Nvidia is delivering 30 TeraFLOP AI Chip Xavier to customers
With more than 9 billion transistors, Nvidia's Xavier is the most complex system on a chip ever created, representing the work of more than 2,000 NVIDIA engineers over a four-year period, and an investment of $2 billion in research and development.
Workhorse's newly approved passenger drone free to fly at CES
We've been keeping a keen eye on the progress of the Workhorse SureFly since it emerged at the Paris Air Show in June, and now the stage is set for its big debut. The two-seat octocopter is preparing to make its first test flight, after receiving off
Continental Reinvents The EV Wheel
Continental has developed what it calls the dual New Wheel Concept; a nifty wheel idea incorporating an outer section called the rim well, and inner section called the carrier star which incorporates an aluminum brake disc.
Super low altitude satellite to operate at 180 kilometers...
Japan Tsubame, Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, is a JAXA satellite intended to demonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (below 200 km), using ion engines to cancel out aerodynamic drag and equipped with sensors to determine atomic oxygen den
Can eating mostly fat help you lose weight?
On paper, the ketogenic diet sounds great. Every January, fat's in the crosshairs of health columnists, fitness magazines, and desperate Americans. This year, PopSci looks at the macronutrient beyond its most negative associations. What's fat good
Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not Like Your Brain--Yet
Here's a fun drinking game: Every time someone compares AI to the human brain, take a shot. It'll dull the pain of such mindless metaphorizing--and serve as a reminder that you, an at-least-semiconscious being, have an actual brain that can make
The 6 Coolest Material Breakthroughs Of 2017
Materials are a designer's paint and canvas-and for the most part, they've remained pretty static in recent decades. But over the past few years, and in 2017 in particular, we saw new advances in material science that gave creators plenty of ex
Plasma Magnet Sails to get manned missions to Mars in 1 week
The plasma magnet sail engine is little more than 2 pairs of charged rotating coils and is therefore extremely simple and inexpensive. A fully powered plasma magnet sail using a small nuclear power source could accelerate at 0.5G and reach 400-700 km
SpaceX BFR 150 Top Target should be Moon Colonization
Spacex BFR construction will start in 4 to 6 months.
would have bigger than Saturn V payloads plus the magic of reusuability. How reusable is of course the trick, but in the optimal case that Brian has written about, to quote Brian:
at $7 million
Neural network powered by memristors
University of Michigan researchers created a reservoir computing system that reduces training time and improves capacity of similar neural networks.