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Jun 25, 2021

Blood test to detect 50 types of cancer ‘accurate enough to be rolled out’

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease is accurate enough to be rolled out as a multi-cancer screening test, according to scientists.… See More.


The test is based on a type of DNA that is shed by tumours into the bloodstream.

Jun 25, 2021

No lab required: New technology can diagnose infections in minutes

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, chemistry

I am waiting for tricorders.


The idea of visiting the doctor’s office with symptoms of an illness and leaving with a scientifically confirmed diagnosis is much closer to reality because of new technology developed by researchers at McMaster University.

Engineering, biochemistry and medical researchers from across campus have combined their skills to create a hand-held rapid test for bacterial infections that can produce accurate, reliable results in less than an hour, eliminating the need to send samples to a lab.

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Jun 25, 2021

This is the hardware you need to run Windows 11

Posted by in categories: computing, internet

You’ll need a 64-bit CPU to test Microsoft’s latest OS.


To install Windows 11, you will need a 64-bit CPU, 4GB of RAM, and an internet connection.

Jun 25, 2021

SpaceX Starship Super Heavy booster, launch tower take shape

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX’s Texas facility known as Starbase has seen significant progress in its quest to become a mass-producing entity of Starship Super Heavy rockets.


In the last few weeks, SpaceX’s South Texas facility known as Starbase has seen significant progress in its quest to become a mass-producing entity of heavy-lift rockets.

Company founder and CEO Elon Musk recently shared a series of tweets showing the progress on the heavy-lift rocket known as Super Heavy in the company’s high bay assembly facility.

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Jun 25, 2021

Hackers are using unknown user accounts to target Zyxel firewalls and VPNs

Posted by in categories: internet, security

In an email, the company said that targeted devices included security appliances that have remote management or SSL VPN enabled, namely in the USG/ZyWALL, USG FLEX, ATP, and VPN series running on-premise ZLD firmware. The language in the email is terse, but it appears to say that the attacks target devices that are exposed to the Internet. When the attackers succeed in accessing the device, the email further appears to say, they are then able to connect to previously unknown accounts hardwired into the devices.

Batten down the hatches

“We’re aware of the situation and have been working our best to investigate and resolve it,” the email, which was posted to Twitter, said. “The threat actor attempts to access a device through WAN; if successful, they then bypass authentication and establish SSL VPN tunnels with unknown user accounts, such as ‘zyxel_silvpn,’ ‘zyxel_ts,’ or ‘zyxel_vpn_test,’ to manipulate the device’s configuration.”

Jun 25, 2021

Virgin Galactic jumps 12% after getting the green light from the FAA to fly passengers to space

Posted by in category: space travel

Virgin Galactic announced on Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration granted the company the license it needs to fly passengers on future spaceflights, a key hurdle as the venture completes development testing.

“The commercial license that we have had in place since 2016 remains in place, but is now cleared to allow us to carry commercial passengers when we’re ready to do so,” Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier told CNBC. “This is obviously an exciting milestone and a huge compliment to the team.”

While the FAA previously gave Virgin Galactic a launch license to conduct spaceflights, the license expansion allows the company to fly what the regulator calls “spaceflight participants.” The company completed a 29 element verification and validation program for the FAA, clearing the final two FAA milestones with its most recent spaceflight test in May. Colglazier noted the two last milestones were specific to the spacecraft’s flight control systems and inertial navigation systems.

Jun 25, 2021

Dreams Come True: First-Ever Luxury Space Hotel Nears Launch

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

1. Bigelow must be pissed.

2. A giant ring like that would make a hell of a spacecraft to get around the solar system.

Lawrence Klaes shared a link to the group: Space Settlement Alliance.

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Jun 25, 2021

New Fusion Engine Could Cut Travel Time To Mars Down To Six Weeks

Posted by in categories: engineering, space travel

Circa 2012 Dilithium crystal created.


Fusion Engine Space

Brace yourselves: Researchers at University of Huntsville in Alabama say they are using “Dilithium Crystals” in a new fusion impulse engine that could cut the travel time to Mars down to as little as six weeks, not the six months it takes now.

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Jun 25, 2021

Antimatter rocket is a future spacecraft that could reach the speed of 72 million miles per hour

Posted by in categories: chemistry, space travel

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Last July, NASA successfully launched the Mars Perseverance rover into space. After traveling for 203 days and 300 million miles at the speed of about 24600 miles per hour, NASA Perseverance Rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. Today, the top speed ever reached by NASA ion thruster-powered spacecraft is 200000 mph.

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Jun 25, 2021

World-largest petawatt laser completed, delivering 2,000 trillion watts output

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones, nuclear energy, quantum physics, security

Circa 2015 In theory this big bang laser could eventually create complex matter but would need to be pocket-size as I want it on a smartphone to make a replicator so I can make fruit or food in space 😀


The Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, has succeeded to reinforce the Petawatt laser “LFEX” to deliver up to 2000 trillion watts in the duration of one trillionth of one second (this corresponds to 1000 times the integrated electric power consumed in the world). By using this high-power laser, it is now possible to generate all of the high-energy quantum beams (electrons, ions, gamma ray, neutron, positron). Owing to such quantum beams with large current, we can make a big step forward not only for creating new fundamental technologies such as medical applications and non-destructive inspection of social infrastructures to contribute to our future life of longevity, safety, and security, but also for realization of laser fusion energy triggered by fast ignition.

Background and output of research

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