Last September, we looked at Dstl and DASA’s new competition to map out the future of naval warfare. With the first contracts now announced, Harry Lye catches up with the Intelligent Ship project.
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Apr 8, 2020
The US vs a Chinese giant: Huawei and the tech war
Posted by Derick Lee in category: futurism
This is the first in an eight-part series looking at how Huawei has found itself at the epicentre of the US-China tech war.
Four years after Huawei set up shop in the US, a RAND report tied Chinese telecommunications companies like Huawei and ZTE directly to Beijing.
Over the past two years the relationship between Chinese tech champion Huawei and the US has only worsened but why did the relationship sour in the first place?
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The sophisticated “scientific concept” with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling.
To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
Apr 7, 2020
Railway workers discover 14th century cave with medieval shrine or hermitage
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A team of rail workers delivering landslip repair works near Guildford have uncovered a small cave believed to be from the 14th century.
Apr 7, 2020
Experiment finds that gravity still works down to 50 micrometers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Apr 6, 2020
Rare bee has a body that’s half-male, half-female, and split exactly down the middle
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Gynandromorphy produced a bee with half of its body displaying female features, and the other half of its body showing male traits.
Rare bee has a body that’s half-male, half-female, and split exactly down the middle : Read more
“When the nest was collected, the bee was a larva enclosed in a brood cell, a chamber in the honeycomb where young bees grow,…” Megalopta, or sweat bees do not form honeycomb. These bees nest in excavations in dead wood. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cut-away-view-of-a-nest-…_227655294
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Watch the all-new official trailer and RAZE HELL when DOOM Eternal launches on 03.20.20.
Apr 6, 2020
Google Duo audio boost won’t leave you hanging on the phone
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
“It’s good to hear your voice, you know it’s been so long If I don’t get your calls, then everything goes wrong… Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation” — Blondie, “Hanging on the Telephone”
In 1978, Debbie Harry propelled her new wave band Blondie to the top of the charts with a plaintive tale of yearning to hear her boyfriend’s voice from afar and insisting he not leave her “hanging on the telephone.”
But the questions arises: What if it were 2020 and she was speaking over VOIP with intermittent packet losses, audio jitter, network delays and out-of-sequence packet transmissions?
