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Helium Hard Drives Capturing The Supermassive Black Hole In The Centre Of The Galaxy
HGST to deploy helium drives that function better than air-filled HDDs at high-altitude observatories to store data from the edge of a black hole
Google’s Project Sunroof Uses Maps To Calculate Solar Panel Savings
Google's tool analyses rooftops, then recommends solar panel providers who have paid to feature on Project Sunroof
Facebook Solar-Powered Drone Is The Size Of A Boeing 737
Aquila drone project will see Internet laser-beamed to unconnected parts of the world from 90,000ft in the sky
Stephen Hawking And Steve Wozniak Warn Of Military AI Arms Race
Elon Musk also signs open letter along with hundreds of top robotic scientists pleading military powers to curtail plans for AI drones
David Cameron Wants To Increase Spending On RAF Drones
Prime Minister urges defence chiefs to plough more cash into RAF Reaper drones to combat IS threat
WATCH: Microsoft Reveals The Future Of Healthcare With HoloLens
Microsoft HoloLens promo vid explains how the holographic device could dramatically change the way doctors learn about the body
Nokia Tests Drones For Telco Network Inspections
Nokia teamed with Middle East telco Du to run a PoC showing how drones can be used for everything from optimisation testing to line-of-sight work
Linux Founder: Fears AI Could End Human Race Are ‘Bad Sci-Fi’
Linux founder Linus Torvalds dismisses the fears of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and others, claiming there is nothing to be fearful of
Microsoft Loses Two HoloLens Headsets After SpaceX Rocket Failure
"Space is hard..." says Satya Nadella as SpaceX's CRS-7 unmanned resupply mission breaks apart just after launch
Boffin Reveals Folding Battery Powered By Bacteria
Breakthrough design could mean smaller, more powerful batteries than ever before
Rackspace And CERN Team Up For OpenStack Cloud Experiments
Rackspace uses thousands of global scientists as guinea pigs for new OpenStack cloud technologies
IT Life: The Science Of Tech
Vivian Chan, CEO of scientific recommendation platform Sparrho talks about science, education and her love of the Science Museum
‘Ageing Population’ Causing Health Nanotechnology Boom
Increased governmental support and higher R&D spending will also help medical nanotech reach $8.5bn by 2019
Microsoft’s Data Centre Of The Future
DCD Converged at CeBIT 2015: It’s all software-defined for the data centre, Microsoft cloud engineer tells TechWeekEurope
Bill Gates Touts Omniprocessor For Electricity and Water From Human Waste
Bill Gates drinks fresh water made from human waste, and surprisingly it doesn't taste like urine
Old TV Signals Could Be Used For Long Range ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Network
German researchers say old TV signals should be made available as "common property" for super Wi-Fi networks that can travel for miles
11 Million UK Jobs ‘Under Threat From Robots’
Rise of the machines is bad news for UK job prospects, Deloitte report warns