Photo: Up to 14 quantum bits were entangled in an ion trap. Innsbruck physicists have set another world record: They have achieved controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits) and, thus, realized the largest quantum register that has ever been produced. With this experiment the scientists have not only come closer to the realization of …
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just completed a 5-year project called “Urban Photonic Sandtable Display”, or UPSD, that creates realtime, color, 360-degree 3D holographic displays. Without any special goggles, an entire team of planners can view a large-format (up to 6-foot diagonal) interactive 3D display. Zebra Imaging has developed the system. Zebra …
T-Mobile has lit up 42 Mbps Speed in Las Vegas, New York and Orlando using HSPA+ Ericsson has shown off a demo of multi-carrier HSPA with 168Mbps downlink and 24Mbps uplink The first demonstration showcased multi-carrier HSPA with 168Mbps on the downlink and 24Mbps on the uplink using a prototype consumer device and commercial network …
MIT Technology Review – Bridgelux, a startup in California has developed a manufacturing technique that could substantially cut the cost of LED lightbulbs—a more energy-efficient type of lighting. The Livermore, Calif., company on Tuesday claimed a breakthrough in using silicon to fabricate light-emitting diodes, the new-wave components that are finding a place in many lighting …
AOL has bought the Huffington Post for $315 million. In Dec, 2010, 24-7 Wall Street valued the Huffington Post at $150 million and as the second most valuable blog after Gawker. This is not an impact on the future, but is a minor data point that seems to confirm the relative accuracy of the valuation …
The world’s largest steel maker, ArcelorMital, has a new nanostructured steel which is not inherently lighter, but it’s so strong that automakers can use thinner gauges and that’s where part of the weight savings comes from. Another part of the weight savings comes from not having to use additional brackets, gussets or panels to strengthen …
Brave new climate has a calculation for the cost of all-nuclear powered, fossil-carbon-free future. An average American directly and indirectly uses about 10.8 kW of primary energy of which about 1.3 kW is electricity. How much does energy cost now ? The average wholesale electricity price across the US is about 5c/kWh, so the all-in …
China’s GDP was 39.5 trillion yuan at the end of 2010 China’s yuan ended 2010 at 6.59 to one US dollar UPDATE : The National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday in Beijing that GDP rose to 39.7983 trillion yuan (about US$6.1 trillion), rising 10.3 percent over 2009. China preliminary reporting is 9.9% GDP growth …
University of Houston researchers are helping the Pentagon build reliable mind-controlled prosthetic devices that military and civilian amputees can use the rest of their lives. Prosthetic limbs that can be maneuvered by neural implants have shown promise in the laboratory, but there are challenges to making them work in the real world. Chief among these …
The Lawrenceville Plasma Physics work that shows that they have confined of ions with energies in excess of 100 keV (the equivalent of a temperature of over 1 billion degrees C) in a dense plasma has been accepted for publication on the peer-reviewed Journal of Fusion Energy. The article is particularly significant as the first …
State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms says the Tyler Formation is most likely one-third to one-half the size of the Bakken in terms of coverage area and oil reserves. The Tyler lies about 2,000 feet above the Bakken. The Tyler Formation above the Bakken encompasses nearly all of western and southwestern North Dakota and extends …