Innovation & Tools
Hackers Have Learned to Make Money on "Virtual Children" - 08/14/2015
Thanks to the active dissemination of online registration systems in the US, criminals can easily create a "virtual baby" on which one can arrange to take out loans and grants, and when the criminal grows tired - kill the "child" and get insurance. Experts in digital security warned about the threat of hackers creating a "virtual child", existing only in the Internet space, but where one can...
Painted Reality: Will Computer Graphics Replace Naked Body? - 08/06/2015
The development of new technologies can lead to the fact that the stars will cease to denude in front of the lens, and their bodies will be drawn instead, according to The Verge. The publication examines the history of the cinema with the appearance of cameras in 1889 to the present day. Researchers believe that the fashion for the use of computer graphics in explicit scenes began with the movie...
Top 5 Breakthroughs for Soldiers of the Future - 07/27/2015
Projects on creation of the soldiers of the future exist in many countries around the world. Many of them are quite promising. Here is the top 5 developments of future soldier equipment (of course, those that are not blacked out). Armed forces of the USA and other countries, as well as government agencies such as DARPA, continue to develop high-tech armor, sensors, communications equipment and...
China Aims to Build a Hybrid Reactor Working on Nuclear Waste - 07/17/2015
Chinese scientists have begun work on the creation of a hybrid thermonuclear reactor of fusion-fission method to burn nuclear waste. The project is implemented within the walls of a secret research center of engineering and physical academy in Sichuan Province, specializing in the creation of nuclear weapons. It is expected that the hybrid reactor can also use the spent nuclear fuel of...
Boeing Patented a Plane Running on Thermonuclear Explosions Energy - 07/13/2015
Boeing has received from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent approval for an aircraft engine, runs on the energy of thermonuclear explosions. The lasers hit the radioactive substances (deuterium and tritium) are the main element of the device. It is assumed that high power lasers can shoot on radioactive isotopes of hydrogen into the combustion chamber. As a result, a nuclear fusion...
USA: A Place in the Sun - 07/09/2015
The US administration unveiled plans for a large-scale expansion of the solar energy use and making it available primarily to the poor and disadvantaged. By 2020, the United States will have installed equipment for recycling solar energy with capacity of 300 MW, which is three times more than planned earlier. July 7, the administration of US President revealed plans on solar energy major...
Google Glass Will Be Able to Determine the Image Boundaries by the Photographer Fingers - 07/08/2015
Future versions of augmented reality glasses Google Glass is planned to be improved so that the device can take pictures, focusing on the owner’s fingers to determine the boundaries of the picture, according to Gizmodo portal. Google has issued a patent on the technology, which allows the head-worn gadget to keep track of the user’s hand, and apply this information when shooting. Type of image...
Go Green with Unmanned Cars - 07/06/2015
The shift to unmanned taxi will significantly reduce the amount of emissions of harmful gases with modern machines and save taxi owners’ money. That is the conclusion reached by scientists at the National Laboratory behalf of the Lawrence Berkeley. The report on their analysis appeared in the journal Nature Climate Change. In the calculations, the researchers focused on the year of 2030. They...
Apple could wipe off PayPal and Square with its new patent - 07/06/2015
Although Apple has many patents to its name, which have not seen the light of day, its people-to-people transfer of money patent could potentially be a game changer. Apple has silently filed a patent which allows for the transfer of money from one person to another which could potentially grab market share and make Square and PayPal impotent and up the ante in the struggling banking sector in its...
From Weaving Basket To Afforestation – The Efforts Of Zimbabwean Women Entrepreneurs Are Exemplary - 06/30/2015
The entrepreneurial spirit of the Zimbabwean women of Lupane district who weave traditional basket and import them all over the world, to earn their living, is an inspirational one indeed. Thestrategist.media, Lupane, Zimbabwe – 15 June 2015 – Busani Bafana reports to I.P.S about entrepreneurial enthusiasm among African women that is changing their life-style. Bafana reports about one...