73.7 terabits per second and 30% lower latency using new hollow core fiber design

Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the universe’s speed limit: The speed of light. The researchers have used these new optical fibers to transfer data at 73.7 terabits per second — roughly 10 terabytes per second, and some 1,000 times faster than …

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The Great Ages of Humanity Past and Future

What are the great ages of humanity that relate to science, technology, intellectual advancement or exploration ? The Renaissance (Europe, 14th century – 16th century) The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th …

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Roadmap to Photon Propulsion for Interstellar Flight

Here are steps to Photon Propulsion for Interstellar Flight. First we have to develop photonic laser thrusters (amplifying laser propulsion by bouncing between mirrors to recycle photons). Photonic laser thrusters are described in a previous nextbigfuture article. There has been experimental work that indicates that it is feasible. The systems described here are an improvements …

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Surrey engineers use Xbox Kinect games console technology to make “space building blocks”

Space innovators at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are developing ‘STRaND-2’, a twin-satellite mission to test a novel in-orbit docking system based upon XBOX Kinect technology that could change the way space assets are built, maintained and decommissioned. STRaND-2 is the latest mission in the cutting edge STRaND (Surrey Training, …

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Return of the vacuum tube

Eurekalert – Vacuum tubes have been retro for decades. They almost completely disappeared from the electronics scene when consumers exchanged their old cathode ray tube monitors for flat screen TVs. Their replacement – the semiconductor – is generally the cheaper, lighter, more efficient, and easier to manufacture of the two technologies. But vacuum tubes are …

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Space Manufacturing conference – robotics for space manufacturing

Parabolic Arc and Hobbyspace coverage Greg Baiden, Laurentian University, Penguin Automated Systems “Lunar Mining: Taking the Best of Terrestrial Mining and Fitting it on the Moon” – 3 years ago, CSA came to him asking how to put a mine on the moon – Canadians (and Scandinavians) are really really good at mining stuff – …

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Fermilab Holometer will measure smallest details of space time and test if the universe is a hologram in 2011

If you “lived inside” a hologram, you could tell by measuring the blurring. Fermilab is building a interferometer to test space time for holographic blurring. Welcome Redditors – This article has made the front page of Reddit Possible consequence of holography Hypothesis: observable correlations are encoded on light sheets and limited by information capacity of …

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Android is number three worldwide and number in the USA and HTC is Eighth ranked mobile phone brand

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software According to Garner, Google Android is number three worldwide and number one in the United States and HTC mobile phones are the number 8 brand in the world. Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, a …

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China, Japan and Vietnam Nuclear Updates

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. Nuclear development in China has continued apace with the grid connection of a new reactor, the completion of a reactor building and a heavy forging deal. * The third reactor (650 MWe) at Qinshan Phase II nuclear power plant was connected to the East China …

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A Pessimist View of China Economic Future

Gordon G. Chang,author of The Coming Collapse of China, indicates why he thinks China will not have a $123 trillion economy in 2040 This related to previous articles at this site and are directed at 1993 nobel prize winning economist Robert Fogel predicting China to have a $123 trillion economy in 2040 (Note: others like …

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