Rand – Shaking the Heavens and Splitting the Earth (308 pages) By 2015 or so, the weapon systems and platforms China is acquiring will potentially enable it to effectively implement the four types of air force campaigns described in the next section. The significant numbers of modern fighter aircraft and SAMs, as well as the …
Schematic of the NV and the measurement scheme. a, Schematic drawing of the NV centre with one nitrogen at a carbon lattice site and an adjacent vacancy. b, Simulated absolute electric field 6 μm below the microstructure (depth of the NV) for an applied voltage difference of 1 V Nature Physics – Electric-field sensing using single diamond …
Republicans are set to propose a budget plan calling for fundamental changes in the U.S. government’s tax and spending policies, including overhauling the Medicare health-insurance program for the elderly. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is scheduled today to release a plan that would cut more than $6 trillion from President Barack Obama’s budget over …
Clearwell Systems datasheet on their e-discovery (Artificial Intelligence – Data mining product) system which automates the discovery process for lawyers. * High-performance architecture processes and analyzes documents at rates of up to 1 TB per day. * Robust File Support: Processes and analyzes over 400 different file types, including support for OCR of images containing …
The robots heading to Units One and Two were driving into the reactor to shovel earth and bulldoze walls, as well as carrying out more complex tasks such as sampling the atmosphere, detecting radiation and recovering debris for analysis. Some can even climb walls. They were designed after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster by GIE Intra, …
LA Times – A call for protests in Saudi Arabia that had been talked about for weeks drew only a handful of people Friday, allowing the kingdom to keep at bay for now the waves of political unrest that have battered the Middle East and North Africa. In the end, the “day of rage,” organized …
A scanning electron microscopy image of the master and slave lasers integrated onto a silicon substrate to form a miniature tunable laser. © 2010 IOP Singapore A*Star researchers are mastering bandwidth by developing tunable, low-cost laser device Transmitting information as pulses of light through fiber-optic cables is the fastest and highest-bandwidth communications technology that exists …
Recently Apple refreshed their Macbookpro line and included Intel’s Thunderbolt communication technology Developed by Intel (under the code name Light Peak), and brought to market with technical collaboration from Apple. Thunderbolt technology is a new, high-speed, dual-protocol I/O technology designed for performance, simplicity, and flexibility. This high-speed data transfer technology features the following: * Dual-channel …
Yuan Longping, dubbed “Father of Hybrid Rice” in China, looks at his super hybrid rice in an experimental fi eld in Changsha, Hunan province. XINHUA China’s rice output is No 1 in the world, accounting for 33 percent. China currently produces approximately 500 million tons of rice annually. With its population expected to grow to …
The Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative (APMI) has developed GPS guided mortars Current conventional mortar rounds used by the army only have an accuracy of about a 136 meter (446 ft) Circular Area Probable (CEP). This means that 50 percent of rounds will land within 136 m of the target, 43 percent will land between 136 …
The technique has already been used to print repairs into real animal bones By harnessing the capabilities of Solid-Freeform Fabrication (SFF) – also known as Rapid Prototyping (RP) – Cornel researchers can create living tissue of arbitrary 3D shapes directly from computer-aided design (CAD) data. The “printing ink” is a cell-seeded alginate hydrogel. The alginate …