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Oct 19, 2015
SpaceX Changes Its Falcon 9 Rocket Return-to-Flight Plans — By Peter B. de Selding | SPACE.com
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, Elon Musk, satellites
“SpaceX on Oct. 16 said it had changed its Falcon 9 return-to-flight plans and would first launch 11 small Orbcomm messaging satellites into low Earth orbit, and then test reignition of the rocket’s redesigned second-stage engine during the same flight before launching SES’s heavier telecommunications satellite into higher orbit, a mission that will need the reignition capability”
Tags: GEO, LEO, SpaceX, telecommunications
Oct 19, 2015
UK town residents to enjoy WiFi connected pavement
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, internet, mobile phones
UK pedestrians in Chesham will experience a first when they stroll around. Virgin Media is behind the initiative of a Smart WiFi Pavement, to provide people with Wi-Fi access. Residents will be able to “streetsurf,” according to the news release. Virgin Media is a provider of all four broadband, TV, mobile phone and home phone services in the UK.
The company is out to make a name in improving out-of-home connectivity. The Virgin Media news release said, “Chiltern District Council and Virgin Media have joined forces to blanket Chesham’s high street with superfast WiFi. The unlimited WiFi service is available to residents, businesses and visitors passing through the center of Chesham; the service even covers parts of Lowndes Park – Chesham’s 36 acre park space.” The pilot is available to all the 21,000 residents and businesses of Chesham.
Speeds of up to 166Mbps are highlighted; the number is seven times the average UK broadband speed.
Oct 8, 2015
The Transhumanist Party Turns 1-Year-Old
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: business, geopolitics, health, transhumanism
The Transhumanist Party is 1-year-old today:
On October 7th, 2015, the Transhumanist Party will reach its first birthday. Started as way to introduce forward thinking and futurist politics into government, the party has caught on around the world and now has over a dozen national parties. The motto of the Transhumanist Party in America is: Putting Science, Health, and Technology at the Forefront of US Politics.
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Oct 2, 2015
Seeking New Markets, Companies Offer DNA Testing at a Loss — By Antonio Regaledo | MIT Technology Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, DNA
“That makes Veritas the first company to break the much anticipated threshold of a “$1,000 genome.” Mirza Cifric, Veritas’s CEO, confirmed that, initially at least, the new price is less than the cost of actually generating the data, when equipment and chemical supplies are included.”
Sep 25, 2015
AI Helps Humans Best When Humans Help the AI — By Cade Metz | Wired
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: business
Sep 20, 2015
Zymergen: We believe in harnessing the power of biology to make transformative products that are good for business
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, business, robotics/AI
We believe in harnessing the power of biology to make transformative products that are good for business, people and the environment. By applying the latest in automation, data architecture and machine learning, we’re making better microbes for use in industrial fermentation.
Sep 19, 2015
Asteroid-Mining Plan Would Bake Water Out of Bagged-Up Space Rocks
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: business, space
PASADENA, Calif. — A new way to harvest asteroid resources is being eyed as a possible game changer for space exploration.
The patent-pending innovation, called “optical mining,” could allow huge amounts of asteroid water to be tapped, advocates say. This water, in turn, could provide relatively cheap and accessible propellant for voyaging spacecraft, lowering the cost of spaceflight significantly.
Development of the optical-mining idea has been funded by a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) fellowship and grant, along with a small business contract. The concept — which is also known as the Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies plan, or Apis — was detailed here during a special NIAC session held on Sept. 2 during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) Space 2015 meeting. [How Asteroid Mining Could Work (Infographic)].
Sep 18, 2015
Tesla’s Powerwall home battery is coming to Australia in 2015
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, energy, transportation
The Powerwall, a rechargeable lithium ion home battery from the makers of the Tesla Model S car, will be on sale in Australia by the end of the year.
Powerwall will be available in Australia in late 2015 through a variety of Tesla Energy partners who are yet to be announced, Business Insider reported.
Sep 16, 2015
10 Crazy Discoveries That Science Can’t Explain
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, media & arts
Scientific discoveries that remain unexplained… (HD — 03/2015)
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