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  • Serious quantum computers are ready to use. What they can do?

    In a small laboratory in the lush countryside about a hundred miles North of new York city from the ceiling hangs a complex tangle of tubes and electronics. Is a computer, albeit messy. And it’s not a regular computer. Perhaps it destined to become one of the most important in history. Quantum computers promise to…

  • Apple patents MacBook with the screen keyboard

    As you know, in order to start serial production of the new model, you first need to patent the device, therefore, the patent agencies are often good sources of information on emerging devices in the future. And recently, the office of the United States patent and trademark office (USPTO) approved a patent application from Apple…

  • How private companies can make money by “cheating” the ISS?

    Americans (in the person of the President, of course) want to stop funding the International space station by 2025. Our them, of course, support. Does this mean that both countries will stop sending people to orbit the Earth? Of course not. On the contrary, NASA plans to give the Agency low earth orbit where the…

  • Designer and video game fan from Sweden has created a custom retrocomputer

    Swedish designer Love curator (Love Hultèn) is known for its retrofuturistic slot machines and consoles, which he creates in his own drawings for himself. Inspired by classic forms of retrocomputers, offices and home gaming systems of the 70-80-ies of the last century, curator retroviewer pleases connoisseurs and collectors. His newest work — a complete reincarnation…

  • Can artificial photosynthesis be an alternative to solar panels?

    In 1912 in the journal Science published an article in which Professor Giacomo Ciamician wrote: “Coal is solar energy offers to mankind in its most concentrated form, but the coal is exhausted. Is fossil solar energy the only one that can use modern life and civilization?”. Later in this article, he adds: “Glass buildings are…

  • Google teaches the neural network to predict the death of a person

    Modern medicine aims to prevent and anticipate the development of serious life-threatening diseases. However, forces and human knowledge is often not enough to predict certain complications. To help doctors in the future may come AI DeepMind by Google, which at the moment is trained to predict the death of people. As often happens in such…

  • Robots from MIT carpenters learned to make furniture according to the drawings

    Engineers from mit have developed a system able to independently perform carpentry work almost without human intervention. The system is called AutoSaw and consists of software and hardware, which is a semi-Autonomous robots. For a start, the user selects the template of the product — now they are available only four, but software written for…

  • Testing the world’s largest plane was caught on video

    One of the leaders of the Stratolaunch project, Paul Allen posted a Twitter video of the testing of the prototype aircraft Stratolaunch, during which he made a few rounds on the runway. According to preliminary calculations, the device can lift up to 250 tons of cargo (despite the fact that the plane weighs 230 tons).…

  • Scientists have discovered a new kind of stem cells

    If you reverse the biological clock of every cell of the human body, it will be the same as one of the varieties of stem cells. It begins with them the growth of multicellular organisms, stem cells can renew themselves to form new stem cells, divided by mitosis and differentiate into cells of different tissues…

  • When you should wait for the ninth generation of gaming consoles?

    Any self-respecting gamer knows that all, without exception, gaming console is divided into the generation. At the moment, for example, the available game consoles eighth generation, which began in 2012, which includes Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (as well as their pumped configuration is Pro PS4 and Xbox One X). Many are…