Instead, with its “liquid telescope” concept, one only needs to run a frame structure such as an umbrella-shaped satellite dish and a reservoir of mirror liquid such as gallium alloys and ionic liquids. Once started, fluid will be injected into the frame. In space, drops stick together due to surface tension, and the annoying force...
But in a previously unreported response, Google US head of public policy Mark Isakowitz wrote a month later that the recently eased sanctions still didn’t sanction the activity, “unfortunately.” Instead, Isakowitz urged Congress to work with the Biden administration “to identify additional means to ensure that Iranians have access to vital means of communication and...
primary goal in the field of neuroprosthetics focused on improving the lives of paralyzed patients by restoring their lost real abilities. One example is a 2012 paper by neuroscientists Lee Hochberg and John Donoghue at Brown University. Their team trained two people with long-term paralysis – a 58-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man – to...
Perfect Version The metaverse, according to tech executives like Mark Zuckerberg, combines social networking, entertainment, and, best of all, meeting in one pristine virtual space. Long predicted by Neil Stephenson snow accident, is a place where the online world offers more experiences than the world of flesh and bones. But while Stevenson’s metaverse was part...
Cartier carved over the 170+ years of its existence in the luxury retail industry, it has occupied a good niche. It produces jewelry, often very expensive, and has a long history of selling to royalty. King Edward VII called Cartier “the jeweler of kings and the king of jewelers” and ordered at least 27 tiaras...
gas stoves so hot now. A recent report found that emissions from gas hobs are exacerbating both the environmental crisis and the health of the people who use them. This knowledge has sparked a heated cultural debate in the United States. Some people are in favor of ditching gas stoves, while others argue that the...
Earlier this week, China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported that China’s population has declined over for the first time in 60 years. The decline in population is not a complete surprise. Population containment was the primary goal of the One Child Policy in place from 1980 to 2015, and since the early 1990s, women in...
US Department of State will soon change its default font from the staunch, boring Times New Roman to the more youthful and cool Calibri. The move, according to the State Department, is intended to improve the readability of internal correspondence between embassies and other divisions of the department. The order came in the form of...
It’s easy to make false assumptions about ATVing based on all the high-speed racing scenes that tend to dominate the industry. But the reality of riding an all-terrain vehicle tends to be much different. Mastering the trail requires patience, vigilance and lots of planning. You can start off on the right foot by learning about...
security bug The app, operated by the Indian Ministry of Education, exposed the personal information of millions of students and teachers for more than a year. The data was stored on the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing or Diksha app, a government educational app launched in 2017. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, when...