Category: Engineering
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The LIGO observatory is finally back, now with double the sensitivity
The Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) started a new 20-month observation run yesterday, May 24, bringing to an end a three-year hiatus for the project, a press statement reveals. LIGO has been offline in order to allow for some impressive upgrades to the system, including a “quantum squeezing” upgrade that reduces detector noise to improve…
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U.S. assets in Guam and mainland U.S. hacked by China
A report produced by Microsoft and various worldwide intelligence services has revealed a worrying data security breach by presumed Chinese agents on critical American infrastructure in the mainland U.S. and Guam. Microsoft and the governments of the US and four other countries have reported that a hacking group from China has gained access to crucial…
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Adobe brings generative AI to Photoshop
After Adobe started accepting AI-generated stock images on its platform last year and recently released an in-house AI art generator ‘Firefly,’ it was only natural that the software company would club its world-leading product Photoshop with artificial intelligence. The company announced Tuesday that the latest version of the Photoshop (beta) app would have Generative Fill,…
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YouTuber buys an AI bot dog, enters it into a dog show
As it turns out, you can teach a robot dog new tricks. On a whim, 26-year-old YouTuber Zac Alsop bought a Unitree Go1, which is a $2,700 quadruped AI companion robot. It’s basically an autonomous robot which looks and acts like a dog. It doesn’t bark, doesn’t poo, doesn’t bite or go on a must-sniff-everything…
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Meningitis vaccine successfull against five bacterial strains
The successful testing of a meningitis vaccine has raised new hopes for saving the lives of thousands of people in Africa, and other regions of the world. Meningitis leads to inflammation of the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord. The new NmCV-5 vaccine is expected to be rolled out in the coming months. This…
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The science behind ambient contrast ratio (ACR)
Contrast ratio is one of the go-to measurements to define the picture quality of a consumer electronic display. In its simplest definition, contrast ratio is the relationship between the maximum and minimum light intensity that can be generated by a display (the whitest white versus the richest black). Typically, a high contrast ratio is desirable…
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Ancient chinese shipwrecks reveal details on Silk Road trade
Two 500-year-old shipwrecks filled with Ming Dynasty-era timber and porcelain off the coast on China in the South China Sea are being excavated, according to a Chinese government agency. The excavations were first reported by China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA), and represent a major feat of deep-sea archeology. Starting in April 2018, China’s Archaeological…
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Applied Materials Plans to Build Semiconductor R&D Center Costing Up to $4B
The tech equipment maker says the amount of its investment in the project is contingent on the amount of funding it receives via the Chips and Science Act. Continue Reading News Source: www.enr.com
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Applied Materials to Build Chip R&D Center Costing Up to $4B
The tech equipment maker says the amount of its investment in the California project is contingent on the federal funding it receives via the Chips and Science Act. Continue Reading News Source: www.enr.com
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Fabrication of plane-type axon guidance substrates by applying diamond-like carbon thin film deposition
Structural evaluation of DLC thin films Figure 2a shows Raman spectra obtained from the DLC/PDMS substrate fabricated at the tensile strain of 0.2 and the deposition time of 2 min in Test A, and a PDMS substrate (PDMS) as reference. Additionally, the spectrum in Fig. 2b represents the Raman shift of a DLC thin film deposited on not…