Tuning Graphene Superconductivity
A Columbia University-led team has developed a new method to finely tune adjacent layers of graphene--lacy, honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms--to induce superconductivity.
Shouldn't We All Have Seamless Micropayments By Now?
Back in the 1990s, when Tim Berners-Lee and his team were creating the infrastructure of the World Wide Web, they made a list of the error codes that would pop up when something went wrong. You've surely encountered many of them: "404 Not Found,
Doogee S90: A Modular Rugged Phone (That's Actually Useful!)
Modular phones never quite panned out, did they? But in the rugged device market, it turns out they're quite useful. Doogee has consistently stood out in a sea of Chinese import phones: sometimes with innovation, sometimes with quirky design choice
Lexar breaks out 1 TB SDXC memory card
With a bunch of digital cameras now able to record video is glorious 4K UHD resolution and 360° cams able to capture all-around scenes, even the highest capacity memory cards may start to tremble at the prospect of storing all that data.
Achieving The Third Letter of Captain Marque
The Third Letter of Captain Marque begins by explaining that the Crown grabs "every scrap of intel," but then, very importantly, it goes on to note the fact that encryption alone isn't nearly enough to solve this problem
No stethoscope for pain: Scientists seek real way to measure
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8?
Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging chil
5G From Space: 20,000 Satellites To Blanket The Earth
Public attention about 5G has been focused on the plans of telecom companies to install millions of small cell towers on electric utility poles, on public buildings and schools, on bus stop shelters, in public parks, and anywhere they want in nationa
5G mmWave: Facts and fictions you should definitely know
5G networks are upon us and this next-generation of wireless communication is being powered by a new technology known as millimeter wave (mmWave). U.S. carriers are particularly keen on the technology, and it will likely be used across the world to v
Elon Musk - A.I., Biology, Neuralink
Elon Reeve Musk is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder and CEO of Neura
When Moore's Law Ends: 3 Alternatives to Silicon Chips
Modern computers are truly amazing, continuing to improve as the years go by. One of the many reasons why this has happened is due to better processing power. Every 18 months or so, the number of transistors that can be placed onto the silicon chips
Indian Rocket Launches 31 Satellites to Orbit
An Indian rocket successfully lofted 31 satellites to Earth orbit late Wednesday night (Nov. 28), just a few days before the scheduled liftoff of a SpaceX booster that's even more jam-packed.
The US Government Is Powerless to Block Bitcoin Addresses
It has been widely reported this week that the U.S. government has blacklisted two BTC addresses linked to cyber crime. These particular addresses were singled out because their owners are believed to be Iranians, whose country is currently facing he
It's Already Too Late - Elon Musk
Taken from an historic conversation on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. Elon talks about the future of AI, our survival as a species, and the sombre reality of being in his shoes.