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Brain Chips and the Path to better Artificial Intelligence
Modha at IBM is testing early versions of a more complex chip, made from a grid of neurosynaptic cores tiled into a kind of rudimentary cortex—over a million neurons altogether. Last summer, IBM also...
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US Judge declares NSA phone surveillence unconstitional, almost Orwellian and...
The National Security Agency received its most significant legal setback since the disclosures prompted by a former contractor, Edward Snowden, when a federal judge ruled on Monday that its bulk...
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Diefenbaker of Canada agreed to stop making major weapons in 1959 and wound...
Canada outsourced most of military to the USA starting in about 1957-1964 when defense spending went from about 5% of GDP to about 2.0-2.5% of GDP. It was the deal that the US pressured Canada into...
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US Army mounts high energy laser on a big truck for anti-mortar and...
The Army used a vehicle-mounted high-energy laser for the first time to successfully engage more than 90 mortar rounds and several unmanned aerial vehicles in flight.The Army High Energy Laser Mobile...
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YCBO higher temperature superconductors are expected to hit over 30 tesla
High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States:Current Status and Future Directions (2013, 232 pages)High magnetic fields have enabled major breakthroughs in science and have...
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Metamaterials for making superconductors with inclusions of dielectric...
Smolyaninova and Smolyaninov argue that the ε-near-zero (ENZ) approach to designing metamaterials could offer a blueprint for creating a material with the appropriate value of ε. ENZ metamaterials are...
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China working to speed urbanization and reform Hukou system for small and...
China's National Development and Reform Commission, the nation’s top economic planning agency, said today it will promote urbanization and issue supporting policies on residency, land, capital, housing...
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Carnival of Space 332
The Carnival of Space 332 is up at Everyday Spacer blogUniverse Today - This picture above from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is one of a series showing changing dark lines on an equatorial hillside...
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Canada uses a scientific geographical survey to lay claim to area in the...
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird made a statement last week that revealed that a scientific and geographical survey regarding its claim to Arctic territories will be submitted to the UN Commission...
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China's High Speed Rail Web will drive transcontinental commerce and...
The great imperialists of the 19th Century built railroads to solidify their control of vast expanses of land and incorporate their territory into modern industrial economies. And although the...
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University of Twente provides breakthrough critical technology for...
The superconductivity group at the University of Twente has a technological breakthrough that is crucial for the success of tokamak fusion reactors. It is a very ingenious and robust superconducting...
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Could China Make claims to the Moon that could trigger a new space race ?
Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Instapundit) wrote in USA Today that he hopes China makes territorial claims to the moon to start a gold rush for space resources.On Saturday, a Chinese lunar probe made the...
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Pacemaker that is ten times smaller can be implanted without surgery
Pacemaker surgery typically requires a doctor to make an incision above a patient’s heart, dig a cavity into which he can implant the heartbeat-regulating device, and then connect the pulse generator...
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ASEAN economy and Intra ASEAN trade and trade with China
The Asean economy is expected to double by 2020, with the nominal gross domestic product of the regional bloc increasing from US$2 trillion in 2012 to US$4.7 trillion.ASEAN Purchasing power parity per...
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China Activity Proxy estimates China's official GDP growth was overstated by...
Economists have tried to put together alternative indices to estimate China's GDP growth. One of the most thorough is produced by Capital Economics, which releases what it calls the China Activity...
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$38 android tablet with 7 inch display and 1 GHz processor is coming to the USA
Datawind announced that it plans to sell a $38 tablet in the U.S. through as-yet unnamed online and brick-and-mortar retailers early next year. The London-based firm plans to sell three models in the...
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1-Femtojoule Optical Interconnect Paves the Way for Low-Power, High...
Michael Watts and pals at MIT have designed and built the first photonic modulator that operates at an ultralow 1 femtoJoule power level.“We propose, demonstrate, and characterize the first modulator...
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China needs to fully mobilize and engage in a war on pollution
17 to 22 million civilians died in the second China-Japan war which lasted 8 years (1937-1945).Outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, according to a study...
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Canadian writer fears Canada will become a Vassal of China instead of a...
Diane Francis makes the case that the USA and Canada are declining relative to the rest of the world and particularly China. She proposes a simple and obvious solution: What if the United States and...
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Definition of Vassal State means providing military assistance to the...
A vassal state is any state that is subordinate to another. The vassal in these cases is the ruler, rather than the state itself. Being a vassal most commonly implies providing military assistance to...
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