David Friedberg of the All-in-Podcast is hopeful that LK99 is real and can lead to industrial scale commercial room temperature superconductors. Friedberg estimates that 70% of the energy we produce is lost to heat and friction. However, computer chips and networking without heat problems can mean computers that are 100 to 200 times faster. The …
India is offering Musk’s SpaceX a big chunk of land and permission to do the required Hyperloop testing in Pune, a city 118 kilometers away from Mumbai. The country’s Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said he made the proposal to Hyperloop’s parent company SpaceX during his recent visit to the United States If Hyperloop manages …
CNET – Jury verdicts favors Apple overwhelmingly in a landmark patent decision. The jury awarded $1.05 billion tied to infringements in Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The scorecard so far: * Jury finds Samsung infringement of Apple utility, design patents for some (though not all) products * Jury finds willful infringement on 5 of 6 patents. …
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Times Online UK is reporting that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is retracting its claim that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 * The claim was based upon a 1999 news story in the New Scientist. * The New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, …