Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software NASA had published proposals from Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed and their partner universities and companies for aircraft for 2030. Besides the previously described Boeing 737 and Beoing 777 replacements there were other planes. MIT had a 181 page report The next step in NASA’s effort …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is devoted to what it calls “ideas worth spreading” In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Russian company Orbital Technologies has announced its plans to launch in 2016 a commercial space station that will be used as a space hotel. It will be able to hold seven people. Bigelow Aerospace is planing to deploy their inflatable commercial space station in 2014. * …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A newfound planet, known as Gliese 581g, is estimated to be 3.1 to 4.3 times as massive as Earth, and makes a complete circuit around its sun in just under 37 days. If the planet has a rocky composition like Earth’s, it would be 1.2 to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arvix – Metamaterial-based model of the Alcubierre warp drive by Igor I. Smolyaninov of the University of Maryland. Alcubierre imagined a small volume of flat spacetime in which a spacecraft sits, surrounded by a bubble of spacetime that shrinks in the direction of travel, bringing your …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) plans to invest 800 billion yuan ($120 billion) into nuclear energy projects by 2020. Total investment in nuclear power plants, in which CNNC will hold controlling stakes, will reach 500 billion yuan ($75 billion) by 2015. 2. The project to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software SGI announced in June its Altix UV system that supports up to 256 Intel Nehalem-EX processors and up to 16 terabytes of main memory all housed in four cabinets. It uses 32 four-port node controller ASICs designed by SGI. By December 2010, SGI will ship versions …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Journal Science -Electromechanical Computing at 500°C with Silicon Carbide the nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) could be used in microcontrollers embedded in hot machinery such as jet engines or oil-drilling rigs. Logic circuits capable of operating at high temperatures can alleviate expensive heat-sinking and thermal-management requirements of modern …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There will a Federal Communications Commission vote on September 23, 2010 to finally open up the TV White Spaces spectrum for unlicensed usage. TV White Spaces Second MO&O: A Second Memorandum Opinion and Order that will create opportunities for investment and innovation in advanced Wi-Fi technologies …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Battery startup Amprius says it has developed batteries capable of storing twice as much energy as anything on the market today, thanks to nanostructured silicon electrodes. The company says it is partnering with several as-yet unnamed major consumer electronics manufacturers to bring the batteries to market …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software An optical quantum computer could, in less than ten years, be performing calculations that are outside the capabilities of conventional computers. An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol has developed a new approach to quantum computing that could soon be used …