AMD announced further plans to innovate the x86 architecture by introducing SSE5, a new extension of the x86 instruction set that is designed to allow software developers to simplify code and achieve greater efficiency for the most performance-hungry applications. SSE5 will give developers additional capabilities to help maximize the performance of applications that have daily impact on consumers and enterprises, including high performance computing, multimedia and security applications. By making the SSE5 specification available to developers today, AMD expects to ease the adoption of the new instructions for tool providers and software vendors who develop these performance-intense applications.

Not long back cancer was considered an incurable disease and still some cases arise when it cannot be cured. Medical science recent development in the field of ultra sound technology has led to a development of a technology called HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound) and it has been found very useful in postate cancer treatment . HIFU (sometimes also called as FUS or HIFUS) is a highly precise medical procedure using high-intensity focused ultrasound to heat and destroy pathogenic tissue rapidly. Since quite a high intensity of ultrasound waves are used and it cause heat, it can damage other healthy tissues as well, so to avoid this the whole process is computerized and made sure its done accurately and HIFU is targeted on pathogenic tissues only. These ultrasonic waves cause the rise in temperature within the tissue (65° to 85°C) destroying the diseased tissue by coagulation necrosis. Here with the help of MRI, the whole procedure is accurately performed and this is also sometimes referred as Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS).Using this technique prostate, liver, and boner cancer is treated successfully and trials on other types of cancer are also underway. HIFU devices like ablatherm are mostly used in such treatment due to their high precision and safety. More advanced machines with 3D imaging function etc are also available for those areas where even more precision is required like in brain tumor cases.

German research team has designed the first liquid camera lens which has no moving parts for switching between two levels of magnification. Samsung has used this technology in some of their camera cell phone models due to its small size factor and low cost of manufacturing. However professional cameras which had bulky zoom lens will get more benefit from this technology as altering the focus of these liquid lens gives the same zoom function which requires several traditional lenses to achieve. Since glass lens used today have fixed focus length, so for the zoom function two or more lenses coupled with some mechanical parts to move lens for adjustment which surely made the device bulky.

Liquid Lens Used in Samsung phone

I have always wondered why these SBI ATM are so slow to work, the touch screen is sluggish, menu and buttons have time lag as you must have noticed when you enter the amount, it appears late on screen and what to say whole machine is lazy. Today in the evening I went to ATM and the gatekeeper was doing something behind the machine and some people were waiting. I asked what happened, is it working? Quick came the reply “yes ofcource but you have to wait for five minutes as there was a power failure and machine will take some time to boot. I kept waiting and screen flashed and I couldn’t believe at what I saw, it was a Pentium 3 ! And the way it counted onboard memory reminded me the days of 386. Now I came to the secret behind its slow working and I was laughing when I saw it loading Windows Xp ! It took almost 3 minutes showing that Xp screen and then again some 5 – 6 minutes loading some software, at last it came alive. Its so costly machine and can’t they throw in a Pentium 4 processor and some more RAM to give it a life? I know these machines don’t require much processing power as needed in fully functional computer but then why it’s slow? I have seen some other bank’s ATM using Windows98, hope it must be little faster.