World Wide Web 15th anniversary
Today the World Wide Web’s (WWW) celebrates its 15th anniversary. 30th April 1993 the web’s code was put into the public domain by Cern, the lab where the web was …
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Next Generation Internet
THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 …
Next Generation Internet Read MoreFirst ever hydrogen battery flight
OCANA, Spain (AFP) – US aircraft maker Boeing flew a plane that was powered by a hydrogen battery at the start of 2008 for the first time in aviation history, …
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Current solar airplanes are not designed to store energy and therefore have to land in cases of insufficient sunlight (clouds or night time). In so doing they mark the limits …
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Fast BBC News and The Daily Telegraph wrote earlier this week about the French engineering giant Alstom who has unveiled a new high-speed train. The AGV (Automotrice Grande Vitesse) train …
Fast and faster Read MoreContact lenses with circuits
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have …
Contact lenses with circuits Read MoreExplore Space with Mitaka
Mitaka is an application (software) for visualizing theoretical, computational, and observational astronomical data, developed by the Four Dimensional Digital Universe (4D2U) project of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). …
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Fish ‘n Flush is a patented, two-piece aquarium toilet tank, designed by AquaOne Technologies, Inc., an innovator of water-management systems. The aquarium has a 2.2-gallon capacity. When you flush, it …
Fish ‘n Flush Read MoreHappy 20th birthday PERL
On the 18th December 1987, the initial version of the programming language Perl was announced by Larry Wall on the news group comp.sources.mis. During the years Perl has become one …
Happy 20th birthday PERL Read MoreD.P. Tammet – The Incredible Brain
Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Experiencing …
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