Cameras fitted with a new revolutionary sensor will soon be able to take clear and sharp photos in dim conditions, thanks to a new image sensor invented at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) This will lead to cameras that use ten times less battery and will be five times cheaper. The new sensor made from graphene, …
Techcrunch describes the situation where technology is now destroying jobs faster than it’s creating them. Some propose a basic income or negative income tax as updated versions of the communist iron rice bowl. There are strategies for individuals for creating more sources of income – 1. Purchase stocks and other investment instruments which will provide …
The Shanghai arm of Fanuc, which dominates the global market for industrial robotics, almost doubled sales every year until cooling somewhat following the 2009 global financial crisis and outbreak of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. They still still managed to achieve close to 20 per cent sales growth in China last year. Shanghai-Fanuc …
Rising wages in China are causing factories to shift to Taiwan and other parts of Asia. An increasing number of Taiwanese shifting at least some of their operations away from China – either to South East Asia or Taiwan – and adjusting their investment strategies in the mainland. One of the main reasons is a …
SENS 6 – the sixth Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) Conference, which will be held from 3rd – 7th September, 2013 at Queens’ College, Cambridge. The purpose of the SENS conference series, like all the SENS initiatives, is to expedite the development of truly effective therapies to postpone and treat human aging by tackling …
Samsung labs showed new 5G technology worked well when the device receiving data was moving at the speed of a runner, eight kilometers per hour. The testing also found that the novel wireless link could reach 200 meters even when there was no direct line-of-sight. In tests—with a transmitter mounted on an outside wall at …
A team of researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) demonstrated a type of peripheral interface called targeted muscle re-innervation (TMR). By rewiring nerves from amputated limbs, new interfaces allow for prosthetic control with existing muscles. Former Army Staff Sgt. Glen Lehman, injured in Iraq, recently demonstrated improved TMR technology. In the following video, …
A team of researchers from Cologne, Munich and Dresden have managed to create artificial magnetic monopoles. To do this, the scientists merged tiny magnetic whirls, so-called skyrmions. At the point of merging, the physicists were able to create a monopole, which has similar characteristics to a fundamental particle postulated by Paul Dirac in 1931. In …
A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women. Experts called the outcome “amazing” and said this quick, cheap test could save tens of thousands of lives each year in developing …
Dr. Jack Dongarra from Oak Ridge National Lab, one of the founders of the Top500, was on hand for the event in China and shared a draft document that offers deep detail on the full scope of the Tianhe-2, which will, barring any completely unexpected surprises, far surpass the Cray-built Titan. The 16,000-node Inspur-built Tianhe-2 …
1. ANS Nuclear Cafe Blog Post: Farmers, City Folk and Renewable Energy Back from a hiking trip in North Carolina, blogger Meredith Angwin thanks conventional power plants. Power from such plants is what allows mountain waterfalls to continue to be waterfalls, not power sources. Some people in Vermont claim that we can “get” all our …