[The Atlantic] For two years, Google has been working to build flying robot drone that can deliver products across a city in a minute or two. Project Wing is a secret drone program that’s been running for two years at Google X. Taken with the company’s other robotics investments, Google’s corporate posture has become even …
[Newsweek] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that Russian forces had been deployed in Ukrainian territory amid claims that around 15,000 Russian soldiers have been sent to the Donetsk region. Reports of intensifying Russian military activity on its border with eastern Ukraine have increased in the last 12 hours with Reuters reporting spotting two Russian military …
ARPA-E is making up to $30 million in funding available (DE-FOA-0001184) for Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA) ALPHA seeks to support innovative R&D on low-cost tools to aid in the future development of fusion power. An ARPA-E program seeks to develop and demonstrate low-cost tools to aid in the development of fusion power, …
IBM today announced significant advances in Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities that are enabling researchers to accelerate the pace of scientific breakthroughs by discovering previously unknown connections in Big Data. – Next Milestone in Cognitive Computing is Accelerating Scientific and Industrial Research – Baylor College of Medicine Speeds Understanding of the Biology of Diseases – Johnson …
At Centauri Dreams, James Benford looks more closely at particle beam driven magsails. He has found a problem for interstellar missions but promise for interplanetary missions and an interplanetary infrastructure. The first column shows a fast interplanetary probe, with high interplanetary-scale velocity, acceleration 100 m/sec2, 10 gees, which a nonhuman cargo can sustain. Time required …
To win the grand prize of the Google Lunar Xprize ($20 million), private teams (with no more than 10% in government funding) must: * Land a robot safely on the Moon * Move 500 meters on, above, or below the Moon’s surface; and * Send back HDTV Mooncasts for everyone to enjoy ….And this must …
Construction of an extraordinary underwater high-speed rail tunnel in China’s Bohai Strait is likely to start some time after 2016, Chinese media report. The proposed undersea link would stretch more than 100km under Bohai Bay to become the world’s longest undersea tunnel, connecting the cities of Dalian and Yantai. Experts say it will put the …
US total all liquids oil and crude oil daily production again reached new post mid-1980s peaks. Crude oil production was at 8.63 million barrels per day. It is about 320,000 barrels per day from passing the mid-1980s peak. The overall US peak production was in 1970 at about 9.6 million barrels per day. North Dakota …
[HPCWire] The new Cray CS-Storm, which offers up to 8 NVIDIA K40s per 2U server and a peak performance of 11 teraflops per Ivy Bridge-outfitted node, is set to push key applications that require more GPU scalability to new heights. The system, which is based on the Cray CS300 super, is designed to keep the …
What power is needed to get to mach 3 constant velocity for a supercativating submarine ? A Supercativating submarine could in theory achieve about 3600 miles per hour but powering the propulsion is a technical challenge. Goatguy provides the energy for water displaced, times its density, times ½, times its outward radial velocity squared would …
As revolutionary as GPS has been, however, it has its limitations. GPS signals cannot be received underground or underwater and can be significantly degraded or unavailable during solar storms. More worrisome is that adversaries can jam signals. GPS continues to be vital, but its limitations in some environments could make it an Achilles’ heel if …