Japan is trying to pull together a follow up to their 10 petaflop K supercomputer. For the latest supercomputer rankings, K topped the list by clocking 8,162 trillion calculations per second, or 8.162 petaflops, with 672 cabinets of processors. That means K is more than three times faster than the previous champ, China’s Tianhe-1A, which …
Solar cell – This scanning electron microscope, cross-sectional image shows the various compounds of a new chalcopyrite solar cell only a few microns thick, which can be created much less expensively with inkjet printing. (Image courtesy of Oregon State University) Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way for the first time to create …
Popular Mechanics featured Helion Energy (Field reversed configuration fusion with colliding plasmoids) General Fusion gets covered by CNN General fusion is working on a precision controlled piston that hammers giant shock waves into a magnetized sphere — slamming atoms together hard enough to fuse and create energy. The idea triggered investments in Laberge’s young company, …
Hot pack: A display at a conference shows a new material (light green) packed into a metal foam. The material is being used to improve a technology that uses heat energy to drive a cooling process. Credit: Kevin Bullis MIT Technology Review – It could soon be more practical to cool buildings using solar water …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reinventing Sustenance: Feeding a world of 9.4 billion people Speakers: Raoul Adamchak, UC Davis Student Farm/Agricultural Sustainability Institute Fred Pearce, New Scientist Prabhu Pingali, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist First Green revolution – we doubled food production and tripled water usage …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The nanopyramid which was built initially with only 6 blocks may not look as good as the human-made Step pyramid, but the nanopyramid only took approximately 15 minutes using blocks with overall sizes and weight with were much more difficult to work with Nanowerk reports that …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software CREDIT: GYOU-JIN CHO/SUNCHON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY RFID tags printed through a new roll-to-roll process could replace bar codes and make checking out of a store a snap. Rice University and Korean collaborators produce printable tag that could replace bar codes Cho and his team are developing the electronics …
UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic “gene” that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans. The research appears in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Science. “We created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals,” said UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor Omar M. Yaghi, …
Penn State is advancing Visible Light communication speeds and using non-visibile light to achieve 1 Gbps and higher speeds In January 2010 a team of researchers from Siemens and Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin) demonstrated the transmission of 500 MBit/s with white LED over a distrance of 5 metres (16 ft) …
Preparing Humanity for Accelerating Technological Change This was the last of the live articles from the Foresight 2010: the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI. I will clean these up today and add some articles on my own presentation from Sunday morning, which I did not have time to liveblog because I was busy presenting. …
James Cameron will make an Avatar sequel, but it won’t be the next film he takes on. Likely next movies are an adaptation on the manga Battle Angel, which will use the technological tricks of Avatar. Forbidden Planet is also possible. the tricky scenes are where you’re blending live-action photography, stereoscopic photography and CG The …