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The Casimir effect: Much ado about nothing

Issue:  Inflation's back...but not where you think Fly Title:  The Casimir effect Rubric:  The Casimir effect, a curious consequence of quantum theory, may yet have practical applications Location:...

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Tech.view: Hear the difference

Fly Title:  Tech.view Rubric:  Which is better: analogue or digital? Location:  A MUSIC lover but no audio zealot, your correspondent has often wondered whether analogue recordings really are “warmer”...

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MediaTek and mobile-phone chips: Fabless and fearless

Issue:  America's unjust sex laws Fly Title:  MediaTek and mobile-phone chips Rubric:  How a Taiwanese firm became one of the world’s fastest-growing chipmakers Location:  HSINCHU, TAIWAN Main image:...

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Brain scan: Paranoid survivor

Issue:  A factory on your desk Fly Title:  Brain scan Rubric:  Andrew Grove, the former boss of Intel, believes other fields can learn from the chipmaking industry that he helped bring into being...

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Japan's technology champions: Invisible but indispensable

Issue:  Twenty years after the Wall Fly Title:  Japan's technology champions Rubric:  A host of medium-sized Japanese electronics firms have developed dominant positions in many areas of technology....

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See-through electronics: Seeing clearly

Fly Title:  See-through electronics Rubric:  A transparent transistor that could be used in electronic displays Location:  Main image:  Johns Hopkins University/Will KirkHoward Katz at work Howard...

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Electronics: Seeing clearly

Issue:  Brazil takes off Fly Title:  Electronics Rubric:  A transparent transistor that could be used in electronic displays Location:  FAMILIAR friends can nevertheless sometimes surprise. Such has...

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Tech.view: Patent nonsense

Fly Title:  Tech.view Rubric:  An end to frivolous patents may finally be in sight Location:  DO PATENTS help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing, especially for backroom...

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Noise-cancelling technology: Opting for the quiet life

Issue:  New dangers for the world economy Fly Title:  Noise-cancelling technology Rubric:  Tiny microphones provide a new way to eliminate background noise Location:  Main image:  Illustration by...

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Bioelectronics: Silky circuits

Issue:  Deep trouble Fly Title:  Bioelectronics Rubric:  Making electronic circuits that will work inside a person’s body Location:  OVER the years, electronics have found their way into almost every...

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Biodegradable electronics: A desirable solution

Fly Title:  Biodegradable electronics Rubric:  Biodegradable electronics for medical devices take a step closer Location:  THE idea of creating biodegradable electronics for implantation into the...

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Stretchable electronics: A shapely future for circuits

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The hole story Fly Title:  Stretchable electronics Rubric:  Electronics: Flexible circuits that can bend and stretch with their surroundings could have a...

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Technology monitor: Your flexible friend

SILICON is a good material from which to make computer chips. Appropriately doped, it is an excellent semiconductor and its raw material, sand, is hardly in short supply. But even though sand is cheap,...

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High-tech warfare: Something wrong with our **** chips today

Issue:  70 or bust! Fly Title:  High-tech warfare Rubric:  Kill switches are changing the conduct and politics of war Location:  Main image:  20110409_IRD005_0.jpg IN THE 1991 Gulf war Iraq's armed...

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Computer processors: The Difference Engine: Intel left outside

No Intel insideUNTIL recently, the processor chips at the heart of computing devices have been taken largely for granted—as the tick-tock of incremental innovation delivered a steady doubling of...

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New transistors: Mechanical advantage

Issue:  On the edge Fly Title:  New transistors Rubric:  Two new types of transistor may lead to simpler, more efficient computers Location:  WHEN baking a cake it helps to have all the ingredients...

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Tech clusters: How the West was won

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Time for a double dip? Fly Title:  Tech clusters Rubric:  Inmos, Picochip, Icera and their founders: the evolution of a tech cluster Location:  BRISTOL Main...

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Transistors: Plugging the leaks

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Asia’s lonely hearts Fly Title:  Transistors Rubric:  As physical limits bite, electronic engineers must build ever cleverer transistors Main image:...

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Cooling chips: Pumping ions

AS MORE and more components are packed onto computer chips, the problems of getting electricity to where it is needed in a microprocessor, and of dispersing the heat which that electricity is turned...

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Tablet computers: Difference Engine: The iPad's third coming

IT HAS been said before but bears repeating, especially with the gadget-giving season imminent: essentially, there is no such thing as a tablet-computer business; what there is instead is a rip-roaring...

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