Sony Announces New 8K LED, 4K OLED and 4K LED Models with New “Cognitive Processor XR”
Sony Europe announced the first cognitive intelligence televisions. The new BRAVIA XR televisions include MASTER Series Z9J 8K LED, MASTER Series A90J and A80J OLED, and X95J and X90J 4K LED. Powered by the Cognitive Processor XR, the brain of the new BRAVIA XR, the televisions use a completely new processing method that goes beyond…
Is the cloud headed underwater? Why Microsoft thinks it’s possible
Underwater data centers? In the spring of 2018, team members from Project Natick deployed a massive tube filled with nitrogen in 117 feet of water off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Inside were racks of running computer servers that team members monitored for the next two years. They wanted to see if a controlled environment, free of…
NASA scientists and partners achieve long-distance ‘quantum teleportation’
For the first time, a team of scientists and researchers have achieved sustained, high-fidelity ‘quantum teleportation’. quantum teleportation is a ‘disembodied’ transfer of quantum states from one location to another. the quantum teleportation of a qubit is achieved using quantum entanglement, in which two or more particles are inextricably linked to each other. if an…
Apple working on a self-driving car?
Apple is reportedly working on a new product, unlike anything seen before. Project Titan is the purported code name of Apple’s not-so-secret car division. A few years ago, several rumors said Apple was developing its own self-driving car tech, but those reports died down. Apple had other priorities. Reuters has just resurfaced that rumor, saying…
Giant black hole keeps evading detection, scientists can’t explain it
How is this possible? An enormous black hole keeps slipping through astronomers’ nets. The big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261, which lies about 2.7 billion light-years from Earth, should have an even larger central black hole — a light-gobbling monster that weighs as much as 3 billion to 100 billion suns,…
Happy Holidays!
With the holidays fast approaching, I do not know how many times I will get to post. So I will take the time now to wish you and yours Happy Holidays.
Astronomers May Have Detected The First Radio Signal From an Exoplanet
Dips in the light levels of a star can betray the presence of orbiting planets. “Observing planetary auroral radio emission is the most promising method to detect exoplanetary magnetic fields,” explained Cornell University astronomer Jake Turner and colleagues in their new paper, “the knowledge of which will provide valuable insights into the planet’s interior structure,…
Ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained and astronomers are excited
Ghost circles in the sky – what’s not to love. Among them, labeled by Anna as WTF?, was a picture of a ghostly circle of radio emission, hanging out in space like a cosmic smoke-ring. None of us had ever seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what it was. A few…
2021 Mustang Mach-E electric SUV
USA Today has mostly positive things to say about the new Mustang entry. The sleek, five-seat newcomer successfully transfers the magic of the Mustang to the vehicle that launches Ford’s transition to electric power. It’s a handsome, tech-rich vehicle. Like the classic Mustang coupe and convertible that created the pony car’s mystique, buyers who want…
Manmade mass now outweighs life on Earth
For the first time in history manmade materials now likely outweigh all life on Earth, scientists said. While vegetation has gone down… The weight of roads, buildings and other constructed or manufactured materials is doubling roughly every 20 years, and authors of the research said it currently weighed 1.1 teratonnes (1.1 trillion tonnes). For more,…