The 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year is one of the quickest American four-doors ever built. It drives like a sports car, eager and agile and instantly responsive. But it’s also as smoothly effortless as a Rolls-Royce, can carry almost as much stuff as a Chevy Equinox, and is more efficient than a Toyota …
Technology Review reports who the largest corporate research and development spenders are. The information is from 2011. Nokia and RIM are shrinking and becoming far weaker. Google, Apple and Samsung continue to see strong revenue growth. Microsoft, Intel, Cisco and HP are holding steady. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review …
Eurekalert – Researchers have coaxed cells to grow and myelinate along thin fibers and it has the potential for use in testing treatments for neurological diseases. They report success in developing polymer nanofiber technologies for understanding how nerves form, why they don’t reconnect after injury, and what can be done to prevent or slow damage. …
Technology Review – Japan Display combined two novel technologies to create a paper like display with color video. 1. an optical property optimization adopting a newly-developed scattering layer 2. a method for reducing power consumption when displaying still images. Japan Display press release on the paper like color video display. Memory in Pixels uses very …
At 20 petaflops, Titan would be significantly more powerful than the current Top 500 champ, the Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, which clocks in at 16.3 petaflops. Data Center Knowledge – “We envision two systems beyond Titan to achieve exascale performance by about 2018,” wrote Jeff Nichols, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and …
Venturebeat also notes that this is Mac versus PC all over again. Apple is already down to 14.9% marketshare in smartphones. There are about 700 million smartphones shipping in 2012. By about 2018 there will be about 3 billion smartphones shipping. Apple grew by 58%, so they increased their marketshare as overall smartphones grew by …
The Broadcom BCM4752 GNSS chip provides the industry’s most advanced multi-constellation support by simultaneously collecting data from four satellite constellations (GPS, GLONASS, QZSS and SBAS) and using the best received signals, resulting in faster searches and more accurate real-time navigation. Building on the success of previous GNSS chips, Broadcom’s multi-constellation technology, coupled with advanced signal …
Arxiv – The gravitational mechanism to generate mass II is a paper on Arxiv (5 pages) that supports the Mach effect interpretation of mass and inertia which is the basis of the James Woodward proposal for Mach Effect propulsion. With the eminent confirmation or disproof of the existence of Higgs boson by experiments on the …
German and French officials lowered expectations Wednesday for a deal to save the euro during this week’s European summit, deflating investors’ optimism about a broad resolution of Europe’s debt crisis. Instead of a new treaty among the 27 members of the European Union, a French official suggested a more likely outcome will be an accord …
While many in Russia and the West see Mr. Brezhnev’s reign as one of stagnant totalitarianism, for Mr. Putin’s spokesman the analogy isn’t a bad thing at all. “Brezhnev wasn’t a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus,” Dmitry Peskov told Dozhd, an independent Russian television network. “He laid the …
Gordon Orr, a director in McKinsey’s Shanghai office, peers into 2011 and finds ways China may once again surprise the world 1. Inflation in food prices will take longer than expected to control. Chinese consumption patterns are shifting as people become wealthier—more meat eating requires more cereals to feed the animals. The food supply chain, …