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Top 10 Tech Highlights of 2010 — and What’s in Store for 2011

一月 02 2011

The last year was defined by a broad range of significant technology trends and events, several of which stemmed from the iPad launch. Here’s our list of the top 10:

1) Launch of the iPad: The iPad jump-started the tablet market in the big way. Sure, there were early pioneers in the market, like Apple’s Newton in the mid-1990s and Microsoft’s (MSFT) tablet launch in 2001, but it was the iPad that drew a flood of other me-too tablets to the market, from Dell’s Streak to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. As James Ragan, senior equity analyst of Crowell, Weedon & Co., puts it: “The iPad launched the whole tablet segment and proved groundbreaking.” Read the rest of this entry »

Mapping the brain, slice by slice

十二月 29 2010

Lead researcher Dr. Jeff Lichtman, with a 3-D image of a section of mouse brain. (NYT)

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Russia puts European satellite Ka-Sat in orbit

十二月 28 2010

An image released by Eutelsat shows a computer-generated image of the European satellite Ka-Sat of Eutelsat Communications that has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton rocket late on December 26.

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WikiLeaks website blocked behind Chinese firewall

十二月 01 2010

FILE - In this March 25, 2010 file photo, a Chinese flag blows in the air below the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. The classified diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks and reported on by The New York Times cited a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that included allegations from a Chinese contact that China's Politburo directed a cyber intrusion into Google's computer systems as part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws.

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Hubble replacement costs shoot the moon

十一月 12 2010

The replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, pictured here, will be launched in September 2015 at the earliest.

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Chinese Supercomputer Wrests Title From U.S.

十月 28 2010

A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower.

The Tianhe-1A computer in Tianjin, China, links thousands upon thousands of chips.

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