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Nanotech Trojan horses target and kill brain cancer

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are using nanoparticles as Trojan horses that deliver "death genes" to kill brain cancer cells that surgeons can't get to.

World's thinnest nanowires may lead to foldable tablets, smartphones

A researcher at Vanderbilt University has created a way to build nanowires just three atoms wide that could eventually lead to paper-thin, flexible tablets and smartphones.

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10 Best Practices for Cloud Business Intelligence: Enabling the Business

Business driven Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics represent a shift in the enterprise that is perfectly aligned with the value proposition of cloud-based analytic solutions.

Researchers build flexible batteries from carbon nanotubes

The New Jersey Institute of Technology has created flexible batteries out of nanotube structures that could someday power flexible displays, tablet computers or TVs that literally fold up.

Replacing silicon with nanotubes could revolutionize tech

Replacing silicon transistors with carbon nanotubes could make any electronic device -- smartphones, laptops, tablets and supercomputers -- smaller and more powerful.

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Google's Eric Schmidt worried about privacy threat from civilian nano drones

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has privacy concerns about private nano drones being flown by nosey neighbors to harass and spy on each other. Besides posing too many potential threats to privacy, he also believes that...

Nanowires could boost solar power 15X

A single nanowire can capture 15 times more energy from the sun than standard metal conductors, according to scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark.

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10 Best Practices for Integrating Data

Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it continues to grow in strategic importance as customer data and touch points grow with the emergence of cloud, social and mobile

Western Digital claims HDD capacity doubled with nanotech breakthrough

Western Digital's HGST Labs announced a breakthrough in the ability to double HDD capacity through two innovative nantechnologies -- self-assembling molecules and nanoimprinting.

IBM advances silicon nanophotonics

IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications.

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