Science Confirms Plato’s Theory?
Could science actually confirm Plato’s theory that the Earth is made of cubes? New research shows a Platonic ideal may be true after all: The world may primarily break into cubes, and not just in Minecraft. In a new paper, researchers from the U.S. and Hungary go through a simulation of the world’s “natural 3D…
AMD announces 7nm x86 desktop processors
AMD announced their first and most advanced 7nm x86 desktop processors with built-in graphics for consumer and commercial PC markets. The AMD Ryzen 4000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon Graphics and the AMD Athlon 3000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon Graphics feature the most advanced processor core technology on the market combined with the best…
Two more promising COVID vaccines
With this announcement, there are now four vaccines in development that are showing early positive results. There are 17 vaccines in development. A coronavirus vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca is safe and shows signs of inducing an immune response, according to early clinical trial results published Monday in the medical…
Lightning Strikes Could Make F-35 Explode
Yikes! Lightning strikes could make F-35 aircraft explode! Lockheed Martin recently paused deliveries of the challenged, but highly-touted F-35 Joint Strike fighter jet due to an internal gas tube malfunction. Nothing too major, but Lockheed’s primary concern is that if the aircraft were to be struck by lightning, it could explode. For more, check out…
The rise of the robots
While this sounds like the title of a bad sci-fi movie, this movement is starting to gain some traction as businesses contemplate a work force that is immune to disease. The food industry is one such business. The pandemic is feeding demand for robots that can flip burgers, make salads and blend smoothies as businesses…
Three Mars missions poised to launch to the Red Planet in July
The busy schedule begins July 14 with the United Arab Emirates’ first-ever interplanetary effort. Three missions are poised to launch toward the Red Planet this month, including NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover, which will hunt for signs of ancient Mars life and cache samples for future return to Earth. For more, check out this NBC News…
Tesla Is Developing a Vaccine Printer
A new site is in the works that could eventually produce billions of doses of a vaccine. The exec [Musk] says Tesla is working to produce a molecule printer in conjunction with German vaccine maker CureVac. Musk calls the printers “RNA microfactories” that can produce vaccines and other mRNA-based therapies by inputting a recipe. CureVac…
Thunderbolt 4: Universal Cable Connectivity for Everyone
Intel revealed new details about Thunderbolt 4, the next-gen of its universal cable connectivity solution, delivering increased minimum performance requirements, expanded capabilities and USB4 specification compliance. For the first time, Thunderbolt 4 will offer docks with up to four Thunderbolt ports and universal cables up to 2 meters in length. Intel’s upcoming mobile PC processors,…
Amorphous boron-nitride could be next IC insulator
Amorphous boron-nitride could be the next insulator used in future generations of integrated circuits. Boron nitride has the potential to form a 2D crystalline material with an hexagonal structure. And it was in this area that researchers had been working before coming across the properties of the amorphous form of the material. For more tech…
Fraunhofer HHI announces H.266/VVC, successor to H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC
Fraunhofer HHI (together with partners including Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Sony) is celebrating the release and official adoption of the new global video coding standard H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC). This new standard offers improved compression, which reduces data requirements by around 50% of the bit rate relative to the previous standard H.265/High…