Month: November 2019

Couldn’t find anything interesting to post so I will just wish out stateside folks a Happy Thanksgiving!

It was predicted four decades ago, but only found now. Scientists have finally found traces of the axion, an elusive particle that rarely interacts with normal matter. The axion was first predicted over 40 years ago but has never been seen until now. Scientists have suggested that dark matter, the invisible matter that permeates our…

It has been rumored/speculated for a while, but Hungarian scientists may have finally proved it. They referred to this unseen fifth force in action as a “protophobic force,” meaning that it was as though the particles were “afraid of protons.” Meanwhile, nuclear physicists around the world set to work looking for errors in the Hungarians’…

Tesla Cybertruck design stuns: ‘Eccentric,’ ‘eye-popping’ or ‘weird’ ‘piece of junk’? They have enough time before it is available; I think they need to soften its looks a bit to gain wider acceptance. Musk debuted the pickup to a chorus of bewilderment, as the vehicle’s triangular shape, atypical truck bed and stainless steel body immediately…

Ooh, good news for the electric set. The prototype removes the binder material and current collectors, which enables more energy storage within the cell. It also should pass nail penetration standards, which would reduce potential vehicle fires. The battery could double the range of current EV passenger cars from 300 miles up to 600 miles…

I’ve certainly been tempted as cable prices continue to rise. Pay-TV subscribers are leaving their providers in droves. Nearly 2 million customers left their traditional pay-TV providers in the third quarter according to estimates from Kagan and Leichtman Research Group. Kagan pegs the number at 1.9 million while Leichtman counts 1.75 million defectors. For reference,…

More bad news for Intel chips. Security researchers have found another flaw in Intel processors — this time it’s a new variant of the Zombieload attack they discovered earlier this year, but targeting Intel’s latest family of chips, Cascade Lake. For more, check out this TechCrunch story.

A Temple University Assistant Professor is bringing exoskeletons out of the lab and into the home. As the head of the Robotics in Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RISE) laboratory at Temple Engineering, Dr. Jacobs researches the design and the control of wearable robots for gait assistance and rehabilitation. His long-term goal is to characterize the…

If you have an older Samsung TV and use Netflix, you may be out of luck come December. Video streaming service Netflix recently announced its intention to cease support for older smart televisions come December this year. This means that the app will no longer work with systems released “from the start of the decade,” said News.com.au….

The war between Intel and AMD keeps on going. This time, AMD is claiming the world’s fastest desktop processors with their 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper family. The 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper lineup features two new processors built on industry-leading 7nm “Zen 2” core architecture, boasting up to 88 PCIe 4.0 lanes and 144MB cache…