The Nook Color, which was designed mainly for reading books and magazines, is about half the size of an iPad or a Xoom. It weighs about 30% less. It runs on WiFi, but not 3G. It has an absolutely superb screen. And, once you’ve unlocked the software, it runs many Android applications, from email to …
Bill Gates is the chairman of the 30 person company TerraPower LLC. They recently completed a basic design for a reactor that theoretically could run untouched for decades on spent nuclear fuel. Now the company is seeking a partner to help build the experimental reactor, and a country willing to host it. A traveling-wave reactor …
Ad Astra Rocket Company and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have signed a Support Agreement to collaborate on research, analysis and development tasks on space-based cryogenic magnet operations and electric propulsion systems currently under development by Ad Astra. The Support Agreement is the fourth entered into by the parties under an “Umbrella” Space Act Agreement, …
IQ scores are normalised for a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15 (Weschler). – 1 in 270 have an IQ score over 140. If the standard deviation is 16 SD (Stanford-Binet) then genius would be 1/161) If a country had a mean of 107.5 then it has shifted by a half of a …
Steve Jobs claimed a high tablet market share at the IPad2 rollout Many have said (iPad) is the most successful consumer product ever launched. Over 90% market share and our competitors were flummoxed.” There are difficulties determining how many tablets Ycombinator has a debate about the claims. There will be hundreds of competing tablets in …
1. Idaho samizdat – Progress noted in Texas and Virginia. The nuclear renaissance in the U.S. had some tough going in 2010. The low point of the year was Constellation’s decision to walk away from the Calvert Cliffs III reactor project over a dispute with the federal government about loan guarantees. The project may be …
Anthony Atala, printed a biocompatible model of a human kidney on stage at the 2011 TED conference Thursday, in a technique that could someday be used to create new organs from a patient’s own tissue rather than relying on donated organs. Atala explained the process whereby scanners build a 3-D image of the kidney, then …
Eurekalert – Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent — an improvement of 50 percent for nuclear power stations equipped with steam turbines, or a 40 percent …
Organovo is trying to come up with two products. One of them is focused on blood vessels, which I call vascular grafts and the other focus is on nerve grafts. You need vascular grafts, or substitute blood vessels, when you have a clogged artery or symbiosis where you need to replace blood vessels. We are …
Schematic of the transmission mode microsphere superlens integrated with a classical optical microscope. The spheres collect the near-field object information and form virtual images that can be captured by the conventional lens. University of Manchester scientists have produced the world’s most powerful optical microscope, which could help understand the causes of many viruses and diseases. …
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs surprised a crowd of fans by taking the stage Wednesday to unveil the next version of his company’s iPad tablet. The executive, who took a medical leave earlier this year, joked with the audience, saying he “didn’t want to miss today.” Mr. Jobs, a cancer survivor and transplant recipient, …