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I never typed "news" into the search bar.
When I want to read news I go to a newspaper or search for news containing the topic of interest.

Interesting that you are from Germany, The legislation passed is an attempt at keeping you from changing your news source.

I have not really a news source ... I read stuff like spiegel.de, sueddeutsche.de, https://www.bangkokpost.com/
  or /. obviously. Sometimes wired or http://www.silicon.com/ or http://thefutureofthings.com/

If those new rules wont be changed, I guess it will backfire heavily.

Everspin previously used the crossed-lines writing technique (shown here http://thefutureofthings.com/upload/image/articles/2006/mram/mram-write.jpg), but has now switched to spin-transfer torque based devices. Several other companies are also working on this, so things to improve rapidly. PR release at (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/14/everspin-throws-first-st-mram-chips-down/)

But what we need is NOT more of the money pit fighters like F-22 and F-35 (which is already up to a trillion over lifetime) but a fighter we can afford to use en masse like the Stealth Eagle which we can have cranked off the assembly line for $100 million VS the conservative 240 million plus for the F-35. The wiki lists the flyaway cost of the F-22 at 150 million but considering the problems we have had with it (not to mention the USAF not wanting to deploy them to the ME because of how expensive they are) I'd say that is a pretty conservative estimation.

You are right that are airframes are getting old but our increased effectiveness of our missiles and the skill of our pilots means we can get MUCH better bang for the buck by simply have more of our battle tested and proven designs built. We need more F-15s, F-16s, F18s, and personally I'd like to see more Warthogs built as well because once you achieve air superiority those hogs do serious damage to armored vehicles and soft targets which will be the primary threat after the aircraft are taken down, not to mention they give our boys on the ground a plane that can stay in the area for long loiter times and bring hellish firepower to bear at a moments notice.

Look we ALL know what this stupid laser boondoggle is, alright? Its another MIC circlejerk where the corps cut some fat checks to bribe...err..I mean "support the re-election" of some key congress critters and in return they piss tons of OUR money away on yet another useless POS that probably will never even do half of what its supporters claim. Much better when we are broke as a damned joke to spend that money wisely on proven tech that can be delivered on time and on budget, and that is what the teen series represent.

Already prior 'arted': http://thefutureofthings.com/news/5763/intel-s-wireless-power-technology-demonstrated.html

But that depends on your definition of metal, now doesn't it?
Is a plastic/metal polymer considered metal?

Obviously a micro-turbine could be used in a series hybrid fairly easily. A google search turns up a site with a 'prototype', though a combustion turbine and not steam.

Here's a liquid nitrogen powered car:
http://inhouse.unt.edu/index.cfm?commentID=1163

Personally I like MIT's 'millimeter' gas turbine engines:
http://thefutureofthings.com/articles/49/engine-on-a-chip.html

Sounds vaguely like a forklift I've seen on a couple of TV shows lately.

http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/279/sidewinder-sideways-moving-vehicle.html

It's somewhat creepy watching one of these things in operation, by the way. The wheels keep moving in apparent forward rolling motion, but the thing just scuttles sideways.

I want to say that in 5 years the mechanical, magnetic hard drive will be dead, but something tells me that the density will give it an edge for quite a while longer than that unless some major breakthrough occurs in the manufacture of SSD.

Actually in 5 years' time they might be back with a vengeance. See this guy's thesis about Laser-Induced Femtosecond Magnetic Recording

He proved in 2007 that it's possible to use an ultrafast pulsing lasers for demagnetization and magnetization reversal, unleashing a potential recording rate of magnetic media higher than 100 Tbits/second.

Of course, packing femtosecond lasers inside HDDs is nowhere near feasible in the foreseeable future, and neither could the plasmon antennae keep up with the high density (plasmon antennae were expected to be used for polarizing light below its wavelength)

However, according to TFOT, during his Seagate internship Stanciu proved the technology is viable, mostly because of recent developments in plasmon antennae. He also chose to use picosecond lasers instead, which are substantially cheaper and smaller, but slower, at "only" 1 Tbits/s.

IIRC laser-reading from magnetic media was already possible a few years ago, at huge speeds as well. That makes the potential of magnetic storage already hundreds of times faster than the expected maximum throughput of NAND-based SSDs.

Yeah, that's the real trick. On a movie, an aritst spends a month rotoscoping the scene and then a compositor (a human) tweaks the overlayed matte until it's all just so. This is completely automatic.

This is an area of continuing research

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This is what you get: http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/1012/gyrocopter-to-the-rescue.html

The alternative link listed in the article is working at the moment.

http://thefutureofthings.com/print.php?itemTypeId=1&itemId=1261

Actually, there is more innovative stuff that can make computers faster, but people insist on making them smaller. Take the conducting plastics that are under development. If they have a much greater chance of making computers faster with less conventional methods, I don't see why they dont use them.