By comparison, it takes roughly 1 million atoms to store a bit of data on a modern computer or electronic device.
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Manufacturing industries reporting contraction in July included manufacturers of wood and paper products, computer and electronic products, textile mills, chemical products, transportation equipment and machinery.
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In the San Francisco metropolitan area, where this shift has been pronounced over the past decade, computer and electronic-product manufacturing accounted for 11% of gross-domestic-product growth in the region from 2005 to 2010, outpacing all other industries.
It has sued dozens of companies, claiming to have patented the very idea of selling computer software and other electronic goods over a computer network.
World War II gave us not only the digital electronic computer, but also, thanks to radar and microwave technology, modern telecommunications.
Apple never fared well by partnering with computer and consumer electronic superstores.
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Richardson was ultimately vindicated with the advent of the electronic computer, which speeded up calculations and made numerical modelling of the atmosphere possible.
The fact that the first electronic programmable computer had been built in Britain was hushed up.
At the same time, it made an emergency installation of computer filters to screen electronic returns.
Like the first-ever sales brochure for an electronic digital computer, put out in 1947.
What was once chemical and mechanical is now electronic and computer-rendered: a series of JPEGs being riffled through a drive.
Related and supporting capabilities include computer network operations, electronic warfare, deception, operations security (OPSEC), intelligence, perception management, psychological operations (PSYOPs), and public affairs.
Light pollution can come from TV and computer screens, other electronic displays and ambient sources such as streetlights, passing traffic and neighboring buildings, in addition to overhead lighting within the home.
Allowing for inflation, this is roughly a third of what it might have cost to build in Babbage's day in contrast to the cost of electronic-computer technology, which halves in price every 18 months.
Transmeta's low-power chips are billed as a natural fit for wireless Internet appliances-- Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people), for instance, is reportedly working with Transmeta to develop a new electronic tablet computer.
Then the big boys with global licences arrive: Lego to make construction kits (build your own Hogwarts castle), Mattel to make Harry Potter toys, and Electronic Arts computer games including, finally, a chance to play the obscure game of Quidditch (a bit like an aerial version of polo, but with the contestants flying on broomsticks).
"The incidence and complexity of computer crime continues to increase rapidly as greater numbers of people develop proficiency in manipulating electronic data and navigating computer networks, and as worldwide access to the Internet continues to expand, " according to the budget document.
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Check out the possibilities, from the Raspberry Pi (a single-board computer) to littleBits (electronic Legos).
First switched on in 1943, Colossus is now acknowledged as being the world's first electronic, digital computer.
Mabuchi Motor has half the world market for tiny electric motors used in electronic gadgets and computer drives.
If you need a personal computer for writing and simple electronic mail, even a used PC with a 486 processor will be fine.
Robert Metcalfe, who three decades ago invented Ethernet, the first great electronic protocol for computer networks, foresees a "gigalapse"--a blackout spanning one billion person-hours.
With Aircell High Speed Internet, NetJets owners will be able to access the Internet with any Wi-Fi equipped laptop, notebook computer, or other personal electronic device at speeds that are similar to wireless mobile broadband on the ground.
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Senators worried the new position of overseeing the military's cyber defense efforts for the Pentagon could blur the lines between Alexander's current civilian role of leading the National Security Agency (NSA), which also plays a role in protecting the nations computer networks by monitoring domestic electronic communications.
But tiny electronic gadgets like Apple Computer 's iPod Nano have paved the way to a smaller, sleeker aesthetic.
That privacy violation, the lawsuit alleges, breaches the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, among other statutes.
Symantec's Hacker Protection utility, like Shields Up, scans your PC for open ports--electronic gateways into a computer--that hackers can exploit to access a system and files.
Once the craft has slowed to 1, 000 miles per hour, its computer is programmed to trigger an electronic ripcord and deploy the largest supersonic parachute ever made.
Morean who built Jabil Circuit into one of the primary providers of electronic circuitry to the computer industry titans like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and other.
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