I was surfing through the net and came across with this interesting article, it says “it will enhance the conversion efficiency of solar cells based on silicon”, the original article is below:

WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) — U.S. Department of Energy scientists reported the discovery of a unique quantum physics effect in nanocrystals.

The researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists at Innovalight Inc., discovered what they said is a new and important effect called Multiple Exciton Generation.

The effect occurs efficiently in silicon nanocrystals, resulting in the formation of more than one electron per absorbed photon, the scientists reported.

Until the new discovery, MEG had been reported during the past two years to occur only in nanocrystals — also called quantum dots — of semiconductor materials that are not presently used in commercial solar cells, and which contained environmentally harmful materials such as lead.

The new finding might lead to the application of MEG for greatly enhancing the conversion efficiency of solar cells based on silicon. That would represent a key step toward making solar energy more cost-competitive with conventional power sources, the researchers said.

The research is detailed in the on-line version of the American Chemical Society’s Nano Letters Journal.

News Source : www.sciencedaily.com

A brief short news about Nvidia and ATI :

Nvidia enlarged its market share in the graphics market and became the leader. It is said to be Nvidia sold nearly 26 million products for the second quarter, this means Nvidia nearly has %32 of the Market. AMD ATI sold 15 million products and having %19 of the market, last year AMD ATI sold nearly 19 million products.

News Source : www.extremetech.com

Now by using an Intel-based unix machine you can run the hack and but it is not clear that it will work with YouTube-enabled Apple TVs with 1.1 patch. So you canuse a cheap usb as a storage for your AppleTV.

News Source : www.engadget.com