Facebook Aquila takes to the skies to connect the rest of the world
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Only half the world is connected, Facebook’s connecting the other half. Facebook has achieved the first successful test flight of the Aquila drone, marking another notable milestone in the firm’s efforts to deliver internet access to 4 billion people worldwide who are still off...
DeepMind AI reduces Googles data centre cooling bills by 40%
The amount of energy consumed by the world’s largest hyper scale data centers has always posed the technology companies that run them with a conundrum. On the one hand the companies need more compute power to continue supporting their growing empires and on the other hand more servers and more...
ESA lays out plans to build a village on the Moon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF ESA have laid out their plans to colonise the Moon by 2030. The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing forward with its plans to set up a permanent human outpost on the moon. Dubbed the “Moon Village” the vision will be the product of international...
Caltech shows off self healing microchips
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Caltech have built a new kind of microchip that can learn to heal its own information pathways. One of the reasons why robots and artificial intelligence programs — even very sophisticated ones — do not qualify as living things is because they lack the capacity...
