Archive for the 'Technology' Category
The Secret Message Hidden in Every HTTP/2 Connection
November 30th, 2015Via: jgc: If you spy on an HTTP/2 connection starting up you’ll notice that it sends an almost-but-not-quite valid HTTP request at the very start of the connection… Written a little more clearly that’s: PRI * HTTP2.0 SM The HTTP verb is PRI and the body contains just SM. Put them together and you get… […]
Amazon Unveils New Prime Air Drone Prototypes
November 30th, 2015Via: USA Today: Amazon revealed the latest prototype of drones it will deploy as part of its Prime Air service using the unmanned aerial devices to deliver packages in under 30 minutes. According to details released Sunday by the online retailing giant, Amazon says the drones weigh 55 pounds and can carry packages weighing up […]
DJI Launches Crop-Spraying Drone
November 27th, 201515 grand today. $499 in… three years? Via: BBC: Billion-dollar drone company DJI is expanding from consumer and camera drones into the agriculture industry. The Chinese firm’s latest model is a crop-spraying drone, which it claims is “40 times more efficient” than manual spraying, despite having just 12 minutes of flight time. It will be […]
The Next Frontier in Formula Racing: Driverless Cars
November 27th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: Imagine taking Google’s driverless car, mashing it up with Tesla’s zero-to-60-in-three-seconds “ludicrous mode,” and then pushing it to speeds of over 100 mph. Now imagine nearly two dozen of these souped-up robotic cars all speeding around on the same closed track and trying to outdo one another — without a human […]
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots for Combat Patrols
November 27th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: The Air Force has hired civilian defense contractors to fly MQ-9 Reaper drones to help track suspected militants and other targets in global hot spots, a previously undisclosed expansion in the privatization of once-exclusively military functions. For the first time, civilian pilots and crews now operate what the Air Force calls […]
Blue Origin: Successful Reusable Rocket Test
November 24th, 2015Via: NPR: It started with a boom and ended with a touchdown: Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has sent a craft past the edge of space and then landed its rocket safely – and vertically — in Texas. The flight of the New Shepard spacecraft was the second full […]
UW Team Refrigerates Liquids with a Laser for the First Time
November 23rd, 2015Via: University of Washington: The discovery could help industrial users “point cool” tiny areas with a focused point of light. Microprocessors, for instance, might someday use a laser beam to cool specific components in computer chips to prevent overheating and enable more efficient information processing. Scientists could also use a laser beam to precisely cool […]
U.S. Air Force Created Thermal Breaching Tool That Liquefies Metal in Seconds
November 23rd, 2015Hmm.
Physicists Achieve Quantum Entanglement at Room Temperature
November 23rd, 2015Via: SciTechDaily: Previously, scientists have overcome the thermodynamic barrier and achieved macroscopic entanglement in solids and liquids by going to ultra-low temperatures (-270 degrees Celsius) and applying huge magnetic fields (1,000 times larger than that of a typical refrigerator magnet) or using chemical reactions. In the November 20 issue of Science Advances, Klimov and other […]
Public Service Announcement: Asus Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1, Corsair DDR4 RAM and XMP
November 20th, 2015This is totally off topic, but maddening for the handful of people who are having the problem, so, all regular readers, please skip. — If you landed here looking for a solution to the “overclocking failed” error when trying to enable XMP with your Asus Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1 and Corsair DDR4 RAM (in my […]
