In 2006, Amazon unveiled the Elastic compute cloud, which allowed individual users to rent large numbers of CPUs from Amazon’s server farms. Since then Amazon has repeatedly slashed the cost of the CPUs. For organizations requiring supercomputing levels of power, a company called Cycle computing is able to gather tens of thousands of CPUs from …
Technology Review – Spinal stimulation combined with assisted walking therapy generates new neural circuits and restores voluntary leg movement. Rats paralyzed by spinal-cord injury can learn to control their hind limbs again if they are trained to walk in a rehabilitative device while their lower spine is electrically and chemically stimulated. A clinical trial using …
Scientists (Monash University Australia) have unlocked the secrets of the zebra fish’s ability to heal its spinal cord after injury, in research that could deliver therapy for paraplegics and quadriplegics in the future. A team from Monash University’s Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), led by Dr Yona Goldshmit and Professor Peter Currie, discovered the role …
Scientists (Monash University Australia) have unlocked the secrets of the zebra fish’s ability to heal its spinal cord after injury, in research that could deliver therapy for paraplegics and quadriplegics in the future. A team from Monash University’s Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), led by Dr Yona Goldshmit and Professor Peter Currie, discovered the role …
Verizon has announced that they will raise the prices for their Fiber internet service. Verizon is also increasing the speed of the fiber services that they offer. Through the end of 2010, Verizon spent $23 billion on building out its FiOS network. The fastest Verizon FiOS service now is 150Mbps downstream and 35Mbps upstream, with …
Verizon has announced that they will raise the prices for their Fiber internet service. Verizon is also increasing the speed of the fiber services that they offer. Through the end of 2010, Verizon spent $23 billion on building out its FiOS network. The fastest Verizon FiOS service now is 150Mbps downstream and 35Mbps upstream, with …
Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations. Scientists and doctors are using the roboticized endoscopic-like tools to perform surgery on hearts, prostate cancer, and other diseased organs. The snakebots carry tiny cameras, scissors and forceps, and even more advanced sensors are in the works. For …
1. WSJ Real Time – In the midst of gloom about China’s economic outlook, new labor market data provides an optimistic counterpoint — and a possible explanation for why a long-anticipated stimulus has been slow to arrive. Data for 2011 shows private sector wages growing 18.3% year-over-year, up from 14.1% in 2010. Wages in the …
1. WSJ Real Time – In the midst of gloom about China’s economic outlook, new labor market data provides an optimistic counterpoint — and a possible explanation for why a long-anticipated stimulus has been slow to arrive. Data for 2011 shows private sector wages growing 18.3% year-over-year, up from 14.1% in 2010. Wages in the …
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. (LPP), a research firm in Middlesex, NJ, announced today that they had signed a contract on May 20 with the Plasma Physics Research Center (PPRC) of I. Azad University in Tehran, Iran, committing the two institutions to collaboration “in the Creation and Publication of Scientific Papers in the Fields of Aneutronic …
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. (LPP), a research firm in Middlesex, NJ, announced today that they had signed a contract on May 20 with the Plasma Physics Research Center (PPRC) of I. Azad University in Tehran, Iran, committing the two institutions to collaboration “in the Creation and Publication of Scientific Papers in the Fields of Aneutronic …