Silicon Chips Produce A Lot Of Waste Heat
Washington: Coming soon: Magnetic computers which may use far less energy, say scientists.

State's annual e-waste likely to touch 35,000 tonnes in 2 years
Chennai ranks fourth among the top 10 e-waste generators in the country
Huge amount of imported e waste in Chennai
CHENNAI: For the past three years, the month of June has been the only time when Jai Krishna and his 13 friends, all employees of TCS, travel by public transport to office as part of their extended support to Environme

The special CBI court trying the Commonwealth Games cases has gone green.

NEW DELHI: Starting May 2012, all old computers and electronic equipment will have to be disposed off to authorized collection centres that would deal with electronic waste (e-waste).

Though the government had put up the e-waste (management and handling) rules in 2010, they have been notified recently.

The Ministry of Science and Technology has decided to import super computers to improve weather forecasts in the country.

Scientists have moved a step closer to creating ultra-fast quantum computers by generating 10 billion bits of quantum entanglement in silicon for the first time.

The achievement in silicon, the basis of the computer chip, has important implications for integration with existing technology, according to a team from Britain, Japan, Canada and Germany whose study was published in the journal Natur