Breakthrough Superconducting Devices With High Temperature Superconductors

Kim, Harvard, and his fellow researchers have a promising candidate for the world’s first high-temperature, superconducting diode—essentially, a switch that makes current flow in one direction—made out of thin cuprate crystals. This would be the first superconducting switch made using higher temperature cuprate superconductors instead of lower temperature and more expensive superconductors. The team’s experiments …

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Sanctuary AI Releases Humanoid Robot for Work

Sanctuary AI announced a major step forward for humanoid robots with the unveiling of its sixth-generation general-purpose robot named Phoenix™. Phoenix is the world’s first humanoid general-purpose robot powered by Carbon™, a pioneering and unique AI control system, designed to give Phoenix human-like intelligence and enable it to do a wide range of work to …

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Better Brain Interfaces Are Like Internet Shifting From Dial-Up to Broadband

Kernal is developing invasive and non-invasive brain-machine interface and neuroscience technology. Kernel is a private neurotechnology company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 2016 by Bryan Johnson who backed it with a personal investment of $54 million. Bryan was founder, chairman and CEO of Braintree, a company that specialized in mobile …

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Thermoradiative Device for Harvesting 24 Hour Daily Energy from Sun

A thermoradiative devices (TRD) based power generator that harvests solar energy via concentrated solar irradiation during daytime and via thermal infrared emission towards the outer space at nighttime has been proposed on Arxiv. Researchers developed a rigorous thermodynamical model to investigate the performance characteristics, parametric optimum design, and the role of various energy loss mechanisms. …

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Apple Will Privacy Improvement Will Cut Facebook Ad Revenue

The Apple iOS 14 operating system will require apps to ask users for permission to collect and share data using Apple’s device identifier. Facebook will not collect the identifier for advertisers (IDFA) on our own apps on iOS 14 devices. The identifier was critical for Facebook targeting its audience network ads. Facebook says the Apple …

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Handheld UV Light For Killing COVID-19 Enabled With New Transparent Conductor

A personal, handheld device emitting high-intensity ultraviolet light to disinfect areas by killing the novel coronavirus is now feasible, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Minnesota and two Japanese universities. Finding a new material with the right composition is key to advancing UV LED performance. The Penn State team, in collaboration with …

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Catheter With Ultravoilet Light Could Help Coronavirus Patients

Internally applied ultraviolet light could help treat coronovirus patients. The Healight is a catheter embedded with small LED lights that emit UVA. The Healight technology delivers intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light through an endotracheal catheter and according to the company, it is being studied as a potential treatment for coronavirus and other respiratory infections. First …

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Samsung Announces 5G and Foldable Expensive New Phones

Samsung Electronics will launch 5G on the Galaxy S10 5G. It will have much faster streaming and download speeds, powerful mobile hot-spotting and 4K video calling. It will have up to 1 Terabyte of microSD and better cameras. The Galaxy S10 will have a 6.4-inch display while the S9 display was 6.2 inches. Samsung Galaxy …

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First 1 Terabyte Embedded Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones

Samsung has begun mass producing the industry’s first one-terabyte (TB) embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1, for use in next-generation mobile applications. This is just four years after introducing the first UFS solution, the 128-gigabyte (GB) eUFS. This provides terabyte smartphone storage. Smartphones will provide a more notebook-like experience. The 1TB eUFS also possesses exceptional …

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