Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Trading Shares in Milliseconds
December 23rd, 2009I like the part about how NASDAQ is looking at requiring all brokers to use a specified length of network cable on the links to the exchange’s servers. HA. The article assumes the reader will get it, but just in case you don’t, the point is that the length of the cable affects the latency. […]
Nuclear-Powered Transponder for Cyborg Insect
December 12th, 2009Via: IEEE: This week at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), in Baltimore, Md., Cornell University engineers presented research that shows progress in powering cybernetic organisms with a radioactive fuel source. Electrical engineering associate professor Amit Lal and graduate student Steven Tin presented a prototype microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transmitter—an RF-emitting device powered by a radioactive […]
Google Researching Quantum Computing Algorithms and Hardware
December 12th, 2009Via: Google Research Blog: Over the past three years a team at Google has studied how problems such as recognizing an object in an image or learning to make an optimal decision based on example data can be made amenable to solution by quantum algorithms. The algorithms we employ are the quantum adiabatic algorithms discovered […]
U.S. Air Force Confirms ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Drone
December 9th, 2009Via: AFP: The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed “to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to […]
Man Controlled Robotic Hand with Thoughts
December 5th, 2009Via: AP: An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday. During a one-month experiment conducted last year, 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello felt like his lost arm had grown […]
New Sharp Flat Panel Factory: No Humans on Assembly Line
December 1st, 2009Via: AP: Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world’s first making giant “10th generation” panels for flat screen TVs. Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp.’s futuristic-looking plant doesn’t have a single worker on the floor. Each sheet, measuring about 3 meters (3.3 yards) by […]
Short Video About UAV Combat Operations
November 17th, 2009I wonder if Captain Dan is allowed to have a Bobblehead Jesus on the “flight” deck?
The Folly of a ‘Drone War’
November 16th, 2009Via: CBS News: What we’re talking about here is the gaze of the gods, updated in corporate labs for the modern American war-fighter — a gaze that can be focused on whatever runs, walks, crawls, or creeps just about anywhere on the planet 24/7, with an instant ability to blow it away.
