Google parent company Alphabet is planning to test high-altitude balloons to deliver Internet coverage across the United States. The Internet giant has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license to test experimental radios that use wireless spectrum in the millimeter bandwidth in all 50 states and in Puerto Rico, according to heavily redacted documents …
Volunteers who got electrical arrays implanted in their brains are seeing improvements in their memory, DARPA said. The project, called Restoring Active Memory (RAM), could help people suffering from traumatic brain injury. People who were undergoing brain surgery and volunteered to get electrode implants saw improvement in their scores on memory tests, DARPA said. They …
How thin can a camera be? Very, say Rice University researchers who have developed patented prototypes of their technological breakthrough. FlatCam, invented by the Rice labs of electrical and computer engineers Richard Baraniuk and Ashok Veeraraghavan, is little more than a thin sensor chip with a mask that replaces lenses in a traditional camera. Making …
AMBS Architects were commissioned with a highly confidential project — due to security reasons until recently — in basra, iraq. Basra has most of iraq’s oil reserves, the province is becoming one of the fastest-growing business centres in the world (and most precious per square meter). The new downtown master plan was assigned by the …
This is the worldwide exclusive trailer debut for Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. The movie opens May 6, 2016 Captain America, Winter Soldier, Scarlett Witch, Hawkeye and Falcon versus Iron Man, War Machine, Black Widow, Vision and Black Panther Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million …
In an interview with Sputnik [a Russia propoganda site], former head of the Turkish General Staff’s Intelligence Department Hakki Pekin condemned Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian Su-24 bomber, describing it as a “big mistake.” Pekin suggested that Russia’s response to the downing of the Su-24 will be very tough. “Apart from sanctions, Russia …
A team at MIT has come up with an innovative desalination approach that, unlike most traditional desalination systems, does not separate ions or water molecules with filters, which can become clogged, or boiling, which consumes great amounts of energy. Instead, the system uses an electrically driven shockwave within a stream of flowing water, which pushes …
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA) has the highest-peak-power laser-diode arrays in the world, which in total produce a peak power of 3.2 MW. The diode arrays, which were developed and fabricated by Lasertel (Tucson, AZ), will act as the primary pump source for the High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS), currently under construction …
All official “Star Wars: Episode 7 – The Force Awakens” Movie Trailer and Clips 2015. A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas, set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. 24 days until the Dec 18, 2015 premier. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
The Lucara Diamond Corporation, a Canadian company, said in a statement this week that the stone measures 1,111 carats, making it the biggest find in more than a century. The 1,111 carat diamond is gem quality and is a Type IIa diamond. The Royal Collection Trust, which oversees British royal treasures, says the largest diamond …
Turkish warplanes shot down a Russian jet Tuesday after NATO-member Turkey says the plane violated its airspace on the border with Syria, a major escalation in the Syrian conflict that could further strain relations between Russia and the West. Russian officials confirmed that a Russian Su-24 fighter had been shot down, but insisted it had …