Google and its founders have a philosophy of targeting technology moonshots via their Solve for X projects, GoogleX, Google Labs and their other companies and major projects like * Calico (radical life extension) * Google Loon global high speed internet via balloons * global internet satellite and internet drones * self driving cars * robotics …
The principal advantage of an airship is the large surface of its body where radar systems can be mounted. The antennas of anti-ballistic missile radars will be mounted on the cover of an airship, according to a representative of Russia’s KRET company. Airships currently in development in Russia may be equipped with ballistic missile defense …
1. Kirk, Spock and Sulu Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before — Charon! The names of Uhura, Spock, Kirk and Sulu are on the latest map of Pluto’s jumbo moon Charon. The monikers are still only informal, but new maps of Charon and Pluto submitted to the IAU for approval feature some of …
The Army, supported by NASA and the Navy, is combining its areas of technical expertise to accomplish the aggressive scientific and engineering goals necessary to develop a new fleet of joint aircraft, said Ned Chase, deputy program director of science and technology for the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator/Future Vertical Lift, also known as JMR TD. …
The new ReWalk Personal 6.0 battery-powered system features a light, wearable exoskeleton with motors at the hip and knee joints. The ReWalker controls movement using subtle changes in his/her center of gravity. A forward tilt of the upper body is sensed by the system, which initiates the first step. Repeated body shifting generates a sequence …
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) first entered the medical lexicon in 1988 to describe a cluster of symptoms without an obvious cause that doctors were seeing in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. The principal symptom was debilitating tiredness, but people also complained of sore throats, headaches, muscle pain and various other manifestations of general malaise. …
Raytheon has been awarded a $20,489,714 cost-plus-fixed-fee funding for the Hypersonic Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) missile program. The TBG program is for the development and demonstration of technologies to enable air-launched tactical range hypersonic boost glide systems. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity. The Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program …
Japan’s Advanced Technology Demonstrator-X (ATD-X) fighter test platform will not fly until at least late 2015 due to issues with the software that controls automatic engine restarts, according to officials at the country’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The first test flight was scheduled to take place before the end of the current financial year in …
A solar research team at the University of New South Wales has converted over 40 per cent of sunlight into electricity, with an innovative take on Australian-designed solar tower technology. This is a follow up to an article yesterday about record outdoor solar power conversion efficiency. The team achieved 40.1 per cent efficiency in outdoor …
NVIDIA introduced their high-performance Tesla K80 accelerator featuring two Kepler GK210 GPU cores. The Tesla K80 (Previously codenamed Atlas) was teased three months ago where it was denoted by the GK210-DUO name and today, they can finally confirm the specifications of NVIDIA’s latest Telsa accelerator with a double precision compute performance of 2.9 TFlops. Nvidia …
Prime Minister Modi of India has rolled out his ten point plan for getting India’s economy moving in the first 100 days Modi has also asked ministers to ensure that all issues left pending by the previous UPA government are resolved on a priority basis and a detailed action plan be put in place for …