Powered by fifth-generation V-NAND, Samsung's new Universal Flash Storage offers 20x more storage than a 64GB internal memory and 10x the speed of a typical microSD card.
Researchers have demonstrated that a laser can transmit an audible message to a person without any type of receiver equipment. The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could be used to communicate across noisy rooms, or warn individuals of a dangerous situation such as an active shooter.
A new algorithm could help to clear a backlog of chest radiographs, by cutting the time required for an expert analysis from 11 days to less than three.
In the quest for smaller, faster 2D processors, researchers have developed a new thermal lithography process with potential for mass production at higher quality and lower cost.
ArianeGroup has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to examine the possibility of going to the Moon before 2025 and starting to mine the regolith.
One of the most important leaders in modern Chinese history, Xi amended the state constitution to abolish term limits, allowing him to continue serving as President beyond 2023.
Florida Power & Light Company has announced a "30-by-30" plan to install over 30 million solar panels by 2030 and make the state of Florida a world leader in the production of solar energy.
Avelia Liberty is a new high-speed train service running between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The first trains are introduced in 2021 and the final upgrade is completed in 2022.
The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by astronomers. Our own Sun will meet this fate in 10 billion years.
A new approach for boosting photosynthesis in rice plants could increase grain yield by up to 27%, according to a study published in the journal Molecular Plant.
An exaFLOP is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (a million trillion) floating point operations per second. By 2021, the world's top supercomputers are reaching this speed.
After visiting Pluto in 2015, New Horizons continued onwards to the Kuiper Belt. On 1st January 2019 it encountered the distant object known as 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule.
A polarising and controversial politician, Jair Bolsonaro was elected as President of Brazil in October 2018. His four-year term began on 1st January 2019.
