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• Atomic quantum memory makes the grade
• Scientists turn human waste into rocket fuel
• Expect 450Mbps mobile broadband by 2019
• Former HP goddess aims for US president
• EU wants to widen “right to be forgotten”
• BT censors sites without court order
• NSF spends a fortune on cloud-based supercomputers
• 100TB hard drives to arrive by 2025

Atomic quantum memory makes the grade Posted: 27 Nov 2014 03:47 AM PST Physicists at the University of Warsaw claim to have developed a fully functioning atomic memory that is simple to make and with numerous applications. The main element of the memory device is a glass chamber that is 2.5 centimetres in diameter and 10 centimetres long.  more»

Scientists turn human waste into rocket fuel Posted: 27 Nov 2014 03:38 AM PST Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) claim to have discovered a way to turn human excrement into rocket fuel. The engineers have conducted trials at the behest of NASA and fit into plans to build a site on the moon and needed to solve the conundrum of what to do with something that's essentially excess baggage. more»

Expect 450Mbps mobile broadband by 2019 Posted: 27 Nov 2014 03:27 AM PST Although category 9 and category 10 LTE modems are not expected to be released until the end of 2016, take up of the devices will soar meaning that by 2019 there will be 64 million smartphones using the protocols. That's according to a report from ABI Research, which said that they'll have downlink speeds of up to 450Mbps. more»

Former HP goddess aims for US president Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:16 AM PST Former HP boss  and peddler of expensive printer ink Carly Fiorina is apparently going to have a crack at being the next republican president of the US and is standing on a ticket that she is the only woman candidate and the only CEO. more»

EU wants to widen “right to be forgotten” Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:15 AM PST European privacy regulators want Internet search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing (MSFT.O) to scrub results globally, not just in Europe, when people invoke their “right to be forgotten". The European Union’s privacy watchdogs agreed on a set of guidelines on Wednesday to help them implement a ruling from Europe’s Supreme Court that gives people the right to ask search engines to remove personal information that is “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant". more»

BT censors sites without court order Posted: 27 Nov 2014 12:58 AM PST BT has started blocking access to 24 torrent sites this past weekend, including IPTorrents and TorrentDay. It is the first time that a UK ISP has blocked private torrent sites, without a court order demanding it does it. The High Court has ordered six UK ISPs to block subscriber access to dozens of the world's largest torrent sites. more»

NSF spends a fortune on cloud-based supercomputers Posted: 27 Nov 2014 12:57 AM PST The National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested $16 million to build cloud-based and data-intensive advanced computing systems for the open science community In a statement the NSF said that high performance computing (HPC) had become central to the work and progress of researchers in all fields, from genomics and ecology to medicine and education, new kinds of computing resources and more inclusive modes of interaction are required. more»

100TB hard drives to arrive by 2025 Posted: 27 Nov 2014 12:56 AM PST An industry consortium today released a roadmap for new recording technologies could yield 100TB hard drives in about 10 years. Advanced Storage Technology Consortium (ASTC)' s figures show hard-drives which are 10 times the capacity of today’s biggest hard drives. Apparently, it will be achieved using up-and-coming techniques such as laser-assisted recording technology. more»

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