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Submission + - MIT Brushes Up on 3D-Printing Hair (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have developed a method for 3D printing hair structures with a diameter as small as 50 micrometers each. With the ability to create finely detailed surfaces, touch sensors and even actuating motors, the technology could be used to make customized paint brushes, Velcro-like mechanical adhesives, and touch-sensitive plush toys.

Submission + - ARM Tapes Out Next-Gen 64-Bit Artemis Mobile Chip On 10nm TSMC FinFET Process (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: ARM has been working closely with TSMC for years now. Over the last six years or so especially, ARM and TSMC have collaborated to ensure that TSMC's cutting-edge process technologies work well with ARM's processor IP. However recently, ARM just announced the successful tape-out of a test chip featuring next-generation, 64-Bit ARM v8-A mobile processor cores, codenamed Artemis, manufactured using TSMC's upcoming 10nm FinFET process technology. The test chip features what ARM calls an Artemis cluster. It's essentially a quad-core processor with power management IP, a single-shader Mali graphics core, AMBA AXI interconnect, and test ROMs connected to a second cluster by an asynchronous bridge that features the memory subsystem, which is stacked with a Cortex M core that handles control logic, some timers, SRAM, and external IO. Compared to 16nm FinFET+, at nominal voltage, the 10nm test chip offered a 12% performance improvement in a similar power envelope. In super-overdrive mode (Vsod), the Artemis test chip offered similar performance, but at 30% lower power.SoCs for premium mobile devices with next-generation cores produced on the 10nm process node are expected to arrive later in the second half of this year.

Submission + - Sneak Peek: Arduino Srl's Primo and Primo Core IoT Duo (hackerboards.com)

Submitted by __aajbyc7391
__aajbyc7391 writes: Arduino Srl will unveil a wireless-rich, IoT oriented Arduino Primo SBC and companion Primo Core module family at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif. on Friday. The new boards don’t run their sketches on the traditional Atmega32 MCU. Instead the boards substitute a more powerful MPU that’s located in an IoT-oriented Nordic Semiconductor nRF52 wireless system-on-chip. The Nordic chip implements BLE, NFC, and IR, while an Esspresif ESP8266 chip handles WiFi functions and connectivity. To make matters more interesting, there's also an STM32L0 MCU for supervisory tasks. The 40x40mm-diameter Primo Core module only includes the Nordic chip, and has more limited functionality. Arduino says both boards run standard Arduino sketches without modification, are programmed using the familiar Arduino IDE. The Primo SBC adds Arduino shields expansion to the mix.

Submission + - Neural Network app recognizes food from photos (newswire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A press release on newswire

"... HungryBot for iPhone and Android, which uses advanced neural networks to recognize over 1,000 food types from photographs of meals. The app was created by biomedical scientists hoping to study chronic diseases like diabetes ...."

Submission + - Google Play Is Coming To Chrome OS In September

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google is finally bringing the Google Play store, including its more than 1.5 million Android apps, to Chrome OS. Google Play will first arrive with Chrome OS version 53 on the dev channel in early June, starting with three Chromebooks: the Asus Chromebook Flip, the Acer Chromebook R11, and of course Google’s Pixel 2. Over the coming months, the feature will come to more devices on the beta channel and eventually the stable channel.

Submission + - India to Test its Reusable Launch Vehicle

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Indian Space Research Organisation will flight test its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), a new generation of vehicles that can launch satellites into orbit around Earth and then reenter the atmosphere.

LVM 3 has been conceived and designed to make ISRO fully self-reliant in launching heavier communication satellites of INSAT-4 class, which weigh 4,500-5,000 kg. The vehicle will also enhance India’s capability to be a competitive player in the multi-million dollar commercial launch market.

ISRO tested its heaviest rocket, the GSLV Mk III, on December 18, 2014, and carried a crew module to test its reentry characteristics. The mission was called LVM 3X. The launch was intended to test the atmospheric characteristics and stability of the updated rocket on its way up and study the crew module upon atmospheric reentry.

Submission + - eBay Launches Virtual Reality Department Store in Australia

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: eBay has partnered with Myer, the largest department store group in Australia, to launch the world’s first virtual reality department store, offering over 12,500 items for customers to examine and purchase using a smartphone app (which is also compatible with Google Cardboard or Samsung Gear VR equipment) and a VR headset. eBay is giving away Cardboard-style Shopticals, which can be used in conjunction with an app to begin virtual shopping. Most of the items within the interface will appear in 2D, but the top 100 items will be viewable in 3D.

Submission + - UDOO X86 is 10x more powerful than Raspberry Pi 3, and can run Windows, Android, (betanews.com)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: If youâ(TM)re looking for an uncased maker board for a project, then the Raspberry Pi is usually the first choice, not least because itâ(TM)s inexpensive, and powerful enough for most purposes.

However, if you need something with a lot more muscle, then the UDOO X86 certainly fits the bill. Based around an Intel X86 64-bit Quad Core processor, coupled with an onboard Intel Curie Arduino 101-compatible micro-controller, itâ(TM)s got enough oomph to drive three 4K screens at the same time.

Submission + - Google Granted Patent For 'Sticky' Car To Catch Driverless Collision Victims

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google has been granted a patent for a ‘sticky’ car coating for use with its driverless vehicles. The adhesive coating resides under a protective layer which is brittle enough to shatter upon impact and adhere the victim to the vehicle body like human flypaper. The proposition is intended to prevent secondary impacts which occur when a hit pedestrian bounces off the initial impact into the path of traffic or onto other vehicles.

Submission + - What would a new particle at the LHC reveal?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The "diphoton bump" at 750 GeV is perhaps the best active signal we have for the possibility of fundamental new particles beyond the Standard Model. While the upgraded LHC should collect enough data that we'll know by the end of the year whether it looks real or goes away, there are six different possibilities for what it could be if it pans out, including: a second Higgs, dark matter, extra dimensions, neutrino physics, a composite particle or even a surprise! But don't get too excited; a similar bump at three times that energy has already gone away, and this one might be next.

Submission + - Japan prepared to launch first expedition to the lunar surface by 2019 (blastingnews.com)

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: Nikkei Asian Review reports that Mitsubishi Electronics has won a contract to build the first Japanese lunar lander, slated for launch in 2019. The project will be a venture with the Japanese space agency JAXA and a number of Japanese universities and will cost $164 million. The lunar lander will demonstrate precision landing technology that can be used in future expeditions to the moon and Mars. The new technology will have a margin of error of 100 meters around its target. The lander will mass just 130 kilograms.

Submission + - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Launched, Benchmarks Show Great Perf Per Watt (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: A couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA CEO Jen Hsun-Huang unveiled the company's new high-end graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070. Huang claimed the cards represented a true generational leap in performance and efficiency, thanks to NVIDIA's new Pascal GPU architecture. Yesterday, the official launch of the GeForce GTX1080 took place, with full specs revealed and the benchmarks results are in. The GPU at the heart of the GeForce GTX 1080 Founder's Edition has a base clock of 1607MHz and a boost clock of 1733MHz, though boost clocks actually shot a little higher right out of the box in some game tests (one test card went up to 1823MHz occasionally, without overclocking). The GDDR5X memory on the card is clocked at 5GHz for an effective data rate of 10Gbps. At its reference clocks, the GTX 1080 offers up to 320GB/s of memory bandwidth and a peak texture fillrate of 257.1 GigaTexels/s, all within a 180 watt power envelope and the card only needs a single, 8-pin power feed. In the benchmarks GeForce GTX 1080 is roughly 20 -25 percent faster than a Titan X and 10 – 15 percent faster than a factory overclocked GeForce GTX 980 Ti. It was also significantly faster than AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X, in both DirectX 11 and Direct X 12 game titles.

Submission + - SUSE Enterprise Linux promises 100% uptime (softpedia.com)

Submitted by LichtSpektren
LichtSpektren writes: Utilizing the live patching that was implemented into the Linux kernel version 4, SUSE now promises 100% uptime for version 12 of their Enterprise Server distro. Softpedia reports: "SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching is available starting today for all SUSE customers who run their workloads on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, the SAP HANA platform, or any other SAP (Systems Applications Products) applications, helping them save money and keep their customers happy by offering 100% uptime."

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