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• The Byte - iPad 3 and LTE, Yahoo shareholder challenges board, Android losing to iOS, CERN increases LHC speed

  By Nick Barber | 16 February, 2012 07:36

  Apple's iPad 3 will debut on March 7 and could support US LTE data networks. Yahoo faces a board challenge from a shareholder who rejected the proposed candidates and suggested his own. Android lost smartphone marketshare for the first time as Apple had a great fourth quarter. CERN's Large Hadron Collider is shifting into high gear.

• The Byte - iPad 3 and LTE, Yahoo shareholder challenges board, Android losing to iOS, CERN increases LHC speed

  By Nick Barber | 16 February, 2012 07:36

  Apple's iPad 3 will debut on March 7 and could support US LTE data networks. Yahoo faces a board challenge from a shareholder who rejected the proposed candidates and suggested his own. Android lost smartphone marketshare for the first time as Apple had a great fourth quarter. CERN's Large Hadron Collider is shifting into high gear.

• Big Bang machine makes history

  By Sharon Gaudin | 31 March, 2010 05:35

  Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider succeeded today in smashing two particle beams into each other at an energy level three and a half times greater than ever achieved before.

• Large Hadron Collider smashes another speed record

  By Sharon Gaudin | 20 March, 2010 06:41

  The world's largest atom smasher has broken yet another record.

• Scientists start analyzing Large Hadron Collider data

  By Sharon Gaudin | 13 January, 2010 07:59

  After billions of dollars were spent to build, start, shut down and then fix and re-start the Large Hadron Collider, the system has finally produced enough data for some long-awaited scientific analysis.

• Server virtualization, cloud software come to CERN

  By Jon Brodkin | 18 December, 2009 04:03

  CERN, the European particle physics organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, is embracing server virtualization and cloud computing technology to improve CPU utilization and the delivery of computing resources to scientists around the world.

• After year of trouble, Big Bang machine breaks world record

  By Sharon Gaudin | 01 December, 2009 07:51

  After a year of technical problems, bad publicity and staggered momentum, the Large Hadron Collider has returned to work with a vengeance.

• Big Bang collider restart delayed to beef up safeguards

  By Sharon Gaudin | 11 February, 2009 08:55

  A plan to add more safety features to the Large Hadron Collider will have the world's largest particle collider offline until next fall -- months later than the previously planned springtime relaunch.

• Downed Hadron Collider faces $21M in repairs

  By Sharon Gaudin | 19 November, 2008 07:07

  Fixing problems at the world's largest particle collider won't come cheap.

• Melted wires knock out Hadron collider for two months

  By Sharon Gaudin | 23 September, 2008 08:14

  Just days after a faulty transformer was repaired, an apparent melted electrical connection between two magnets has brought the Large Hadron Collider down for two months.

• Worldwide grid evaluating collider test results

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 September, 2008 11:22

  The successful test run of a massive particle collider brought scientists a step closer to finding answers to a question that has haunted people for centuries: How was the universe created?

• Spammers react to Large Hadron Collider

  By Darren Pauli | 16 September, 2008 12:04

  South West Sydney is choking on a thick radiation cloud after the Lucas Heights reactor exploded, according to spammers.

• Hackers deface Large Hadron Collider Web site

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 September, 2008 07:49

  Hackers have broken into the network of the Swiss particle-physics laboratory operating the Large Hadron Collider experiment that has just begun smashing atoms in the hope of finding the theorized Higgs particle, an elementary particle of mass.