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Google announced plans to build experimental ultra high speed broadband networks that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than today.  One gigabit per second speeds would allow to stream 3-D medical imaging over the Web or download a high-definition, full-length movie in few minutes.

Google’s project complements US President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring broadband to every US home as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan.

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World’s largest and highest energy laser, the National Ignition Facility (NIF),  will begin experiments in 2010 that will focus the energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB-sized target filled with hydrogen fuel. NIF’s goal is to fuse the hydrogen atoms nuclei and produce net energy gain;  the fusion energy process that makes the stars shine. Read the rest of this entry »

Real time web search like Twitter messages, can give a clue of what people around the world are thinking or doing at any moment. The latest research from Google, suggests that online footprint including real time results could be even more powerful: they may reveal the future as well as the present. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve heard that visualisation has the power to help us meet our objectives; in a new study of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Christopher Davoli and Richard Abrams from Washington University, shows that the imagination can be really effective in helping us reach our goals. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven years ago, GEO600 started to look for gravitational waves (ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as black holes). GEO600 has not detected gravitational waves so far, but it might have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century: Our Cosmos may be sourced from the boundary of Universe as a hologram. Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine the planet’s collective brainpower and computing power brought together to address some of the world’s toughest problems, like global climate change, cancer or global crisis.  It sounds like science fiction, but researchers at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) are looking for it to reality.

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What you say in a conversation — whether it’s on a first date, a job interview — may be less important than how you say it. But the cues that may decide the outcome can be so subtle that neither person in the conversation is consciously aware of them. Whether or not you get the job, or the other person’s phone number, is very strongly influenced by unconscious factors such as the way one person’s speech patterns match the other’s, the level of physical activity as people talk, and the degree to which one person sets the tone — literally — of the conversation.

These subtle cues provide “honest signals” about what’s really going on and strongly predict the outcome, according to research by the MIT Media Lab’s Alex Pentland and his colleagues. Read the rest of this entry »

In the old roman empire this expression was used to explain how to keep roman people happy/controlled. Entertainment and food delivery were used to keep attention and control of people; but modern democracies appear to continue using this nowadays, and this use appears stronger as long as weak is the democracy practice.
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Network coding, a novel wireless-network protocol developed for the U.S. army, breaks the rules by sending not the data itself but rather a description of the data. In simulations, a network using the protocol was five times more efficient than a traditional network. Within the next year, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will test the protocol in field trials.
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Abu Dhabi broke ground on Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city, including door to door driverless public transport. Masdar CEO Dr. Sultan Al Jaber announced a total development budget for the city of $22 billion.
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