The Next Great Leaps Into Space Are Happening This Week
It’s going to be a busy seven days for the private space industry, with a pair of launches from the companies operating the new delivery trucks to the International Space Station. Both SpaceX and...
View ArticleTourist trips to the Moon by 2043?
Imagine the delight at unwrapping your Christmas present in 2043 and discovering you’ve been gifted a trip around the Moon. It may seem a little far-fetched right now but it could become a reality if...
View Article‘Electronic blood’ computer tested
IBM has unveiled a prototype of a new brain-inspired computer powered by what it calls “electronic blood”. The firm says it is learning from nature by building computers fuelled and cooled by a...
View ArticleI’ve landed (and the how & why of it)
There has been admittedly, a lull in my reporting. But silence does not speak to inaction or indolence. Indeed, my neurons have been firing at a particularly active rate of late. And the point I...
View ArticleTREND WATCH: Five Reasons Why Smallsats Are About to Disrupt Telecom, Space,...
The small satellite market is finally taking off. Cheap satellites the size of beer kegs and coke cans are about to kick off the party in the smallsat market. The day of the private satellite...
View ArticleSpace: the next startup frontier
Where nanosats boldly go, new businesses will follow—unless they are smothered with excessive regulations AROUND 1,000 operational satellites are circling the Earth, some of them the size and weight...
View ArticleAdvances in robotics present singular worry
“Singularity” is an odd word. Originally it meant peculiarity. Then 20th-century physicists got hold of it and situated it at the very boundary of space-time, to the eternal bafflement of the lay...
View ArticleHow Virtual Humans Can Build Better Leaders
The aviation industry has long relied on flight simulators to train pilots to handle challenging situations. These simulations are an effective way for pilots to learn from virtual experiences that...
View ArticleApartment of the future can be re-configured with a wave of the hand
Apartment of the future can be re-configured … Researchers at MIT have designed a modular apartment packed with technology that enables the occupant to get the maximum use out of the space available...
View Article3D Printed Electronic Devices Are Coming
The handheld computers we carry in our pockets represent almost unimaginable complexity. Batteries, sensors, chips, circuits, and touch displays in a space age shell, all painstakingly assembled by...
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