Mercedes-Benz has tapped Vivint Solar to build its new home battery storage system in order to compete with Tesla Powersell. These new battery storage modules are a solution to save resources and reliably manage energy. This would make household energy supply more efficient and more independent. The battery module with 2.5 kWh capacity are produced by the ...
With the help of gravitational lensing, astronomers have recently detected coherent magnetic fields of a distant galaxy nearly 5 billion light years away. It was the first time that we have discovered magnetic fields in a galaxy this far. The discovery can provide many crucial insights into the evolution and nature of magnetism in the ...
On August 21st 2017, when the country was busy watching the solar eclipse, engineers at the Florida State University created a milestone by setting a new world record for the strongest magnet. Their new instrument reached 41.4 tesla (tesla a unit of magnetic field strength). They are working on this magnet-machine for nearly two and half years. ...
SpaceX organized 2nd Hyperloop Pod design competition on 27th August. WARR pod, created by students at the Technical University of Munich won the competition by running their carbon fiber pod at a speed 324 km/h (201.32 mph). 3 finalist teams were fighting for speed supremacy at one mile long track. These 3 were Switzerland’s Swissloop, ...
For the first time in nearly half a century, scientists have started experimenting on next-generation of molten-salt nuclear reactors, which will be powered by thorium. A molten salt reactor is a class of nuclear fission reactor in which the fuel and even the reactor coolant is a mixture of molten salt. These reactors are designed to operate at much ...
Researchers at MIT and University of Michigan have found a new way to dramatically increase the mobile web speed. They have developed a system, named Vroom, which optimizes the end-to-end interaction between web servers and mobile devices, in order to speed up the mobile web. The prototype was tested on 100 famous news and magazine ...
Intel’s subsidiary Movidius (acquired in September 2016) has introduced Myriad X VPU (Visual Processing Unit) with dedicated neural compute engine to unleash artificial intelligence at the edge. It’s a low power SoC (System on Chip) designed for deep learning and AI acceleration in smart devices like VR/AR headsets, drones and smart cameras. This is the ...
Microsoft releases a new real-time hardware architecture, dubbed “Brainwave”. It is a deep learning acceleration system that achieves a big leap forward in performance as well as flexibility. With rapidly increasing deep learning application like image style transfer, voice synthesis, handwriting generation, automatic game playing, etc., Brainwave would serve as a bonus for AI based ...
Memphis Meats, a San Francisco based “clean” food technology startup primary focusing on meat products recently announced that they have raised a capital of $17 million in the initial round of fundraising. The company found its investors in the form of several big domestic and international companies, including European venture capital firm Atomico, SOSV, and half a ...
When it comes to the world of investments, just three words come to mind: overwhelming, risky and yet lucrative. Investing is by no means an easy job as there are countless considerations and infinite risks to take care of. But thankfully, from Benjamin Franklin to modern day pundit Dave Ramsey all have shared their priceless ...
The biggest fantasy drama on TV, Game of Thrones has fascinated a huge audience world wide. The show gained such stupendous popularity because of its story line, scope, complex characters, bold scenes and production values. Unlike many other fantasies, it allows the audience to view characters from their perspective. George RR Martin (the story writer) is ...
Because we don’t wanna sound racist, we are presenting some unknown and interesting facts about both- the black holes and the white holes. What exactly is a Black Hole? Simply put, a black hole is incredibly dense region of space that nothing can escape front its surface, not even light. The boundary of the region ...