Category: Science / Technology

Industrial Robot Sales Hit All-Time Higha But What About Industry Jobs?

The IIoT is bringing about record automation robotics sales, with China and the U.S. scooping up robots. Is this good or bad for industry? You think robots are pretty cool, don’t you? What if you knew that automated robots were poised to take as many as 97% of industrial jobs over the next decade? Would you still think they were cool? You’d think they were even cooler then? Well, yeah, you’re probably right.

Akash Systems Debuts, Transforms Satellite Communications with…

With worldwide data demand outpacing the frequency, bandwidth and power capabilities of our current communications infrastructure, Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell, both experts in gallium nitride -on-Diamond technology have joined forces to create Akash Systems, Inc. , a company committed to revolutionizing the future of fast, affordable satellite communications. Through the application of GaN-on-Diamond materials, Akash’s technologies can resolve issues critical to the expansive growth of data use and consumption, enabling smaller, lighter and higher performing satellites that lead to lower launch costs, reduced cost-per-bit, more launch cycles, and increased communications access and throughput.

Why smartphones can be used to ensure security

Biometric security authentication technology has been available for many years and adopted in many industries, including healthcare, to identify an individual’s name with a unique biological trait. This can include a fingerprint, iris scan, voice pattern, token or hand print, among other options.

BLOG: Application process closes for cannabiz hopefuls

BLOG: Application process closes for cannabiz hopefuls The application submission period for medical marijuana business permits closed Monday. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: The application submission period for medical marijuana business permits closed Monday, though the state Department of Health could continue to see applications trickling in the rest of the week.

BrainChip Advances its Position as a Leading Artificial Intelligence…

Agreement with Toulouse Tech Transfer and the CERCO research center to license the exclusive rights to the JAST learning rules; License further solidifies BrainChip’s position as a leader in the field of Neural Networking and Artificial Intelligence technology and solutions. BRN ), , is a leading developer of software and hardware accelerated solutions for Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications.

The Weekly Research Analysts’ Ratings Updates for NVIDIA

Taking a look into the performance of NVDA stock, investor will come to know that the weekly performance for this stock is valued at 7.01%, resulting in a performance for the month at -2.57%. Analysts’ recommendations are the fountainhead of equity research reports and should be used in tangent with proprietary research and investment methodologies in order to make investment decisions.

Why AMD, Snap, and NVIDIA Jumped Today

After a strong showing late last week as the Federal Reserve opted to increase interest rates, the stock market was mostly flat on Monday, with major indexes fluctuating between positive and negative territory. But amid a flurry of encouraging analyst notes, there were a few individual companies that managed to buck the trend, and shares of Advanced Micro Devices were among those stocks that delivered outsized gains today.

Missing woman found alive off Skyline Boulevard

Ending a two-day search, police and rescue crews on Saturday located a woman who had gone missing in a rural wooded area off Skyline Drive in San Mateo County. Authorities found Bethnee Haury, 56, at about 10:30 a.m. down in a ravine, roughly 600 yards from Skyline Boulevard, in the Kings Mountain area.

Google search may soon be unblocked in Mainland China

Seven years after Google pulled its search engine out of mainland China over a disagreement on censorship directives, the information giant is negotiating with Beijing to make its comeback to the world’s biggest internet market. Google is currently not available in the country, which boasts 721 million web users, and locals can only access to the service by using VPNs.

Andrea Peyser

I’ve identified a major cause of societal overspending, oversharing and undereating, followed by yo-yo bingeing and purging, a potentially destructive scourge that could cost the masses their bank accounts, waistlines, health and minds: Gwyneth Paltrow. Now more than ever, the Hollywood golden girl and lifestyle guru, 44, as well as her very wrong, ill-informed and undereducated ilk, matter.

Musk Call With Turnbull Sparks Battery Debate in Australia

Elon Musk’s brave bet to fix Australia’s energy crisis — or hand the money back — landed the tech entrepreneur an hour-long phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and quickly threw him into a debate over whether battery technology is the solution for a nation still wedded to coal for much of its power. Sunday’s call followed a Twitter conversation last week between Musk and Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes in which Musk promised to install and get working a Tesla Inc. battery storage system designed to prevent blackouts in South Australia, the Australian mainland state most reliant on renewable energy.

Top Iron Miners’ Cash Juggernaut Set to Survive Price Crash

The world’s biggest iron ore miners will be able to withstand the expected plunge in prices because their race to cut production costs has dramatically lowered the industry’s margin pressure point, allowing them to keep fueling a cash juggernaut that’s revived the mining sector. More than 90 percent of producers in the global seaborne market can generate profits at a benchmark price of $60 a metric ton, Adrian Doyle, a Sydney-based senior consultant at researcher CRU Group, said by phone.

Troubled Nuclear Builder Seen Best Fit for Asian Power Ambitions

If Japan’s Toshiba Corp. parts ways with its embattled U.S. nuclear unit, Westinghouse Electric Co., the likely buyer may be a regional neighbor with global ambitions. Westinghouse would be a strategic fit in China or South Korea, which are developing their own reactors for export, according to analysts and academics.

Robots Mapping and Cleaning Nuclear Sites

The world is home to a large number of sites contaminated by radioactive waste, which require the extent of the contamination to be delineated and remediation to occur. The currently available methodology for mapping and assessing these radioactive sites are extremely expensive and time consuming, involving humans clad in radioactive protective gear, taking samples, and subsequent lab analysis.

Intel Security releases MacBook scanner for CIA Vault 7 rootkits

We’re just a few days removed from the WikiLeaks publication, Vault 7, that outlined many of the supposed hacking tools at the disposal of the CIA. It has left tech firms scrambling for fixes and has raised questions over what products and services are most at risk, especially as the dust and sensationalism settles around just what kind of powers the CIA wielded with these so-called cyber weapons.

After Math: Keep pace in the space race

It’s been a productive week for those of us trying to get the hell off this crazy planet. NASA showed off a radiation-proof flight vest for interplanetary astronauts while Blue Origin debuted its latest rocket engine and previewed its upcoming New Glenn spacecraft .

Ministries lose Shs180b to hackers

A new report by International Police, also known as Interpol, has revealed how cyber criminals, working with crooked officials, are pilfering data and billions of shillings from various government ministries and private companies. For instance, in 2016 alone, the damage from hacks costs businesses and ministries a staggering $50m .

Father of the Web cites 3 big concerns about his 28-year-old baby

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who 28 years ago this March 12 submitted a document laying out his vision for what would become the worldwide web , is proud of what his creation has become but he’s also concerned enough about certain issues that he’s released an open letter about them today through the Web Foundation . “[O]ver the past 12 months, I’ve become increasingly worried about three new trends, which I believe we must tackle in order for the web to fulfill its true potential as a tool which serves all of humanity,” Berners-Lee writes.

Fifth Harmony’s website is hacked with ISIS message

Fifth Harmony’s website is hacked with shocking ISIS message… as singers and their former bandmate Camilla Cabello attend Kids’ Choice Awards It was already an awkward Saturday for Fifth Harmony, when they attended the Kids’ Choice Awards and watched their former Camilla Cabello make her solo debut. But they also faced trouble on the internet, when their official website was hacked by a person who put up an expletive-riddled message about ISIS .

This Week at NASA: Orion Spacecraft’s Parachute System Test and More

NASA conducted the latest successful test of the Orion spacecraft’s parachute system on March 8 in the skies above the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The test was designed to evaluate the parachutes’ performance in an emergency abort situation that would require Orion to be jettisoned from the agency’s Space Launch System rocket during a launch.

A Japanese ad agency invented an AI creative director – and…

In 2015, ad agency McCann Japan’s creative planner Shun Matsuzaka set himself a task he called the “creative genome project”: he wanted to create the world’s first AI creative director, capable of directing a TV commercial. And last week, Matsuzaka showed off his creation at the UK advertiser trade body ISBA’s annual conference in London.

DotAfrica: Abuja residents commend AU launch of internet domain

Some Abuja residents on Sunday said they were excited about the recent launch of DotAfrica by the African Union which aimed at bringing Africa together as an internet community. DotAfrica is a generic Top Level Domain established by Africans for Africa and the rest of the world for better access to e-commerce, technology and infrastructure.

Roanoke inventor presses on with cheaper bionic prosthetic

In this Dec. 20, 2016 photo, Lyman Connor who has been working for years to design a 3D printed bionic hand that he calls a Mano-matic bionic hand poses for a photo in Roanoke, Va. Connor can usually be found at a messy workbench in an eerily empty downtown Roanoke studio that he calls his “microfactory.”

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Mission Invades SXSW 2017

An interactive exhibit on NASA’s next flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope , has landed at the 2017 South by Southwest celebration in Austin, Texas. NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Northrop Grumman Corporation are hosting the space telescope exhibit from today through Saturday , NASA officials said in an announcement.