http://news.discovery.com/tech/ Tech News focuses on the cutting-edge future of technology, from computers to nanotech, energy to robots and more. en-us Copyright 2008, Discovery Communications Inc. http://news.discovery.com/images/icons/rss-feed-logo.png http://news.discovery.com/tech/ 144 19 Mon Nov 23 2009 11:05:04 GMT Mon Nov 23 2009 11:05:04 GMT 1440 http://news.discovery.com/tech/the-era-of-the-electric-vehicle-started-now.html 8131cdaf-c1af-4363-bff5-fb2a431f6ba2 Chris Davis Electric Cars Transportation Infrastructure Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:12:25 EST The Era of the Electric Vehicle Started Now There's a lot happening with the electrification of vehicles right now. Real things, concrete steps towards full scale mass deployment. The kickoff of the Nissan Leaf tour last week and the unveiling of the City of Houston's first charging station ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/firing-up-the-large-hadron-collider-again.html be17fc2f-9a5f-4d16-8935-d04a703ce94a Jonathan Strickland Buildings and Structures Engineering Physics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:29:47 EST Firing Up the Large Hadron Collider... Again If all goes well, the Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing subatomic particles together as they travel near the speed of light around the 16.8 mile circumference of the world's most complicated machine. Scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/serving-up-solar-tech-treats.html 2d8f2547-0258-47e1-bafb-2f73a0275481 Alyssa Danigelis Green Tech Nanomaterials Nanotech Solar Power Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:33:30 EST Serving Up Solar Tech Treats Think thin-film solar is still eons away from ubiquity? Think again. Seattle-based company LivinGreen has some sweet solar tech that could make manufacturing solar cells cheaper and easier. Dye sensitized solar cells work like photosynthesis in plants. A nanoparticle dye ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/computer-conscious-mind-emerge.html 2dbe9427-bde4-45db-a205-072ea338710b Computer Simulation Computers Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:48:00 EST Will a Computer's Conscious Mind Emerge? If the human brain is data being passed from neuron to neuron at its basic level and we can simulate that in a computer, shouldn’t a conscious mind start to emerge? http://news.discovery.com/history/flashback-november-20.html 6b0c046b-28c3-47bf-943d-0091a99c67e4 Animals Earth Space Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST Flashback: Images From the Week's News Take a look back at the top stories of the past week in the Discovery News Flashback Slide Show. http://news.discovery.com/tech/spray-on-skin-burn-victims.html bc74cdcb-b5df-4785-ae39-10a401a861a6 Eric Bland Skin Stem Cells Technology Tissue Engineering Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:15:00 EST Spray-on Skin Offers Fast Healing for Burns Spray-on skin might sound like science fiction, but the new tech could spare burn victims from painful skin grafts. http://news.discovery.com/tech/hyperlens-sound-imaging-metamaterial.html 9a58783c-0ec4-4b37-865e-938d671067ce Eric Bland Babies Materials Parents Ship Submarine Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST Hyperlens Sharpens Sights With Sound High-resolution ultrasound and sonar imaging is now possible with a new metamaterial. http://news.discovery.com/tech/sucking-up-hurricane-storm.html fbc480af-42da-47ee-9769-1fc4984f92b8 Gene Charleton Engineering Hurricanes Urban Planning Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:43:00 EST Sucking Up the Storm In New Orleans, engineers are installing a giant pump they say should keep the city dry in the event of another big hurricane. Listen to the podcast. http://news.discovery.com/tech/ibm-cat-brain-computer-is-me-wow.html 44721a9c-8476-4fae-8932-fa80fe4cc611 Tracy Staedter Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:57:16 EST IBM Cat Brain Computer is Me-Wow IBM announced this week that it has a computer system that can simulate the thinking power of a cat's brain with 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. At just 4.5 percent of a human brain, the computer can sense, ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/solar-powered-home-village.html ed91551d-3387-4edc-891f-665f5a778d61 Alternative Power Sources Design Green Building Green Roofs Solar Power The Sun Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:38:00 EST Living in a Solar-Powered Village Solar homes built for a competition retire as the residences for campus students. http://news.discovery.com/tech/captain-of-industry-takes-a-spear-in-the-chest.html cde4d37f-d32e-44db-99f9-c28382eac4ac Chris Davis Carbon Emissions Carbon Footprint Carbon Neutral Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:24:16 EST Captain of Industry Takes a Spear in the Chest Ray Anderson, founder of carpet giant Interface, explains in Confessions of a Radical Industrialist that his environmental epiphany was like a "spear in the chest." Delivered to him by reindeer in Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce, Anderson relates that ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/internet-governance-an-oxymoron.html a2bc548f-0e15-471c-9c31-7663bd4e9fc0 Clark Boyd Computers Internet Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:08 EST Internet Governance: An Oxymoron? The idea that one government, one organization, or a single group "controls the Internet" is laughable. In my reporting lately, I heard someone refer to the 'Net as "modulated anarchy." I like that. But that, of course, doesn't stop some ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/computer-glitch-flight-delays.html 41aaa3dd-342e-4b5c-86bd-1a37be14dba0 Air Travel Aviation Computer Software Computers Radar Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:17:00 EST Airports Recover From Computer Glitch FAA officials say failed computers that delayed flights across the country are now working again.In that episode, the Northeast was hardest hit by the delays because of a glitch at the Hampton, Ga., facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the United States. http://news.discovery.com/tech/cyborg-beetles-employed-as-military-weapons.html 8003f42b-c848-41eb-9ba1-aef3cdd8e335 Tracy Staedter Brain-Computer Interface Flying Robots Military Robots Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:10 EST Cyborg Beetles Employed as Military Weapons By implanting miniature neural and muscle stimulation systems into beetles, scientists for the first time have been able to control the flight of insects. (Electrodes are implanted at the pupal stage and then later connected to remote control electronics.) They ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/saving-the-ocean-with-robots.html 5514d775-5e47-421d-8e6e-be81040dc213 Alyssa Danigelis Conservation Green Tech Robots Satellites Water Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:18:01 EST Saving the Ocean With Robots Figuring out where to designate marine protected areas so fish populations can bounce back sounds simple. Heck, we just found water on the moon! But it's no easy task, which is why we're going to need water-ready robots. In California, ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/radioactive-batteries-power-energy.html 7acfa2a6-79f0-4016-aa9f-bfa334ee8d79 Eric Bland Batteries Devices Electricity Electronics Nuclear Science Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST Radioactive Batteries Keep Going and Going Radioactive batteries could handle even the most extended iPod playlist. http://news.discovery.com/tech/new-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-named.html 172ac098-60cd-4fa2-8b70-154d6f97e87f Climate Change Computers Laboratories Supercomputers Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:14:00 EST New World's Fastest Supercomputer Named The world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet -- climate change, renewable energy, new medicines -- rather than advances in nuclear weapons, at least for the moment. http://news.discovery.com/tech/internet-is-officially-worldwide.html bca81b62-bf85-4800-b335-cabc3df238a2 Tracy Staedter Computers Internet Online Community and Social Networking WiFi and Mobile Wireless Computers Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:55:59 EST Internet is Officially Worldwide Unlike the World Series, which is inhabited largely by American (and one Canadian) baseball teams, the World Wide Web, is actually inhabited by people from lots of different countries. But since the Internet came online, it's domain name suffixes (.com, ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/bringing-order-to-solars-wild-west.html a30417dd-1faf-4073-837c-87b8b13d4df8 Alyssa Danigelis Energy Green Tech Renewable Energy Semiconductors Solar Power Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:27:35 EST Bringing Order to Solar's Wild West Solar power has been around for decades so I was surprised to discover that the industry lacks some standards. If the solar industry is still a Wild West, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory might just be the straight-shooting sheriff. NREL, ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/top-ten-languages-internet.html ccdc23a7-e117-4a3e-819a-425d741f7f2a Internet Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:30:00 EST Top 10 Languages on the Internet If the Internet is the new public square, it's crowded and noisy. More than 1.4 billion people gather and talk on its cyber sidewalks. Can you guess what language they're speaking?