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Memristors will become 1000 times faster than flash and will provide petabit...
HP used alternating layers of titanium dioxide and platinum to create memristors. “Think of it as a series of cubes that are 2 to 3 nanometers (nm) on a side,” says R. Stanley Williams, the main...
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3D CMOS Memristor Circuits
There is work towards creating 3D CMOs memristor circuitsMaximum Number of Layers • Each layer has N^2 cells. • There are r^2– 1 cross points per cell. • That gives us a total of N^2 * (r^2 – 1) cross...
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Microsoft is not aging gracefully and Surface is like bad plastic surgery as...
The Washington post makes the case that Microsoft could follow the path of Digital Equipment. DEC failed to transition from minicomputers after ten years of attempts to become a player in personal...
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Train and plane accidents
So when Spain and France have rail accidents there are no people claiming ut beacuse of corruption in the construction of the system like after China s hugh speed rail accident. The Spain and France...
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Google has solved internet TV with the Chromecast $35 device
Google Iis offering Chromecast a $35 device for streaming to your TV.Chromecast is a $35 dongle that plugs into an HDMI slot on your television, and its main purpose is to reduce the amount of time...
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Replacement Glaciers
As the climate warms, glaciers shrink. That is a problem for those who rely on meltwater from them to irrigate their crops: farmers living in the valleys above Leh, in Jammu and Kashmir, for example....
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World energy forecast to 2040
The EIA has a new energy forecast out to 2040. They forecast world energy to go up about 56% but * world electricity will go up 93% * non-OECD will go up 90% * nuclear energy will more than doubleWorld...
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US crude oil production reached 7.55 million barrels per day to the highest...
US daily crude oil production reached 7.55 million barrels per day and all liquids production was at 12.1 million barrels per day Crude oil and natural gas liquids was at 10.12 million barrels per...
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Spacex Falcon 9.1.1 is an upgraded reusable test rocket and Spacex completes...
Spacex has successfully tested upgrades of nine Merlin 1D engines, arranged in their new octagonal placement on the core stage. This will increase the payload capability of the Falcon 9 to over 29,000...
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Mixed reports and Chinese media attacks on the Sky City skyscraper shows...
There is a lot of politics around the China Broad Group factory mass produced skyscraper. If Broad Group succeeds with the successful construction of an over 200 story skyscraper at about 30% lower...
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Russian supply ship docks with orbiting space station
An unmanned cargo ship has docked at the International Space Station to deliver nearly 3 tons of supplies, Russia's space agency said. The Progress 52 spacecraft docked smoothly with the orbiting...
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New Coating makes Superglass
New resilient, ultraslippery glass could lead to self-cleaning, scratch-resistant windows, lenses, and solar panels. A new transparent, bioinspired coating makes ordinary glass tough, self-cleaning and...
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Podcast interview with George Church
O'Reilly Radar podcast interview with George Church. George discusses the potential of synthetic biology. He offer his thoughts on the coming transformation of medicine, whether genes should be...
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Molten Salt Reactor review with benefits like very little waste and 2000...
The non-profit Weinberg Foundation has a 23 page report on the status and background on Thorium Fuelled Molten Salt Reactors. Thorium-fuelled Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) offer a potentially safer, more...
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Greentec Awards could not handle the truth that Molten Salt Reactors would be...
The Dual-Fluid Reactor, a MSR (Molten Salt Reactor) was entered into the Greentec contest by Berlin’s Institute for Solid-State Nuclear Physics. MSRs and other advanced nuclear designs auger a CO2-free...
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High Security Physical Keys are dead. MIT student release program for 3D...
At the Def Con hacker conference Saturday, MIT students David Lawrence and Eric Van Albert plan to release a piece of code that will allow anyone to create a 3D-printable software model of any Schlage...
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China is a solid number two country in size of economy and military spending...
Worldcrunch has an article that makes the case China is still many years from becoming a superpower. China neither is at the heart of a multilateral regime nor does it have a single significant ally....
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Petapixel photography for cameras and imaging one million times beyond human...
Here is progress report on DARPAs work to achieve all seeing multicameras at the physical limit of space and time resolution. They are achieving vision 30 to 50 times beyond the limit of human vision....
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Designs for lower cost nuclear energy
Which nine advanced nuclear reactor designs, from high-temperature gas reactors to fusion would most likely achieve any significant cost declines ? Which four factors are most important to lower cost...
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