[ad_1] The idea to explore hydrogen fuel cells originated in 2018, when researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO used a proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen fuel cell to power a rack of computers. Mark Monroe, a principal infrastructure engineer on Microsoft’s team for datacenter advanced development, said his team watched a […]
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Fox Sports’ virtual baseball fans are just plain weird
[ad_1] “We believe that what we’re doing is creating a natural viewing experience,” Fox Sports executive VP Brad Zager told the Washington Post. “Sports is supposed to be an escape and when people have that escape we want it to feel as normal as possible when there’s very little normalcy, like a crowd at a […]
Hitting the Books: America needs a new public data system
[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto by Julia Lane. Reprinted with permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. On sale as an ebook now. On sale in print 9/1/2020. Nowadays when people have an appointment to go to across town, their calendar app obligingly predicts how long it’s going to take […]
How it feels to survive Silicon Valley and a pandemic
[ad_1] If RSA’s attendees were even able to score an Airbnb, it was second to the tech companies who’d, for years, packed employees into expensive rentals that once were on the normal-person market. Companies whose fat salaries also pushed rents out of reach for locals. Both had ensured a steady flow of evictions among artists, […]
Jaguar Land Rover shows off AI-powered ‘no-touch touchscreen’ for cars
[ad_1] A gesture tracker (which uses either vision-based or radio frequency-based sensors) works in concert with other factors, like eye tracking and other contextual information, to figure out which button you want to tap. The “predictive touch” system could come in handy, for instance, when you’re on a bumpy road and it’s hard to tap […]
Hyperloop projects are now eligible for federal funding in the US
[ad_1] This is the first regulatory guidance document of its kind for hyperloop projects anywhere. It creates a roadmap for hyperloop regulation and rollouts across the US, and, just as importantly, these projects are now eligible for federal funding. “We have determined that these hyperloop projects are just as eligible for grant as any maglev […]
Energy Department unveils roadmap for a national quantum internet
[ad_1] The funding for the network would come from part of the nearly $1.3 billion budget devoted to the National Quantum Initiative. There’s already some progress toward these goals. The Wall Street Journal noted that Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago built a 52-mile quantum network through unused fiber, and it should expand […]
NASA will use a huge stratospheric balloon to study newly-formed stars
[ad_1] The telescope itself consists of an 8.4-foot wide dish antenna along with mirrors, lenses and detectors designed to capture far-infrared light. Because far-infrared telescopes need to be kept cold, it will also carry a cryocooler that keeps the detectors close to -451.3 degrees Fahrenheit, just a shade above absolute zero. NASA, ESA, N. Smith […]
US accuses Russia of firing anti-satellite weapon in space
[ad_1] Officially, Cosmos 2543’s purpose is to monitor the condition of other Russian spacecraft in orbit, and the country’s authorities insist that’s all there is to it. The Russian Defense ministry told Interfax news agency (via Wall Street Journal): “One of the domestically produced satellites was examined from a close distance by specialized equipment of […]
Tianwen-1 launches China’s first interplanetary mission to Mars
[ad_1] The next phase of the mission will be crucial for Tianwen-1. In 2011, China successfully launched the Yinghuo-1 Mars mission and reached parking orbit aboard a Ukrainian Zenit rocket. However, the burns designed to send it from that orbit to Mars failed, leaving it stranded over Earth. It eventually re-entered our orbit and disintegrated […]