Jim Rogers gave his opinion about the current world financial problems * Rogers noted he would own the U.S. dollar, or the Swiss Franc, or agriculture. * China is doing their best to cool things off … I expect them to continue to do it, and that is causing more slowdown around the world. * …
I have previously provided my opinion on the three major views on what a possible Technological Singularity will be like. 1. Event Horizon – The claim is that future becomes weirder than we can imagine now and changes faster than we can handle. I believe that we will still be able to understand the changes …
There was a conference set up by the Dept of Energy to look at the technical issues for building Exaflop supercomputers and beyond. Presenter Presentation Title Agarwal, Anant The Road to Exascale: Are We Being Radical Enough? Bergman, Keren Silicon Photonics for Exascale Computing Borkar, Shekhar Technology and Design Challenges to Realize Exascale Dally, Bill …
Scientists have used a gene therapy tool that acts like intelligent molecular scissors to correct the key gene defect in mice with hemophilia B, a disease that can lead to uncontrolled bleeding. The intervention improved the animals’ blood clotting enough that their severe disease was reduced to a mild form. Hemophilia B affects about 3,000 …
Life expectancy in Europe keeps increasing despite the obesity epidemic, with people in Britain reaching an older age than those living in the US, according to an analysis of trends over the last 40 years Despite spending more per capita on health care than any other country in the world, the US is at the …
1. China has met its target to cut the amount of energy produced per unit of GDP growth by 20 percent over the 2006-2010 period. Chinese officials are still deliberating on energy intensity targets for the next five years, but Chinese media reports suggested last October that the figure for 2011-2015 could be 17.3 percent. …
The Space Elevator Games beaming competition will be held Nov 2nd to Nov 6th, 2009 The power beaming games are now scheduled to be held on the week of 11/2 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base near Mojave, CA. The first two days of the week will be dedicated to …
