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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday returned safely to Earth, touching down at
Landing Zone 1 after launching the Dragon spacecraft into low-Earth orbit.
This is the second such landing at Cape Canaveral by a returning Falcon 9
rocket. The first was Falcon 9 Flight 20's return on Dec. 22. SpaceX also
accomplished three successful drone-ship landings this spring.
"As with previous first stage land and drone-ship landings from
SpaceX, this achievement is a testament to the leadership and innovation of
America's commercial space industry," NASAspokesperson Cheryl Warner told TechNewsWorld.
The Dragon's 5,000-lb. payload included science and crew supplies, a space
suit, and an international docking adapter that will enable commercial
spacecraft to dock to the station when transporting astronauts as part of
NASA's upcoming Commercial Crew Program.
The ISS crew will use the station's 58-foot robotic arm to reach out and
capture the Dragon spacecraft, and attach it to the station at 7 a.m. ET on
Wednesday.
Reusable Rockets on
the Way?
"This is an exciting time, as we will all soon find out whether
reusability really is the key to unlocking lower launch costs and higher levels
of space activity, but it will probably be at least another year before early
results can be measured and properly analyzed," noted Micah Walter-Range,
director of research and analysis at thespace foundation
"Before I say this is the age of reusable rockets, I would want to see
them being reflown with paying customers or cargo aboard, and the companies
making a higher profit as a result," he told TechNewsWorld.
"If it turns out that the cost of inspecting and refurbishing flown
hardware eats up the cost savings from not having to build new hardware, there's
no net gain," Walter-Range noted.
"In real terms, the cost to lift a pound into orbit has declined by
about 90 percent since the beginning of the Space Age," noted Michael
Jude, a program manager at Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan.
"Launch costs will need to decline by nearly as much," he told
TechNewsWorld. "Part of this will be the cost of launch hardware, but the
real cost driver is the overhead associated with assembly, management and
payload deployment."
Been There, Done That
There were two efforts to make reusable rockets in the 1980s, noted Jim
McGregor, a principal analyst at Tirias Research.
One was a single stage to orbit -- a single-stage rocket that could launch
and land in one piece. The other was the National Aerospace Plane, or NASP --
the Rockwell X-30.
The NASP was designed to "replace the space shuttle and be able to fly
directly into space at Mach 25 (25 times the speed of sound)," McGregor
told TechNewsWorld. "Unfortunately, the Clinton administration killed both
efforts."
The return of the Falcon 9's first stage to land safely at Landing Zone 1
shows SpaceX "should reduce the number of future failures to recover the
booster," he suggested. "It's a step in regaining lost momentum in
our space technology, [and] will make delivering people and equipment to space
less expensive."
What does SpaceX's success imply for NASA's future?
"NASA is really becoming irrelevant in terms of launch
capability," Jude suggested. It's definitely the high-cost carrier."
NASA "is probably much more useful providing an incentive for
commercial launch operations," he said. "If commercial carriers begin
taking astronauts to the ISS, its costs will decline," and that might lead
it to contract for most of its space initiatives.
The Next Challenge for
SpaceX
SpaceX is planning an unmanned mission to Mars in 2018 or 2019, Jude said.
NASA "is ponying up some money to help, but it will be a SpaceX
operation."
The Mars mission will require a "fully functional Falcon 9 Heavy and a
substantial number of improvements on the Dragon capsule," Jude noted.
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Teal on Wednesday
introduced what it billed as the world's fastest production drone. Aside from
its drone's capabilities, the company is drawing attention because George Matus
Jr., its founder and CEO, is an 18-year-old recent high school graduate.
The drone can fly at 70 mph in all weather conditions and has reached a top
speed of 85 mph in favorable conditions. It can withstand 40 mph winds, is
built to run apps, and can be controlled using a smartphone, tablet or hobby
controller. It comes with a one-year warranty.
"For certain segments of the market, especially racers, this will be
of interest," said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.
"This isn't a drone for the average consumer; it's for the techies
that want that latest and greatest, and the ability to make
modifications,"
The United States Federal Aviation Administration last month passed new
regulations governing drones.
The Teal is "well within the allowable characteristics of the
rule,"
Pricing and Purchasing
Teal is taking preorders for the US$1,300 drone.
Buyers will get the drone, two high-performance flight batteries, a
charger, two sets of propellers, expansion cables and some surprises.
The first 500 orders will get the Signature Series, which adds an Endurance
Package that doubles the drone's 10-minute flight time.
The first drones will ship before Christmas, Teal's Matus told
TechNewsWorld. General availability is slated for early 2017.
The Teal Drone's Tech
Specs
The drone weighs 730 gm, has a payload capacity of 500 gm, and is made from
carbon-infused polycarbonate plastic.
Connectivity options include three USB 2 ports, one USB 3 port, and one
HDMI 2.0 port.
Its maximum range exceeds 5,000 feet.
Its 13-MP camera has electronic stabilization and can record videos in up to
4K at 24 fps. It can provide live video streams of up to 720p. The camera
supports all SD card types and is compatible with virtual reality headsets.
The drone has a 64-bit ARM A57 CPU, a 1 TFLOP/s 256-core Nvidia TX1 GPU, 16
GB of eMMC storage, SDIO and SATA storage.
It supports geofencing. Other features include autonomous flight and
automatic landing. A sensing and avoidance camera feature is in the works.
Software Lineup
The Teal drone uses the Teal OS, which is written in C.
It will be offered with an SDK and APIs, and
"we'll be building out apps in the fall before we start shipping,"
Matus said.
The main control application for the Teal drone is a command-and-control
app. Teal and Neurala are codeveloping a Follow Me app that employs image
recognition algorithms used by NASA and the U.S. Air
Force. It will let the drone follow a person or object using real-time object
recognition.
However, "I don't see a huge need for users to run apps on
drones," commented Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
"Most people just want the thing to be easy to use and not
crash," he told TechNewsWorld.
Making drones that work like PCs "increases the risk of viruses and
rogue drones, and you introduce unreliability," Enderle said.
Cracking the Market
Teal's main competitor is DJI, which currently claims 70 percent of the
market. DJI this spring introduced its latest drone, the Matrice 600.
DJI focuses on aerial photography, noted Matus, while Teal "is going
after four different audiences: the consumer who's never flown before,
hobbyists, racers, and developers who want to push their apps."
"We can speculate how great the drone will be against the
competition," said Enderle, "but we can't compare a product not in
market to one in market."
Teal's current focus is on getting traction in the market."Later, when
we get higher volume and increase our market share, we'll look into making
money," Matus said. "We've discussed this with our VCs, and evaluated
market demand and opportunities in the future."
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Smartwatches
continue to be a hot theme heading into 2016, and China's Huawei has some of
the most handsome offerings.
The Watch Jewel and Watch Elegant, selling in early 2016 for
$599 US and $499, run Google's Android Wear software and are aimed at women.
The Watch Jewel has 68 Swarovski zirconia crystals
surrounding its circular 42-mm body. The watch face is always on in low
power mode and lights up into full activity when tapped.
"We
wanted it to be more feminine and something that women would be more attracted
to," says spokesperson Chase Skinner
In the
quarter century since Dolby first introduced home-theater surround sound, the
systems have grown steadily more sophisticated: first two audio channels, then
five, then seven. But the sound has always been two-dimensional, surrounding
listeners in a ring, not a dome. WithAtmos,
Dolby and its A/V partners (Pioneer, Marantz, and Onkyo, to name a few) have
added a third dimension: height, which audio engineers can use to place
individual sounds anywhere in a 3-D space. Imagine watching Godzilla while
helicopter rotors beat overhead.
Atmos
systems consist of a receiver and at least eight speakers, two of which handle
overhead audio. A processor within the receiver interprets up to 118 object
tracks and precisely places sounds in any environment. The receiver then
assigns object tracks to as many as 34 speakers in a room. For overhead sound,
users can either install ceiling-mounted speakers or opt for Atmos-enabled
floor or bookshelf models, which have upward-firing drivers that ricochet sound
off the ceiling to create the illusion that it’s coming from above. This fall,
studios began including Atmos tracks on select Blu-ray discs and streaming
services such as Vudu. Your living room will never sound the same.
If given
enough time, any determined thief can wrest a bicycle free. Lock8 reimagines
bicycle security by using hardware and software to detect and respond to a
potential theft. A gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a temperature sensor can
pick up on a variety of assaults, including bolt cutters, chainsaws,
blowtorches, and ice sprays. And the system will respond to any threat by
blaring an alarm and sending alerts to a phone.
The brainchild of an ER doctor and an economist, Lock8 weighs less
than a pound and connects to a bicycle’s rear hub. The accompanying app
provides keyless entry, and by sharing the e-key, anyone can loan or rent his
or her bicycle. European bike-share programs are the first to use Lock8; it’s
being released this month. The company also plans to develop models for consumers.
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Apple’s iPhone arguably led the pack for the last smartphone
generation, but with Samsung taking some of Cupertino’s momentum away in recent
months, leadership isn’t so defined this year. In many ways, we’re back to
where we were before the iPhone, when Palm, RIM and Microsoft fought for
leadership of the market, beforeAppleand
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leader. But this will take a company with vision and the willingness to step
away from the pack.
There are three features I think will define the next-generation
phone.
One phone, two personalities, iron-clad walls between
A lot of folks carry two phones today, and they long to return to
a time when they had to carry just one. They need a single phone that can
contain two numbers and have a completely separate personal andbusinesspersonalities they can switch between,
with one interface, and security to keep each side separate. In other words,
your boss shouldn’t be able to pry into what you’re doing on your time, and
apps you install on your own shouldn’t be able to violate company security
policies.
Whether this means the phone will need two SIMs, or a virtual SIM
that has two personalities, is still unclear. But it’s clear the market wants a
single phone that can handle two roles, and that phone hasn’t arrived yet.
Cheap international roaming
A huge number of smartphone users travel outside of the country,
but they either have to suffer through massive roaming charges, or bring a
separate phone with a native SIM to make inexpensive calls from inside the
country. Roaming on the phone can cost upwards of $9 a minute, with a megabyte
of data costing even more. Rates like that can make talking or downloading one
of the biggest expenses of a vacation or business trip.
The next-generation phone will have the ability to dynamically
load the equivalent of a local SIM and incur charges at local rates, either
billed or prepaid, to keep the costs down and make traveling with one phone and
all of your features affordable.
Virtual PBX
A PBX, or Private Branch Exchange, is what companies have used for
years to connect employees, but they are mostly on their last legs or
completely obsolete. Companies are paying for multiple lines and multiple
numbers, and often have to use “follow me” services to first ring the employee
office phone and then route it to their cell phone, even though a call to the
cell phone would be more certain because the employee carries it.
Being able to link a smartphone with full forwarding and response
capability to a virtual or physical VoIP PBX is not only possible, it is a
feature in shipping VoIP PBXs… but it isn’t yet elegantly integrated into the
smartphone experience. I think the next generation smartphone will have this
capability.
Hardware advancements
Along with everything above, the next-generation smartphone will
sport some hardware advancements we’ve seen before that never quite went
mainstream. For instance, wireless charging is a given, since the biggest
complaint with current-generation phones is lousy battery life. Better security
would be number two, since passwords are inadequate and the information on a
phone can be used to gain access to secure company resources and steal
information. More balanced cameras with anti-shake technology and better lenses
should also eliminate the difference between that point-and-shoot camera you are
always leaving athomeand your
smartphone.
How do you want to look and feel
by this time next year? If your goal is to be thinner, happier, or healthier,
you can achieve it just by making small adjustments to your lifestyle. See how,
over the course of a year, tiny changes can have a surprisingly big impact.
If You…Lose One Pound a Week
Next year:A pound-a-week loss seems so minimal, and yet
think about it: At that rate, you’ll be 52 pounds lighter in a year. But if you
are overweight, you don’t have to drop 52 pounds to be healthier: Losing just 5
to 10 percent of your body weight can improve your blood pressure, cholesterol,
and blood sugars, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And that can reduce your risk of big-trouble diseases, including cardiovascular
disease (still the number-one killer in the United States) and diabetes (which
currently affects more than 25 million Americans).
If You…Take a Lap Around Your Local Big-Box
Store
Next year:If once a week you take a turn around the
inside of a mega-store before you begin shopping, you’ll walk 12 extra miles
over a year: That bigUshape you trace by walking the
outermost aisles of the average big-box store adds up to an extra quarter-mile
of walking each time.
If You…Take the Stairs
Next year:You will have burned double the calories you
would by riding the elevator. A 160-pound woman would burn about 4,940 calories
a year—1.4 pounds—if she took three minutes to briskly climb the stairs every
workday (carrying 1 to 15 pounds of stuff with her). That stair habit could
burn the equivalent of 11½ Hershey bars. On the flip side, standing in an
elevator for three minutes barely burns 10 calories, for a total of just 2,480
calories over a year, not even enough to torch a pound (to do that, you’d have
to burn or cut out 3,500 calories).
If You…Cut Out One Cookie a Day
Next year: You will have eliminated 21,170 calories. That’s
enough to drop six pounds. Cut more, lose more, of course.
If You…Use Oil Instead of Butter
Next year:You may have reduced your risk of heart
disease by 19 percent in a year’s time. In a review published inPLOS Medicinein March 2010, researchers from the
Harvard School of Public Health noted that drop in risk when they analyzed
research on more than 13,000 people who swapped out saturated fat (that’s in
butter, as well as red meat) for polyunsaturated fat (in soybean oil and canola
oil) for at least a year.
If You…Cut Out a Few Hours of TV Time
Next year:You may have slashed your risk of an early
death. A study published in theBritish
Journal of Sports Medicinein
2011 found that people who watched TV for six hours a day had shorter lives—by
about 4.18 years—than people who didn’t watch TV. In fact, the researchers say
that every hour of TV watched after the age of 25 reduces life expectancy by
21.8 minutes. But TV itself is not the culprit: It’s sitting for prolonged
periods that can shorten your life. In a 2010 study, in theAmerican Journal of Epidemiology,
women who logged in some six hours of sitting time during their nonworking
hours were 37 percent more likely to die earlier than peers who sat for just
three hours over the course of a day (outside of work). Sedentary men,
meanwhile, were 18 percent more likely to die earlier than their more active
peers, according to the study. It’s possible, the researchers say, that sitting
could suppress enzymes involved in the metabolism of fats or may somehow
indirectly affect cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, and other markers of
health. Going to the gym daily isn’t enough to change the stats: The key is to
find ways to stand and move more during the day. Some experts recommend getting
up from your chair every 30 minutes or less.
If You…Call One Old Friend a Month
Next year:That’s 12 people with whom you’ve rekindled or
strengthened your friendship, and research has found that people with stronger
personal bonds are 50 percent more likely to outlive their less social peers.
There’s no magic amount of phone calls/e-mails/coffee dates that protects you,
so if you want to check in with one friend (new or old) every week—or even
every day—have at it.
If You…Go to Bed One Minute Earlier
Next year:Going to bed a minute earlier every night for
just two months will earn you an extra hour of sleep pretty painlessly (a
minute earlier a day for a year would gain you an extra six hours of sleepeach night, which we hope is
more than you actually need). There are compelling reasons to get thosezzz’s (other than less money
spent on coffee). Shortage of sleep is associated with a higher risk of
obesity, diabetes, and heart problems, a decreased ability to pay attention,
increased chances of car accidents, and diminished memory capacity.
There are many reasons for economic
inequality within societies, and they are often interrelated. Acknowledged
factors that impact economic inequality include, but are not limited to:
·Inequality in wages and salaries;
·The income gap between highly skilled
workers and low-skilled or no-skills workers;
·Wealth concentration in the hands of a few
individuals or institutions;
·Labor markets;
·Globalization;
·Technological changes;
·Policy reforms;
·Taxes;
·Education;
·Computerization and growing technology;
·Racism;
·Gender;
·Culture;
·Innate ability
A major cause of economic inequality
within modern economies is the
determination of wages by the capitalist market. In the capitalist market, the
wages for jobs are set by supply
and demand. If there are many workers willing to do a job for a great amount of time,
there is a high supply of labor for that job. If few people need that job done,
there is low demand for that type of labor. When there is high supply and low
demand for a job, it results in a low wage. Conversely, if there is low supply
and high demand (as with particular highly skilled
jobs), it will result in a high wage. The gap in wages produces inequality
between different types of workers.
Apart from market-driven factors that
affect wage inequality, government sponsored initiatives can also increase or
decrease inequality. Social scientists and policy makers debate the relative merits and
effectiveness of each approach to regulating inequality. Typical government
initiatives to reduce economic inequality include:
·Public education: Increasing the supply of
skilled labor and reducing income inequality due to education differentials.
·Progressive taxation: The rich are taxed proportionally more than the poor, reducing the amount of income inequality in society.
·Minimum wage legislation: Raising the
income of the poorest workers
·Nationalization or subsidization of products: Providing goods and services that
everyone needs cheaply or freely (such as food, healthcare, and housing),
governments can effectively raise the purchasing power of the poorer members of
society.
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