Korea is deploying Wibro Evolution (a version of WIMAX), which is expected to provide speed 10 times fasters than the apparent 3G networks. This version of Wimax is expected to provide 120 Mbps downlink and 60 Mbps uplink. Yota and Samsung will begin the trail of 802.16m Wimax in the end of 2010. The current …
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs surprised a crowd of fans by taking the stage Wednesday to unveil the next version of his company’s iPad tablet. The executive, who took a medical leave earlier this year, joked with the audience, saying he “didn’t want to miss today.” Mr. Jobs, a cancer survivor and transplant recipient, …
NVIDIA’s Ben Berraondo was at CEbit to show an Alienware laptop outfitted with a GeForce GTX 460M mobile graphics card run through Crysis 2 at ‘Gamer’ settings. What’s more, it did so with GPU-bashing 3D Vision activated. Crysis 2 may not be the system-killing title many had feared The Hexus.net article has a different video …
In March 2011, EPA issued the Second Prospective Report which looked at the results of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020. According to this study, the direct benefits from the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments are estimated to reach almost $2 trillion for the year 2020, a figure that dwarfs the direct costs …
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is soliciting low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) research in support of the Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) Early Stage Innovation Division. In the spirit of the original NIAC, this call invites innovative, technically credible advanced concepts that could one day change the possible in aeronautics and space. NIAC will …
The Carnival of space 186 is up at Weird Warp Cartosat-2A satellite panchromatic image of nearside of the Moon showing the location of the study area as a rectangular box (red) in Oceanus Procellarum on the western nearside. Also shown are the major mare basins (Fr, Mare Frigoris; Im, Mare Imbrium; Ir, Sinus Iridum (a …
The Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative (APMI) has developed GPS guided mortars Current conventional mortar rounds used by the army only have an accuracy of about a 136 meter (446 ft) Circular Area Probable (CEP). This means that 50 percent of rounds will land within 136 m of the target, 43 percent will land between 136 …
A beam splitter is a device, like the one depicted here, that bifurcates a beam of light. An experiment proposed by MIT researchers, which relies on beam splitters, would exploit the strange behavior of quantum particles to perform calculations that are hopelessly time consuming on conventional computers. Graphic: Christine Daniloff A new experiment would use …
Wired reports on five DARPA medical projects 1. Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics Darpa researchers will try to build quick-and-dirty portable machines that can measure specific markers of disease in the blood. They’ll also work on developing unique molecular techniques by which they can quickly spot and analyze newly evolved markers. Other uses …
A new nanotechnology article written by Robert Freitas and co-authors. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience – Structural Stability of Clean, Passivated, and Partially Dehydrogenated Cuboid and Octahedral Nanodiamonds Up to 2 Nanometers in Size The use of precisely applied mechanical forces to induce site-specific chemical transformations is called positional mechanosynthesis, and diamond is an …
George Whitesides has recently replaced Will Whitehorn as the CEO/President of Virgin Galactic. In an interview with Sander Olson, George Whitesides discusses suborbital spaceflight, orbital hotels, and the Government’s role in cultivating commercial spaceflight. From the last answer George Whiteside believes we could see daily suborbital flights by 2020 and thousands of people will have …