Tech News and Advancements

Share this page

newatlas.com

Interview: Cutting through the eVTOL hype with the AAM "Reality Index"

The emerging eVTOL air taxi market is drawing a lot of attention and an avalanche of funding money. Literally hundreds of companies are jostling for position as this nascent air mobility tech prepares for its prime time debut. But with renders, press releases and SPAC fundraising efforts flying as…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
newatlas.com

Mahle's cheap, highly efficient new EV motor uses no magnets

Magnets, typically using rare earth metals like neodymium, are found at the heart of most electric vehicle motors. It's nice to have a permanent source of powerful rare earth magnetism in your rotor, because using powered coils instead means you have to somehow transfer electricity from the battery…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
newatlas.com

World first: Oblique wave detonation engine may unlock Mach 17 aircraft

UCF researchers say they've trapped a sustained explosive detonation, fixed in place, for the first time, channeling its enormous power into thrust in a new oblique wave detonation engine that could propel an aircraft up to 17 times the speed of sound, potentially beating the scramjet as a…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
newatlas.com

Enough forest has naturally regrown since 2000 to cover mainland France

In what's described as the first thorough study to track natural forest expansion, researchers have found that an area larger than mainland France has regenerated since the year 2000. While deforestation continues to pose a grave threat to the world's biodiversity, the study does emphasize the…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
Maybe not on subject, but I just convinced my wife I needed a new system, so here is what I got.
Alienware Aurora edition 10.
Ryzen 5950x processor 16 core can be overclocked to about 4.9 MHZ
32GB ram
Nvidia 3080 Video card
2 TB M.1 SSD with 2 TB 7200 storage drive
1000W power supply.

Been a lot of upgrades since my last purchase.
 
Ryzen? I assume that is AMD?

I've been out of the PC game for so long. I didn't even know they were doing 16 cores now.
 
Undertaker #59* said:
Ryzen? I assume that is AMD?

I've been out of the PC game for so long. I didn't even know they were doing 16 cores now.
Click to expand...

AMD has a 32 core coming out at some point. Serious shit man. I'm still an Intel guy though, for now.
 
johnlocke said:
AMD has a 32 core coming out at some point. Serious shit man. I'm still an Intel guy though, for now.
Click to expand...
Yeah, I definitely still have a bias to Intel, but it's not based on any real knowledge any more. My last AMD was a K6 200mhz I think.
 
If Chinese state media can be believed this is good news for humanity. Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of cheap, clean, limitless energy and it looks like it will come to fruition at some point providing the opportunity to launch humanity to a whole new level of achievement and flourishing.

newatlas.com

China claims new fusion record with its "artificial sun" nuclear reactor

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is one of a number of promising nuclear fusion research devices in operation around the world, and over the past few years we've seen it take some impressive steps forward. Chinese state media is now reporting that scientists working on…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
Now this is an idea whose time has come and will be finally baring viable fruit. Nice!

www.wsj.com

United Plans to Buy 15 Supersonic Planes

The airline said if Boom’s new Overture jetliner meets safety, operational and sustainability standards, it hopes to fly passengers on the supersonic aircraft by the end of the decade.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
 
newatlas.com

Event Horizon Telescope snaps close-up of supermassive black hole jets

Astronomers have taken a close-up image of a radio jet emitted by a supermassive black hole for the first time. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has zoomed in on this jet with 16 times the resolution and at 10 times higher frequencies than previous observations to learn more about this strange…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
newatlas.com

Universal Hydrogen to convert 15-plus airliners to run on H2 pods

Universal Hydrogen has signed letters of intent with three airlines to convert more than 15 regional airliners to run on green hydrogen. The company is developing conversion kits that accept interchangeable hydrogen modules that work like recyclable coffee pods.
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
newatlas.com

Laser pincers generate antimatter by recreating neutron star conditions

Some of the greatest mysteries in cosmology revolve around antimatter, and it’s hard to study because it’s rare and hard to produce in the lab. Now a team of physicists has outlined a relatively simple new way to create antimatter, by firing two lasers at each other to reproduce the conditions near…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
How great is man that he can see a problem, analyze it, conceive of a solution to save millions medically, and bring it to fruition.

This looks wonderful.

www.freethink.com

New gene therapy helps the heart repair itself after a heart attack

In a new study in pigs, gene therapy targeted the Hippo signaling pathway to heal the heart after an attack.
www.freethink.com www.freethink.com
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top