Submitted by ionscifi on December 13, 2022 - 17:16
Financial Times claim that government scientists at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved a significant breakthrough in the pursuit of fusion technology.
Tractor beams are a not often used but powerful tool in the arsenal of star ships and stations in major sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek.
It doesn't look as impressive, but researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered a new and more powerful method for moving objects with light and sound waves.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have approved police deployment of remote controlled robots with lethal capacity, in emergency and crisis situations.
These are not autonomous AI driven machines. Humans will control them. So not Robocop yet, though autonomous killer drones do exist and have been used by the military.
Submitted by ionscifi on November 30, 2022 - 08:57
Sandbox survival / building games like Minecraft - the world's highest selling video game - are very popular but sci-fi entries like Space Engineers may need to rethink their design.
NASA has awarded a $57.2 million contract to Austin based ICON Technology to investigate plans to 3D print buildings from moon dirt.
Submitted by ionscifi on September 16, 2022 - 08:12
Several weeks ago saw the first appointment of an AI controlled robot (called Tang Yu) as a company CEO - Chinese gaming company Fujian NetDragon Websoft. Hard to imagine anything more modern than that.
A few days our planet became sole shareholder of outdoor clothing company Patagonia, whose 2022 revenue has been estimated at $1.5 billion (US).
Biotech company Synchron have conducted their first U.S. human BCI (brain-computer interface) implant as part of a clinical trial.
That's fascinating in its own right but when looking for information about the company, we discovered that they formed in Australia and conducted trials here first.
