MIT Technology review has details of IBMs progress to develop racetrack memory Racetrack memory’s reliability is likely to depend on the materials used for the nanowires, and the design—which will be worked out as a prototype is developed. “It shouldn’t take too long,” Parkin says. “Maybe in two years we should have this prototype.” Racetrack …
Green car congress reports that Suzuki Motor Corp. plans to introduce an all-new engine for its minicars for the first time in roughly 16 years. This 660cc engine is expected to deliver a fuel efficiency of 27 km/L (63.5 mpg US, 3.7 L/100km) when combined with an idle-stop system—an improvement of about 20% over the …
Iraq’s oil production exceeded 2.6 million barrels a day for the first time in 20 years, newly appointed Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi said at a press conference in Baghdad. The rising output will boost Iraq’s oil exports by 5 percent to 2 million barrels a day next month, Falah al-Amri, head of the country’s …
Cornell researchers have discovered that carbon nanotubes can transmit and receive light at the nanoscale. Carbon nanotubes, cylindrical rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms, might one day make ideal optical scattering wires — tiny, mostly invisible antennae with the ability to control, absorb and emit certain colors of light at the nanoscale. The researchers used the …
The Economist predicts that China will pass the USA in US dollar GDP at market conversion rates in 2019 The Economist provides an online calculator for people to calculate their own date when China will pass the USA The maximum values are plus or minus 10% for GDP growth, inflation and currency appreciation. Over the …
Trada Founder/CEO Niel Robertson. Niel moderated the panel; “The Human Cloud: Elastic Workforce in the Enterprise”. Crowdsourcing has captured the imagination of people in the enterprise. The concept is that of a “Human Cloud” for labor. While it has proven itself effective, in many cases, modern managers are confused, wondering which everyday tasks can be …
ReWalk can help paraplegics to stand and walk – using crutches for stability – when they lean forward and move their upper body in different ways. Regular usage of the device, which costs about $100,000, would prevent costly complications that often arise in people who can’t walk, including pressure sores and urinary, digestive, circulatory, and …
A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) partners 10 EU research organisations to work on the groundbreaking €10 million ATMOL project that lays the foundation for creating and testing a molecular-sized processor chip. They are pursuing Planar multiple interconnect Atom Technology. A*STAR’s IMRE and 10 EU research organisations are working together to build what …
Exelon said that between now and 2014 it will add more than 400 MWe of new generating capacity through the implementation of nuclear uprates. These uprates will avoid more than 2 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions annually. It added that it has developed a plan to implement an additional 900 MWe worth of extended …
Fourteen-year-old Milo Beckman, dubbed a prodigy and a student at arguably the best specialized math and science secondary school in the country, will be one of those test takers, but with a trick up his sleeve. He’s cracked the code to getting a higher score on the essay portion of the infamous SATs. Milo wanted …
Willard Wells listed several extinction and catastrophe scenarios on the Lifeboat Foundation list. I responded to them and he replied to my response. Below are the scenarios and the discussion. Willards website is www.ApocalypseWhen.com We do not get into a discussion of likelihood. The Lifeboat foundation threat discussions are usually about extremely rare and unlikely …