Although commercial planes have shorten the time it takes to go from one place to another, there are people that are still complaining about long flight hours. Boeing could have a solution to the problem. It has introduced details of a new type of Hypersonic Airplane that will be able to cross the distance between New York to London in just 2 hours. The first ultra-fast Mach 5 flight could take place in ten years from now, 2028. The Hypersonic...
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) unveiled the fastest supercomputer in the world. The machine was named Summit and it has the size of two tennis courts, consisting of 4,608 servers. Thus, the supercomputer can achieve a performance of 200 petaflops. In other words, it can achieve about 200 quadrillion calculations per second. Summit has officially surpassed the previous record, set by China's Sunway TaihuLight...
A team of researchers at Northwestern University has created a lithium-iron oxide battery that has the potential to power cars and phones more hours than previous batteries. Moreover, it is cheap and rechargeable. Christopher Wolverton and his team of researchers at Northwestern University have worked in collaboration with a team of researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory. They have created a new battery that, at least in theory, should...
A new car model illustrates the security breaches of autonomous vehicles. How safe are they after all? Every new generation of cars comes with technologies that expose new safety risks. But in the case of autonomous cars there is no precedent, the dangers being little studied, experts suggest in a new study. Imagine three different scenarios: The stand-alone car could take you to an isolated place, although the destination is your home. You...
Ever since the first recorded computer was invented, back in 1613, humans are trying to perfect it and to make it as faster as possible. These days, our computers have reached the computational power of computers that were presented in Sci-Fi movies back in the '50s and the '60s. A question remains though: Will we ever have the processing power we want? If Moore's law continues to be valid in the next period, by 2030 we will have microchip...
In this article, I will share the basic stuff you need to know in order to build a photovoltaic solar panel system in your own home. As you probably know by now, with the fall of photovoltaic cells price, the demand for solar panels is getting higher. By building a photovoltaic solar panel system, you will save a lot of money on the long run, but you will also help the environment by not using fossil based energy. As the solar panel market goes...
Elon Musk just announced via a Twitter post that the Tesla solar roof panel can be pre-ordered starting from May 10, 2017. The billionaire said that the roof can be ordered in any country on the globe. Tesla's founder also said that roof tiles have an “Infinity Warranty”. According to Musk, solar glass tiles are so durable that they will have the a lifespan that should exceed the lifespan of any house (and they seem pretty sure about this)....
Last year, in December, the whole world stood still. Visionary billionaire Elon Musk sparked astonishment when he announced through his Twitter account that he plans to build a tunnel boring machine for digging tunnels in order to solve the Los Angeles traffic problem that gives him big headache. 'Traffic is driving me nuts.', he wrote on the social network. He then promised to name the project "The Boring Company", which he ultimately did....
After everything we saw in 2016, there’s an argument to be made that AR gaming might actually hold more potential than VR—at least in the near future. For his part, the man behind Pokémon GO (which introduced AR to a lot of people) has said that AR is better than VR, and hinted that he’s not done developing his Pokémon concept. And beyond Pokémon GO, we’re liable to see some similar AR games designed for our phones in the next year or...
PhonAndroid website recently published a study on the radiation dose that is emitted by several types of smartphone. When we decide to buy a new smartphone, we are not paying attention to the specific absorption rate (SAR), that number that shows the amount of electromagnetic radiation emitted and absorbed by our body. The lower SAR is, the more safe is the device. Electromagnetic radiation could increase the risk of developing cancer, although...
Facebook really wants to connect the world. The most important social network on the planet has launched a new project to improve connectivity in remote areas around the world. OpenCellular is a flexible open source wireless access platform that relays the signal to multiple networks, from 2G to LTE. It can be customized to various needs and it works perfectly in a rural or an urban area. OpenCellular has been designed to serve a small community...
The most devastating consequence of modern lifestyle is the way we have managed to destroy the environment by being careless with everything around us. The Pacific Ocean contains a large area that's packed with garbage and plastic waste that troubled the environmentalists for some time now. In general, plastics takes about 450 years to decay completely. While our priority should be finding alternative fuel solutions, cleaning the existing waste...
