Carnegie Mellon University’s BrainHub will host its first Neurohackathon, sponsored by Qualcomm, May 24-25. The event is one of the first hackathons to engage computer scientists in using one of the hardest systems to crack: the structure of neural data and the brain. The brain has billions of neurons and trillions of synapses, making it …
Spacex had a good landing on the drone ship Spacex Dragon is on its way to the International Space Station. This is the second time SpaceX has successfully landed one of its rocket stages. In December, 2015, Spacex landed Falcon 9 rocket at a ground-based landing site in Cape Canaveral Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, said …
China’sPeople’s Liberation Army (PLA) is bringing military Research and Development back under its oversight and launching a new agency modeled after the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). China is joining a trend in Asia: Japan has launched a DARPA-like agency, and South Korea is planning one, too. “It is natural that China and …
India’s first nuclear armed submarine, Arihant, is now ready for full fledged operations, having passed several deep sea diving drills as well as weapons launch tests over the past five months and a formal induction into the naval fleet is only a political call away. The Arihant, which is the first of five nuclear missile …