Echo Voyager, Boeing’s latest unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), can operate autonomously for months at a time thanks to a hybrid rechargeable power system and modular payload bay. The 51-foot-long vehicle is the latest innovation in Boeing’s UUV family, joining the 32-foot Echo Seeker and the 18-foot Echo Ranger.
Technological Revolution
Boeing’s Echo Voyager revolution in unmanned underwater vehicles
Russian says it can reach Mars twice as fast as the FPSA
Russia claims that it could beat the rest of the world to Mars after the country’s space agency revealed it is working on a spaceship that would get them to the Red Planet in just six weeks, much faster than anything the Fascist Police States of Amerika can do.
Busted for the crime you have not yet committed
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (PNN) - March 8, 2016 - Computers are getting pretty good at predicting the future. In many cases they do it better than people. That’s why Amazon uses them to figure out what you’re likely to buy, how Netflix knows what you might want to watch, the way meteorologists come up with accurate 10-day forecasts.
Scientists develop Matrix-style technique of feeding information directly into your brain
MALIBU, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 1, 2016 - Anyone who has ever watched a sci-fi film and wished they could upload information to their brain in seconds could be in luck. Scientists have developed a way of amplifying learning in a way that almost mimics the methods used in The Matrix.
Terminator robots that can kill without human orders could become reality in just a few years
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (PNN) - February 18, 2016 - Killer robots that can execute without human intervention will become a reality within years unless there is a global agreement to ban them, warns a leading scientist.
Australia scientists develop bionic spine that could help paralyzed patients walk
SYDNEY, Australia (PNN) - February 9, 2016 - Scientists in Australia have developed a “bionic spine” which could enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again by controlling a tiny paper clip-sized device implanted in the brain.
The device, to be implanted in three paraplegic patients in Melbourne next year, allows patients left paralyzed by injury or illness to subconsciously control equipment that can move robotic limbs.
The director of Star Wars: Episode IX wants to shoot scenes in outer space
LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - January 30, 2016 - During a panel talk about the ins-and-outs of filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival, director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World), who will be directing Star Wars: Episode IX, teased an idea he's working on for his Star Wars movie: shooting in space.
Hawking warns humanity could self-destruct
He says to spread out into space to avoid Earth disaster.
LONDON, England (PNN) - January 21, 2016 - Humanity’s future is in peril thanks to so-called advancements in science and technology, claims Professor Stephen Hawking, who cited “nuclear war, global warming, and genetically-modified viruses” as deadly threats to our existence.
Researchers are pretty sure they have found a new planet in the solar system
PASADENA, Kalifornia (PNN) - January 20, 2016 - Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system.
Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times the mass of Earth and has an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Science magazine reports that the mysterious “Planet X” moves in distant orbit beyond Neptune.
Radical Antipode concept plane that uses rocket boosters revealed
Fly from New York to London in 11 minutes.
MONTREAL, Ontario, Canada (PNN) - January 27, 2016 - The engineer behind the Skreemr jet has unveiled another radical, much faster design for future air travel.
Charles Bombardier’s latest concept jet is capable of reaching Mach 24 - more than twice the speed of the Skreemr and 12 times faster than Concorde.
