Google and Samsung have introduced a new $249 Chromebook. It weighs under 2.5 pounds, is less than 0.8 inches thin, and has more than 6.5 hours of battery life. And wherever you are, all your things are safely stored online. It has an 11.6 inch screen. Google provides two years of 100 Gb of cloud …
Fuel is being loaded into the new Ningde reactor in China. The reactor is on track to begin operations in December of this year. This would be the 10th out of 14 reactors that were expected to start operations in 2012. There are two others that are also expected to start operations. The Kudankulam 1 …
John Wilbanks spoke about Your health, your data He argues for getting health data out into the public domain so that it can be used for research and for everyones benefit to enable better health. 1. Doppler shifts There are apps where people can take pictures of food People annote it with whether they think …
During the past decade the amount of electricity used by data centers has steadily increased, and data centers now consume almost 3% of worldwide electricity. Despite continuing efforts to increase computing efficiency, power consumption by data centers is continuing to consume ever greater quantities of energy. Keith Lofstrom is an electrical engineer who believes that …
World Nuclear News – The Japan Electric Power Development Corp (J-Power) will resume construction of the Ohma nuclear power plant in Aomori prefecture. It will be the first Japanese nuclear construction project to restart since all such projects were suspended following the Fukushima accident. Work to build the 1383 MWe (gross) Advanced Boiling Water Reactor …
HET Surface Telerobotics is an engineering test of a human-robot “opscon” for future deep-space human exploration missions (20 pages) Major Events • 2011-11-29 ISS Payloads Office authorization received • 2012-01-30 ISS Research Planning Working Group approval received • 2012-09 Ground demo of film deployment mechanism on K10 rover • 2012-12 ISS-to-ground communications test (Incr 33-34) …
EU report on nanostructured metamaterials (76 pages). Four projects have results which could be used by other groups (technology partnership and collaboration) 1. MAGNONICS aims to realise, on one hand, new nanotechnologies and, on the other hand, a new class of metamaterials, i.e., magnonic metamaterials, and thereby to prove the concept of magnonics. In other …
HPCWire – NVIDIA today launched the second generation of its breakthrough workstation platform, NVIDIA® Maximus™, featuring Kepler™, the fastest, most efficient GPU architecture. The Maximus platform, introduced in November, gives workstation users the ability to simultaneously perform complex analysis and visualization on a single machine. Now supported by Kepler-based GPUs, Maximus delivers unparalleled performance and …
Gigaom – Google launched its fiber to the home with gigabit speeds are aimed at consumers only. The search giant’s fiber network, which will cost $70 for Internet only and $120 for fiber plus TV, is a killer wrapper for Google’s cloud, consumer and tablet products, some of which will be included in the fiber …
New research shows that exercise is a key step in building a muscle-like implant in the lab with the potential to repair muscle damage from injury or disease. In mice, these implants successfully prompt the regeneration and repair of damaged or lost muscle tissue, resulting in significant functional improvement. “While the body has a capacity …
High temperature superconducting (HTS) cables have gained attention in the last couple years as a solution to the shortage of transmission capabilities. Superconductors are materials that lose their resistance to the flow of electrons when cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero – hence, they conduct electricity almost ideally. European researchers initiated the ‘Super coated …