Exeter – Producing strong, lightweight and complex parts for car manufacturing and the aerospace industry is set to become cheaper and more accurate thanks to a new technique developed by engineers from the University of Exeter. The research team has developed a new method for making three-dimensional aluminum composite parts by mixing a combination of …
Microsoft took a $6.2 billion charge for the purchase of performance of aQuantive, an online advertising service that it bought in 2007 for $6.3 billion. Since it bought aQuantive, Microsoft’s online division has reported losses totaling nearly $9 billion. Google spent $3.2 billion to acquire DoubleClick, an online ad service that used to compete against …
World Health Organization studies on child (under 5 mortality) as of 2010. * 7.6 million children under the age of five die every year, according to 2010 figures. * More than half of these early child deaths are due to conditions that could be prevented or treated with access to simple, affordable interventions. * Leading …
High levels of brain-protecting protein are unique in the rodent, says Tel Aviv University researcher. Compared to the average three year life span of a common rat, the 10 to 30 year life of the naked mole rat, a subterranean rodent native to East Africa, is impressive. And compared to the human body, the body …
On a purchasing power parity basis, I believe that China has already passed the USA. The World Bank/IMF figures for PPP are wrong based upon 2005 numbers that did not properly survey the rural areas. There are many academic studies and information from the University of Pennsylvania which supports the conclusion that the 2005 World …
Google demonstrated 600,000 cores running a genomics application. Google says that Compute Engine has access to 770,000 cores — a figure that will surely grow over time. These cores are made available as Linux virtual machines (VMs), with 1, 2, 4, or 8 cores each. Each core apparently has access to 3.75GB of RAM each …
Talk Polywell has a posting from Paul March on James Woodward latest Mach Effect propulsion work. Woodward is now claiming that he and his associate, a Dr. Heidi Fearn at CSUF, have performed an updated analysis of the M-E derivation for the upcomming JPC conference that has a much better handle on the M-E bulk …
In October 2011, I predicted that Tiger Woods would regain his number one golf ranking. Tiger Woods has won his third official PGA tournament of 2012 and is leading the one year Fedex Cup points race. He also won the unofficial Chevron World Challenge at the end of 2011. Tiger is still fourth in the …
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The Carnival of Space is up at Christopher Crockett’s blog Would it be possible to spot the light from Earth’s cities from light years away? Supernova Condensate ponders detecting extraterrestrial city lights, and the flipside of light pollution. The arrival of a new pulsed energy device for testing in Huntsville has Centauri Dreams pondering fusion, …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 111 is up at Yes Vermont Yankee. Neutron Economy looks at the costs of nuclear power compared to other power sources. Four Nextbigfuture submission to Carnival 111 – The U.S. Department of Energy is quietly collaborating with China on an alternative nuclear power design known as a molten salt reactor …