MIT Technology Review – 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet If you want to simulate the Earth, you’ll need data on the climate, health, finance, economics, traffic and lots more. Here’s where to find it. Arxiv – From Social Data Mining to Forecasting Socio-Economic Crisis Socio-economic data mining has a great potential in terms …
Jason Perlow claims that Moore’s Law is going to have to be completely re-written — instead of microprocessor technology doubling its performance every two years, we’ll be looking forward to ten to twenty fold increases in computational power, at a bare minimum, every five years. This would mean over ten years that computer speed would …
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), today announced a collaborative partnership with Stanford University in USA to develop nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relay technology to enable ultra-low power computation. NEMS-based integrated circuits are ideal for a wide range of emerging green electronics solutions as they eliminate …
In a pair of studies that has the potential to change the way researchers think about regenerative medicine, scientists have shown that a previously overlooked group of cells—the endothelial layer of blood vessels—is essential in helping adult stem cells multiply and revitalize damaged tissue. Shahin Rafii says “To regenerate long-lasting liver, we may need to …
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Uranium_imports_boost_Indian_reactor_output-1210104.html Electricity generation from India’s nuclear power plants has exceeded targets, partly through imports making uranium more readily available, according to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). NPCIL executive director Sudhinder Thakur said in a statement that electricity output from the country’s nuclear power plants between April and September 2010 was 10.853 terawatt-hours (TWh), …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Podcars (Personal Rapid Transportation) are being deployed at some Airports and city centers The podcar system at Heathrow is 40% cheaper to operate than the bus system that was replaced. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), also called Podcar, is an innovative and sustainable transportation concept, which works …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software RedEye On Demand to produces large prototypes such as a large turbo prop using additive manufacturing. Airbus is targeting sometime beyond 2020 to be able to fabricate an airplane wing using additive manufacturing. EADS (Airbus) has large-scale structures grown from ALM-enabled (additive layer manufacturing) manufacturing systems …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software They are about 2-3 months behind the planned progress in yield Focus fusion provided an update for the dense plasma focus fusion project of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics * Sept 1 all 10 switches were fired together * It is now taking 100 nanoseconds to get to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dependency ratios. Authors’ calculation. OADR and POADR are based on UN, World Population Prospects: The 2008 revision (WPP). ADDR are based on both UN WPP and European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit Survey Data (see references in article). The lower age boundary in all denominations is 20. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Thomas Friedman discusses the effect of the world’s only superpower getting weighed down with a lot of debt * “The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era” is the title of a new book by Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Economist magazine had recent coverage of R-Jet Engineerings orbiting combustion nozzle (OCN) engine. To ease its entry into the market, R-Jet reckons OCN engines could be used first as generators to produce electricity or to power an unmanned drone. With operating experience, the engines could …