Asteroid-mining company Deep Space Industries has just announced plans to launch a fleet of “FireFly” spacecraft as soon as 2015. Their mission? Find asteroids, rich with valuable metals, that could aid in humanity’s colonization of space. More »
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“FireFly” spaceships to begin exploring asteroids in 2015
We can’t say AMD’s declining momentum was unexpected , but these results don’t necessarily have us excited about the future, nonetheless. For Q4, the company posted revenue of $1.16 billion, which is a 32-percent drop from the same period in 2011 , netting a loss of 63 cents per share. For 2012 as a whole, the company’s revenue rang in at $5.42 billion — a 17-percent fall from the previous year, and a $1.60 loss per share. President Rory Read references evolution and diversification when discussing outlook, but it’s clear that the company needs to make some major adjustments before it can return to profitability. Let’s hope that AMD’s 2013 lineup , including the Temash and Kabini APUs , help to turn this company around. You’ll find full Q4 and 2012 earnings in the PDF at the source link below. Filed under: Desktops , AMD Comments Via: The Next Web Source: AMD (PDF)
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AMD earnings continue decline with $1.16 billion in Q4 revenue, $5.42 billion in 2012
Some of the most popular anime in Japan have never set foot on American shores. Oh sure, we have Naruto and Pokémon and Dragonball Z , but what we don’t have are the kids shows — the Japanese anime equivalent of SpongeBob SquarePants , Dora the Explorer and the like. Why? Because while you’d think they’d be the most adaptable for worldwide audiences –- kids are kids, right? –- they’re actually quite insane. Here are seven anime series that Japanese kids love that no American parent would ever let their kids watch. More »
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7 Japanese Kids’ Anime That American Kids Will Never, Ever See
You are perhaps wondering whether or not you should play Ni no Kuni , the RPG by Level-5 and Studio Ghibli that comes out today on PlayStation 3. More »
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Twelve Things You Should Know About The Stellar, Stunning Ni no Kuni
CowboyRobot writes “In 25 years, an odd thing will happen to some of the no doubt very large number of computing devices in our world: an old, well-known and well-understood bug will cause their calculation of time to fail. The problem springs from the use of a 32-bit signed integer to store a time value, as a number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970, a practice begun in early UNIX systems with the standard C library data structure time_t. On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:08 UTC that integer will overflow. It’s not difficult to come up with cases where the problem could be real today. Imagine a mortgage amortization program projecting payments out into the future for a 30-year mortgage. Or imagine those phony programs politicians use to project government expenditures, or demographic software, and so on. It’s too early for panic, but those of us in the early parts of their careers will be the ones who have to deal with the problem.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Sometimes the double helix likes to mix it up! Scientists at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, have found that DNA at the end of chromosomes actually have a very different structure: instead of double-stranded, they have four strands. Balasubramanian’s group has been pursuing a four-stranded version of the molecule that scientists have produced in the test tube now for a number of years. It is called the G-quadruplex. The “G” refers to guanine, one of the four chemical groups, or “bases”, that hold DNA together and which encode our genetic information (the others being adenine, cytosine, and thymine). The G-quadruplex seems to form in DNA where guanine exists in substantial quantities. Jonathan Amos of BBC has the post: Link
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Quadruple DNA Helix
Ever wondered how a key opens a lock? Wonder no more. If this is not one of the best animated GIFs I’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. First, because it taught me something new. And then, because it’s so satisfying to see it work. Aaaaaah. Oh yes. [ soup — Thanks Karl! ] More »
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How Keys Work Explained In One Perfect Animated GIF
The Infrascanner Model 2000, which uses near-infrared technology to screen for intracranial hematomas, is intended for use on battlefields, in hospitals, and on the sidelines of high-contact sports. [Read more]
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How the wave of a wand can detect bleeding in the brain
While UAVs have joined spy satellites as an indispensable part of America’s military operations—especially in delivering timely, accurate intel to troops on the ground—they are not the end-all-be-all perfect solution, even in coordination. That’s why DARPA plans to supplement these unmanned intelligence gathering platforms with jet-deployed constellations of micro-satellites. Soon, every grunt will have access to a real-time battlefield mini-map just in like video games. More »
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DARPA’s SeeMee Satellites Are a Soldier’s On-Demand Eye In the Sky
Zothecula writes “Scientists based at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have set a new efficiency record for thin-film copper indium gallium (di)selenid (or CIGS) based solar cells on flexible polymer foils, reaching an efficiency of 20.4 percent. This is an increase from a previous record of 18.7 percent set by the team back in 2011.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency