2011: High-Frequency Trading makes up 53% of Wall Street Trading
Larry Tabb, President of the Tabb Group market research firm, says that 53% of all the buying and selling in US stock markets is automated through computer...
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15th Aug2011
15th Aug2011
Proposed Battery-less Computing with Spintronics and Straintronics
Researchers from the Virginia Commonwealth University detailed a circuit design whose energy requirements were so low, no battery would be required. This new scheme combines spintronics and...
14th Aug2011
“Samarai”; The Maple Leaf Inspired Flying Drone
Lockheed Martin’s New Jersey laboratories revealed “Samarai”, the single-propeller flying drone. Originally commisioned by DARPA five years ago, Samarai was designed to be thrown like a boomerang,...
14th Aug2011
30th Anniversary of the PC
In August 1981, IBM released model 5150; the first personal computer. Back then, $1,565 would get you an Intel8088 processor, 16K of memory, a 160K floppy disk...
13th Aug2011
SIGGRAPH 2011: Cory Doctorow’s Keynote
SIGGRAPH 2011 concluded this Thursday and it proved to be Vancouver’s largest conference ever with 15,872 artists, research scientists, gaming experts and developers, filmmakers, students, and academics...
05th Aug2011
QuakeCon 2011: John Carmack’s Keynote and Q&A
This year’s Carmack-Talk focused on the id software’s upcoming title RAGE. Carmack’s initial talk comes off much like a post-mortem for the soon-to-be-released FPS, commenting on the...