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<li>Samsung proposes these satellites could use high frequency spectrum usually known as millimeter wave spectrum. Millimeter wave spectrum promises the ability to transfer up to 575 megabytes per second.</li>
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Samsung has a ton of research into the 60 GHz technology &#8212; much smaller than current Wi-Fi networks that work on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. But previously Samsung has indicated it believes millimeter wave &#8212; or WiGig &#8212; would be a kind of &#8220;5G&#8221; wireless network.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<li>Samsung isn&#8217;t the only company investigating using low earth orbit satellites to network areas where buried fiber or traditional wireless networks might not cover. It joins Richard Branson-funded OneWeb as well as Space X, and is similar to projects from Google and Facebook.&nbsp;</li>
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<li>DNA holds significant advantages over hard drives, in the bigger picture. While modern-day external hard drives hold up to 5 terabytes of data, a fraction of DNA could, in theory, have the capacity to store more than 300,000 terabytes of data. Moreover, modern archeological finds prove that DNA from hundreds of thousands of years ago can still be sequenced today, proving their longevity in the real world.</li>
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Dr. Robert Grass and his team of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) encoded DNA with 83 kilobytes (Kb) of text comprising of the Swiss Federal Charter from 1291 and the Method of Archimedes, from the 10th century. The team proceeded to store the DNA in spheres made of silica before warming it to nearly 160 F, or 70 C for an entire week. That’s directly proportional to keeping it for 2,000 years at 50 F or 10 C. Upon removing the DNA from the silica sphere, the team decoded theDNA. The data was intact. Error-free.
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<li>With Dr. Grass and his team of researchers successfully demonstrating the archival potential of DNA over long periods of time, they’re already taking on the next challenge – the problem of indexing and searching for specific data within the DNA strand.</li>
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A team of researchers have successfully demonstrated that data storage in DNA can withstand archival decay of up to 2000 years.

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<li>Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are creating foldable material that allows the circuitry to fit into extremely tight spaces and even to be integrated into complex curved surfaces, such as an airplane&#8217;s wing, or even a person&#8217;s skin.</li>
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The hybrid flexible system can be used to monitor stress and strains and report this information through miniature embedded antennas to ground crews or a pilot. For health measurement, the approach involves a biosensor system that can measure heartbeat, hydration levels, sweat,temperature and other vital signs through miniature circuitry. The system would be embedded on a flexible, wearable patch and would include an antenna to transmit these biometric signals to the pilot or a ground team.<o:p></o:p>
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<li>Another military application the Air Force is pursuing is use of a flexible hybrid system in &#8220;bunker buster&#8221; bombs, which detonate after penetrating deep in the earth. The flexible systems could also be used to monitor the conditions of bridges and other types of infrastructure in real time.</li>
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Researchers are developing flexible, bendable and stretchable electronics that can monitor patients' health and keep tabs on airplanes.

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<li>Disney confirmed that it will build two huge, intensely immersive Star Wars-themed lands, one at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and the other at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.</li>
<li>The parks—each covering 14 acres—will let visitors walk through fully realized worlds, where they can interact with characters, such as humanoids and droids, fly the Millennium Falcon, have a drink at the cantina, and experience a major battle.</li>
<li>“We are creating a jaw-dropping new world that represents our largest single-themed land expansion ever. These new lands at Disneyland and Walt Disney World will transport guests to a whole new Star Wars planet, including an epic Star Wars adventure that puts you in the middle of a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance.” sBob Iger, Disney’s CEO, said in the announcement at the D23 Expo yesterday (Aug. 15)</li>
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Sci-Fi Visions

Star Wars is coming to Disneyland and Disney World in a major way, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger confirmed.

Disney Confirms Building Immersive Star Wars Theme Park Attractions

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<li>Scientists have created a glass paint that can bounce sunlight off metal roofs and keep them at air temperature. This is no minor feat. The sun can heat metal surfaces so much that playground slides or stadium bleachers can become too hot to use.</li>
<li>The new paint has another potential upside. Since it’s almost completely inorganic—a mixture of silica, the main ingredient in glass, and silicon rubber—it doesn’t degrade in ultraviolet light and can last much longer than typical polymer-based coatings.</li>
<li>“It’s almost like painting a rock on top of your metal. And this is going to last not tens of years but maybe hundreds of years,” says Jason Benkoski, senior scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Benkoski, who will start field testing his paint within the next two years, says it could take five years to commercialize the product. He expects having the U.S. Navy as a research sponsor will boost the paint’s odds for success.</li>
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White paint is popping up on more rooftops to keep buildings cool on sunny days, but a new glass-based option could offer a longer-term fix.

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<li>The device is a thick&nbsp;plastic disk, about as wide as a pizza. Openings around the edge channel sound through 36 passages towards a microphone in the middle. Each passage modifies the sound in a subtly different way as it travels towards the centre — roughly as if an equalizer with different settings were affecting the sound in each slice.</li>
<li>The way the disk works is simple: the innards of each sector are patterned with a honeycomb-shaped structure in which each hexagonal cell is cut to a different height.&nbsp;The human ear is not able to distinguish how the sound is altered by different passages, but the team wrote an algorithm that, by analysing each sound, can almost always tell which direction it came from.</li>
<li>The device is an &#8216;acoustic metamaterial’: a structure patterned with smaller features and designed to affect the acoustic waves that pass through it. While&nbsp;the device’s bulk could be a limitation to its practical use, the team is very optimistic about its future potential.</li>
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