The most recent feedburner count has over 12,000 10,000 (the 12,000 was a feedburner error) subscribers via email or newsreaders to Nextbigfuture. This is over double the same point in 2009. Technorati ranks Nextbigfuture at about the 800th (as of Jan 2011, 480th) most authoritative blog overall. When the Technorati tracking by topic is not …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) has a goal of generating 30,000 joules with each nuclear fusion pulse. This would be net energy with conversion to elecricity. So if 100,000 joules was put in from the capacitors then they would need say 200,000 joules back and convert that …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software US scientists have created working liver grafts in the lab, and say the research could one day allow the growth of livers for transplant. A team from Massachusetts General Hospital, created successful grafts using rat cells. Scientists initially flushed out living liver cells, leaving behind a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software SGI a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC, SC10) that it has developed a breakthrough hybrid computing platform that will deliver a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet. (A petaflop is defined as a thousand …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Vincent K. Tuohy, PhD, an immunologist and researcher in the department of immunology at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, and his team, supported by the National Cancer Institute, have been studying “the possibility of a vaccine that would protect women from breast cancer.” On May …
The Boeing X-51A WaveRider on May 26, 2010 successfully completed the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight in history — nearly three and a half minutes at a top speed of Mach 5. The previous longest scramjet burn in a flight test was 12 seconds in a hydrogen-based engine in the NASA X-43. UPDATE – August …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scientific American looks at 12 events (mostly technology) that would change everything before 2050. Scientific American gets the probability and impact of those events completely wrong. They also miss important events and technology. Overcoming Bias takes note of the vastly underrating of importance by Scientfic American …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Craig Venters team copied an existing bacterial genome. They sequenced its genetic code and then used synthesis machines to chemically construct a copy. The synthetic DNA was transferred to a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species “dictated” by the synthetic …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Blake thinks that Firefox will decline from 25-30% browser market share to single digit market sharein 3-5 years. I’m pretty skeptical. I think the Mozilla Organization has gradually reverted back to its old ways of being too timid, passive and consensus-driven to release breakthrough products quickly. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Chemists at New York University and China’s Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. “An industrial assembly line includes a factory, workers, and a conveyor system,” said NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT Technology Review – Scientists have created the smallest ever laser capable of operating at room temperature. The device is less than one cubic micron–less than the wavelength of the light it emits. It is the first sub-wavelength laser that doesn’t require cryogenic cooling. Besides high-speed …