by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Drudge and Z News: Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in US demonstrated a micro-sized robotic torsional muscle/motor made from vanadium dioxide that is able to catapult very heavy objects over a distance five times its length within 60...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Slate: Das and Kramer argue that self-censorship can be bad because it withholds valuable information. If someone chooses not to post, they claim, “[Facebook] loses value from the lack of content generation.” After all, Facebook shows you ads based on...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Isaac Asimov grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., reading pulp sci-fi magazines in his father’s candy store. Because the magazines had “science” in the title, he was able to convince his father that it was educational. It was the 1930s,...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via CSMonitor.com: The Army has, for the first time, used a truck-mounted laser weapon to stop a barrage of 90 incoming mortars and several drones in mid-flight. Defense officials at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command hailed it as a “big step” in the...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via io9: a team of neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Kansas Medical Center have devised a solution that appears to work in rats. It’s an implantable prosthesis called a brain-machine-brain interface that serves as a...
