Daily Archives: September 12, 2012

Apple announces iPhone 5 – its thinnest, lightest and most powerful phone to date

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Deskarati

With an aluminum and glass design, the just-announced iPhone 5 is being touted as the thinnest, lightest and most powerful phone produced by Apple to date. Operated using its 4-inch retina display touch screen, features include an updated 8-megapixel camera … Continue reading →

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Have mathematicians finally discovered the hidden relationship between prime numbers?

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Deskarati

Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan is claiming to have found proof (divided into four separate studies with 500+ pages) of the so-called abc conjecture, a longstanding problem in number theory which predicts that a relationship exists between prime … Continue reading →

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How ‘science of consciousness’ explains our desire for knowledge

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Deskarati

A University of Sussex neuroscientist has come up with a radical new approach in the pursuit of our understanding of consciousness. In his new book The Ravenous Brain, Dr Daniel Bor, a research fellow at the University’s Sackler Centre for … Continue reading →

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Engineers build Raspberry Pi supercomputer

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Deskarati

Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton have built a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego. The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O’Brien, Mark Scott and … Continue reading →

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