The 2017 ARM Processor Powering the 2017 iPhone will Pack a Powerful Graphics Punch

Despite Nvidia's CEO thinking that VR's problems will take another 20 years to resolve, the industry is still racing forward to accommodate VR applications. Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 1080 will greatly assist VR applications on the desktop in 2016 and so will the new chip from ARM that's due to arrive in time for the 2017 iPhone. According to Trusted Reviews, ARM has laid its cards down for a mobile gaming future fuelled by VR. The chip architecture design company, which is behind the architecture for processors seen in phones including the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 6S, has launched its new processor and graphics architecture at Computex, with particular focus on VR content consumption.

The new ARM Mali-G71 is of particular interest; mostly because

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15 Latest Developments In Robotics Field !

2016 is proving to be a year of robotics and automation. We are already half way down the year and semi – autonomous vehicles are already on the roads. The robotics too has some notable achievements to boast of. Have a look yourself:

1. RoboBee Clings to the Ceiling With Static Electricity

This insect-sized flying robot is smaller than a quarter, 12 times lighter than a paperclip, and zips through the air with a pair of flapping wings. That’s not even the impressive part. Using a trick of electrostatic energy, the minuscule bot can efficiently cling to the underside of any flat surface, from tree leaves to glass skylights to your plaster

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NASA is inflating a prototype of a new habitat for astronauts in the International Space Station

The unexpanded Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is seen attached to the Tranquility module on the International Space Station in this still image taken from NASA TV May 26, 2016. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Saturday slowly inflated an experimental fabric module that may provide a less expensive and safer option for housing crews during long stays in space, a NASA TV broadcast showed. 

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Facebook and Microsoft team up to build undersea internet cable over 4,000 miles long

Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to build a giant undersea internet cable from the US to Spain to help them move vast amounts of data across the world more easily.

The fibre optic cable, named Marea (that's Spanish for 'tide'), will stretch from Virginia on America's east coast to Bilbao, in the Basque Country, across around 4,100 miles of seabed.

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What Do You Think Is The Impact Of Technological Advancements In Healthcare Industry?

Technology has brought about massive changes in every aspect of human life and healthcare is no exception. With the penetration of technology in the healthcare industry, there has been significant reduction in barriers to health care access and allowed major improvement in the understanding of disease patterns.

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SpaceX planning to launch Dragon supply ship to ISS in mid-July

On Tuesday, a SpaceX official said that in mid-July, the company will get its next chance to return a Falcon 9 booster to landing at Cape Canaveral, as it is looking forward to launch a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station (ISS). Prior to then, Falcon 9 flights will deploy communications satellites into high-altitude geostationary transfer orbits, a place that is quite high and demand excessive speed for the initial stage to reverse course and go in the direction of landing on shore. On Monday, NASA announced that SpaceX’s next cargo run to the ISS won’t get launched before July 16. The position of the orbit of the space station that day will decide the launch time around

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Battery life to get five times better

Scientists have discovered a new catalyst material which may lead to cellphone and car batteries that last five times longer than current ones. Kyeongjae Cho from University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) in the US has found the catalyst materials for lithium-air batteries that jumpstart efforts at expanding battery capacity. “There is huge promise in lithium-air batteries. However, despite the aggressive research being done by groups all over the world, those promises are not being delivered in real life,” said Cho. “So this is very exciting progress. Hopefully, this discovery will revitalise research in this area and create momentum for further development,” he said.

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Sun-powered plane continues U.S. journey

The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane took off fromDayton, Ohio, early Wednesday on its fourth flight across the U.S. mainland as it continues its around-the-world tour. The aircraft will make its way to Allentown, Pa., where it will land at Lehigh Valley Airport late Wednesday after a journey that's expected to last about 17 hours. Pilots and Swiss adventurerers André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard set out to circumnavigate the globe last year in the plane without using fuel or spewing polluting emissions

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India's mini space shuttle blasts off

India successfully launched its first model space shuttle on Monday, a top official said, as New Delhi joined the race to develop a reusable rocket to make space travel easier and cheaper. The winged shuttle blasted off on a rocket from the southeastern spaceport of Sriharikota at about 7:00am (0130 GMT), with television footage showing it streaming through a clear sky. 

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Uber tests self-driving cars in Pittsburgh

The company is working out the bugs in its self-driving technology. The ride-hailing behemoth announced in a blog post Thursday that it has begun testing a self-driving car in Pittsburgh, home of the company's nascent Advanced Technologies Center. The car, a Ford Fusion Hybrid with a roof-full of radar, lasers and cameras, will be collecting road-mapping data as well as testing its real-world traffic reactions. Uber's interest in autonomous car technology dates to a year ago, when the $60 billion start-up began hiring Carnegie Mellon University robotics experts to staff its new center not far from the Pittsburgh-based school.

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Hypersonic Jet Can Fly From Sydney To London In Less Than Two Hours

Scientists in Australia have successfully tested a new type of jet aircraft capable of reaching speeds of more than seven times the speed of sound, bringing the possibility of hypersonic travel one step closer to reality. For a rocket or jet to be considered hypersonic, it has to be able to reach Mach 5, or at least five times the speed of sound. The new aircraft, known as the Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) 5B, not only broke through the Mach 5 mark, but easily reached Mach 7.5, or 5,760 miles per hour 
and an altitude of about 173.4 miles during its latest trial in the Australian desert. 

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Astronaut Speaks With Wisconsin Students From Space

Astronaut Jeff Williams took a time out during his stay in the International Space Station to speak with students from his hometown of Winter, Wisconsin, through a video uplink with NASA. Around 320 students looked on from the bleachers of Winter’s middle-school gym as Williams took questions via satellite link from their classmates. The students asked questions about everything, from bone and muscle loss in space to whether solar energy is used to power the International Space Station.  

"What are you personally researching and what will be done with it when the experiments are finished?" asked fifth-grader Albert Blair. 'Williams explained their experiments cover areas like plant and cell growth and DNA, but he said the bulk of research focuses on

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The $1billion boat arrives in Britain: World’s biggest cruise ship Harmony of the Seas

The $1billion boat arrives in Britain: World’s biggest cruise ship Harmony of the Seas rules the waves as it docks in Southampton ahead of maiden voyage 

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Mars is within reach, says German tapped for space command

Humans could set foot on Mars within decades if they wanted to, according to the German astronaut who has been tapped to become his country's first commander of the International Space Station. Alexander Gerst said the space station offers a unique opportunity to test the technology needed to explore other planets, especially if its lifetime is extended beyond 2020. "It is very clear to me that those manned missions to the moon and Mars, human missions, will happen," he told The Associated Press in an interview at the European Space Agency's astronaut training center in Cologne, Germany. "But we need the decision as a society. And once we do that we are ready to go, basically."

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Genome Analysis Reveals How Giraffes Developed Exceptionally Long Necks

Why the long neck, you ask? Several genetic clues from the giraffe and its relative may provide insight on how the animals developed their exceptional height, a new study revealed. Considered as the world's tallest terrestrial species, giraffes are dominated by their long neck and legs, which contribute to their overall stature. These animals' size can reach up to 5.79 meters (19 feet) tall or nearly the equivalent of a two-storey building.

Additionally, giraffes can sprint at a speed of 37 miles per hour (60 km per hour). The animals' heart can pump blood two meters (6.56 feet) up to its brain, suggesting a powerful cardiovascular function. This is plausible, as its left ventricle has evolved to become unusually large.

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Water deficit to hurt economies of African countries – World Bank

The World Bank has warned that water shortages will severely hurt economies of the countries in Africa including Middle East and Central Asia by the middle of the century, taking double digits off their GDP.

The bank predicted that by 2050, growing demand for cities and for agriculture would put water in short supply in regions where it is now plentiful and worsen shortages across a vast swath of Africa and Asia, spurring conflict and migration. Water shortages could strip off 14 per cent of GDP in the Middle East and nearly 12 per cent of GDP in the Sahel– without a radical shift in management-according to the bank’s projections.

Central Asia could lose close to 11 per cent of GDP and East Asia

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Robot Stitches Tissue by Itself, a Step to More Automated OR

Getting stitched up by Dr. Robot may one day be reality: Scientists have created a robotic system that did just that in living animals without a real doctor pulling the strings.

Much like engineers are designing self-driving cars, Wednesday's research is part of a move toward autonomous surgical robots, removing the surgeon's hands from certain tasks that a machine might perform all by itself. No, doctors wouldn't leave the bedside — they're supposed to supervise, plus they'd handle the rest of the surgery. Nor is the device ready for operating rooms.

But in small tests using pigs, the robotic arm performed at least as well, and in some cases a bit better, as some competing surgeons in stitching together intestinal tissue, researchers reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine. "The purpose wasn't to replace surgeons," said Dr. Peter C.W. Kim of Children's National Health System in Washington, a pediatric surgeon who led the project. "If you have an intelligent tool that

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Global, Local Leaders Vow Hard Work Against Temperature Rise

International leaders and local officials on Thursday pledged to work hard to stem the rise of global temperatures by investing in public transportation and electric cars, planting trees and switching to solar energy.At a climate action summit, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged governments, businesses and civil society to make good on the landmark climate agreement concluded late last year in Paris by more than 170 countries. 

The deal aims to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with preindustrial times. Ban called on cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and on companies to invest in green technologies with the goal or cooling the planet and ensuring cleaner air and better health. "We need action now," Ban said. "Temperatures continue to rise. Arctic sea ice is melting fast. Droughts, storms and floods are costing lives and productivity." 

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said governments and corporations should

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SpaceX readies Falcon 9 rocket for Friday launch

SpaceX engineers readied an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket for launch early Friday to boost a Japanese communications satellite into orbit, the California rocket builder's fourth launch so far this year.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in its hangar at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The booster is scheduled for launch early Friday to put a Japanese communications satellite

After propelling the rocket out of the thick lower atmosphere, the first stage will fall away and attempt a landing on a SpaceX "droneship" stationed well off shore east of Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9's second stage, meanwhile, will continue the climb to space, releasing the JCSAT-14 relay station into an elliptical "transfer" orbit.

The satellite's on-board thrusters will be used to raise the low point of the ellipse, putting the spacecraft into a circular orbit 22,300 miles above

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New space telescope's giant gold mirror unveiled: Bob McDonald

James Webb Space Telescope must survive stresses of launch and then unfold itself in complicated sequence

The giant successor to the Hubble Space Telescope was seen for the first time in its full glory this week, with its 18-segment, gold-coated mirror unfolded as it will be in space. Due to be launched in 2018, the tennis-court-sized instrument

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