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The Technology That Will Resurrect ISIS-Destroyed Antiquities

Jun 11
2016

Teams of Syrian and international archaeologists are racing to document and rebuild the country’s cultural heritage.

Researchers demonstrate a 100x increase in the amount of information that can be ‘packed into light’

Posted by Andreas Matt in futurism, information science

Jun 10
2016

The rise of big data and advances in information technology has serious implications for our ability to deliver sufficient bandwidth to meet the growing demand.

Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are looking at alternative sources that will be able to take over where traditional optical communications systems are likely to fail in future.

In their latest research, published online today (10 June 2016) in the scientific journal, Scientific Reports, the team from South Africa and Tunisia demonstrate over 100 patterns of light used in an optical communication link, potentially increasing the bandwidth of communication systems by 100 times.

Hosted bare metal emerges as alternative to IaaS cloud

Posted by Karen Hurst in futurism

Jun 9
2016

Interesting perspective by Forrester.

For users who push their infrastructure to the max, public cloud virtual machines sometimes aren’t enough, so a new class of hosted bare metal infrastructure has emerged.

Big Area Additive Manufacturing

Posted by Karen Hurst in futurism

Jun 9
2016

Cute, sporty, and 2D Printed.

Local Motors purchases two BAAM systems from Cincinnati Incorporated.

We can now communicate with plants

Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in futurism

Jun 9
2016

Love plants? You may soon be able to talk to them.

Measuring time is a crucial part of navigation – particularly in space, where exacting precision is called for

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism, space travel

Jun 9
2016

The DSAC is poised to make a change that will aid future deep space missions.

Four new element names to be added to the periodic table

Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in futurism

Jun 8
2016

Quatro novos nomes elemento a ser adicionado à tabela periódica.

Water Has An Amazing Fourth State — Ice, Steam, Liquid, And Now Tunneling

Posted by Karen Hurst in futurism

Jun 7
2016

Researchers have found that water has a bizarre fourth state. In addition to the familiar states of liquid, ice, and steam, with their transition points marked by the familiar freezing and boiling points on the Kelvin and Celsius scales, water has a fourth state, tunneling.

[S]cientists at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) have discovered that when it’s put under extreme pressure in small spaces, the life-giving liquid can exhibit a strange fourth state known as tunneling.