Gartner forecasted that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. In 2016, 5.5 million new things will get connected every day. Gartner estimates that the Internet of Things (IoT) will support total services spending of $235 billion in 2016, …
Canada and China have agreed to form a new joint venture to develop to market and construct the Advanced Fuel Candu Reactor (AFCR) in China. The deal was signed by Canada’s SNC-Lavalin, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and Shanghai Electric. The reactor reuses used fuel from light water reactors. The joint venture company is expected …
LightningStrike is the first aircraft in history designed to demonstrate the following: Distributed hybrid-electric propulsion ducted fans Innovative synchronous electric-drive system Both tilt wing and canard for vertical take-off and landing High efficiency in both hover and high-speed forward flight Aurora Flight Sciences was recently awarded a six-month $2.9M contract from NASA for continued development …
The Stable Salt Reactor is a proposed molten salt reactor project in the UK that could be three times cheaper than a conventional nuclear reactor. Ian Scott came out of retirement in 2013 to found Moltex Energy LLP. Stable Salt Reactors build on the Fundamental safety and simplicity of breakthrough molten salt fuel in standard …
Members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee passed a bipartisan bill authorizing $19.5 billion for NASA. The bill includes wording to have a crewed Mars mission by 2041. It also requires NASA to send astronauts on private rockets to the International Space Station from U.S. soil — regardless of shifting political winds. The $19.5 …
An emerging class of persistent memories (HP Memristors) aims to break a bottleneck in storage access time that is one of the obstacles in delivering higher computing performance. However both the chips and a programming model for them are still works-in-progress. Some databases already support in-memory operations with non-volatile flash. To accelerate efforts, HPE released …
Reaction Engines is firming up plans to build a fighter engine-size ground demonstrator of its reusable hypersonic propulsion system. SABRE is at heart a rocket engine designed to power aircraft directly into space (single-stage to orbit) to allow reliable, responsive and cost effective space access, and in a different configuration to allow aircraft to cruise …
Lockheed Martin has received a $147.3 million cost-sharing contract from the DARPA to conduct research as part of a prototype agreement for the Tactical Boost Glide program. The Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program is a joint DARPA/U.S. Air Force (USAF) effort that aims to develop and demonstrate technologies to enable future air-launched, tactical-range hypersonic boost …
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. Bruce Schneier claims that there is evidence over the past year or two that Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet Bruce is the author of 13 books–including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data …
Award-winning geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist and Harvard Medical School professor Dr. George M. Church discusses human genomics and compute technologies at the 2016 Bio-IT conference. Church predicts that de Novo sequencing and inSitu sequencing will be in use within 1-2 years. This will be full reads of millions of base pair sequences. It took 15 …
Israel’s army estimates that thousands of rockets could slam into the Jewish state in any future war, military sources said Friday ahead of a nationwide civil defence drill. The drill is based on projections of the army’s Home Front Command, which estimates 1,500 rockets crashing into the country each day, military sources said in a …