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Bristol University discovers a faster high-quality video wireless transmission technology
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-07-16 00:29
The University of Bristol has researched ways to transmit high quality video over wireless signals to handle the growing amount of mobile video traffic attributable to the rise of smartphone apps.
Published in the journal IEEE Transactions for Mobile Computing, the research was led by professor Andrew Nix and Dr Victoria Sgardoni from the University of Bristol's Communication Systems and Networks group.
Watch Test Pilots Push the New Boeing Jet to Terrifying Limits
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-07-16 00:21
After delivering the first 787-9 Dreamliner jet to Air New Zealand last week, Boeing took a victory lap on Monday, showing off exactly what the plane can do when pushed to its limits.
The plane’s maneuvers during a six and a half minute demonstration flight, at the Farnborough International Airshow outside London, were not quite as awesome as the barrel roll test pilot Tex Johnston pulled off in a Boeing 707 in 1955. They were, however, way more extreme than anything a passenger would want to sit through.
Chinese biz bloke builds his OWN 3,500-mile Tesla charger network
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-07-15 00:59
Disappointed at the lack of charging stations for his Tesla S electric car in his home province, a Guangdong-based businessman has responded in typically Chinese fashion: he built his own. And not just one, either.
According to English-language news site Caixin Online, 44-year-old Zong Yi used his own money to buy and install an entire network of e-car chargers spanning 16 cities along a 5,750km (3,573mi) indirect route between Beijing and Guangzhong.
Computer memory that can store about one terabyte of data on a device the size of a postage stamp
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-07-15 00:56
High-density, next-generation computer memory that can store about one terabyte of data on a device the size of a postage stamp — more than 50 times the data density of current flash memory technology — is now a step closer to to mass production.
IBM Bets $3B That the Silicon Microchip Is Becoming Obsolete
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-07-10 11:02
IBM is worried that the age of silicon may be drawing to a close. So it’s going to spend $3 billion over the next half-decade to try and find new ways to power the future generations of microprocessors.