Ouch! That can’t be good. NASA is eyeing the 2030s to put the first human boots on Mars, but a scientist suggests the American space agency may have already sent forms of life aboard its Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. For more, check out this Daily Mail/MSN story.
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New propulsion system could enable jets to reach speeds up to Mach 17
Ahh, the need for speed. New technology could bring hypersonic flight into a reality by enabling jets to reach up to Mach 17 without releasing an out of control detonation. For more, check out this Daily Mail/MSN story.
3-Wheeled Car Factory Coming to US
Wow, not sure I would be seen driving this! ElectraMeccanica, known for its tiny, single passenger, three-wheeled electric cars, has chosen Mesa, Arizona, as the location for its U.S. assembly and engineering plant. For more (including picture), check out this IEN story.
IBM Unveils World’s First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology
New chip milestone should propel major leaps forward in performance and energy efficiency. The potential benefits of these advanced 2 nm chips could include: Quadrupling cell phone battery life, only requiring users to charge their devices every four days. Slashing the carbon footprint of data centers, which account for one percent of global energy use….
Atari? They’re back!
Remember Atari? They are back with their latest video game console, the Atari VCS. This isn’t an old Atari 2600 previously collecting dust in a closet or an emulator I found online. It’s a fresh home video game console: the Atari VCS. For more, check out this USA Today story or go to the Atari…
NVIDIA Broadcast puts Teams and Zoom custom backgrounds to shame?
NVIDIA Broadcast allows you to set custom backgrounds and remove background noise on video calls and streams. NVIDIA Broadcast lets you use the power of your RTX GPU to improve your video calls and streams. You can use NVIDIA Broadcast to remove background noise, blur your video background, or insert custom video backgrounds. A similar…
Paving the way for the quantum internet
The first multi-node quantum network is paving the way for the quantum Internet. Researchers in the Netherlands have successfully connected three separate quantum processors in what is effectively the world’s first multi-node quantum network. This paves the way for a large-scale quantum internet that governments and scientists have been dreaming up for decades. For more,…
New device uses 5G signals in the air to charge your gadgets
This will give those against 5G something to think about. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have uncovered an innovative way to tap into the over-capacity of 5G networks, turning them into “a wireless power grid” for powering Internet of Things (IoT) devices that today need batteries to operate. For more, check out this…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Reaches New Milestone
After visiting Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has reached another cosmic milestone. One little ship notching two space records ought to be accomplishment enough. But New Horizons is about to make headlines again. At precisely 8:42 a.m. EDT tomorrow, it will pass an invisible line in space that will place it 7.5 billion kilometers from…
Honeywell just quadrupled the power of its quantum computer
Honeywell’s quantum scientists have quadrupled the capabilities of the company’s quantum computer. The System Model H1, a ten-qubit quantum computer, effectively reached a quantum volume of 512 – four times as much as was attained in the previous tweak of the system, which saw the H1 reach a quantum volume of 128. For more, check…