Although visually impressive, the inventions of Nikola Tesla haven’t been used for much aside from entertainment and education for the better part of the last century. This may be about to change, as scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil…
The line between a man and a machine is continuing to blur. Not only are computers in some ways getting better than us (one only needs to remember the recent news of Google’s AlphaGo beating a pro player in a game of Go), but we are witnessing the beginnings…
For development of IoT, it is vital that computers get smaller and affordable. After all, the goal is to put them in as many items as possible. Intel now marks a significant progress in this endeavor, with its new Quark Micro-controller Developer Kit D2000…
Yesterday morning in San Francisco, California, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a keynote speech at the
Researchers from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Exeter, Montpellier, and Naples Federico II, have found that humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help rehabilitate people suffering from serious social disorders, such as schizophrenia or social phobia…
Research into behavior and flying patterns of green orchidee bees reveals possible future for autonomous unmanned aircraft and small robots. The way in which these bees assess the incoming light enables them to navigate…
Scientists from the University of Washington (UW) worked with a much older technology that has been here for millennia. They have now created a working system, which uses DNA as the storage facility.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal to increase production of energy from renewable sources is threatened, now that SunEdison Inc’s project in India faces a failure. The construction of 32 “ultra mega” complexes is probably going to be delayed…
Matt Reimer makes his money farming fields in Southwestern Manitoba, Canada. The main commodity in this part of the World is grain. Besides the person driving the combine harvester, there is a position which requires even more relentlessness. There is always a person who drives a tractor next to the harvester, collecting the…
The abuse of opioid drugs that help chronic patients ease their pain has reached epidemic proportions. World Health Organization’s 2014 report states that in the year 2010, estimated 16 651 deaths were caused by prescription opioid overdose just in the United States. In a similar vein – in 2014, nearly two million…
