This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).
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"I think the surface is (worth) a little bit more than three runs per over so we were pretty happy with containment, " said Martin.
Airships demonstrate a law of increasing returns: doubling the length increases the surface area (and hence weight) by a factor of four while the volume (and hence lifting capacity) goes up by a factor of eight.
But think of what the company has announced over that period: new products (Surface tablets), new OS (the Windows 8 tiles thing), and a cloud-based offering (Office 2013 and broader Azure strategy).
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You may find out soon, as the Wall Street Journal has just posted a "breaking news" alert that it's heard Microsoft is developing a new lineup of Surface tablets (which it's confirmed before) including a 7-inch version, which it expects to take into mass production later this year.
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It's smokin' (with an integrated wood-fire smoking drawer), rockin' (with a composite-stone baking surface) and it brings the heat: 30, 000 BTUs' worth.
Adelson, typically, was consumed with things large and small: the precise replication of the Campanile di San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs, the tassels on the curtains, the question of whether it was cheaper to rent or buy cranes (he bought), the color of the canals (he ordered them drained and their surface repainted, for a more perfect blue).
Unfortunately, tragedy can strike with as simple an act as brushing one's elbow across the table, and that's all it took for me to knock my smartphone right onto a hard surface -- facedown in a perfectly horizontal position (the worst imaginable angle).
Washing generally involves high temperatures, fine sprays (and hence a large surface area) and a lot of sloshing around of water, all of which promote efficient chemical stripping.
For GPS, this is an enormous issue because it turns out that the clocks on the satellites drift by almost 40, 000 nanoseconds per day relative to the clocks on the ground because they are high above the earth's surface (and therefore in a weaker gravitational field) and are moving fast relative to the ground.
But an eight-inch wafer has a surface area of over 50 square inches (A four-inch radius squared times Pi).
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Using a similar approach, the firm wants to cover the surface of a bottle with hydrophilic (water-attracting) and hydrophobic (water-repellent) materials.
Besides the larger number of emigrant rocks from its surface, Mars cooled faster than the earth after it formed, and so would have reached conditions favourable to life (a dense atmosphere, allowing for surface water) earlier.
These include "sputtering" erosion - the bombardment of the surface by very fast charged particles (a process similar to sandblasting) - and impacts by meteorites.
It is actually a completely mainstream view that doubling carbon dioxide, ipso facto, will only result in a net surface warming of about 1 degree (C).
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Not only does it feature key capabilities that Apple has yet to ever integrate (such as a keyboard), but Surface will undoubtedly make it easier for curent Windows users to transition from home to office and in-between.
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But he and fellow left-hander Sourav Ganguly (39) slowly came to terms with the surface with a third-wicket stand of 82 spanning 14 overs.
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First of all, GISS is actually only a climate modeling shop that relies on surface (not satellite) data that is mostly supplied by others.
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While Microsoft opened up its online store earlier this week to pre-orders for its upcoming new Surface tablet, customers are now looking a three week (or more) shipping delay.
But by the Berkeley team's analysis, the global temperature correlates more closely with the state of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index - a measure of sea surface temperature in the north Atlantic.
Our ability to understand these animals is very limited, and their only connection to the surface biosphere is through a few food chain connections (like sperm whales) that can survive diving to these depths.
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And although it isn't a compulsory event, the opposition is of a very high quality, including Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal (with a point to prove on his favoured surface) and Robin Soderling, Murray's conqueror in California last month.
Jamie (Jeremy Strong), the protagonist of "The Great God Pan, " is a pleasant but emotionally inhibited young journalist whose glassy surface is shattered when he discovers more or less simultaneously that (A) he may have been molested as a child and (B) Paige (Sarah Goldberg), his longtime girlfriend, is pregnant.
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The Iranians openly test-fired 14 surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 2, 000km (1, 250 miles) on Tuesday as part of a 10-day programme of military exercises.
Built on the seabed 10 m below the surface in Key Largo, Florida, the inn (formerly a research facility) caters to deep-sea divers and scuba novices prepared to take a three-hour crash course.
So it was to everybody's disappointment that Mariner 4, the first space probe to fly past Mars (in 1965), revealed a place with a surface that appeared to have been static for billions of years.
Since Eros's gravity is so small (a person on its surface would weigh only a few dozen grams), this dust probably could not have fallen into the craters in the way that it would on a heavier body.
With branding all around the external surface of the stadium (including a Mercedez-Benz logo on its roof) and CBS commentators continually referencing the stadium, on air, by its official name, Mercedez-Benz will be heard and seen many times throughout the night.
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All this earns the Surface Pro a repairability rating of just one out ten (ten being the best).
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To pluck them from the ocean, Bezos used Remotely Operated Vehicles (underwater drones) operated from a command ship on the surface.
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