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In recent times the army of different countries are paying increasing attention to the fight against unmanned aerial vehicles. For example, the specialists of the American defense company Raytheon has experienced one of the military sites the latest microwave gun, which very effectively deals with drones and even missiles. The tests took place at the…

To ski or snowboard is very fun, but if the athlete performs a specific training plan or just riding for the whole day, the feet can be quite tired. In order to avoid this, the company Roam Robotics has created an exoskeleton to reduce the load on your knees. Development of the company allows the…

The largest manufacturer of specialized equipment for mining Bitmain has announced a new device designed for the extraction of Ethereum cryptocurrency. This news has shaken the position of AMD, which produces graphics cards, but the developer does not intend to take the position, giving the competitors their share of the profits. Today AMD announced the…

American automobile company Ford continues to keep pace with the times, actively introducing the technology of the blockchain in their products. Recently, the automaker has announced that it has developed and patented a system of cryptocurrency transactions between the cars. The idea is that drivers will be able to use the blockchain for communication between…

In mid-October of 2017, the whole world was hotly discussing an important scientific event. Scientists announced the first ever detection of gravitational wave burst from the merger of two neutron stars. This was done with the assistance of the LIGO interferometer, with which we observed the first gravitational bursts from merging black holes, for which…

Kirigami – the Japanese art of making paper of different figurines and greeting cards using ordinary scissors. Who would have thought that it will inspire researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of technology for the creation of an adhesive, which seals equally efficiently not only smooth skin, but also moving like elbows and knees, while not…

Researchers at the University of California produced a series of calculations in which came to the conclusion that speculation cryptocurrencies are much less profitable than mining, writes Cryptovest. A group of researchers analyzed the potential revenues from mining and compared it with speculation nearly two dozen altcoins. While Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, along with other…

Remember the droedeka? Kynoselen robot from “Star wars” looks like a spider, able to move quickly through the ability to curl up, so got the nickname of “rolling death”? Now a German robotics from our beloved Festo presented its actual implementation. But unlike his cinematic prototype new from Festo has no protective field (phew!) and…

Is it possible to print water? Seemingly stupid question: of course not, because at first glance none of the three aggregate States of water unfit to print, and what’s the use? However, scientists from the National laboratory behalf of the Lawrence Berkeley not only found a way to implement at first glance a crazy idea,…

In Russia there are more than ten supercomputers, the leader among which is “Lomonosov-2”. Its performance is more than 2 petaflops, which provides him 63rd place in the ranking of TOP 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The staff of the joint Institute for nuclear research, located in Dubna near Moscow, has introduced a…