TSMC is about to get a hefty chunk of funding from the United States government. The United States Commerce Department on Monday announced that it will be allocating a $6.6 billion subsidy to chip manufacturer TSMC for the advancement of semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona. TSMC will also receive $5 billion in loans and be […]
As Apple’s Guggenheim-based education event continues, the company kicked off its announcements with iBooks 2.0, which will bring a new textbook experience to the iPad. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, these textbooks will include standard text interspersed with interactive high-quality images, videos, animations and 3D models. This content will allow for features such as being […]
This is weird. But it is nifty. Per BlueSci, researchers from the University of Hong Kong managed to place 90GB of data into the DNA of a colony of 18 E.coli. The data can also be encrypted by site-specific genetic recombination; a purely natural process that means data can be jumbled up. Given that there […]