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Apr 13, 2016
Quantum techniques to enhance solar cell efficiency
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: quantum physics, solar power, sustainability
Luv it — Improving Solar energy with Quantum.
A quantum process called singlet fission could boost solar cell efficiency by harnessing inaccessible parts of the solar spectrum.
Apr 13, 2016
Samsung’s flagship KS9800 is bold, beautiful, and wicked smart
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: electronics, virtual reality
Wicked nice — however, I cannot wait to see SamSung leverage Q-Dots (QD) for VR.
It’s Samsung’s best 4K UHD TV yet, and not just because it has stunning picture quality. It’s also the smartest, easiest-to-use TV we’ve seen in some time.
Apr 13, 2016
How To Get Better At Quantum Computing: Make A Game Of It
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, entertainment, internet, quantum physics
Creative approach and I like it. I advise IT leaders, developers, architects, etc. to start learning as much as they can about Quantum Technology because technology in the next 6 to 7 years will begin the accelerated adoption of this technology and at that point it will be too late for folks in tech to catch up. Now is the time to learn and keep track of the progression of this technology as well as understand where and how this technology can be leveraged earlier in various areas of the infrastructure, devices, and even in industry.
Researchers gave internet users games that simulate quantum physics experiments, and internet users gave the researchers more elegant solutions.
Apr 13, 2016
Aliens may have already swung by Earth without us even noticing
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
Avi Loeb and Ann Druyan just proposed an unsettling idea as to why we haven’t yet found extraterrestrial life.
Apr 13, 2016
How We’ll Finally Wind Up Testing Quantum Gravity
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: quantum physics
Quantum gravity is one of the holy grails of theoretical physics. Here’s how we might turn it into an experimental science at long last.
Apr 13, 2016
That supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way? It might be weirder than you think
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: cosmology
Apr 13, 2016
Silicon Valley’s zero-gravity space startup boom
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
MOUNTAIN VIEW The next big thing in space exploration might not come from a shiny NASA research facility. Instead, it may spring from an abandoned gas station or a converted McDonald’s in the heart of Silicon Valley’s growing space startup scene.
Bay Area companies are commercializing the space industry, with ambitions as lofty as the cruising altitude of the International Space Station. They range from Deep Space Industries, which plans to mine asteroids, to Made In Space, which is working on in-space manufacturing, to Planet Labs, which aims to take daily photographs of everywhere on Earth.
Just as in other technology sectors, Silicon Valley is leading the space startup boom. At least a dozen space companies have popped up in the Bay Area over the past few years, with a concentration taking over empty buildings on Mountain View’s Moffett Field.
Apr 13, 2016
This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: biotech/medical, food, government, health
#nutrition #CrapScience
So after 40 years of prescribing low fat diets & demonising cholesterol, the largest & longest clinical experiment ever (40 years, 9,000 patients, randomly assigned diets) shows that “Patients who lowered their cholesterol, presumably because of the special diet, actually suffered MORE heart-related deaths than those who did not.”
In other words, if you’ve been cutting on steaks, butter etc. for 4 years or more, you may have INCREASED your mortality rate from heart disease by %8.
Apr 13, 2016
Facebook says VR headsets will look like Ray-Bans in 10 years
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, virtual reality
Virtual Reality is awesome, but having to wear a huge headset isn’t fun.
Facebook knows that, so while unveiling its roadmap for the next 10 years, Mark Zuckerberg said future VR headsets would basically be the size of a normal pair of glasses.
Some of the biggest names in tech are coming to TNW Conference in Amsterdam this May.
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