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Jun 14, 2016

DARPA chooses PARC and DZYNE to develop unmanned aircraft that vanish for precision air drops

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

ARLINGTON, Va., 14 June 2016. U.S. military researchers have chosen two companies to develop small unpowered and unmanned aircraft to air-drop small packages for forward-deployed forces. After delivery, the unmanned aircraft will vanish without any detectable trace. Officials of the U.S. Defense …

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Jun 14, 2016

Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury

Posted by in category: internet

Hmmm; wonder what the fallout will be as a result of this if other appellate courts, etc. rule the same.


An appeals court panel affirmed the Federal Communications Commission’s rules about net neutrality, clearing the way for stricter oversight of broadband providers.

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Jun 14, 2016

Quantum technologies offer promise for data protection

Posted by in categories: privacy, quantum physics

1st, this article is full of inaccuracies such as 15 years away reported by NIST. Well, maybe 2 years ago they said this; however, in Jan. they and the NSA both stated that QC was less than 10 years away and a huge threat given the advancements by China. Also, this author writes that a hybrid system will be fine to withstand an attack by a hacker on QC. And, that s incorrect.

Also, if this article looks like another article published over a week ago by someone on Forbes; well it is because the author looks like copied word-for-word from the article in Forbes.

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Jun 14, 2016

Quantum Computation: A cryptography armageddon?

Posted by in categories: computing, encryption, quantum physics

Glad that folks have awaken to the fact that QC is indeed coming and best to learn about this technology and make it part of the IT’s Future State.

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/06/14/quantum-computation

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Jun 14, 2016

X-ray Experiments Show Hewlett Packard Team How Memristors Work

Posted by in categories: computing, materials

In experiments at two Department of Energy national labs – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – scientists at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have experimentally confirmed critical aspects of how a new type of microelectronic device, the memristor, works at an atomic scale.

This result is an important step in designing these solid-state devices for use in future computer memories that operate much faster, last longer and use less energy than today’s flash memory. The results were published in February in Advanced Materials.

“We need information like this to be able to design memristors that will succeed commercially,” said Suhas Kumar, an HPE scientist and first author on the group’s technical paper.

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Jun 14, 2016

Nikola Motor claims it received over 7,000 pre-orders worth over $2.3 billion for its electric truck

Posted by in category: transportation

Interesting…


Last month, we reported on a new Salt Lake City-based startup, Nikola Motor, unveiling the design of its first product; an electric truck with a natural gas range extender called ‘Nikola One’. The company attracted a lot of attention for having a name reminiscent of Tesla Motors – both inspired by the physicist Nikola Tesla – but it also unveiled serious ambitions to revolutionize the trucking industry.

The ‘Nikola One’ will be equipped with a massive 320 kWh battery pack and the company hopes that it will be able to travel up to 1,200 miles with the natural gas range extender. Now the company announced that it received over 7,000 pre-orders with deposits for its electric truck since the unveiling of the concept last month. CEO Trevor Milton says that the pre-orders are worth over $2.3 billion.

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Jun 14, 2016

Scientists found something extremely unexpected on Mars – and it could require us to rethink the planet’s history

Posted by in category: space

Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center found something very unexpected in a Martian crater.

Using the Curiosity Rover, the scientists detected a mineral called tridymite that, until now, they thought could only be created in extremely hot temperatures.

The discovery of this tridymite might rewrite the history of the planet, suggesting that it might once have been hotter than we previously thought, and home to monstrous volcanoes.

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Jun 14, 2016

Amazing Photo Shows Likely Alien Planet 1,200 Light-Years Away

Posted by in category: space

Mind = BLOWN


A jaw-dropping new photo shows a probable alien planet orbiting a star that lies 1,200 light-years from Earth.

The potential planet appears as a brownish dot to the left of the bright bluish-white star CVSO 30 in the newly released image, which was captured by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile.

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Jun 14, 2016

All-Beef, No Butcher: Meet the Minds Behind Lab-Grown Burgers

Posted by in categories: food, genetics

Scientists are pushing to perfect a genetically identical meat that would be better for the environment than cows are.

Elizabeth Rushe is a writer and photographer from Ireland who is based in Berlin. Her work has been published by NPR, Paste Magazine, Vice, and Marie Claire.

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Jun 14, 2016

Hyperloop Company Claims New Material Is 10X Stronger Than Steel, 5X Lighter Than Aluminum

Posted by in categories: materials, transportation

Originally published on Gas2.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) says it has created a new material that is ten times stronger than steel but 5 times lighter than aluminum. Think about that for a minute. Assuming those claims can be verified, and also assuming the material is not otherworldly expensive, it may take the place of carbon fiber the way Saran Wrap displaced waxed paper.

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