Blah, Blah! Technology – He spent weeks on a trial-and-error process to isolate a group of microorganisms that would quickly degrade plastic bags, and soon came up with a winning combination. All you need is a fermenter, your growth medium, your microbes and your plastic bags. [...] read more
ScienceSciScoop Science Forum – Hitachi and a Japanese university has developed a new chip containing both logic (arithmetic unit) and an MRAM (spintronics-based) chip. Placing memory and logic together makes it quicker and the MRAM means that the memory does not have to be refreshed all the time (it’s non-volatile) [...] read more
SciScoop Science Forum – Solar power is set to come out of the dark and enter the mainstream as an alternative energy source, according to US researchers. They have overcome the last major obstacle to large-scale solar power – how to store energy when the sun don’t shine.
Data Center Knowledge – Amazon has issued a detailed timeline and explanation of last Sundays lengthy outage for its S3 utility storage service. Heres the root cause:Weve now determined that message corruption was the cause of the server-to-server communication problems. More specifically, we found that there were a… read more
