DARPA rescue robot competition videos

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Those with more lifespan also have more healthspan

Researchers compared the health-spans of older generation subjects of the Long Life Family Study (LLFS) to controls without family history of longevity and to centenarians of the New England Centenarian Study (NECS) using Bayesian parametric survival analysis. We estimated hazard ratios, the ages at which specific percentiles of subjects had onsets of diseases, and the …

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Bad Choices, bad regulation, incompetence and corruption in San Francisco, California result in Inferior Public Transportation and more expensive housing

Shuttle buses for technology companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter use 250 of the 2500 Muni bus stops in San Francisco. The Municipal Transportation Agency has proposed an 18-month test of a shuttle policy designed to support the private buses, which transport as many as 35,000 workers a day, mostly to and from tech companies …

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Early Registration for the Foresight nanotechnology conference

2014 Foresight Technical Conference: Integration February 7 – 9, 2014 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Palo Alto, California, USA http://www.foresight.org/conference DEADLINE for early registration: Dec 6 For $100 discount, use code WANGNBF2014NANO Keynote: Paolo Gargini, ITRS Chairman, former Intel VP of Technology Strategy Conference Co-Chairs: Robert P. Meagley, CEO/CTO, One Nanotechnologies William A. Goddard III, Director, Materials …

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Huawei, Samsung, Nokia are planning to begin deploying 5G mobile wireless at up to 50 gigabits per second by 2020

Mobile broadband technologies have always been introduced before widespread rollout of the network itself, and 5G will be no exception, Zhou observed. Technologies behind LTE for example, came out in 2002 but the LTE networks did not get rolled out until 2008 or 2009, Zhou pointed out. Hardware infrastructure deployment for 5G would start in …

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Mixed reports and Chinese media attacks on the Sky City skyscraper shows China skyscraper politics and how afraid competitors are of Broad Group success with factory mass production and the economic impact

There is a lot of politics around the China Broad Group factory mass produced skyscraper. If Broad Group succeeds with the successful construction of an over 200 story skyscraper at about 30% lower cost than other competitors in China, then Broad Group will have a lot of momentum towards their goal of gaining over 30% …

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At 3pm PST tomorrow, Planetary Resources will make a last push on kickstarter fundraising with a live web event with Bill Nye and Richard Branson

With 27 hours left to go on its Kickstarter campaign, Planetary Resources has raised close to $1.3 million. At 3:00 PM PT tomorrow, Planetary Resources will have a live web event. Planetary Resources will be going ALL OUT for this event. What does “ALL OUT” mean? * A Tesla Cannon * 3D Printed Rocket Nozzles. …

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Joule is making commercial scale direct solar conversion biofuel plants starting in 2014

Joule is deploying a revolutionary platform for renewable fuel and chemical production that is expected to eclipse the scalability, productivities and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today. Joule capitalizes on the global abundance of waste CO2 to economically produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The company’s Sunflow™ products drop into conventional fuel …

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Some who call themselves Environmentalists are Hypocritical about China’s Nuclear, Wind and Solar Power

China is building the most new nuclear power of any country and should have about 40 gigawatts of nuclear power generating about 260 TWh. China’s current 15 GW of nuclear power generates about 98 TWh. China increased its solar PV target to 40 GW. An MIT researcher estimates that 40 GW of solar PV power …

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Building big Starshades and antennas and rectannas in space will boost

Robert Hoyt, Tethers Unlimited, Inc., SpiderFab: Process for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures By using 3D printing and robotics Spiderfab will be able to take raw material and extrude tethers, rods and cylinders and connectors that look like the connectors for assembling a tent. This kind of system can be used to launch a larger …

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China’s nuclear energy program

Business Week has a review of China’s nuclear construction program. China has 29 nuclear reactors under construction (40% of the world total). Construction on the Pebble Bed reactor began in December. The design came from Beijing’s Tsinghua University. If successful, it would be the first full-size prototype of this technology. If unsuccessful, it would be …

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