Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 239
Jan 3, 2022
Why 2022 could be the year to create your avatar and join the metaverse
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: futurism
Meta, Sony and Apple could reshape the way we think about the metaverse, but they won’t be the only companies working on it.
Jan 3, 2022
Making Hydrogen Generator From Washers And a Water Bottle
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Construction of a simple HHO generator, made of stainless steel washers and a water bottle. An hydrogen generator, like this one, uses electricity from your a battery to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gasses.
Jan 2, 2022
Omicron is spreading at lightning speed. Scientists are trying to figure out why
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: futurism
The burning questions: What makes this newly identified variant so transmissible? And what does it mean for preventing spread?
Jan 2, 2022
‘World’s Fastest PC’ Hits 100 KPH Packing Core i9-12900K and RX 6900 XT
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Sega demonstrates its PC’s performance on the race track.
Sega has worked closely with Intel and components maker ASRock on what might be “the world’s fastest PC,” by one metric or another.
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This has been our first year of seriously pursuing our YouTube Channel. We have met so many wonderful people and are grateful to each and every one of you for watching our videos and supporting us. 2021 has been a great year for us, and we hope it has been a great year for you too. Drop a comment and let us know some of your accomplishments from 2021, hope you enjoy the video and don’t forget to check out Friday’s video!
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Jan 1, 2022
South Africa eyes future as green hydrogen hub
Posted by Chima Wisdom in category: futurism
South Africa is well placed to take advantage of a worldwide market for green hydrogen that could be worth $2.5 trillion by 2050.
Jan 1, 2022
World’s First Festive Snow Globe That Generates Its Own Snow Is Here
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
A YouTuber has come up with a solution that lets you capture the magic of winter with a snow globe that generates its own snow.
Jan 1, 2022
Netgear leaves vulnerabilities unpatched in Nighthawk router
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Researchers have found half a dozen high-risk vulnerabilities in the latest firmware version for the Netgear Nighthawk R6700v3 router. At publishing time the flaws remain unpatched.
Jan 1, 2022
Voyant raises $15M to scale production of its tiny, inexpensive lidar tech
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, transportation
The future of lidar is uncertain unless, as Voyant hopes to do, its price and size are reduced to fractions of their current values. As long as lidars are sandwich-sized devices that cost thousands, they won’t be ubiquitous — so Voyant has raised some cash to bring its smaller, cheaper, more easily manufactured, yet still highly capable lidar to production.
When I wrote up the company’s seed round back in 2019, the goal was more or less to shrink lidar down from sandwich to fingernail size using silicon photonics. But the real challenge faced by nearly every lidar company is getting the price down. Between a strong laser, capable receptor and a mechanical or optical means of directing the beam, it just isn’t easy making something cheap enough that, like an LED or touchscreen, you can easily put several of them in a vehicle that costs less than $30,000.
CEO Peter Stern joined the company just as COVID was getting started, and they were looking for a way to turn a promising prototype developed by co-founders Chris Phare and Steven Miller into a working and marketable product. After going back to basics they ended up with a photonics-based frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) system (just go with it for now) that could be manufactured at existing commercial fabs.
