Lifeboat Foundation

Electronics engineer.

256 posts by Chima Wisdom

• NASA Sends Software Update Over 12 Billion Miles to Voyager 2 – November 24, 2023
• NSF awards team $2M to develop faster and more efficient semiconductors – November 23, 2023
• MIT’s copilot system can set the stage for a new wave of AI innovation – November 9, 2023
• Investments to be a Critical Determinant of Fusion Endeavors – November 9, 2023
• Living guidelines for generative AI — why scientists must oversee its use – October 23, 2023
• From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges – October 20, 2023
• Electronic waste — more recycling needs to be encouraged – October 13, 2023
• $9.5 bn of key metals in overlooked electronic waste: UN – October 13, 2023
• Sourcing Electronic Components Post-Pandemic – October 1, 2023
• Researchers unveil tool to help developers create augmented reality task assistants – September 29, 2023
• Farm robots inspired by ant brains – September 28, 2023
• Solar cell material can assist self-driving cars in the dark – September 28, 2023
• Historic OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples successfully return to Earth – September 24, 2023
• The world’s northernmost solar farm is about to come online – September 24, 2023
• How will AI and ML transform the Data Centre? – September 23, 2023
• The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it – September 23, 2023
• New method to recycle materials inside lithium-ion batteries – September 23, 2023
• Zambia site shows humans made wood structures 500k years ago – September 22, 2023
• Detecting Depression: A 1-Minute EEG Test Reveals Mood Shifts – September 15, 2023
• Laser-based system achieves noncontact medical ultrasound imaging – September 15, 2023
• Apple bows to EU and unveils iPhone with USB-C charger – September 15, 2023
• A computational shortcut for neural networks – September 30, 2022
• Researchers capture first images of carbon dioxide emissions from commercial aircraft engine – September 30, 2022
• NASA’s DART spacecraft crashes into an asteroid in the world’s first planetary defense test – September 27, 2022
• MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera – September 26, 2022
• Lithium-ion battery material breaks barrier on fast charging – September 25, 2022
• Explainer: How ‘Common Prosperity’ is Changing China – May 8, 2022
• Scientists develop new computational approach to reduce noise in X-ray data – April 18, 2022
• Researchers develop new AI form that can adapt to perform tasks in changeable environments – April 14, 2022
• America’s Favorite Truck Is About to Test Tesla’s Dominance – April 14, 2022
• UrbanDenoiser: An AI application that filters out city noise to allow for clearer seismic sensor data – April 14, 2022
• Autonomous vehicles could prove to be future model for delivery services, study finds – April 14, 2022
• A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine – April 13, 2022
• World’s first LED lights developed from rice husks – April 12, 2022
• New transistor could cut 5% from world’s digital energy budget – April 12, 2022
• High potential – April 10, 2022
• Solar cell keeps working long after sun sets – April 10, 2022
• System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately – April 7, 2022
• NASA is about to broadcast a message to the universe. Should they? – April 7, 2022
• How to clean solar panels without water – March 26, 2022
• This Wild Rocket Could Help Make Hypersonic Travel a Reality – March 26, 2022
• Looking at Russia’s war on Ukraine and just wondering if the inventors of these weapons of mass destructions really intended for it to be used for this purpose – March 23, 2022
• NASA Releases Details on how Starship Will be Part of its Return to the Moon – March 19, 2022
• Decoding brain signals to control a robotic arm – March 18, 2022
• Materials scientists discover why perovskite solar cells degrade in sunlight – March 17, 2022
• 1st image from NASA’s new IXPE X-ray telescope looks like a ball of purple lightning – March 17, 2022
• Roscosmos: US astronaut to return to Earth with Russian spacecraft – March 15, 2022
• Creating sub-1-nm gate lengths for MoS2 transistors – March 14, 2022
• Warning: Objects in driverless car sensors may be closer than they appear – March 14, 2022
• Scientists fabricate novel electrical component to improve stability of solar cells – March 14, 2022
• A new resource for teaching responsible technology development – March 13, 2022
• Retina-inspired sensors for more adaptive visual perception – March 11, 2022
• How a Vision for a Solar Car Sparked a Career―and MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team – March 11, 2022
• Tiny switches give solid-state LiDAR record resolution – March 10, 2022
• New method for stabilizing the interfaces in solid-state lithium-ion batteries – March 8, 2022
• Simulated human eye movement aims to train metaverse platforms – March 7, 2022
• Spacewalks Preps Continue, NASA Astronaut Continues Record-Breaking Mission – March 4, 2022
• Catalyst turns carbon dioxide into gasoline 1,000 times more efficiently – March 3, 2022
• Novel design greatly improves output from commercial circuit boards next to superconducting qubits – March 3, 2022
• Team develops fingertip sensitivity for robots – March 3, 2022
• Using artificial intelligence to find anomalies hiding in massive datasets – March 3, 2022
• Clues to better batteries emerge from tracking lithium – March 3, 2022
• New approach to flexible robotics and metamaterials design mimics nature, encourages sustainability – March 3, 2022
• Oil prices are rising fast. Saudi Arabia may not come to the rescue – March 3, 2022
• Study reveals chemical link between wildfire smoke and ozone depletion – March 3, 2022
• Researchers establish first-of-its-kind framework to diagnose 3D-printing errors – March 3, 2022
• Deciphering behavior algorithms used by ants and the internet – March 3, 2022
• For new insights into aerodynamics, scientists turn to paper airplanes – March 3, 2022
• These solar panels pull in water vapor to grow crops in the desert – March 3, 2022
• Researchers show they can steal data during homomorphic encryption – March 3, 2022
• The benefits of peripheral vision for machines – March 3, 2022
• US Navy Holds Technology That Can Alter The “Fabric of Reality“ – March 3, 2022
• A technique to generate electricity from human walking on a street – March 3, 2022
• Here’s why NASA plans to let the International Space Station disintegrate into the atmosphere – March 3, 2022
• China complains of close encounters with SpaceX Starlink satellites, Conducts preventive maneuvers to avoid collisions – March 3, 2022
• Egypt’s President al-Sisi has opened the 4th Largest Solar Plant in the world and the largest in Africa in the desert of Aswan – March 3, 2022
• Remote Control Behavior with Rewarding Electrical Stimulation of the Brain, 1965 (Remote Controlled Dogs) – March 3, 2022
• State Grid of China switches on world’s largest pumped-hydro station – March 3, 2022
• New NASA research brings Warp Speed inches closer to reality: Looks more promising than ever – March 3, 2022
• PV-assisted heat pump module facade for power supply, heating, cooling, and ventilation – March 3, 2022
• Lowering solar module temperatures with radiative cooling, heat pipes – March 3, 2022
• ✓ Completed a communications end-to-end test – March 3, 2022
• India Will Spend $1.6 Billion to Add Lines for Transmitting Green Power – March 3, 2022
• Automakers Take Yet Another Page From Tesla’s Playbook – March 3, 2022
• NASA’s most iconic space launches and landings take years of preparation, but they all come down to a few tense final moments in the control room – March 3, 2022
• Tesla Said It Was Possible, Now Wireless Electricity Is Finally Becoming Reality – March 3, 2022
• A New Internal Combustion Engine Produces Nearly Zero Harmful Emissions – March 3, 2022
• China’s Shijian-21 towed dead satellite to a high graveyard orbit – March 3, 2022
• Existence of Earth Trojan Asteroid Confirmed — Could Become “Ideal Bases” for Advanced Exploration of the Solar System – March 3, 2022
• Tesla Will Focus More on Developing Humanoid Robots Called ‘Optimus’ in 2022, Elon Musk Says – March 3, 2022
• The 3G shutdown will affect everyday devices you probably own – March 3, 2022
• Researchers show how to make a ‘computer’ out of liquid crystals – March 2, 2022
• A step closer to biodegradable household batteries – February 24, 2022
• Quaise Energy intends convert power plants to geothermal – February 18, 2022
• Light-driven micro-swimmers for responsive drug delivery – February 18, 2022
• CPUT is Hiring a Director of F’SATI & ASIC – February 18, 2022
• Nano-engineered sealer leads to more durable concrete – February 17, 2022
• Scientists discover new electrolyte for solid-state lithium-ion batteries – February 14, 2022
• Google Docs comment feature exploited to distribute phishing links – January 19, 2022
• Novel memory technology based on compound semiconductors – January 7, 2022
• This Tesla Model S P85 Just Surpassed 1,500,000 Kilometers – January 7, 2022
• New protective coating for steel to resist corrosion in ships and marine facilities – January 7, 2022
• ‘Ocean battery’ targets renewable energy dilemma – January 7, 2022
• They say that good things take time, but the James Webb Space Telescope is well on its way to exploring the universe! – January 7, 2022
• Scientists reduce all-solid-state battery resistance – January 7, 2022
• Tesla’s cameras-only autonomous system stirs controversy – January 7, 2022
• First realistic portraits of squishy layer that’s key to battery performance – January 7, 2022
• Inside the South African Space Ecosystem – January 7, 2022
• China’s 7,500-Mile Undersea Cable to Europe Fuels Internet Feud – January 2, 2022
• South Africa eyes future as green hydrogen hub – January 1, 2022
• Navy’s Costly Carrier Finally Has Its Bomb-Lifting Elevators – January 1, 2022
• Raytheon To Enhance Seasparrow Missiles For US Navy That Can Defend NATO Vessels Against Missile & Drone Attacks – January 1, 2022
• Scotland missed 100% clean electricity consumption in 2020 – January 1, 2022
• Germany Is Shutting Down Three of Its Last Six Nuclear Plants Today – December 31, 2021
• Where my plant nerds at? – December 31, 2021
• 👏 What an amazing year this has been for space! – December 31, 2021
• China’s Risen Plans $7 Billion Solar Factory Run On Clean Energy – December 31, 2021
• France is still mad at the US over a lost submarine deal, but that isn’t keeping it from buying US gear for its new aircraft carrier – December 31, 2021
• China complains of near-collisions with SpaceX satellites – December 31, 2021
• Due to Precision Launch, NASA Says Webb Space Telescope’s Fuel Likely To Last Way More Than 10 Years – December 30, 2021
• China lays out path to become robotics powerhouse by 2025 – December 30, 2021
• The US saw record wind turbine capacity installation in 2020 – December 30, 2021
• 5G network global upload speed shrinks – December 30, 2021
• Rise Of The Dragon: How China’s Innovation In Defense & Space Technology In 2021 Sent Shockwaves Through West – December 30, 2021
• Drone flight trials in Poland bring EU-wide urban air mobility a step closer – December 30, 2021
• Men Vs Machine: Slaughterbots Set To Change The ‘LAWS’ Of Battlefield & Make Human Soldiers Redundant? – December 30, 2021
• Chinese utility abandons model ‘green’ energy plant in Xinjiang – December 30, 2021
• LEGO to launch NASA-inspired moon sets in time for Artemis I launch – December 30, 2021
• Smart charging can save electric vehicle drivers £110 a year and cut carbon footprint – December 30, 2021
• Taiwan Is Getting 40 New Paladin Howitzers from the United States – December 30, 2021
• Analysis: China’s mandarins face 25% pay cut as ‘alchemy’ fades – December 30, 2021
• Mazda says its first electric car is not so bad for buyers who also have a second car for long distance – December 30, 2021
• To Counter NASA’s $100 Billion Artemis Program, China Advances Its Low-Cost Lunar Base Mission – December 30, 2021
• Big Boost To China’s Hypersonic Technology; Engineers ‘Crack Codes’ Of A Highly Innovative, ‘Miracle’ Engine? – December 29, 2021
• New Headache For US Military? China Says Its Tiny Satellite Can Capture ‘Crystal Clear’ Images Of American Cities – December 29, 2021
• Simple, accurate, and efficient: Improving the way computers recognize hand gestures – December 29, 2021
• Malindi Ground Station in Kenya Makes Contact with the James Webb Space Telescope – December 29, 2021
• Leaker confirms iPhone 14 series will switch to eSIM-only – December 29, 2021
• Asia’s lesser-known tech manufacturers shine in 2021 stock market – December 29, 2021
• Egypt’s Space Agency Signs MoU with Ukrainian Space Agency – December 29, 2021
• China asks US to stop Elon Musk’s satellites approaching its space station – December 29, 2021
• China cries foul after space station dodges Elon Musk satellites – December 29, 2021
• Hyundai shuts down its engine development team amid focus on electric cars – December 28, 2021
• Elon Musk, SpaceX face online backlash in China after space station near-misses – December 27, 2021
• First power achieved on world’s largest offshore windfarm – December 27, 2021
• CPUs Could Use 85 Percent Fewer Transistors With New Adaptive Tech – December 27, 2021
• AMD Ensures Growth for CPU Sales: Inks New Wafer Contract with GF – December 24, 2021
• Russian-Made Elbrus CPUs Fail Trials, ‘A Completely Unacceptable Platform’ – December 24, 2021
• Fabrication of flexible electronics improved using gold and water-vapor plasma – December 22, 2021
• Coating surfaces with a thin layer of copper has the potential to kill the virus causing COVID-19 faster – December 22, 2021
• Chinese chip giant Tsinghua Unigroup publicly picks a fight with CCP – December 22, 2021
• Harvard professor Charles Lieber convicted of hiding ties to China – December 22, 2021
• Tesla Model Y Crossovers Spied At Giga Berlin, Delays Continue – December 22, 2021
• World’s largest operating offshore wind farm generates first power – December 22, 2021
• Flexible tentaclelike robotic manipulators inspired by nature – December 22, 2021
• Today we announced our participation in a new long-term university research collaboration with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and a consortium of companies in the commercial #semiconductor industry – December 22, 2021
• Tesla May Be Backing US LFP Battery Manufacturing Deal – December 22, 2021
• Japan Has Agreed To Provide Stationed U.S Forces With 9.2 Billion Dollars Over 5 Years – December 22, 2021
• Semiconductors reach the quantum world – December 22, 2021
• Canada’s Project Arrow EV Benchmarked Against Tesla, Volkswagen – December 22, 2021
• Swedish company offers a COVID pass that gets under the skin – December 22, 2021
• Study finds electric vehicles provide lower carbon emissions through additional channels – December 22, 2021
• EXCLUSIVE U.S. concerned over Turkey’s drone sales to conflict-hit Ethiopia – December 22, 2021
• Raspberry Pi computers head to International Space Station – December 22, 2021
• Weird quantum objects known as Q balls could explain why we exist – December 21, 2021
• Standard-bearer: China races U.S. and Europe to set tech rules – December 21, 2021
• New haptic device communicates emotion with nearly 80% accuracy of human touch – December 21, 2021
• China’s aviation firms vulnerable as Biden ups the ante with more sanctions – December 21, 2021
• Graphite will be in deficit from 2022 — here’s what EV battery makers need to do to secure the critical mineral – December 21, 2021
• The Wikipedia of perovskite solar cell research – December 21, 2021
• Baikal-S: Russia Made Its First Competitive Chip With 48 Cores – December 21, 2021
• Unlike NASA’s X-37 Spacecraft, China Says Its Spaceplanes Will Use Commercial Airports For Inter-Planetary Missions – December 20, 2021
• Decoded: Why USAF‘ F-22 Raptors, F-35s Could Be ’More Vulnerable‘ To Chinese Su-35 Fighters Than Russian Sukhoi Jets? – December 20, 2021
• 3 Reasons Workers Will be Flush With Job Opportunities in 2022 – December 20, 2021
• Shellac for printed circuits – December 20, 2021
• China EV teardown: A $4,500 ‘alternative to walking’ – December 20, 2021
• Tesla Appears To Be Selling New Cars With Batteries From 2017 – December 20, 2021
• Samsung and IBM developing battery tech that could give us weeklong batteries – December 20, 2021
• IBM and Samsung team up to design vertical transport field effect transistors – December 16, 2021
• Elon Musk Named Time Magazine Person Of The Year – December 13, 2021
• New AI Research Could Enable Ocean Monitoring and Exploration – December 13, 2021
• China’s Next Advance in Electric Vehicles Is a Used-Car Market – December 13, 2021
• China’s ‘Unhackable’ Quantum Satellite System Promises To Defend World’s Largest Power Grid Against Cyber Attacks – December 13, 2021
• China’s Solar Giants Make a Bid to Dominate Hydrogen Power – December 13, 2021
• Singaporeans explain what it’s like working for a Chinese tech company – December 13, 2021
• World’s Fastest Aircraft: British Engineering Firm ‘Smashed’ All Records Of Environment Friendly Electric Planes – December 13, 2021
• Taiwanese minister’s map disappears during US democracy summit – December 13, 2021
• Inside Clean Energy – December 12, 2021
• Nuclear Fusion: Why the Race to Harness the Power of the Sun Just Sped Up – December 12, 2021
• China’s Hypersonic Aircraft Engine Bases Design from NASA’s Scrapped Project in the 90s – December 12, 2021
• Towards quantum 2.0 technology: where the best opportunities for business lie – December 12, 2021
• UK Steps Up Efforts To Combat Omicron Spread – December 12, 2021
• Sony reportedly planned to bring PlayStation Now to phones – December 12, 2021
• The US wants to ban the Chinese chip maker SMIC – December 11, 2021
• Researchers discovered space-time warping bubble for the first time – December 11, 2021
• The US is worried that hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade – December 11, 2021
• South Africa’s SumbandilaSat Reaches the End of its Design Life – December 10, 2021
• U.S. to blacklist Chinese AI company SenseTime ahead of IPO – December 10, 2021
• U.S. begins the production of its updated B61-12 nuclear bomb – December 9, 2021
• Research brings analog computers just one step from digital – December 9, 2021
• A wheeled car, quadruped and humanoid robot: Swiss-Mile Robot from ETH Zurich – December 9, 2021
• DNA Data Drives Point Toward Exabyte Scale – December 9, 2021
• Tesla Model 3 Is A Competent Police Car, UK Trial Reveals – December 9, 2021
• Airobotics, Solar Drone to develop new drone for solar panels cleaning – December 9, 2021
• The Moon has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 years – December 9, 2021
• Google disrupts cybercrime web infecting 1 mn devices – December 9, 2021
• Uganda to Launch its First Satellite in 2022 – December 9, 2021
• Engineers build in-pipe sewer robot – December 9, 2021
• Airbus reveals CityAirbus NextGen flying taxi built for urban areas – September 28, 2021
• Special delivery service: Green hydrogen submarines are on their way – September 28, 2021
• Lockheed Martin unveils LMXT aerial refueling tanker for the US Air Force – September 28, 2021
• Engineers to develop wireless EV charging concrete highway – September 20, 2021
• New gravitational wave detector picks up possible signal from the beginning of time – September 20, 2021
• World’s strongest fusion magnet achieves record-breaking magnetic field – September 11, 2021
• How Worried Should the U.S. Navy Be About China’s Type 055 Destroyers? – September 11, 2021
• Engineers to develop autonomous robot swarms to mine lunar resources – September 11, 2021
• After copying the helicopter, China turned to copy the US anti-aircraft missile – September 9, 2021
• Tesla’s insane laser windshield wipers have been granted – September 8, 2021
• Rising chip prices expected to continue into 2022, potentially impacting Apple and TSMC – September 8, 2021
• BAE Systems unveils world’s smallest M-Code military GPS receiver – September 8, 2021
• Toyota plans $13.6B spending spree to develop EV battery tech by 2030 – September 7, 2021
• Tesla Supercharger V3 factory with 10k annual capacity fully completed – September 7, 2021
• Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Entanglement of Three Spin Qubits Achieved in Silicon – September 7, 2021
• Wave-powered SeaRAY’s clean energy could soon power offshore work – September 6, 2021
• Segway’s first robotic lawn mower will mow your lawn using GPS – September 6, 2021
• Roaming! NASA’s Space Communications User Terminal – September 5, 2021
• GM shutting down production at most of its plants in North America – September 5, 2021
• While Tesla Delays, Rivals and Drivers Move On – September 4, 2021
• Caltech’s Space-based Solar Power Project could provide Earth with limitless energy – September 4, 2021
• Auto Shows Are Back and CEOs Have Wheeling-and-Dealing to Do – September 4, 2021
• Tesla Gigafactory Nevada celebrates 1 million battery pack milestone – September 4, 2021
• Here’s the new Specter 700 V2 all built and flight ready 😁 – September 4, 2021
• China shows off its Mars cruise drone prototype – September 2, 2021
• Semiconductor Shortage Idles Four Stellantis North America Assembly Plants – September 1, 2021
• Innovative flying car batteries promise 50-mile trips on 10-minute charge – August 31, 2021
• NuScale modular nuclear reactors can produce over 2,000 kg/hour of hydrogen – August 31, 2021
• Elon Musk’s companies currently provide jobs to ~110k people worldwide – August 31, 2021
• Tesla overtakes Volkwagen, Ford in Norway as Model Y dominates August EV sales – August 31, 2021
• Cheap Electric Motorcycles, EVs Will Kill Some Hobbies, Tesla Model 3 & Y Get LFP Batteries 20 – August 31, 2021
• Microchip Shortage Update: Car Inventories Could Stay Low All Next Year – August 31, 2021
• World’s first hydrogen-powered dual fuel excavator unveiled – August 30, 2021
• Tesla Will Spark Controversy (Again) Next Month – August 28, 2021
• Indian Navy’s P-8I Submarine Hunting Aircraft Spotted Flying Near South China Sea – August 28, 2021
• Virgin Hyperloop unveils new design concept for the Hyperloop – August 28, 2021
• Tesla Model Y pre-production units start rolling out in Giga Texas – August 28, 2021
• Tesla’s 4680 battery cell pilot production line hits 70–80% yield: report – August 28, 2021
• The World’s Biggest Wind Turbine Is Being Built in China – August 28, 2021
• New observations challenge popular radio burst model – August 28, 2021
• Cerebras Upgrades Trillion-Transistor Chip to Train ‘Brain-Scale’ AI – August 28, 2021
• An ‘Uncrashable’ Car? Luminar Says Its Lidar Can Get There – August 28, 2021
• Aquas, a flying ship that moves passengers and cargo at speed up to 200 km/h – August 28, 2021
• New rail-inspection drone can both fly and drive on the track – August 28, 2021
• HyPoint, Piasecki team up to develop hydrogen fuel cell systems for eVTOLs – August 28, 2021
• US achieves laser-fusion record: what it means for nuclear-weapons research – August 28, 2021
• Someone Is Secretly Working on “Privately Owned” Space Station – August 28, 2021
• Space Junk Reportedly Smashed a Chinese Military Satellite – August 28, 2021