Michael Whitaker, the FAA’s deputy administrator, said the FAA expects to formalize regulations for commercial drones within 12 months. “The rule will be in place within a year,” he told the House of Representatives’ Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Amazon could be making drone deliveries within the year. Not only that, but the e-commerce company …
David’s Sling, also sometimes called Magic Wand, is an Israel Defense Forces military system being jointly developed by the Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the American defense contractor Raytheon, designed to intercept medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles, such as those possessed by Hezbollah, fired at ranges from 40 km to …
The SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project, involving seven European partners, has been successfully finalised during 2012. This unique project highlights the potential for implementing road trains on conventional highways, with platooned traffic operating in a mixed environment with other road users. Thanks to the partners in the SARTRE road train project, you …
This is another NASA NIAC phase 1 funded study. A supersonic bi-directional (SBiDir) flying wing (FW) has the potential to revolutionize supersonic flight with virtually zero sonic boom and ultra-high aerodynamic efficiency. The SBiDir-FW planform is symmetric about both the longitudinal and span axes. For supersonic flight, the planform can have as low aspect ratio …
Robotic Arms being added to UAVs. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand –and an arm– from engineers at Drexel University as part of a National Science Foundation grant to investigate adding dexterous limbs to the aircrafts. A gantry system, like the …
NIST measurements show that interactions of the graphene layers with the insulating substrate material causes electrons (red, down arrow) and electron holes (blue, up arrow) to collect in “puddles”. The differing charge densities creates the random pattern of alternating dipoles and electon band gaps that vary across the layers. Credit: NIST Researchers at the National …
Phil, Stephen, and special guest Brian Wang discuss the possibility of average life expectancy jumping up to 100, 200, or 500 — or even older Fast forward radio at blogtalkradio The show starts at: 11:00 Eastern/10:00 Central/9:00 Mountain/8:00 Pacific. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks …
Federal Reserve economic forecast for the US for 2010-2013 The Federal Reserve cut its outlook for the U.S. economy for this year (down from about 3.5% growth to 2.5%) and 2011 and projected that it could take several years for the economy to return to health. According to minutes from the Fed’s November 3 meeting …
Arxiv – Neuromorphic, Digital and Quantum Computation with Memory Circuit Elements Memory effects are ubiquitous in nature and the class of memory circuit elements – which includes memristors, memcapacitors and meminductors – shows great potential to understand and simulate the associated fundamental physical processes. Here, we show that such elements can also be used in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Silicene ribbons have been prepared for the first time by physicists in France. The leaders of that effort, Hamid Oughaddou from Cergy-Pontoise University and Bernard Aufray of the French National Center for Scientific Research say that silicene ought to be able to do everything graphene can, …
Day 3 also appears to be done with no change in the standings or prizes won. Lasermotive has won the level 1 prize of $900,000. No other prizes were won and no other team qualified for a prize. LaserMotive retained their lead, and inched closer to the 5 m/s benchmark – they removed some payload, …