Avatar has hit $1.602 billion of worldwide box office This is a followup to my predictions on Avatar articles The box office tracking closely to my expectations and even a bit stronger. So I think the $2.55 billion worldwide prediction looks better and better. After weekend up to $1.615 billion worldwide. End of Week 4 …
CNN reports that more than 100,000 are feared dead in the earthquake in Haiti UPDATE [Jan 19, 2010] The Irish Times reports the current estimate is 200,000 deaths Asked about Haitian government statements that between 150,000 and 200,000 people died, Gen Ken Keen, the commander of US forces in Haiti, said: “I think the international …
Figure 1: Schematic diagrams of three types of quantum simulators: atoms (red) held in place by an optical field (green; top left); ions (yellow) aligned using an electromagnetic field (top right); and superconducting circuits (bottom). Iulia Buluta and Franco Nori of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute present an overview of how quantum simulators may become …
Advanced Materials : Engineering Strong Intergraphene Shear Resistance in Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Dramatic Tensile Improvements Strong intergraphene shear resistance is engineered in multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) by embedding the nanotubes into a compressive-stressing ceramic environment to exploit the exceptional strength of its inner graphene walls during tensile loading. A dramatic enhancement in the tensile …
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 …
Shaun Rein in Forbes makes the case that China has arrived as a superpower Here are three trends to look for in 2010 that demonstrate China’s superpower status: First, China is wielding national influence in places it never affected before. Premier Wen Jiabao and the World Bank are even discussing ways to move textile factories …
1. Above is a piece of the 370 megapixel image of 500,000 galaxies. Phil Plait, the bad astronomer, discusses the huge image just released by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Deep Field #1, a ginormous mosaic of the night sky. It covers a solid square degree of sky — 5 times the area of the …
A video camera transmits images to a processor, which displays the images on an LCD screen on the inside of patient’s goggles. The LCD display transmits infrared light pulses that project the image to photovoltaic cells implanted underneath the retina. The photovoltaic cells then convert light signals into electrical impulses that in turn stimulate retinal …
Goal is supercomputers with 1 one million trillion (a quintillion) instructions per second [IEEE had an error with a terascale trillion instructions per second] The Exascale Computing Research Center will integrate multi petaFLOPS systems, develop advanced performance optimization techniques, and collaborate with end users to optimize supercomputer performance in areas such as energy, seismology, computational …
Computerworld reports that the U.S. Department of Energy has already begun holding workshops on building a system that’s 1,000 times more powerful — an exascale system, said Buddy Bland, project director at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility that includes Jaguar. The exascale systems will be needed for high-resolution climate models, bio energy products and …
1. Complete Genomics has a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of sequence data from three complete human genomes. The consumables cost for these three genomes sequenced on the proof-of-principle genomic DNA nanoarrays ranged from $8,005 for 87x coverage to $1,726 for 45x coverage for the samples described …