Phil, Stephen, and special guest Brian Wang discuss the possibility of average life expectancy jumping up to 100, 200, or 500 — or even older Fast forward radio at blogtalkradio The show starts at: 11:00 Eastern/10:00 Central/9:00 Mountain/8:00 Pacific. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks …
In highly sensitive discussions in February this year, the-then South Korean vice-foreign minister, Chun Yung-woo, told a US ambassador, Kathleen Stephens, that younger generation Chinese Communist party leaders no longer regarded North Korea as a useful or reliable ally and would not risk renewed armed conflict on the peninsula • South Korea’s vice-foreign minister said …
The challenge was to find a rewritable material that could store data encoding successive holographic images. Now Peyghambarian and his colleagues at the University of Arizona have developed a material that can record and display 3D images that refresh every two seconds The team’s system captures 3D information by filming an object from multiple angles, …
Apple has introduced new thinner Macbook Air laptops The Macbooks are more like the iPad, with Flash memory instead of harddrives. They turn on instantly. The all-flash storage for better responsiveness and reliability. It features a trackpad with full Multi-Touch support. A large battery gives you portable power that lasts for hours. Apple took their …
Chinese vice president Xi Jinping was elected as the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) during the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing on Monday, boosting the possibility that he may succeed after President Hu Jintao retires. Known for his liberal policies, …
Roland Kawakami’s lab is first to achieve “tunneling spin injection” into graphene http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2456 Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have taken an important step forward in developing a “spin computer” by successfully achieving “tunneling spin injection” into graphene. An electron can be polarized to have a directional orientation, called “spin.” This spin comes in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Techcrunch’s Adam Rifkin makes the case that Facebook can become bigger in revenue than Google is today within 5 year. Facebook already passed Google for page views. Alvin Wang points out – Currently, Google makes fourteen times as much revenue per impression as Facebook. Currently, Facebook …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The US National Aeronautics Research and Development Plan, Feb 2010 Biennial update • “N” refers to the current generation of tube-and-wing aircraft. • “N+1” represents the next generation of tube-and-wing aircraft. • “N+2” refers to advanced aircraft in the generation after N+1, which are likely to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The future of public debt: prospects and implications by Cecchetti is Economic Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Head of its Monetary and Economic Department, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The worldwide mobile operating system (OS) market will be dominated by Symbian and Android, as the two OSs will account for 59.8 percent of mobile OS sales by 2014, according to Gartner, Inc. Forecast: Mobile Communications Device Open OS Sales to End Users by OS (Thousands …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software IBM has developed a first-of-its-kind optical data-transfer system, or bus, built right onto the circuit board. IBM will unveil computer systems 100 times as fast as anything available today. Scientists will be able to use those system to be able to visualize things in detail: how …