Web 2.0 summit has started creating a points of control map of the internet From top to bottom, and in reasonably defensible order: We start with the Clouds of Infrastructure, securing the top of the map. We then cross the Oceans of OS and UI to The Platform Plateau, where you’ll find those aforementioned hardware …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software You can click on the graphic to see what changes have been made in the new Oct 2010 GDP by PPP forecast against the April 2010 forecast on the left. The IMF increased its estimate for China by 2-3% and lowered the forecast slightly for the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Bolt believes the world record in the 100 meters could be lowered to 9.4 seconds. This site has looked at the technological possibilities for faster human speed. He ran 100m final race in 9.58s, that gives average speed 10.4384 m/s (23.35mph). If he can go 100m …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software By Alvin Wang and Brian Wang This is a follow up to a recent article about updating proposals for Domed cities. Previously the case was made for improved feasibility with existing covered areas and domes in the 30-40 acre ranges and with costs of $400 million …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A bullet hits traditional Kevlar (L) and the new liquid armour (R). In the tests, scientists used a large gas gun to fire ball bearing-shaped metal bullets at over 300 metres per second into two test materials – 31 layers of untreated kevlar and 10 layers …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Annual power sector carbon dioxide emnission reductions in the BLUE Map scenario in 2050 compared to the Badeline scenario, by technology area. Nuclear is the only major contributor that need no technical breakthrough (Source: IEA) 1. Nuclear power could become the world’s single biggest source of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Wall Street Journal – An unusual clinical trial involving four different drugs offered promise that guiding treatment based on the molecular traits of a tumor can improve survival from lung cancer. Doctors don’t know which patients are likely to respond to which treatments, resulting in hit-or-miss …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In a paper published online Feb. 22 in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, MIT Researchers (Wang and Prinn suggest) that using wind turbines to meet 10 percent of global energy demand in 2100 could cause temperatures to rise by one degree Celsius in the regions on land where …
Guest Post by Joseph Friedlander discussing novaing a sun or near term possibility of manmade flares of sufficient intensity to be an existence risk for life in the solar system. Manmade sun explosions are a future risk that needs to be considered as well as massive artificial fusion explosions of gas giants or moons. Relatively …
Some comments on Vasimr by Paul March on the Nasa Forum Vasimr has different quoted exhaust velocity ranges for different propellants – * argon has a limit of around 50,000 m/s * 300,000 m/s is possible with hydrogen. The 39 day mission to Mars using VASIMR propulsion takes 200 Megawatts total input power driving 4-to-8 …
A Danish drug tested on San Antonio chimpanzees is showing promise as a new gene-based therapy that fights hepatitis C and potentially other diseases. The drug, developed by biopharmaceutical firm Santaris Pharma doesn’t directly fight the virus, which is quick to develop drug resistance. Instead, it targets and locks down a gene in the liver …