The Pentagon repeatedly waived laws banning Chinese-built components on U.S. weapons in order to keep the $392 billion Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter program on track in 2012 and 2013, even as U.S. officials were voicing concern about China’s espionage and military buildup. The F35 program is already years behind schedule and 70 percent over initial …
The promotional video imagines the Geek fantasies of a device that provides realtime information to help pickup women and win pool games. It does seem to be a creepy use of the technology, which would likely turnoff the intended targets. Infinity Augmented Reality (Infinity AR) provides the revolutionary software platform that makes the digital eyewear …
Oddities, known as intertwined ordered phases, seem to interfere with superconductivity. “We now have a simple way to understand how they are created and hopefully this understanding will help us to know how to get rid of them,” said Lee. Most subatomic particles have a tiny magnetic field – a property physicists call “spin” – …
Today a few thousand people are striking in 100 cities for fast food workers to be paid $15/hour instead of $7.25 per hour. A robotic hamburger kitchen already exists that can produce 360 gourmet hamburgers in one hour. McDonalds corporation has enough profit to fund the development of automated machines that could provide a one …
GDP growth across the 34-member OECD is projected to accelerate from this year’s 1.2% rate to a 2.3% rate in 2014 and a 2.7% rate in 2015, according to the Outlook. The world economy, by contrast, will grow at a 2.7% rate this year, before accelerating to a 3.6% rate in 2014 and 3.9% in …
South Africa has witnessed an “unparalleled” five-year increase in life expectancy since 2005 thanks to the world’s biggest programme of HIV/Aids drug treatment. The trend marks a spectacular reversal from when former president Thabo Mbeki was branded an “Aids denialist” whose dogma was blamed for 330,000 deaths. In a few short years, South Africa has …
Researchers have demonstrated an effective invisibility cloak that is thin, scalable and adaptive to different types and sizes of objects. Professor George Eleftheriades and PhD student Michael Selvanayagam have designed and tested a new approach to cloaking—by surrounding an object with small antennas that collectively radiate an electromagnetic field. The radiated field cancels out any …
Child Mortality in India is improving but has a long way to go. India has shown real progress in reducing child mortality over the past decade. According to the United Nations, in 2001, 2.5 million Indian children under the age of 5 died. In 2012, 1.5 million died. This is good news, but India alone …
The best trick for locating secret Google facilities might by the one revealed by ex-Googler talentlessclown on reddit. The easiest way to find manned Google data centres is to ask taxi drivers and pizza delivery people. Google previously was using about 215 watts per server. By the end of 2013, the total amount of money …
Jonathan Rothberg founded two genetic-sequencing companies and sold them for hundreds of millions of dollars. He helped to sequence the genomes of a Neanderthal man and James Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s double helix. Now, entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg has set his sights on another milestone: finding the genes that underlie mathematical genius. Rothberg and physicist Max …
Golden rice contains enough vitamin A to meet children’s needs. A 2009 study concluded that golden rice is effectively converted into vitamin A in humans. A 2012 study that fed 68 children ages 6 to 8 concluded that golden rice was as good as vitamin A supplements and better than the natural beta-carotene in spinach. …