DARPA director Arati Prabhakar highlighted four technology projects in her recent testimony (19 page PDF) to the Senate Appropriations Committee look like a list of insider favorites. New Frontiers Consistent with our mission to prevent technological surprise by creating it, DARPA continues to invest across a wide range of fields where we see promising research …
Fish already represent 16.5% of all animal protein consumed globally and 6.5% of all human protein consumption. During the last three decades, capture fi sheries production increased from 69 million to 93 million tons; during the same time, world aquaculture production increased from 5 million to 63 million tons (FishStat). Globally, fish currently represents about …
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Economist Nouriel Roubini, renowned for his foretelling of doom and gloom in financial markets, has turned bullish in his 2014 outlook, expecting economic performance to “pick up modestly” in both advanced economies and emerging markets. Threats of a euro zone implosion, another U.S. government partial shutdown, a debt-ceiling fight, a hard landing in China, or …
The DARPA robotics challenge finals had the following top five finishers 1. SCHAFT from Japan, owned by Google. 2. Atlas-Ian from Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition it developed software for Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS robot. 3. CMU’s Tartan Rescue 4. A team from MIT 5. NASA JPL’s RoboSimian KurzweilAI reports the Finals will occur …
Sprint Nextel Corp.’s Japanese parent company, SoftBank Corp., is reportedly close to acquiring rival T-Mobile from German communications company Deutsche Telekom in a deal that is expected to be worth more than $19 billion. SoftBank is speaking to banks about borrowing funds for a deal, according to news reports. Sprint has been interested in combining …
If this is the case then it is clear that the 750 billion ton level (which is another 250 billion tons and we are adding about 40 billion tons each year) will be breached. Humanity would then need to use technology to extract CO2 instead of relying upon natural environmental mechanisms to deal with the …
A new approach to growing high-density carbon nanotube forests on conductors can potentially replace and outperform the current copper-based interconnects in a future generation of devices. In the future, more robust carbon nanotube forests may also help improve thermal interface materials, battery electrodes, and supercapacitors. The work was published in Applied Physics Letters. Researchers are …
CSIRO scientists have written software that could guide spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, show that the planet Nibiru doesn’t exist … and prove that the Earth goes around the Sun. Pulsars are small spinning stars that deliver regular ‘blips’ or ‘pulses’ of radio waves and, sometimes, X-rays. Scientists proposed pulsar navigation as early as 1974. Putting …
The newest longevity studies show that * Metformin increases lifespan in Mice by 5.83% when started in middle age mice * Reveratrol improves health but is not showing a significant increase in lifespan * Rapamycin suppresses cancer tumors, Rapamycin life extension is because the mice do not die early from cancer 1. Long-term treatment with …
The Washington post makes the case that Microsoft could follow the path of Digital Equipment. DEC failed to transition from minicomputers after ten years of attempts to become a player in personal computers However, Microsoft can lose all of the home persobal computing market and still last at about half the size with just the …