Israel procuring another fifty 5000 pound bunker busters for a total of about...
The US State Department has approved the sale to Israel of over 20,000 guided bomb kits and 8,650 associated warheads, including additional 5,000 lb 'bunker busters', the Defense Security Cooperation...
View ArticleJapan should have a nuclear reactor restart in July and China is buying into...
1. Japan's nuclear regulator has approved Kyushu Electric Power Company's 'construction plan' for unit 2 of its Sendai nuclear power plant. The company hopes to restart unit 1 of the plant in July,...
View ArticleJapan economic revitalization plan is to double manufacturing robots and...
Japan's revised revitalization strategy, the Robot Revolution Initiative, is to double the use of robotics in manufacturing, and increase by twenty-fold robotics use in other sectors, including service...
View ArticleThree million global ATMs and new ATM videoconferencing
The ATM Industry Association predicted there would be 3 million ATMs across the globe by 2015 and the total number of withdrawals of cash from ATMs globally would rise to above 8.6 billion per year....
View ArticleFully automated and one person retail kiosks
There are about three million interactive [fully automated] kiosks for other types of services globally.Other markets where interactive kiosks have a particularly large impact are:• Entertainment (e.g....
View ArticleHaving young blood keeps your bones healing faster
Young blood has once again shown its promise as an elixir of youth: blood from young mice helps bones of older animals heal.Over the past few years, researchers have reversed muscle atrophy, memory...
View ArticleKeen Software House makes AI that can learn and create a hierarchy of goals
Keen Software House has improved their General artificial intelligence. It could already Pong, a Breakout Game and an Artificial Brain simulator and now it is able to work with delayed rewards and...
View ArticleHigh Iron levels in brain associated with Alzheimers and hastened onset
Studies have suggested that people with Alzheimer's also have higher iron levels in their brains. Now it seems that high iron may hasten the disease's onset.Researchers at the University of Melbourne...
View ArticleDeep Space Industries will get propellant from asteroids
NASA has funded more NIAC (Innovative advanced concept) studies.Deep Space Industries has been funded to develop In-Space Manufacture of Storable PropellantsMany deep-space, missions, especially those...
View ArticleNASA NIAC - Quaser and Pulsar space navigation and Cubesat planetary exploration
One of the new NASA NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced concept) studies is Differential Deployable Autonomous Radio Navigation (ΔDARN). This will be carried out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
View ArticleRussian Supercarrier design has two electromagnetic launchers
Krylovsky State Research Center (KRSC) came up with a scale model of a new aircraft carrier known as 23000 "Storm," daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported."Storm" can carry 90 deck-based aircraft...
View ArticleAugmented Reality Systems set to Revolutionize Battlefield Operations
British engineers from BAE Systems are working in collaboration with academics at the University of Birmingham to develop applications for this ground-breaking technology concept, which intelligently...
View Article7.7 Million Truck Platoon Systems to Ship by 2025 and Japanese truck...
Truck platoons are the most imminently anticipated application of highly automated driving in commercial vehicles. A fusion of forward-looking radar and V2V communication enable fleets of trucks to...
View ArticleTruck Platooning timeline through 2030
A platoon of two trucks is like a short train driving on the road, with the trucks driving very closelybehind each other. The distance between the two trucks can really be extremely small – creating a...
View ArticleIn the Late-2020s a microlensing survey could tell if Rogue planets are more...
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a proposed infrared space observatory which was selected by National Research Council committee as the top priority for the next decade of...
View ArticleSR72 hypersonic spy drone could be flying by 2030
The SR-72 will travel at six times the speed of sound—the fastest military jet ever made—and fly as high as 80,000 feet. The SR-72,will evade assault, take spy photos, and attack targets at speeds of...
View ArticleLarge Survey Telescope will image the entire sky every few nights for a...
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a planned wide-field "survey" reflecting telescope that will photograph the entire available sky every few nights. The LSST is currently in its design and...
View ArticleA bionic lens can be inserted in a procedure like cataract surgery can give...
The objective of OcumeticsTM Technology Corporation is to offer better than 20/20 vision for a lifetime.Employing state-of-the art materials and production techniques, OcumeticsTM Technology...
View ArticleJohn Nash and wife Alicia die together in Taxi accident on NJ Turnpike
The famed Nobel-prize winner John Nash and Princeton University scholar and his wife Alicia were killed when a taxi carrying them slammed into a guardrail on the New Jersey Turnpike, ejecting and...
View ArticleHSBC says there is no traditional stimulus left and the only hope is...
HSBC has a report "The World Economy's Titanic Problem" which indicates that in the event of a future recession, the world economy has run out of traditional stimulus. HSBC Chief Economist Stephen King...
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