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DARPA aims to provide real-time radio frequency maps
DARPA has awarded a contract for the third and final phase of its Advanced RF Mapping program, known as RadioMap, which seeks to provide real-time awareness of radio spectrum use across frequency,...
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Having a good count of habitable zone exoplanets gives clarity to the minimum...
The Drake equation focused on the number of civilizations that are currently in existence. Frank and Sullivan calculate how many civilizations there have ever been.That immediately and significantly...
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MIT has new LineForm shapechanging interface
MIT Media Lab has a new Shape Changing Interface which has the form of a “Line”. Lines have several interesting characteristics from the perspective of interaction design: abstractness of data...
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DARPA to Start Testing an Robot Submarine-Hunting Drone that will be 50 times...
Early in 2016, DARPA will begin testing a 132-foot unmanned submarine-hunting ocean drone in San Diego. The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUCV) will be a persistent sub...
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Russia upgrading Pacific submarine fleet, sub bases and other nuclear forces...
On Sept 30, 2015, the first new Russian Borei-class (sometimes spelled Borey) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) arrived at the Rybachiy submarine base near Petropavlovsk on the...
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International Star Wars Awakens Trailer
Star Wars trailers still looking great. The tone of the movie and action look great.Read more »
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Future Vertical Lift pioneering a software centric design process as software...
Future Vertical Lift, or FVL, is an initiative looking at the next-generation of rotorcraft for 2040 and beyond for the U.S. military. FVL recently added new architecture, which promises to increase...
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Mini-UAV and new modular pistol for US soldiers
The Army is giving US soldiers a mini-UAV and new XM17 pistols.Black HornetThe PD-100 Black Hornet is a toy-sized UAV that makes short-distance reconnaissance easy. The four-inch, 18-gram personal...
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Wireless remote brain interfaces
Wireless remote brain interfacesDr. Polina Anikeeva is an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and a principle investigator of the Bioelectronics group. Her research lies in...
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Army MIND lab is able to decode brain signals in real time
In an Army Research Laboratory facility here called "The MIND Lab," a desktop computer was able to accurately determine what target image a Soldier was thinking about.MIND stands for "Mission Impact...
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Personal jetpack JB-9 flew a person around the Statue of Liberty
An aviator flew by jetpack in a controlled and sustained flight around Statue of Liberty.The JB-9 is small enough to sit in the back seat of a car but powerful enough to fly thousands of feet high.The...
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NVIDIA Jetson TX1 for teraflop computing in a credit card size form
NVIDIA Jetson is the world's leading visual computing platform for GPU-accelerated parallel processing in the mobile embedded systems market. Its high-performance, low-energy computing for deep...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Orders a 1000+ Qubit D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first quantum computing company, announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory will acquire and install the latest D-Wave quantum computer, the 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X™...
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Nvidia’s Jetson TX1 is more than five times as energy efficient for machine...
Nvidia is hoping to attract machine learning developers with the Jetson TX1, an ARM-based development board powered by the top-end Tegra X1 SoC. The company claims that in certain deep learning tasks...
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Elon Musk tracking all advanced battery developments and sees nothing in the...
Tesla Motors and Elon Musk track about 60 different advanced battery development efforts around the world. Some of the efforts to develop improved batteries and hold some long-term promise. they rate...
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Thorium summary video
A half barrel of rock holds the Thorium need to provide 91000 kwh which is the annual power needed for electricity, transportation and heat. 54 barrels of oil = 12 tons of coal = 5300 cubic feet of...
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Bell Lockheed say Valor Tiltrotor future vertical lift vehicle could be...
As the Pentagon considers the future of military vertical lift, Bell Helicopter is talking with the US Navy and Air Force about designing a next-generation tiltrotor solution that could be ready by...
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Super H-mode plasma could greatly increase tokomak fusion power
Meet "Super H mode," a newly discovered state of tokamak plasma that could sharply boost the performance of future fusion reactors. This new state raises the pressure at the edge of the plasma beyond...
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Mexico will boost nuclear energy and increase non-fossil fuel energy from 21%...
A Mexican senator is preparing legislation that would pave the way for expansion of the nation’s only nuclear power plant as part of its drive toward developing more clean energy.The bill is meant to...
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Coal is still King in China as 155 coal plants were approved so far in 2015
In the first nine months of this year, state-owned companies in China received preliminary or full approval to build the 155 coal power plants that have a total capacity of 123 gigawatts, the report...
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