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Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein, two young inventors based in the Philippines, are taking their passion for clean free energy and developing a way to make it accessible and cheap for everyone. These guys are working restlessly to provide a product that could be used by practically anyone to make homemade solar panels.

The factory is small enough to fit on a desktop and efficient enough to produce 300k to one million panels per year, up to one every 15 seconds. By cutting out much of the labor intensive process, which represents 50% of the total cost, this machine can dramatically reduce the price of solar. Their pocket solar panel producer can change the way the world views electricity. Image credit: YouTube/SciFri

What type of applications can a homemade solar panel have? For starters it can replace the need for outlets in a home for smaller electronics such as phones, computers, lamps, etc. One of the more intriguing applications is the added versatility solar panels can provide. In short, with these panels you can use your electronics anywhere there’s sunshine.

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The BiCS uses 48-layer stacking process that improves reliability and speed. Toshiba was the company that invented flash memory and has the 15nm NAND cells which are the smallest in the world.

Right now company is gearing up for its mass production and giving out samples to the companies.

These new developments made by Micron and Intel, and Toshiba will take about one year to reach the market. These 3D SSDs will give a tough time to the existing players and will provide better speeds and more storage at cheaper rates to users.

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1 Bit = Binary Digit.

8 Bits = 1 Byte.

1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte.

1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte.

1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte.

1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte.

1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte.

1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte.

1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte.

1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte.

1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte.

1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte.

1024 Geopbyte=1 Saganbyte.

1024 Saganbyte=1 Pijabyte.

Alphabyte = 1024 Pijabyte.

Kryatbyte = 1024 Alphabyte.

Amosbyte = 1024 Kryatbyte.

Pectrolbyte = 1024 Amosbyte.

Bolgerbyte = 1024 Pectrolbyte.

Sambobyte = 1024 Bolgerbyte.

Quesabyte = 1024 Sambobyte.

Kinsabyte = 1024 Quesabyte.

Rutherbyte = 1024 Kinsabyte.

Dubnibyte = 1024 Rutherbyte.

Seaborgbyte = 1024 Dubnibyte.

Bohrbyte = 1024 Seaborgbyte.

Hassiubyte = 1024 Bohrbyte.

Meitnerbyte = 1024 Hassiubyte.

Darmstadbyte = 1024 Meitnerbyte.

Roentbyte = 1024 Darmstadbyte.

Coperbyte = 1024 Roentbyte…!

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a new type of microchip that allows information to move in three dimensions, left to right, back to front and up and down.

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Currently, microchips can only pass digital information in a very limited way – from either left to right or front to back. The research was published today, 31 January, in Nature.

Dr Reinoud Lavrijsen, an author on the paper from the University of Cambridge, said: “Today’s chips are like bungalows – everything happens on the same floor. We’ve created the stairways allowing information to pass between floors.”

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Microsoft demos English-to-Chinese universal translator that keeps your voice and accent.

Alternative World News Network.

At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the software also preserves the user’s accent and intonation. We’re not just talking about a digitized, robotic translator here — this is firmly within the realms of Doctor Who or Star Trek universal translation.

The best way to appreciate this technology is to watch the video below. The first six minutes or so is Rick Rashid explaining the fundamental difficulty of computer translation, and then the last few minutes actually demonstrate the software’s English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Sadly I don’t speak Chinese, so I can’t attest to the veracity of the translation, but the audience — some 2,000 Chinese students — seems rather impressed. A professional English/Chinese interpreter also remarked to me that the computer translation is surprisingly good; not quite up to the level of human translation, but it’s getting close.

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