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Canadian Government Seals Vaccine Injury Records for 15 Years.

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US particle accelerators turn nuclear waste into electricity, cut radioactive life by 99.7%

Blast Them: A Rutgers Scientist Uses Lasers to Kill Weeds

H100 GPUs that cost $40,000 new are now selling for around $6,000 on eBay, an 85% drop.

We finally know exactly why spider silk is stronger than steel.

She ran out of options at 12. Then her own cells came back to save her.

A cardiovascular revolution is silently unfolding in cardiac intervention labs.

DARPA chooses two to develop insect-size robots for complex jobs like disaster relief...

Multimaterial 3D printer builds fully functional electric motor from scratch in hours

WindRunner: The largest cargo aircraft ever to be built, capable of carrying six Chinooks

RNA Crop Spray: Should We Be Worried?

Communication

Liberation requires collaboration between free thinkers without infringement or censorship. In another age, we could meet in public spaces. Today avoiding the Crown’s surveillance requires we exchange encrypted communication.

Facebook reveals plan to let you control augmented reality with your thoughts

Your wrist might be the key to unlocking new ways to interact with the digital world.

Insta360's Go 2 actioncam is still tiny, but more capable

Although Insta360 is known for its panoramic video cameras, two years ago it released a tiny conventional actioncam called the Go. This week the company announced that model's new-and-improved sibling, the Go 2.

Spinning Membrane Space Telescopes Would Be Big, Cheap and Easy

Robert Zubrin has proposed using rotating membranes to create Enormous Space Telescopes (ESTs) that can scale to over 1000 meter diameter or match current space telescopes for thousands of time lower cost. They would also not require the construction

Microsoft melds the real and virtual with new Mesh platform

Zoom calls and video meetings have exploded over the past year (thanks, COVID), but a flat screen doesn't do a great job of transmitting a person's presence.

IBM Efficient Silicon Waveguides Could Enable Revolutionary Photonic chips

IBM has created low-loss (0.3% loss over 10 microns) silicon waveguide could enable new photonic chip designs for applications that rely on visible light, and could lead to more efficient lasers and modulators used in telecoms.

Tripling Optical Storage With New Encoding Approach

Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored "digital characters" to modernize optical storage.

Surpassing Optical Limit for 28000 Times Blu-Ray Storage on a 12 Centimeter Disk

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks.

Portable projector can autofocus in an instant

California's ViewSonic has launched a new 1080p portable projector that uses a technique called time of flight ranging to quickly measure the distance to the wall and achieve sharp focus in just one second.

Framework Laptop designed for customization and repair

Californian startup Framework says that it was founded to provide quality products that can be customized, upgraded and repaired with ease.

Fancy sitting next to a sabre-toothed tiger? David Attenborough's new app...

David Attenborough is bringing long-extinct prehistoric creatures into people's homes through the magic of augmented reality in a new app.

Starlink Phases and Increasing Download Speeds

Starlink will change the angle to cover 500-kilometer diameter spots from 1000 kilometer diameter spots.

Cognixion ONE launches this year with brain-controlled AR

Coming later this year, the Cognixion ONE headset is promising something extra on top of the regular augmented reality experience: a brain computer interface (BCI) that can turn thoughts into commands for the device.

Elon Musk: SpaceX will double Starlink's satellite internet speeds in 2021

Musk adds that the growing network of satellites should offer complete global coverage "by next year."

3D-Printed Guns Are Getting More Capable and Accessible

Now you can print untraceable AR-15s, AKMs, semi-automatic pistols, and more--no serial number, no registration, no background check.

Elon Musk's SpaceX reveals Starlink satellite internet network already has 'over 10,000 user

Elon Musk's SpaceX reveals Starlink satellite internet network already has 'over 10,000 users' worldwide paying $99 a month for its beta service

Q&A on VPN and TOR - Tips, Misconceptions, Truth

This is a primer on TOR and VPN. We will be answering these questions: What is a VPN/TOR for? What is a VPN? What is a TOR Browser? What is a TOR Router? What is a VPN Router? Do you always need to be on the VPN? Can you layer VPN,TOR services togeth

A Peek at the Pico, Raspberry Pi's Newest Petite Powerhouse

Raspberry Pi Pico is a new budget microcontroller designed by Raspberry Pi. It's a tiny computer built around a single chip, with onboard memory, and programmable in/out ports.

Beating Big Tech at Their Own Game! (Solutions to Censorship, Surveillance, Information Restriction)

Are we helpless against Big Tech (MAGAFT)? Actually we can weaken them! In this video we will talk about solutions that will reduce their power over us. I will talk about big picture 4 big picture solutions that I believe eliminate 80% of the data.

Starlink, Part 2 - bad weather? speeds? data caps? FAQ's answered!

In this video, I answer some of the frequently asked questions FAQ 's that came up in the comment section of my first Starlink video

58.8 Times Faster AI Training With New Chip Architecture

A brain-inspired computing architecture speeds up complex data processing by running its algorithms inside its memory, significantly saving time and energy.

DARPA's On-chip Terabit Laser Communication Program

American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a program of NY CREATES gave $19 million in research program awards for advanced integrated photonics under...

Scientists stretch diamond to improve its electronic properties

Diamond is a famously hard material, but now scientists at City University of Hong Kong have managed to stretch it further than ever before.

High-fidelity, long-distance teleportation paves way for quantum internet

A quantum internet would be much faster and more secure than the one you're using right this second – and now such a network may be one step closer to reality.

80 Times More Energy Prototype Superconducting Chips that Will Soon Reach 10 Ghz

Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy-efficient than CMOS semiconductor devices. Computers currently use 10% of global electri

"Breakthrough" - IBM And Fujifilm Develop New Magnetic Tape With 580TB Capacity

The world currently produces 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily due to the internet of things, the emergence of 4K/8K videos, and the proliferation of artificial intelligence and automation.

GPS of the mind: Scientists discover new distance-detecting 'Vector Trace' brain cells

Just like a car, scientists say the brain contains cells which act like a GPS

NASA scientists achieve long-distance 'quantum teleportation' over 27 miles for the first ti

– paving the way for unhackable networks that transfer data faster than the speed of light

Holotron presents a lower-body VR exoskeleton with full force feedback

As quickly as our brains accept virtual reality once our vision and hearing are hijacked, there are plenty of people trying to extend the illusion across our other senses, moving towards a future of total physical immersion that replicates experience

Cryo-electron Microscopy Enables Breakthrough Imaging of Individual Atoms in Proteins

A game-changing technique for imaging molecules known as cryo-electron microscopy has produced its sharpest pictures that for first-time can see individual atoms in a protein.

Quantum-entangled atomic clock keeps spookily accurate time

Atomic clocks are the most precise timekeepers we have today, with the best ones keeping time to within one second in 15 billion years.

New magnetic tape prototype breaks data density and capacity records

Magnetic tape may seem like a pretty antiquated data storage technology, but its density and capacity is still hard to beat for big data centers. Now, IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to create a prototype high-density tape cartridge with a record-bre

Future Wafer Scale Chips Could Have 100 Trillion Transistors

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI applications.

Taiwan Semiconductors Future Lithography

TSMC's 5nm is in mass production. The 3nm will also be put into production in 2022.

Perspective on Cracking Problems With HUGE Numbers of Possibilities

Deep Mind has been able to make significant progress toward solving the protein folding problem. Protein folding is not solved yet.

Chinese quantum computer completes 2.5-billion-year task in minutes

Researchers in China claim to have achieved quantum supremacy, the point where a quantum computer completes a task that would be virtually impossible for a classical computer to perform.

Can she beat Bezos and musk to supply internet from space.

Eleven inches across with electronics stuffed into it, her master's thesis project had an egg-shaped wing and a front propeller. The wing also had its own ailerons - a word derived from the French for little fins - that we see in modern aircraf

Pi Zero W and HQ camera module used as cheap webcam

With help from manufacturers like Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Panasonic and Sony, DSLR and mirrorless camera owners could put them to good use as USB webcams. But developer Jeff Geerling decided to take a more DIY approach by utilizing a Raspberry Pi Zer

ClearPHONE - MyClearPHONE.com

ClearPHONE is a new type of privacy-first smartphone that runs Android apps but also gives consumers total control over their internet experience by blocking ads, cookies, trackers, behavior profiling, phishing, viruses, spyware, malware -- and if d

Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Official Cooling Fan for the Pi 4

The new fan costs only $5 and makes overclocking easier than ever.

Deflating graphene balloons act as sensors for hard-to-detect gases

With excellent strength, flexibility and electrical conductivity, graphene has a lot of potential in a lot of different areas, and that may extend to the detection of odorless, colorless gases.

ROLL YOUR OWN PHOTO SHARING, MINUS THE SOCIAL NETWORKING BAGGAGE

[Niklas Roy] rolled his own photo diary, because he found the core functionality of something like instagram attractive, but didn't want the social network baggage that it came with.

"Imperceptible" skin records wearers' finger pressure

Although we've already heard about pressure-sensitive "skins" that could be applied to robotic or prosthetic appendages, Japanese scientists have created one for use on real human fingers.

Ultra-Low Power Nonvolatile FeFET Memory

Ferroelectric Memory Company has $20 million in funding for sub-7 nanometer FeFET memories.

NawaStitch promises to make carbon composites even lighter and stronger

France's Nawa Technologies is setting up operations in the United States, and bringing its fast, affordable vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) manufacturing process into a new application: making carbon fiber composites much stronger.

3D color X-ray machine heads for trials

As useful as X-rays are for imaging bones, there's only so much we can see in a flat greyscale image.

SpaceX Starlink Broadband Beta Testers "Amazed" By Its Speed, As New Photos Emerge

Photos are starting to leak from SpaceX Starlink beta users, who are trying the satellite broadband service in remote areas for the first time. So far, the beta testing appears to be going far better than that of full self driving.

The final frontier:

Scientists 3D-print microscopic Star Trek spaceship USS Voyager that 'swims' through liquids on its own

Instagram influencers of the future: Digitally-created models are earning their developers...

Instagram influencers of the future: Digitally-created models are earning their developers a fortune by promoting fashion brands to their millions of social media followers - even though they're NOT real

SpaceX opens Starlink satellite internet to public beta testers: report

SpaceX is now sending out email invitations for public beta testing of Starlink, the company's upcoming satellite internet service.

This $70 Computer Is a Raspberry Pi Built Into a Keyboard

Why buy a separate keyboard for you Raspberry Pi when you can buy a computer that IS a Raspberry Pi?
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