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Too many heavy particles could mean trouble for the Standard Model
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The BaBar detector at SLAC. SLAC/Stanford University The Standard Model (SM) of particles and interactions provides a successful description of most of the matter we know of. However, physicists have known for many years that it is not complete: the SM predicted massless neutrinos, and has no place for...
Energy efficiency in the cloud
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At Google, we’re obsessed with building energy efficient data centers that enable cloud computing. Besides helping you be more productive, cloud-based services like Google Apps can reduce energy use, lower carbon emissions and save you money in the process. Last year, we crunched the numbers and found that Gmail is...
CERN release preliminary results: particle looking 'more and more like a Higgs boson'
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CERN's latest update to its god particle project is that the new particle that it was able to pick up is behaving "more and more like a Higgs boson." The team isn't being particularly specific here, as its not certain just yet whether it's detected a 'standard model' particle...
RAMPAGE 6 notepad runs Android 2.3 in a rugged package
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The last time we heard from SDG Systems, it was shilling its Trimble Nomad with Android 1.5. The company's new device, the RAMPAGE 6 (confusingly, it's also known as the Mesa Rugged Notepad), thankfully includes a less prehistoric build of the OS. The notepad runs a customized version of...
Raspberry Pi Mini Computer Now Shipping With RAM Upgraded To 512MB (From 256MB); Same Tiny $35 Price-Tag
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The Raspberry Pi mini computer just got a RAM upgrade – from 256MB to 512MB — but the $35 price-tag is staying the same. Eben Upton, chip design and founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, said the extra RAM follows frequent suggestions for a more expensive Model C version of the...
Raspberry Pi Mini Computer Now Shipping With RAM Upgraded To 512MB (From 256MB); Same Tiny $35 Price-Tag
Higgs boson discovery still unconfirmed, but now more likely than ever
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Eight months after announcing the discovery of a new particle "consistant with Higgs boson," scientists have announced that the particle is "looking more and more like a Higgs boson." In the months following last July's announcement, the team at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has been able to analyze two...
Apple unveils iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad
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On Tuesday, just six months after unveiling the third-generation iPad, Apple unveiled the long-rumored iPad mini along with a fourth-generation of the standard model. Despite the 100 million iPads Apple sold in just 2.5 years, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "we're not taking our foot off the gas." Apple...
Google drops Chromebooks down to $99 or less (for education)
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Forget Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Google just announced perhaps the best sale of the entire Christmas season, at least as far as electronics and computers are concerned. Working with DonorsChoose.org, a charity that helps support public education in the U.S., Google is offering its Samsung Series 5 Chromeboooks —...
World of Warcraft back over 10 million users after Mists of Pandaria launch
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Activision Blizzard has announced during its investor call that World of Warcraft subscriber numbers are back above the 10 million user benchmark, Joystiq reports. The numbers are less precise this time around, and we’re not sure whether World of Warcraft barely scraped into the 10 million range or has seen...
The state of particle physics—a report from Pheno 2012
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So far, the CMS detector hasn't found any indications of supersymmetric particles. CMS/CERN I spent three days last week at the Phenomenology 2012 Symposium in Pittsburgh, known as Pheno 2012. Phenomenology specifically refers to the practice of predicting and analyzing the results of particle physics experiments, and the symposium...
Quantum optics may remove the uncertainty about quantum gravity
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While both quantum physics—in the form of the Standard Model of particles and interactions—and gravitation—formulated in general relativity—are hugely successful theories, making them work together hasn't, well, worked out. Currently, there's no complete, reliable quantum theory of gravity, though there are many candidates, including superstring theory. In most of...
Higgs week starts with Fermilab updates, strong evidence expected
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A four-lepton decay, one option that the Standard Model provides for getting rid of a Higgs. Quantum Diaries This week, the European physics lab CERN will be hosting an announcement (scheduled for early on July 4th). It's expected that strong evidence for the Higgs boson will be presented. Rumors...
Finding a direction of time in exotic particle transformations
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UCSB Unlike our daily experience, the world of elementary particle physics is mostly symmetrical in time. Run the clock backward on your day and it won't work; run the clock backward on a process in particle physics and things are just fine. However, to preserve certain fundamental aspects of space-time ...
Nintendo Wii U Teardown
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When Nintendo announced the Wii U there was a lot of interest in its hardware specs. The new console could very well end up the fastest kid on the block thanks to the sheer age of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I wasn't all that interested in the...
Latest dark matter search comes a bit short of discovery
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One of the detectors used in the hunt for dark matter. Texas A&M The evidence for dark matter is comprehensive. We've measured its effect on galaxies and galaxy clusters, and we've seen its imprint in gravitational lenses and the cosmic microwave background. The annoying thing is that we still...
Quantum algorithm can predict what the Large Hadron Collider will see
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CERN (remixed by Aurich Lawson) Every time particle physicists look for the Higgs boson or any other members of a large collection of theoretical particles, they have to do a bit of statistics. Well, quite a lot of statistics, actually. The Standard Model of physics helps tell them what...
Want that new Lightning to 30-pin adapter? That'll cost you at least $29
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With the release of the iPhone 5 and new iPod models., Apple overhauled its old 30-pin dock connector and launched the new ‘Lightning’ adaptor, a new reversible, all-digital design that is more durable than its predecessor. To use your old gadgets with the old adaptor, you’ll need to get a Lightning to 30-pin...
LHC's new particle looking ever more Higgs-like
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Interactions with the Higgs field provide everything but photons and gluons with mass. Fermi Lab The teams behind the two general-purpose detectors of the Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS and CMS, tend to go through their results when facing a deadline, usually provided by one of the large physics conferences....
Groupon tightens its payment terms with merchants
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Groupon is changing its payment terms with merchants, according to several sources familiar with Groupon’s business and contracts. The company has traditionally used two different payment models. In the United States and Canada, merchants have been paid in three installments: 1/3 five days after a deal closes, 1/3 30 days...
Google details energy efficiency of Google Apps and the cloud
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Google’s reduction of energy use for servers and server cooling. Google wants businesses to make Google Apps their primary productivity suite, so the company is recruiting at full swing today with a new blog post that discloses a few stats about its energy efficiency. Google Apps is a Google service...
CERN confirms existence of new particle consistent with Higgs boson, rewrites the standard model
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Physics' big announcement had more in common with a leaky product launch than the serious business of re-writing the science books. But slack asset management aside, it's official: a new boson has been observed within 5 standard deviations of accuracy. The highly anticipated announcement came this morning direct from...
CERN celebrates as Higgs signal reaches significance
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A four-lepton decay, a possible sign of the Higgs, seen by the ATLAS detector. CERN Physics' Standard Model describes the fundamental particles that make up all matter, like quarks and electrons, as well as the particles that mediate their interactions through forces like electromagnetism and the weak force. Back...
Higgs boson researchers: We've spotted 'new boson'
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Scientists at CERN say they've have almost certainly located the particle, which would confirm our standard model of physics. The evidence is "very strong, very solid." [Read more]...
Watch this: CERN now broadcasting update on Higgs boson live
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CERN is holding a seminar to update the world on the progress it has made searching for the elusive Higgs boson. Since 2008 experiments have been conducted with the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN's labs in Switzerland, and rumors are flying that the hypothesized Higgs boson may...
Stephen Hawking on how the Higgs boson discovery cost him $100
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This morning scientists at CERN announced that they had indeed discovered a new particle that appears to be consistent with the Standard Model Higgs boson. The BBC spoke with physicist Stephen Hawking, who described the implications of the finding — while also mentioning a losing wager he'd placed on...
Planck satellite creates most detailed map ever of cosmic microwave background radiation
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The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has been gathering data since its launch in 2009, slowly building up a map of the cosmic microwave background radiation -- a distant remnant of the Big Bang. The resulting image, seen above, is the most detailed ever put together of the cold...
Neutron stars and black holes illuminate dark matter
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A Bullet Cluster It is early days yet, but astrophysicists and high energy physicists are starting to get a little nervous. We know from astrophysical and cosmological observations that much of the matter in the universe is invisible to us. Indeed, the bullet cluster—a must to mention in every...
Higgs boson just may, possibly, more or less be proven to exist by ATLAS and CMS teams
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We had a false alarm over the possible discovery of the theory-unifying Higgs boson last year, but a bit of poking and prodding in subsequent months may well have given us much more definitive evidence of the elusive particle. According to some rare rumors emerging from Nature, both CERN's...
Hiding in the Higgs data: hints of physics beyond the standard model
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The good folks at the LHC have not been shy about sharing their results. Indeed, at the end of last year, the bigwigs at CERN called a press conference to announce that they hadn't found the Higgs boson yet, but they were starting to see some signals that might...
CERN expected to announce Higgs boson discovery tomorrow morning
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Tomorrow morning, CERN is expected to announce the Large Hadron Collider’s discovery of the Higgs boson subatomic particle. This particle, which has been strongly sought after since it was theorized in 1964 by Peter Higgs, is the last remaining unproven facet of the Standard Model of physics. The Higgs boson...
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