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• Samsung Launches First NVMe SSD That Stores 512GB But Weighs Just 1 Gram

  Jun 3, 2016 by Admin / 311 Views

   Smaller than a normal postage stamp, Samsung’s new SSDs will find use in the next-gen PCs and ultraportable laptops. This is the first of its kind NVMe PCIe SSD in a single ball grid array package. It comprises of 16 48-layer 256-gigabit V-NAND flash chips, a powerful controller, and one 20nm 4GB LPDDR4 mobile DRAM chip.

  Talking about its physical specifications, the SSD weighs just 1 gram and measures around 20mm x 16mm x 1.5mm.

  This revolutionary storage device will “triple the performance of a typical SATA SSD”, said Samsung’s Jung-bae Lee in a statement.

  With the help of TurboWrite technology, you can get a read and write speeds of up to 1,500MBps and 900MBps respectively. This means that you can transfer a Full-HD movie in just 3-4 seconds.

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• Secret Harvard meeting finally releases ambitious synthetic human genome proposal

  Jun 3, 2016 by Admin / 319 Views

  Three weeks ago, 130 scientists, entrepreneurs and policy leaders held an invitation-only, closed-door meeting at Harvard University to discuss an ambitious plan to create synthetic human genomes. Now, after a flurry of criticism over the secrecy of the effort, the participants have published their idea, declaring that they're launching a project to radically reduce the cost of synthesizing genomes – a potentially revolutionary development in biotechnology that could enable technicians to grow human organs for transplantation.

  The announcement, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the latest sign that biotechnology is going through a rapidly advancing but ethically fraught period. Scientists have been honing their techniques for manipulating the complex molecules that serve as the code for all life on the planet, and this same issue of the journal Science reports a breakthrough in editing RNA, a molecule that is the close cousin of DNA.

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• Almaz clocks second fastest 5000m ever – IAAF Diamond League

  Jun 3, 2016 by Admin / 280 Views

  

  Almaz Ayana missed out on the women’s world 5000m record by just over five seconds at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rabat two weeks ago and came, agonisingly, even closer in Rome as she stopped the clock at 14:12.59 on Thursday (2), just 1.44 off the mark set by her Ethiopian compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba eight years ago.

  It was an IAAF Diamond League record. It was a meeting record at the Italian one-day showpiece. It was the fastest time run this year. It was the second fastest time ever run.

  But, despite her dazed smile in the aftermath of achieving all those accolades, it wasn’t what Almaz wanted.

  As the last pacemaker dropped away with seven laps remaining, Almaz was in a race of her own, more than half-a-lap clear. She was running easily, no strain showing on her face, and passed 3000m in 8:30.43.

  The laps clicked down, and it seemed the world champion was on the brink of reaching the prize she has sought all season.

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• World record holder Bekele fails in Hengelo and fog Rio

  Jun 1, 2016 by Admin / 305 Views

  Kenenisa Bekele will be no fourth Olympic Games experience. The Ethiopian runner succeeded Wednesday in Hengelo failed to qualify themselves to the 10,000 meters in Rio.He stepped out of the race on the track of the FBK Stadium.

  Bekele holds the world records at 5,000 meters (12.37,35) and 10,000 meters (26.17,53). He won gold in both long haul at the Games in Beijing in 2008. Four years earlier in Athens, there was gold in the 10,000 and silver in the 5,000 meters. In London in 2012 he was there. Yigrem Demelash won the match, which was regarded as the Olympic trial for Ethiopia in the world year best time of 26.51,14. Tamirat Tola and Abadi Hadis accompany him to Rio. In the women qualified Almaz Ayana, Gelete Burka and triple Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba themselves. Ayana was a class apart and soloed to 30/07/04, also the world's best years.

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• Kenenisa omitted from Ethiopia’s Rio 2016 Olympics marathon team

  Jun 1, 2016 by Admin / 272 Views

  Three-time Olympic champion, Kenenisa Bekele, was left out of Ethiopia’s Rio 2016 Olympics marathon team.

  In addition to him, Yemane Tsegay, a record holder of Ottawa marathon, Canada, was excluded from the team. But, he was named in the reserve team.

  In the men’s side, Ethiopia will be represented by Lemi Berhanu, Tesfaye Abera, Feyisa Lelissa and Lelisa Desisa.

  Similarly, Tigist Tufa, Mare Dibaba, Tirfi Tsegaye and Aberu Kebede were included in Ethiopia’s women marathon team.

  Some 12 athletes, including Kenenisa Bekele, submitted complaints to the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF), expressing their dissatisfaction with the selection criteria.  

  The athletes, including Kenenisa, were omitted from the team for failing to meet the requirements, said the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF).

  However, in an exclusive interview with FBC, Kenenisa questioned the fairness of the selection.

  “The selection lacks transparency and is not convincing,” he said.

  General Secretary EAF, Bililign Mekoya, said the selection was carried out based on clearly stated selection criteria.

  The athletes can summit their complaints to the federation and if it is necessary, decisions could be reversed, he added.

   Source: Fana Broadcasting 

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