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Huawei R&D department gets new home, sets up shop in Silicon Valley

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Chinese manufacturing giant Huawei has been calling Plano, Texas its North American home since 2010, but now it seems the company’s ready to explore a different business territory. Huawei’s just announced its Research and Development squad — in which it invested about $3.6 million dollars last year — is setting up shop in Silicon Valley in a move that could certainly be seen as an effort to rub elbows with the big players this side of the pond. According to the Dallas Business Journa l, the company piled up $30 billion in sales last year, and while the new 600-plus human R&D operation will be calling California home, Huawei’s Honorary headquarters won’t be moving away from the state where “everything’s bigger” anytime soon.

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Biological computer can decode images stored in DNA chips, applications remain unclear

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Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have taken biological computing one step further, with a new molecular machine capable of decoding images stored on a DNA chip. Though it’s referred to as a “biological computer,” the researchers’ machine isn’t much like a CPU at all — unless your CPU was manufactured in a test tube filled with a smoothie of DNA molecules, enzymes and ATP

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iPhone 4S accounts for 89% of all iPhone sales, study suggests

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Most new iPhone buyers are choosing the iPhone 4S, according to a new report. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released data on Thursday that suggests Apple’s latest iPhone model accounts for 89% of all Apple smartphones sold since the iPhone 4S was released in October. We’re a bit surprised by the figures; the new iPhone offers beefier specs and a better camera than previous generation models, but the iPhone 3GS is free on a contract with AT&T and the iPhone 4 is still available at a discount in several markets

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Tablet owners spend 50% more per purchase online than smartphone owners

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Tablet owners spend big bucks online according to a new report. In fact, the new study published by Adobe Digital Marketing Insights suggests that tablet owners spend 50% more per purchase than smartphone owners on retail purchases, and over 20% more than PC users

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HP India to expand web access with Vayu Internet Device

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The Internet is gradually seeping its way into homes across India, but there are many within the country who remain too poor to actually purchase a PC. Fortunately, HP India has just developed new technology known as the Vayu Internet Device, or VInD, that could dramatically lessen this gap

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IBM stores bits on arrays of atoms, shrinks magnetic storage to the scientific limit

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IBM’s Almaden Research Center is filled with some of the best and brightest minds in the world, and its researchers just released new findings that detail how just how far IBM has come in the realm of magnetic storage. Andreas Heinrich is leading the team at Big Blue that figured out how to create atomic storage based on the fact that atoms of ferromagnetic material align their spins in one direction — so the ability to control the spin direction is what’s needed to make such minature memory possible. Heinrich and his crew were able to accomplish the trick by supercooling 12 atoms to four degrees kelvin (-452 fahrenheit), and arranging them using an electron microscope in such a away that nonvolatile storage became possible

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