NHK shows downsized Super Hi-Vision video camera - Eureka! Science News
28 May 2012, 4:05 am
(Phys.org) -- NHK this week placed on exhibit a shoulder-mount camera, developed in cooperation with Hitachi, capable of shooting what NHK calls super high vision (SHV) video in 7680×4320 resolution. Super Hi-Vision is NHK's preferred name for ...

Facebook deflates any thought of new tech bubble - phys.org
28 May 2012, 3:08 am
The horrendous stock market debut for Facebook suggests investors are not ready to jump in and create another tech bubble despite big expectations for social media, analysts say. Facebook closed out its first full week of trade with a loss of 16 ...

Big Blue supers crunch kaon decay - The Register
27 May 2012, 7:08 pm
The reason so much iron was needed: the kaon decay spans 18 orders of magnitude, which this physorg article describes as akin to the size difference between “a single bacterium and the size of our entire solar system”. At the smallest scale ...

Nvidia trumpets Tegra 3 phone design wins for 2012 - Eureka! Science News
27 May 2012, 4:35 am
(Phys.org) -- Nvidia s competitive war paint has a name, Tegra 3. On the heels of Nvidia announcements about lowering costs of its Tegra 3 processors and Nvidia-enabled tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich at $199, Nvidia this week made ...

Cable cos to share access on 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots - phys.org
21 May 2012, 1:39 pm
(AP) -- Cable TV companies are trying to give their customers another reason not to cancel their service: better access to Wi-Fi hotspots. Five major operators with nearly 40 million broadband subscribers said Monday that they would let each ...

Standard heart disease risk tools underrate danger in rheumatoid arthritis - medicalxpress.com
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
Heart disease risk assessment tools commonly used by physicians often underestimate the cardiovascular disease danger faced by rheumatoid arthritis patients, a Mayo Clinic study has found. Inflammation plays a key role in putting those with ...

Man finds deep-fried cockroach in McDonald's hash brown - Digital Journal
17 May 2012, 3:16 pm
According to physorg.com, McDonald's is considering bugs as meat replacement. Z6Mag reports: "McDonalds has begun testing bugs as beef replacement. Although it’s still in the early stages, the ‘Bug Mac’ has been tested in some small cities throughout Europe."

Wi-Fi hits unprecedented speeds - TECH.BLORGE.com
17 May 2012, 4:18 am
They have broken into the terahertz band which is currently unregulated. According to physorg this could move Wi-Fi into a new realm of very high data rates and speeds.  The terahertz band is the “electro magnetic spectrum between 300 GHZ and 3 THZ.” 

The Cheapest Ways To Save The World - Gizmodo Australia
14 May 2012, 6:40 pm
Flash science and expensive engineering are all and well good — but there are broader, cheaper problems to solve, which we ignore at our cost. [Copenhagen Consensus Center via physorg]