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Thursday, July 31, 2014

ScienceDaily: Information Technology News

ScienceDaily: Information Technology News


Money talks when it comes to acceptability of 'sin' companies, study reveals

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Companies who make their money in the 'sin' industries such as the tobacco, alcohol and gaming industries typically receive less attention from institutional investors and financial analysts. But new research shows social norms and attitudes towards these types of businesses are subject to compromise when their share price looks to be on the rise.

Spin-based electronics: New material successfully tested

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 06:40 AM PDT

Spintronics is a new field of electronics, using electron spin rather than motion. This technology requires insulating components that can control this quantum property. Scientists have shown experimentally that a novel material shows all the required properties.

Essays in English yield information about other languages

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:13 AM PDT

Grammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of non-native speakers' languages, researchers report. The work could enable computers chewing through relatively accessible documents to approximate data that might take trained linguists months in the field to collect. But that data could in turn lead to better computational tools.

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