Portal:Electronics/Electronics news archive
November 19, 2008 The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said that repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cost up to €16.6 million or US$21 million. More...
April 30, 2008
HP Labs announces the creation of a Memristor, the fourth basic element of electronic circuits with the Resistor, Capacitor, and Inductor. More...
December 4, 2007
On the third day of the 2007 Taipei IT Month in Taiwan yesterday, notebook computers and desktop computers built with AMD's Phenom processor and Intel Penryn processor openly battled for the consumer-market after each company launched their quad core processors. More...
February 27, 2007
The new South Pole Telescope has recently collected its first light in a long-term project to learn about the nature of dark energy. More...
January 30, 2007
A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket has exploded on its Ocean Odyssey launch pad, just seconds before it was scheduled to launch. The engine had just been started when the rocket appeared to fall downwards, and was engulfed in a fireball. More...
January 30, 2007
The primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down and is likely to only be restored to partial functionality, according to reports from NASA. More...
January 21, 2007
In the United Kingdom, online retailers are being asked by IMRG, their leading industry body, to apply accessibility technologies to their sites. Although the main reason given is a business one (the sales to potential customers who may have access issues is estimated at £4b p.a. by IMRG's James Roper), there are also legal obligations, and of course moral considerations to be mindful of. More...
November 19, 2006
At the American Institute of Physics Industrial Physics Forum meeting in San Francisco, a group of researchers proposed new research into an old way, invented by Nikola Tesla, to transfer power wirelessly. More...
