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Russia's economy shrinks by 4.6% on low oil prices, sanctions
Russia's economy shrank by 4.6% in the second quarter of this year, posting the worst performance since the crippling recession of 2009, the state statistics agency reported Monday.Russian consumers...
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Video of Russian PAK FA stealth fighter performing Cobra maneuver and other...
If the Iran nuclear deal goes forward then Russia will sell arms to Iran. This could enable Russia to help fund its T50 stealth fighter.Russia's PAK FA (aka T50) stealth is shown performing various...
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Caltech Discovery in Fundamental Physics gives understanding of charge...
Caltech researchers recently used a synchrotron X-ray source to investigate the existence of instabilities in the arrangement of the electrons in metals as a function of both temperature and pressure,...
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Understanding the heart and characters of the Fantastic Four that have been...
The Fantastic Four are the crown jewels on the Marvel comic universe. Even when they were not the top selling comic, the characters and their villains have been central to what happens in most of...
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Google Only Larry Page's Proof of Concept and Now They Expand to Alphabet
Google was only Larry Page's first proof-of-concept. Google will now restructure its operations into a General Electric-like conglomerate called Alphabet, of which the search company will become just...
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Google Loon Launcher and ballon to balloon communication
Google has partially automated the Google Loon balloon launching process with 50-foot-tall, cube-shaped units it calls the Autolauncher.The metal and canvas contraptions block the wind, clamp the...
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Russia developing airship radar for anti-missile operations
The principal advantage of an airship is the large surface of its body where radar systems can be mounted. The antennas of anti-ballistic missile radars will be mounted on the cover of an airship,...
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Editas triples its funding with $120 million round to accelerate CRISPR gene...
A $120 million investment in Editas is the largest financial investment made yet in a CRISPR-Cas9 startup.. Intellia Therapeutics and CRISPR Therapeutics (both of which have operations in Cambridge)...
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Concern about the low fertility trap, China will go to a two child policy by...
China's Academy of Social Sciences released a report "Economic Blue Book: 2015 Analysis and Forecast of China's economic situation." They believe that China's current total fertility rate is 1.4, which...
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DARPA targets next generation vacuum tubes that will create electronics that...
According to DARPA, vacuum electron devices (VEDs) are critical components for defense and civilian systems that require high power, wide bandwidth, and high efficiency, and there are over 200,000 VEDs...
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China will upgrade supercomputer to 100 petaflops in 2016 instead of 2015...
System designer for the multiple iterations of the Tianhe machines, Dr. Yutong Lu, revealed that the Tianhe-2 supercomputer will be receiving its upgrade in 2016. However, due to the trade...
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Update on the exaFLOP supercomputer race
The White house released a statement where they indicated the US should have an exaFLOP supercomputer in the next decade (the 2020s or it could mean by 2025).The US is currently on track to get to an...
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page will be attempting to invent the Future with $10...
Invent is what Larry Page’s hero, Nikola Tesla, did. It is what Google Founders Sergey Page and Larry Brin did in 1997, when they concocted a way to make “all the world’s information available” on the...
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China yuan drops 4% in two days
China yuan has dropped by 4% in two days to 6.445 to 1 USD. This was the level back in 2011This drop is effecting other currencies and commodities and stock markets.“China’s yuan move is recalibrating...
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MIT robot mimicks movement of person wearing exoskeleton
Researchers from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering have designed an interface that takes advantage of a human's split-second reflexes allowing a humanoid to maintain its balance and complete...
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Comparing Research budgets of 1970s Bell Labs to DARPA and Google Today
In 1974, AT and T's US $26 billion in revenues—the equivalent of $82 billion today—represents 1.4 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. The next-largest enterprise, sprawling General Motors...
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Google's Technology Moonshots and the Costs of the Apollo Moonshot and Spacex...
Google and its founders have a philosophy of targeting technology moonshots via their Solve for X projects, GoogleX, Google Labs and their other companies and major projects like * Calico (radical life...
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Russian ship designers push ahead with a nuclear aircraft carrier design and...
The Nevskoye Design Bureau's CEO, Sergey Vlasov, told TASS that the corporation was pushing ahead with research into an aircraft carrier of the future entirely of its own accord, without any terms of...
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Solar Power Industry Association Advises to China to Double its 2020 Solar...
China is being encouraged by three industry groups to double the nation’s solar-power goal for 2020 to fill a gap forecast to emerge because nuclear and hydropower are due to fall short of targets.The...
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Nuclear power update for Japan, Russia, China and Europe
1. Kyushu Electric Power has begun restaringt of one of its nuclear reactors on Tuesday. This begins a Japanese government-backed process to get more atomic stations online throughout Japan, a policy...
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