The Carnival of Space 326 is up at Photos to Space. Astronomers confirm first Earth-sized rocky exoplanet Universe Today – This eclipse is of the rare hybrid variety— that is, it will be an annular eclipse along the very first 15 seconds of its track before transitioning to a total as the Moon’s shadow sweeps …
The Intel fab — known as D1X module 2 — is intended to be a development fab for production of ICs on 450mm diameter wafers. However, the breaking of ground for the wafer fab was not widely reported at the time it occurred. The first D1X module is expected to be the first wafer fab …
The cable industry insists that it’s ready and able to compete with Google Fiber when it comes to delivering ultra high-speed broadband Comcast CEO Brian Roberts last week showed off a 3Gbps cable broadband connection at the industry’s annual trade show in Washington, D.C. That’s three times faster than Google Fiber, which itself is nearly …
DARPA’s Adaptable Sensor System (ADAPT) program aims to transform how unattended sensors are developed for the military by using an original design manufacturer (ODM) process similar to that of the commercial smartphone industry. The goal is to develop low-cost, rapidly updatable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors in less than a year, a marked improvement …
One-time pads are the holy grail of cryptography–they are impossible to crack, even in principle. They work by adding a set of random digits to a message thereby creating a ciphertext that looks random to any eavesdropper. The receiver decodes the message by taking away the same set of random digits to reveal the original …
Ionut Budisteanu, 19, of Romania was awarded first place for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. His whole system should work for no more $4,000. Ionut created a feasible design for an autonomously controlled car that could detect traffic …
In November, GE announced it would invest $1.5 billion in efforts to fine-tune its machines’ performance and capture big efficiency gains by connecting them to its enterprise software and to the wider Internet. GE thinks that cheaper computing power and sensors are now poised to usher in a new era of big data for industry. …
Researchers at MIT have now fabricated a three-dimensional, lightweight metamaterial lens that focuses radio waves with extreme precision. The concave lens exhibits a property called negative refraction, bending electromagnetic waves — in this case, radio waves — in exactly the opposite sense from which a normal concave lens would work.Concave lenses typically radiate radio waves …
1. ECat World – Rossi was asked at the JONP whether he had sold 2 or more plants, and he answered, “more.” Also, asked if he could say who any of the other customers were he declined to do so saying, “I want not our Customers assailed by the puppetts moved by their puppetteers. Let …
By growing human liver tissue inside mice, Alice Chen has created “humanized” mouse livers that respond to drugs the same way a human liver does. “What’s exciting to researchers is this idea that if we can create these mice with human livers, we can basically create a slew of human-like patients to do drug-development screens, …
Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, and Hyflux Ltd have broken ground for the country’s second and largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant. The $890 million plant in Tuas, which begins operations in July 2013, will triple the Republic’s water desalination capacity. That will bring Singapore closer to its goal of supplying 30 per cent of …