Icis is a line of smartspecks that look like a conventional pair of eyewear. They relay notifications from your social networks and turn-by-turn directions from your smartphone’s maps app and overlay them in your line of sight. A heads up display that connect to your smartphone would seem to be a more affordable way to …
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 …
A physicist discusses Fukushima. There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster. Total number of people killed by nuclear radiation at Fukushima was zero. Total injured by radiation was zero. Total private property damaged by radiation….zero. There was no nuclear disaster. What there was, was a major media feeding frenzy fuelled by the rather remote possibility that …
As the private spaceflight firm SpaceX works to bring more commercial rocket launches back to the United States, it anticipates some stiff competition from the burgeoning Chinese space program. “We really feel at SpaceX that the competition is going to be the Chinese space program,” Adam Harris (Spacex VP government affairs) said last month during …
Robotics experts at unmanned vehicles expert Boston Dynamics will develop an enhanced version of the company’s Legged Squad Support System (LS3) robot under terms of a $10 million contract awarded by DARPA. Boston Dynamics is developing the four-legged LS3 to help Army and Marine Corps infantry to carry as much as 400 pounds of a …
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The former commander in chief of Russia’s air force, Peter Deynekin, announced that design work had begun in Russia on a 6th generation fighter plane. Deynekin did not reveal the timescale for its appearance nor its technical characteristics, but the army general underlined that this aircraft would be unmanned. The fifth generation russian T-50 is …
3D printing hardware is rapidly scaling up to output continuous mixtures of multiple materials at increasing resolution over ever larger print volumes. This poses an enormous computational challenge: large high-resolution prints comprise trillions of voxels and petabytes of data and simply modeling and describing the input with spatially varying material mixtures at this scale is …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 166 is up at the Hiroshima Syndrome If US energy policy was looking for the most cost effective clean energy to help the environment and prevent climate change risks for the next ten years then the 30MW restriction would be removed from new hydroelectric power. If US energy policy was …
Oxford University computational scientist Steven Emmott (and author of the book Ten Billion) thinks we are all doomed and tries to confuse others with weird metrics that are not in context. Steve talks about water usage. He does not talk about getting twice as efficient with water to get all of the agriculture and industrial …