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Ford and Samsung on track for lithium ion batteries for 70% of the car line...
Ford and Samsung have a dual-battery system combines a lithium-ion battery with a 12-volt lead-acid battery that could enable regenerative braking technology in non-hybrid vehicles for greater fuel...
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China looking seriously at creating artificial islands that near the scale of...
A new floating city designed by AT Design Office and the Chinese construction firm CCCC, is slated to begin development on a pilot scale next year.“When the client came to us and talked about this...
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Spacex targets reusing the Dragon V2 ten times before refurbishment and...
Elon Musk describing upgrades to the ship that could allow Dragons to fly up to 10 times without significant refurbishmentMusk doesn't want SpaceX to simply become an orbital taxi service, however. His...
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Elon Musk's Tesla will Need Hundreds of Giga Battery Factories
Through scale alone, Tesla hopes the gigafactory will bring down battery costs by 30%. A $175 per kWh battery would be "very competitive" with even a mass market vehicle, Langan writes.Musk put things...
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Haptic feedback and Augmented Reality can accelerate skill learning
Georgia Tech has been trying to develop wearable devices that will provide coaching and training to more rapid training of skills and tasks.Haptic Feedback from a Wearable Glove can speed up musical...
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China's generation 3.5 and beyond nuclear reactors
China has a bunch of different pressure water nuclear reactors under development and breeder reactors and a pebble bed reactor and molten salt reactors.In December 2012, first concrete was poured for...
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Improved Heat Shield Materials are key to more reusability and details on the...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk answered questions following the Dragon V2 spacecraft public reveal in Hawthorne California May 29th 2014.Dragon V2 in the crew configuration it can take 7 passengers and I think...
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Bussard EMC2 Fusion Project Publishes on Arxiv With Results Confirming...
EMC2 Fusion reports experimental results validating the concept that plasma confinement is enhanced in a magnetic cusp configuration when beta (plasma pressure/magnetic field pressure) is order of...
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Nanotruss for super lightweight and superstrong material are also very useful...
Julia Greer, professor of materials science and mechanics, has made more progess with the fractal nanotruss—nano because the structures are made up of members that are as thin as five nanometers (five...
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The Turing Test has been passed for a huge human deception milestone
Eugene Goostman, a computer programme pretending to be a young Ukrainian boy, successfully duped enough humans to pass the iconic test.Computing pioneer Alan Turing said that a computer could be...
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In 2006 CalTrain hired a Chinese company for the Bay Bridge who had never...
The Chinese company hired to build key parts of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had never built a bridge.Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. Ltd., after all, was a manufacturer of giant cranes for...
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Flawed Turing test and fooling humans 33% of the time
In 2013, Stuart Armstrong discussed the flaws with the Turing Test.There is a problem with the Turing test, practically and philosophically, and I would be willing to bet that the first entity to pass...
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AI expert Ben Goertzel discusses the Chatbot Eugene Goostmans Turing Test...
There has been a lot of new reports that the chatbot Eugene Goostman has "beaten the Turing test" -- the classic test of machine intelligence proposed by AI pioneer Alan Turing, which says (loosely)...
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Israel Air Force has quadrupled air strike capability in two years
Israeli Air Force has doubled their air strike abilities twice in the past two years. By the end of 2014 they will see an improvement of 400% to our offensive capabilities relative to the recent past...
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Fish Farming is how the world will get most of its meat in the future and it...
For global fish availability to meet projected demand, [the World Resources Institute] estimates that aquaculture production will need to more than double by midcentury, rising from 67 million tons...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 212
1. Atomic Power Review - EPA Announcement: Where To From Here?This week's announcement from the EPA on anticipated emissions reductions has the internet wildly abuzz with speculation about how and...
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Japan's first quarter GDP was up 6.7% annualised, China exports rose 7...
1. Japan's economy grew an annualised 6.7 percent in the first quarter, up sharply from an initial reading of a 5.9 percent rise, and confirmed the fastest pace of growth since July-September 2011. The...
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Global Private wealth increased to $152 trillion in 2013
The amount of private wealth held by households globally surged more than 14% to $152 trillion (£90tn) in 2013, boosted mainly by rising stock markets.Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, led the surge with...
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Brain Implantable Device to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),...
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) today announced a new research initiative designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and other...
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Nanoparticles Anchored to Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Foam for...
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon graphene foam architecture that improves the performance of...
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