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Jan 23, 2022

How Intel squandered the chip shortage to lose its semiconductor crown

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Revenue across all chipmakers soared 25% amid the chip shortage, but revenue at Intel, a former pioneer, barely budged.

Jan 23, 2022

India’s richest man is pouring more than $80 billion into green energy

Posted by in categories: employment, energy

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is going big on green energy.

His conglomerate, Reliance Industries, announced Thursday that it would allocate a whopping 6 trillion rupees (approximately $80.6 billion) to renewable power projects in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where it hopes to help generate a million new jobs.

The bulk of that money — about $67.7 billion — will go toward a new power plant and hydrogen system, the company said in a stock exchange filing. Reliance plans to make the massive investment over a 10-to-15-year period, and has already begun scouting for land for the 100-gigawatt capacity site.

Jan 23, 2022

SkyDrive Is Designing a New Quadcopter That Fails Only Once Every One Billion Rides

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Japanese aerospace company SkyDrive unveiled the latest version of its flying car at CES 2022! The company hopes to unveil a commercial version in 2025.

Jan 23, 2022

Webb space telescope nears its destination almost a million miles from Earth, ready for critical mirror alignment

Posted by in category: space travel

If all goes well, the telescope will remain in that six-month orbit for the rest of its operational life, firing its thruster periodically to remain on station.

Getting ready to capture “‘wow’ images”

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Jan 23, 2022

Webb Space Telescope: Uncovering Hidden Parts of Our Solar System

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The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is designed to answer fundamental questions about the Universe.

One of Webb’s key science goals is to study the nearby cosmos: uncovering hidden parts of our Solar System, peering inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming, and revealing the composition of exoplanets in more detail.

Jan 23, 2022

Linking brains to computers: how new implants are helping us achieve this goal

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

Researchers have developed implants small enough to fit inside brain cells.

Jan 23, 2022

30 Years Ago, Astronomers Discovered The First Exoplanet — And It’s Still Totally Bizarre

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It got weird, fast.


And what about Wolszczan’s pulsar detection method? As precise as it is, shouldn’t it have revealed many such pulsar planets by now?

That’s the thing, according to Wolszczan. “I’ve been engaged with a number of long-term surveys, which were to search for millisecond pulsars and then look for planets around them,” he says, and while they’ve found a few objects around neutrons stars, they’ve found nothing like the PSR B1257+12 system. “That is the disappointing part of the whole story.”

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Jan 23, 2022

Brain device records activity in record-breaking detail

Posted by in categories: computing, media & arts, neuroscience

Beyond that, the ECoG technology could be developed for use in the emerging field of brain-computer interfaces, which have a huge range of potential applications – from controlling a computer just by thinking, to streaming music directly to your brain.

By uncovering new knowledge about how the brain works, for example, the device could be used to interpret hand motions in new ways utilising brain wave patterns.

Jan 23, 2022

2022: The Year in which Virtual Reality goes Mainstream

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience, virtual reality

The Future of Virtual Reality has been shown at CES 2022 in the form of retina display VR Headsets, full body tracking solutions and brain computer interfaces previewing what the future of full dive virtual reality could look like. Companies such as Meta/Facebook, Google, Apple and Valve are all investing millions into making Virtual Reality mainstream and look just like real life.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 A vision into the Future at CES
00:50 Next Generation VR Headsets.
02:29 The Future of VR Hardware.
04:47 VR CPU’s & GPU’s.
07:00 Is the Future of VR Mainstream?
07:48 Last Words.

#virtualreality #vr #future

Jan 23, 2022

A Startup Completed the First Test Flight of Its Unique ‘CycloRotor’ eVTOL Prototype

Posted by in category: transportation