper Sculptor

mini-profile

N800 Fights the Bad Guys

If you want to find the vulnerabilities in your system
before the black-hat hackers do, Nokia's programmable
handheld is just the ticket

Q&A With: IARPA Director Lisa Porter

The first director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity discusses the differences between intelligence work and defense

Plugging Away in a Prius

Jonathan Sawyer spent $30 000--and voided the warranty--to add a plug to his Prius hybrid

Survivor: The Office

You can't avoid office politics, so you might as well learn
the rules of the game

Taiwanese software spots stock-market stinkers

Evolutionary algorithm combined with three other prediction
methods can spot which companies are headed for trouble two
years in advance

The Hunt for the Kill Switch

Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out

The Mash Monsters

DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D sing the praises of the
mashup, a do-it-yourself combo of existing music that has
copyright lawyers licking their chops

The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing

The Toyota Production System has been applied to chip making. The electronics industry may never be the same

Zipf Drive

May 5, 2008

ELECTRIC VEHICLES MOVE FORWARD...SLOWLY

A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a
Tesla lawsuit

EV ROUNDUP: ELECTRIC VEHICLES MOVE FORWARD...SLOWLY

A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a
Tesla lawsuit

May 7, 2008

Internal NASA Documents Give Clues to Scary Soyuz Return Flight

Engineers are attempting to reconstruct the 19 April Soyuz
descent from the ISS

The Rise of the Energy-Efficient Utility

Vermont's efforts to curb electricity demand are working,
and Delaware is starting the most ambitious plan yet

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