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Carnival of Space 317
The Carnival of Space 317 is up at Urban Astronomer.Too Hot to Swallow: New Chandra results help explain why gas near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole is so faint in X-rays.Read more »
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Reviewing the Simon - Erlich Bet
There is a new book that reviews The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth's future. Ehrlich's population bomb was first dropped in the pages of New Scientist on 14 December 1967....
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Diana Nyad within one mile of completing the cageless Cuba to Florida Swim
Diana Nyad is a 64 year old swimmer. She is within one mile of completing the Cuba to Florida swim without a cage. One of the big problems with the swim are the jellyfish. She has been using a mask and...
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Frederik Pohl has died. He was an award winning science fiction author,...
Frederik George Pohl was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy-five years — from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite:...
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NASA sending lunar orbiter and China sending lunar rover this year
China has far more ambitious near and mid term space program objectives than NASA does at this time. NASA is sending a robotic orbiter. China is sending a lunar rover. If China can keep to its...
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Microsoft buys Nokia in what would have been a merger of strength years ago
Microsoft will pay EUR 3.79 billion to purchase substantially all of Nokia's Devices & Services business, and EUR 1.65 billion to license Nokia's patents, for a total transaction price of EUR 5.44...
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Graphene Based computer logic circuits
A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have solved a problem that previously presented a serious hurdle for the use of graphene in electronic...
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Artificial muscle created which can lift 80 times its weight
A research team from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has created efficient artificial, or “robotic” muscles, which could carry a weight 80 times its own and able to...
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Regenerative medicine could reach a technological takeoff point with genetic...
Sometime in the next few decades, humans may be able to regrow a finger here, a toe there – and maybe even fresh patches of beating heart tissue. Human hearts are among the most promising targets:...
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In 2011 IDC predicted Windows Phone Market share would be 20% in 2015 and now...
In 2011, IDC projected 20 percent market share for Windows Phone by 2015. IDC's latest prediction is that Microsoft Windows Phone will have 10.2% market share in 2017. Windows Phone will solidify its...
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Genetically modified has 25% higher yield from larger grains
China consumes nearly a third of the world's rice, which is more than what the country currently produces. As its demand for rice continues to increase, crop breeders must come up with new ways to...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch
The Samsung GALAXY Note 3 comes with a wider (5.7inch) full HD Super AMOLED display, yet slimmer (8.3mm) and lighter (168g) hardware design, and more powerful and longer lasting (3,200mAh) battery....
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$1.5 billion or $15 billion market in 2014 for Wearable Technology like...
A Juniper market research report had forecast that smartglasses and smartwatches would be a market of about $1.5 billion in 2014 but Apple was expected to ship 63 million iWatches to start 2014. Will...
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Thanks for a lively discussion at Nextbigfuture
Nextbigfuture had over 4400 comments in the last 30 days and over 8300 comments in the last 3 months. Thanks for engaging and discussing Nextbigfuture articles.Read more »
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First Smartwatch has a lot of features but is pricy and clunky. Sports...
Summarizing the major reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Gear. It is pricy at $299. It does have almost all of the expected list of features. It is able to make a phonecall, has a camera, can pick up...
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China's cost advantage in solar power is mainly from economies of scale with...
A detailed bottom up analysis of all costs associated with PV (solar photovoltaic) production shows that the main contributors to that country’s lower PV prices are economies of scale and...
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Caltech engineers focus on the nano to create strong, lightweight materials
The lightweight skeletons of organisms such as sea sponges display a strength that far exceeds that of manmade products constructed from similar materials. Scientists have long suspected that the...
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Self-assembling hybrid diamond-biological quantum devices at room temperature
Researchers have begun to self-assemble quantum components on the nanometer scale. This is beginning of a multi-decade process to revolutionize the computing. An international team of physicists say...
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IDC High Performance Computing Conference validates Quantum Computing as...
Yesterday the first time the IDC HPC user forum has had a session on quantum computing. There an entire session on quantum computing and the keynote speaker at the event was Charlie Bennett, an IBM...
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Brillouin Energy provides an update on their LENR work and announce a...
Brillouin Energy Corporation (BEC) has been developing low energy nuclear energy power generation (aka cold fusion) (H/T E-cat World A video interview with Robert Godes and Robert George from Brillouin...
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