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Jan 19, 2022

Motor Mouth: 5 Times the battery range, one-fifth the weight!

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Could the University of Michigan’s lithium-sulfur battery be the breakthrough electric vehicles have been waiting for?

Jan 19, 2022

AI is the key to fixing identity security, ForgeRock CEO says

Posted by in categories: business, information science, robotics/AI, security

For enterprises that are looking to bring a zero trust approach as a way to better secure identities and permissions, leveraging advanced AI is now essential in order to achieve accuracy and scalability, ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch told VentureBeat.

While traditionally, zero trust decision-making has relied mostly upon rules–for instance, rejecting a user request based on an impossible geographic location– ForgeRock adds in AI algorithms that enable far greater accuracy, Rosch said. This accuracy equates to dramatically enhanced security, he said–citing an example of a recent customer that increased its entitlement rejections by 300% after deploying ForgeRock.

“Because it was previously all done by these rules, and people were rubber-stamping these entitlement requests, they were letting these things go that they should never have approved,” Rosch said in a recent interview. “That was increasing the risk to the company. Because there were people who had no business accessing HR data, and no business accessing sales data, that were getting that information. So by leveraging the AI, a 300% increase in request rejections really tightened up the security of the organization.”

Jan 18, 2022

US Airlines Warn of a ‘Catastrophic’ Crisis Caused by New 5G Services

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, engineering, government, internet

They claim that more than 100,000 passengers could be affected in a single day. 🤔

#engineering


Several high-profile executives of U.S. airlines warned on Monday, January 17, of an oncoming “catastrophic” aviation crisis that will take hold by Wednesday should AT&T and Verizon activate their new 5G services, a report from Reuters reveals.

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Jan 18, 2022

Microsoft posts DIY teardown video for Surface laptop repairs

Posted by in category: computing

In response to pressure from right-to-repair advocates, Microsoft has released a new teardown video for its Surface Laptop SE.

Jan 18, 2022

Creating diamonds at room temperature from carbon nanofibers and nanotubes

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

Circa 2019


NC State researchers created diamonds at room temperature in 2015 using carbon thin films. Now, they made diamonds using carbon nanofibers and nanotubes.

Jan 18, 2022

China’s New Space Station Will Be Powered by Ion Propulsion System

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy, space

Such thrusters have been used since the 1970s; however, the Tiangong’s core module is set to become the first crewed spaceship propelled by ion drives. China is betting big on ion thrusters and intends to develop them on a far greater scale for its deep-space missions.

The space station’s core Tianhe module, which will welcome its first astronauts later this month if all goes to plan, is propelled by four ion thrusters, which utilize electricity to accelerate ions as a type of propulsion.

When compared to chemical propulsion, which keeps the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit, ion drives are much more efficient. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the ISS’s thrusters require four tons of rocket fuel to keep it afloat for a year, whereas ion thrusters would require only 882 pounds (400kg) to do the same.

Jan 18, 2022

Sold-out Swedish Jetson ONE personal eVTOL set for delivery in 2022

Posted by in category: transportation

Swedish flying car maker Jetson will deliver its first batch of Jetson ONE personal eVTOL this year before scaling production in 2023.


Though still young, 2022 is shaping up to be monumental for Swedish flying car developer Jetson, which plans to deliver the first series of its one-passenger personal electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle later this year, then turn to outside investors to help scale activity.

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Jan 18, 2022

Swiss-Made Hybrid Tilt-Wing eVTOL With Eight Seats Boasts a 630-Mile Range

Posted by in category: transportation

EVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing) are gearing up to become serious competition for conventional helicopters, as the clean energy and advanced urban air mobility trends continue to rise. A Swiss eVTOL developer is ready to begin flight tests for its eight-seat aircraft that will be operating across Scandinavia.

Jan 18, 2022

Astronomers propose building a neutrino telescope — out of the Pacific Ocean

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

Meet the ambitious P-ONE proposal.


The P-ONE design currently involves seven 10-string clusters, with each string hosting 20 optical elements. That s a grand total of 1,400 photodetectors floating around an area of the Pacific several miles across, providing much more coverage than IceCube.

Once it’s up and running, you just need to wait. Even neutrinos will strike some ocean water and give off a little flash, and the detectors will trace it.

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Jan 18, 2022

D-Wave increases European presence with quantum computer in Germany

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

D-Wave Systems is ramping up in the race to so-called quantum supremacy — the bid to become the first to successfully commercialize quantum computing.