Google Fiber offers data transfer speeds of 1 gigabit per second currently. But the company is already working on speeds of 10 gigabits per second, Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette said during the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference. Pichette called this the next generation of the Internet and said it was part of Google’s …
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is home to the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC), a super-cooled, magnetically shielded facility specially built to house the first commercially available quantum computing processors – devices so advanced that there are only two in use outside the Canadian lab where they were built: The first one went …
President Bahir Assad’s army has taken Yabroud, the last major town held by Sunni Muslim rebels, located near the Lebanese border. On Tuesday, with support from Hezbollah fighters and local paramilitary groups, Assad’s forces bombarded the town until the rebels retreated. Taking Yabroud is an important victory for Assad, who has been fighting for months …
A newly developed body armor, complete with built-in sensors that can measure the damage a hit would cause to the unprotected body, is set to revolutionise the sport of mixed martial arts. The high-tech armor, has been designed by Unified Weapons Master, not only to protect but also to register the real force behind each …
Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to date. The “body extender” has been built by the Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (Percro) at Pisa’s Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. The machine can enable users to lift up to 50kg in each extended hand, say its makers. …
Ars Technica reviews “STS-107 In-Flight Options Assessment” in Appendix D.13 of the Columbia accident report which was NASA’s own detailed assessment of what a rescue mission would have looked like. The scenarios were to assume that a decision to repair or rescue the Columbia crew would be made quickly, with no regard to risk. Columbia’s …
It appears that Putin is backing off Crimea and decided it was a mistake within Russia. Within Ukraine support for joining NATO went from 40% to 80%. Time reports that the Crimea invasion was unpopular within Russia. Kremlin’s own pollster released a survey on Monday that showed 73% of Russians reject the Ukraine invasion. In …
A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads. Arunachalam Muruganantham’s invention came at great personal cost – he nearly lost his family, his money and his place in society. In …
What is the future potential of exoskeletons ? What should be achievable in reality compared to the fictional Iron Man ? Here is what I think are the most realistic ways to solve the motor power and energy storage issues for far more powerful exoskeletons. Something that could power fairly high speed flight and be …
A senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday that, due to cuts to the defense budget, the Pentagon’s plans to pivot to Asia “can’t happen.” The pivot, part of a larger plan to focus deployments and military ties to the Asia-Pacific region to combat the rising threat of China, has been a central tenet of Pentagon …
South China Morning Post reports that Beijing-based State Nuclear plans to start construction of the first CAP1400 demonstration reactor in Shidaowan, Shandong province, this year and commission it in late 2018, according to Xinhua. The schedule is about a year behind the original target as Beijing suspended new projects for about 18 months to review …