Blue Origin, the space-tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, performed another successful test of their reusable rocket New Shepard this weekend on April 2. This is the third time that…
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Microsoft’s ‘Holoportation’ is Skype in Augmented Reality
Microsoft’s research division is looking to one-up Skype in a big way. With all of the recent developments in virtual reality, it is easy to forget its brother, augmented reality. Last year,…
Minecraft is Being Used to Test Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft, the owner of the runaway hit video game Minecraft, has announced that it will be using Minecraft as a space to build, develop, and test new artificial intelligence programs. The new…
Go World Champion Has Been Defeated by an Artificial Intellegence
Earlier today artificial intelligence development won another victory with the defeat of Lee Sedol, the world champion of the ancient game of Go. Go, a 3,000 year old Chinese game, has long been…
NASA is Seeking Funding for Nextgen Aircraft Designs
The world famous aerospace organization NASA has requested a 23% increases in its funding. The reasons behind this massive budget increase? To construct NASA’s next generation designs for commercial aircraft. These prototype…
UK Company Riversimple Launches Hydrogen Car
“To pursue, systematically, the elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport.” This is the purpose of behind Riversimple, a car manufacturer that has been developing a hydrogen car with the support…
Humanoid Robots are Being Developed for Airbus
A new research program has been announced between Airbus and the Joint Research Laboratory (JRL). The JRL was formed in 2004 from the union of Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and…
China Just Became the World Leader in Nuclear Fusion Research
China has just become the world leader in nuclear fusion research. What are the implications for the future of nuclear fusion with this new breakthrough?
The Oncoming Virtual Realty Explosion
Palmer Luckey’s name precedes him. The magnificently intelligent (and rich) virtual reality wunderkind’s sale of his Oculus VR to Facebook has helped catalyze the shift within the virtual reality market from ultra-wealthy…
World’s First Robot Operated Farm Coming Soon
We may be moving towards a future where robots are responsible for growing our food if a new factory in Japan is any indication of the direction that technology may take. Spread,…
Faraday Future Electric Car is Taking Tesla Head On at CES in Las Vegas
Faraday Future’s electric car took Tesla Motors head on by unveiling its car at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 4, 2016. The FFZERO1 Concept vehicle is a test bed and…
Researchers pave way for ‘ultimate’ lithium-air battery
University of Cambridge researchers have developed a lab based demonstrator version of the ‘ultimate’ lithium-air battery that is more than 90 per cent efficient. Lithium-air batteries have been, for some time now,…
Scientists create Tractor beam that manipulates objects mid-air using sound waves
Once strictly limited to science fiction novels and movies, Tractor beam is now a reality as researchers have created a working model of this technology using sound waves. With huge potential in…
£4.2m project to develop robots to fix potholes, drones to repair light fixtures
A new £4.2m national infrastructure research project led by researchers at University of Leeds is going to build robots to fix potholes, and drones to repair light fixtures. The funding for the…
Foam-like material paves way for artificial heart, lightweight prosthetics, more
Advances in material science has implications in a number of other branches including artificial limbs and once such research by Cornell University scientists has opened up doors that could eventually pave way…