No one is ready for California’s new consumer privacy law. The California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect January 1st, and it doesn’t look like anyone, even the state of California itself, is totally ready.
Draft regulations for enforcing the law are still being finalized at the state level, and questions about specific aspects of the most sweeping privacy regulation since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are still not clear. Engadget is now a part of Verizon Media. NNN / What an artificial womb may look like in the future. The world's first artificial womb for humans. A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2009 – the first quantum computer.
China's DJI unveils drone-to-phone tracking technology amid growing privacy backlash. ADMX experiment places world's best constraint on dark matter axions. The first 3D-printed boat, 'built' by the world's largest 3D printer. What Is The Electric Version Of The LS Swap? If you want to dig a few hundred horsepower out of a junkyard to stuff in your project car, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better deal than a GM LS engine.
These V8s are plentiful, relatively cheap, and there are aftermarket parts out the wazoo to crank out whatever amount of horsepower you want. But what if you don’t want to internally combust? What if you’re looking for some more environmentally friendly hot rodding? What then do you drop in your Karmann Ghia? Well, the answer to that question seems to be the Tesla Model S drive unit and Chevy Volt battery combination.
Newatlas. Although multicopter drones now are being used to transport medical samples and supplies, their 30-minute (or so) battery life limits their range.
This week, however, a hydrogen-powered delivery drone managed a one-hour, 43-minute ocean crossing. Drones will swarm our skies when these 3 things happen. In the not-too-distant future, drones will crowd the skies.
Quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters, svelte fixed-wing drones that look like miniature airplanes, hulking aircraft designed to lift 500 pounds, self-piloting Boeing air taxis and DJI's teensy Mavic Mini flying camera -- they'll all be competing for airspace. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine loves the idea. At the Commercial UAV Expo drone conference late last month in Las Vegas, Bridenstine challenged the industry to get tens of thousands of daily drone flights over at least one US city by 2028. Using Drone-Mounted Lasers, Scientists Find Ancient Bead-Making, Island-Dwelling Community in Florida. Raleigh Island is a long, uninhabited stretch along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where vegetation grows thick and wild.
But hundreds of years ago, before Europeans first arrived in North America, Raleigh Island was home to a thriving settlement of bead-makers—a hidden history that is only starting to come to light, thanks to pioneering laser technology. Experts have long known that humans once lived on the island; according to the Guardian’s Victoria Bekiempis, artifacts were first discovered there in the early 1990s.
But archaeologists were largely in the dark about the scope of the settlement, until a happy accident occurred in 2010. Researchers conducting environmental impact surveys in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill stumbled upon a complex of ring structures made of oyster shells—signs of a once large and active community. The oyster rings, according to Smith, likely built up over years of people munching on sea food and tossing away the shells.
Flatland light: Researchers create rewritable optical components for 2-D light waves. In 1884, a schoolmaster and theologian named Edwin Abbott wrote a novella called Flatland, which tells the story of a world populated by sentient two-dimensional shapes.
While intended as a satire of rigid Victorian social norms, Flatland has long fascinated mathematicians and physicists and served as the setting for many a thought experiment. One such thought experiment: How can light be controlled in two dimensions? When a wave of light is confined on a two-dimensional plane by certain materials, it becomes something known as a polariton—a particle that blurs the distinction between light and matter.
Polaritons have exciting implications for the future of optical circuits because, unlike electronic integrated circuits, integrated optics is difficult to miniaturize with commonly used materials. Google launches OpenTitan, an open-source secure chip design project. Google has partnered with several tech companies to develop and build OpenTitan, a new, collaborative open-source secure chip design project.
New Wireless Charging Designs for Electric Vehicles Double Power Density. New wireless charging coil designs, created and tested by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, include a three-phase system that features rotating magnetic fields between layers of coils.
The layered coils transfer power in a more uniform way, allowing for an increase in power density. Credit: Jason Pries/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers created and tested new wireless charging designs that may double the power density, resulting in a lighter weight system compared with existing technologies, while maintaining safety. PT.3. 4 hidden Google Maps tricks you should know now. Driving is stressful enough, but it becomes even more of a task when you can't find a parking spot or you lose signal and a turn is coming up soon.
Fortunately, the Google Maps app for Android and iPhone ($699 at Amazon) can remove a bit of the strain of driving with some of its hidden features. Apple Warns Older iPhones Will Lose Internet, GPS If Not Updated Before Daylight Saving Time Ends. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/CNN) – If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it… right?
Well, some Apple product users may not have a choice this weekend as we set the clocks back Sunday morning. Apple is warning owners of older iPhones and iPads that if they don’t update their devices to the latest iOS software by Sunday, they won’t be able to connect to the internet. Many iPhone and iPad products from 2012 and earlier will need the update before midnight UTC on Nov. 3 in order to maintain accurate GPS location and continue using the App Store, iCloud, email and web browsing, according to Apple.
Pixel Watch - Google dropped two billion hints about its new watch. After years of rumours, Google looks as if it’s about to get very serious about smartwatches. The long-rumoured Pixel Watch, developed by the same industrial design team behind the likes of the Pixel 4, Google Home, and PixelBook, was allegedly pulled at the eleventh hour before it was unveiled on-stage during one of the Mountain View-based company’s annual Made By Google hardware showcases. Life inside CERN. It’s always (to me anyway) interesting to see artists’ studios, artisan workshops and the like. I’m pretty sure if I’ve ever wondered what the labs of particle physicists look like but, thankfully, Andri Pol and author Peter Stamm did, and there’s now a book of their observations.
Throughout the publication, a fascinating juxtaposition is established, contrasting reassuringly familiar scenes with some of the most complex pieces of scientific equipment anywhere in the world - a worker is shown seemingly exasperated by a coffee machine, while another employee is visible taking a sip of water meters from the hadron collider itself. The photographer presents his subjects amongst mountains of stacked books, tangled in webs of cables and immersed in endless scrawls of equations and formulae.
More about... CERN precisely measures the mass of the Higgs boson. The detection of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012 is one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the decade. In the years since, scientists have been carefully measuring its properties, and now the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have made the most precise measurement of its mass to date. The Higgs boson is an incredibly important particle – for one, it was the final elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. The boson represents the Higgs field, which uniformly pervades the entire universe.
Other fundamental particles, such as quarks and leptons, gain their mass by interacting with the Higgs field. 'Supremacy' Achieved: Quantum Computer Notches Epic Milestone. - Are you a robot? Excitons will shape the future of electronic devices. Computing takes a quantum leap forward. Giant Plasma Guns Could Be the Answer to Limitless Fusion Power. Generating endless energy with zero emissions by just slamming hydrogen atoms together has been somewhat of a pipe dream for decades. Google Confirms Achieving Quantum Supremacy. Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit.
Electric Pickup News: Tesla Truck Revealed? Plus New Truck Renders. Fait désormais partie dâVerizon Media. Robotic spiders to explore the moon. - Are you a robot? New research brings scientists one step closer to a fully functioning quantum computer. Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize technology, medicine, and science by providing faster and more efficient processors, sensors, and communication devices. Graphene boosts microscope resolution by a factor of 10. An Entirely Different Kind of Quantum Computer.
Cornell scientists create 'living' machines that eat, grow, and evolve. Technology - This might even allow us to engineer new... Noisy Quantum Computers Could Be Good for Chemistry Problems. Scientists build a machine to generate quantum superposition of possible futures. Research team expands quantum network with successful long-distance entanglement experiment. Artificial intelligence is making food... - MIT Technology Review. What is a Quantum Computer? The Universe's Dark Secret: Where Did All the Antimatter Go? Www.pinterest. Donating to UNICEF Innovation Labs Could Land You in the Next Star Wars Movie. 4D Printing: MIT Self-Folding Strand. These Virtual Reality Headsets Make Farmed Chickens Believe They Roam Free. Scientists make deep-brain implants possible through wireless charging.
Neurogames are Ready to Take Flight — Expect a Breakout Year Ahead. The All New Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) Virtual Reality Headset. Scientists Hack Plants With Nanotubes to Supercharge Photosynthesis - Wired Science. Gravity Waves from Big Bang Detected. Gravity Waves from Big Bang Detected. Giant 3D printer starts spitting out a house. Forgetting Is An Actively Controlled Process In The Brain. The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation. Transcendence footage turns Johnny Depp into a God. Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering. 33 Unbelievable Places To Visit Before You Die – Earth Is So Amazing. 33 Unbelievable Places To Visit Before You Die – Earth Is So Amazing. Bionic Plants Offer Superpowered Photosynthesis. Elevating the Human Condition. A First Step Toward a Prosthesis for Memory. A Brain Implant that Thinks. Mind-to-mind thought talking possible by 2030, scientist says.
Hacking Your DNA. The hierarchy in your brain: Ray Kurzweil at TED2014. 6 Glasses With Integrated Displays That You Can Buy Today. NASA 3D Printer Can Build New Components In Space. Floating Touchscreen Appears Out Of Thin Air. A 3D printer that manufactures new cancer drugs with drag-and-drop DNA. The Greatest Challenge to the 1st Amendment: A Follow Up » The Freehold. New Japanese Robot Is More Like Humans. Fluoride-Free Pineal Gland is More Important than Ever. Scientists Create Artificial Brain With 2.3 Million Simulated Neurons.