Category: Gadgetry Robotics Social Transportation

Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: Driverless Trucks to Hit Alberta’s Oilsands Region Replacing $200,000/yr Operators; Big Layoffs Coming

Source: Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: Driverless Trucks to Hit Alberta’s Oilsands Region Replacing $200,000/yr Operators; Big Layoffs Coming

Posted: June 11, 2015 in Gadgetry, Robotics, Social, Transportation

Nuts and peanuts — but not peanut butter — linked to lower mortality rates, study finds

A study confirms a link between peanut and nut intake and lower mortality rates, but finds no protective effect for peanut butter. Men and women >>>

Posted: June 11, 2015 in Biological

Heartburn Drugs Linked to Heart Attacks

Drugs like Prilosec and Prevacid may increase the risk for heart attack. Source: Heartburn Drugs Linked to Heart Attacks

Posted: June 10, 2015 in Biological

Stepson of Stuxnet stalked Kaspersky for months, tapped Iran nuke talks | Ars Technica

Hacker group used a “zero-day trampoline” to scale Kaspersky defenses. Source: Stepson of Stuxnet stalked Kaspersky for months, tapped Iran nuke talks | Ars Technica

Posted: June 10, 2015 in Computer, Security

Engineers have created a computer that operates on water droplets

Source: Engineers have created a computer that operates on water droplets

Posted: June 10, 2015 in Biological, Chemistry

Regular Old Sewing Thread Can Be Woven Into Strong Artificial Muscles

Given Disney’s amusement parks are packed full of audio-animatronic characters, it only makes sense that the company’s research division would be hard at work finding >>>

Posted: June 9, 2015 in Gadgetry, Robotics

NASA Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars | NASA

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, >>>

Posted: June 8, 2015 in Space

Airbus unveils Adeline, its clever answer to SpaceX’s reusable rockets | Ars Technica

The main engines sprout wings and propellers, and fly back to HQ like a drone. Source: Airbus unveils Adeline, its clever answer to SpaceX’s reusable >>>

Posted: June 8, 2015 in Space

NASA JPL Live, Ustream.TV: Upcoming Event: LDSD Mars Landing Technology Flight Test June 8, 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 1700 UTC) Watch live as our Low-Density…

Upcoming Event: LDSD Mars Landing Technology Flight TestJune 8, 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 1700 UTC)Watch live as our Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator takes to >>>

Posted: June 8, 2015 in Space

Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past

An experiment by Australian scientists has proven that what happens to particles in the past is only decided when they are observed and measured in >>>

Posted: June 8, 2015 in Quantum Physics