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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online [ Watch the Video ] As wireless providers tighten up the reins on data consumption with the rising popularity of smartphones and tablets, researchers from Rice University say they may have a solution. Scientist unveiled a new multi-antenna technology on Thursday that could help companies like Verizon and AT&T keep up with heavy load data devices like iPads and iPhones. Companies are cracking down on these data hungry...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Some of us were born naturally inclined to understand numbers and their relationships to one another. The rest of us, sadly, depend on the work of these mathematically savvy individuals just to function in everyday life. As such, while some may have no issues understanding prime numbers and calculating them in their heads, others may get a headache once they count past 10. There are computers that exist, of course, which can...

Sparse microwave imaging is a novel concept in microwave imaging that is intended to deal with the problems of increasing microwave imaging system complexity caused by the requirements of the system applications. Under the support of the 973 program "Study of theory, system and methodology of sparse microwave imaging", Chinese scientists have conducted considerable research into most aspects of sparse microwave imaging, including its fundamental theories, system design, performance evaluation...

New research lends hope that a phenomenon called quantum discord could be harnessed to bring quantum technologies within easier reach than expected. The work, by an international team, is published 5 August in Nature Physics. Up until a few years ago, researchers thought that realising quantum technologies would mean harnessing the most difficult-to-tame properties of the quantum world. For example, 'entanglement', the phenomenon referred to by Einstein as spooky-action-at-a-distance, was...

Smart antenna market research report segmented global market by type and by applications. (PRWEB) July 28, 2012 A smart antenna is a digital wireless communications antenna system that takes advantage of diversity effect at the transmitter, the receiver, or both. Diversity effect involves the transmission and/or reception of multiple radio frequency (RF) waves to increase data speed and reduce the error rate. In usual wireless communications, a single antenna is generally used at the...

A groundbreaking new device from the National Physical Laboratory could help to usher in the long-awaited era of quantum computers Researchers at NPL have demonstrated for the first time a monolithic 3D ion microtrap array which could be scaled up to handle several tens of ion-based quantum bits (qubits). The research, published in Nature Nanotechnology, shows how it is possible to realize this device embedded in a semiconductor chip, and demonstrates the device's ability to confine...

RIVERWOODS, Ill., July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CONGRATS CLASS OF 2012! An amazing opportunity lies before you. You are going through one of the most significant of life transitions. You have the chance to make more money in the next few years living out your (and every other kid's) dream of playing professional sports than you might have made as a regular guy working a lifetime. DON'T BE ANOTHER STATISTIC! You are an amazing story but unfortunately we've seen this movie thousands of...

IRVINE, Calif., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 7Layers, an international group of engineering and test centers, recently purchased an ME7873L LTE RF Conformance Test (RFCT) system from Anritsu, a global provider of innovative communications test and measurement solutions, in an effort to expand its certification test capabilities. 7Layers is looking to provide its customers with additional LTE testing options and meet increased demand for LTE testing. The Anritsu ME7873L will enhance...

USC scientists demonstrate that quantum computing could speed up the way web page ranks are calculated on the ever-expanding Internet Most people don't think twice about how Internet search engines work. You type in a word or phrase, hit enter, and poof – a list of web pages pops up, organized by relevance. Behind the scenes, a lot of math goes into figuring out exactly what qualifies as most relevant web page for your search. Google, for example, uses a page ranking algorithm that is...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials, working in partnership with academics in Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, has used its Element Six single crystal synthetic diamond grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) to demonstrate the capability of quantum bit memory to exceed one second at room temperature. (Photo:...