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US Military months from testing a Non-lethal sonic weapon that is reminiscent...
The Laser-Induced Plasma Effect, or LIPE, is a weapon that the U.S. military hopes to begin testing in coming months.LIPE’s lasers fire extremely short bursts (around a nanosecond, or a billionth of a...
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Escape Dynamics Microwave launch designs and technical details
Escape Dynamics primary objective is to develop a rapidly reusable, single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launch system and introduce space access solutions to customers at a price point 10x below the cost of...
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Could the new Intel Micron 3D Xpoint be a breakthrough form of Phase Change...
Ron Neale, Independent Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Professional speculated on what the technical basis is for the new class of computer memory 3D Xpoint.3D Xpoint has 128 gigabit array memory...
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All optical communications could become over ten times faster with optical...
Researchers have created a new "plasmonic oxide material" that could make possible devices for optical communications that are at least 10 times faster than conventional technologies.In optical...
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Navy targets FY2019 for field testing ten shot per minute railgun and FY2018...
The Navy will shortly ward a development contract for the larger follow-on to USS Ponce laser system. The new laser gun will be 100 to 150 kw instead of 30 kw. That weapon will go out to sea for a...
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US Navy railgun research and progress
The 2015 Navy Expo proceedings for Electromagnetic railguns and solid state lasers is here (42 pages)The Navy is already working on a railgun that would allow for 10 shots per minute. This “rep rate”...
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Technical details on the US Navy 150 kw combat laser development
The 2015 Navy Expo proceedings for solid state lasers is here (42 pages)The Navy will soon deploy a new laser gun that will be 100 to 150 kw instead of the 30 kw system they are currently testing. That...
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Could Russia Breakup after Putin ?
The Soviet Union came apart because it overstretched itself and ran out of money and ideas. Local elites saw no benefit in remaining part of a bankrupt country. It fragmented along the administrative...
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Radical Life extension, birthrates and different world populatin scenarios to...
There is a projection of world population based upon the availability of procedures that would extend life expectancy by 20 years or more appearing around 2020 and getting utilized in increasing...
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New Nanoscale Programmable Memristive Switches from DARPA
By combining complementary mindsets on the leading edges of electronic and radiofrequency device engineering, a pair of researchers in DARPA’s Young Faculty Award program has devised ultratiny,...
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DARPA funds next phase of XS-1 spaceplane project
DARPA awarded Virgin Galactic and two others contracts to investigate how spaceplane could slash cost of putting satellites into space.DARPA aims to build a reusable vehicle that it hopes will provide...
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China's Fifth Generation Stealth Fighter are underpowered with second rate...
China's J-20 Black Eagle could be fully operational by 2018, and a second model, the J-31 Gyrfalcon, by 2020. If true, China’s new generation of fighters could have a substantial impact on its ability...
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Stealth and anti-stealth technology arms race
Stealth planes are never completely invisible, as they will always generate a radar signature in the end according to Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute...
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First white laser paves way for better computer screens, televisions and...
More luminous and energy efficient than LEDs, white lasers look to be the future in lighting and light-based wireless communicationWhile lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many...
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Tesla likely to supply cars to Uber in the nearterm and Uber would buy...
Steve Jurvetson, an early Tesla investor and current company board member, stated that Uber's CEO told him that if Tesla is able to build a fully-functioning autonomous vehicle by 2020, Uber would want...
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Gigabit fiber could takeoff Europe, Asia and the rest of world from 2017-2021
Fiber to the home could take off in developing countries in South Asia in 2016-2018A gigabit signal can travel 35 miles over fiber versus 300 feet for cable.Althought wireless LTE have high theoretical...
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Universal plaque-busting drug could treat various brain diseases
A virus found in sewage has spawned a unique drug that targets plaques implicated in a host of brain-crippling diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...
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Tesla Powerwall home batteries and soon a snake like robotic charging plug
Tesla is solving the forgot-to-plug-in-the-car-charger problem with a multi-segmented robotic arm, which rises up and slithers snake-like toward the left rear quarter panel of the Tesla Model S toward...
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Compact tokamak design with stronger 23 tesla superconducting magnets could...
Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor— and it’s one that might be realized in as little as a decade, they...
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Australia working on reusable rockets and hypersonic spaceplanes for small...
Australia's University of Queensland UQ’s Centre for Hypersonics is planning a three-stage transformational space project called SPARTAN, designed to deliver satellites weighing up to 500kgs into orbit...
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