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Comment Think of all the job opportunties (Score 1) 106

From TFS:

It is (...) approximately three times heavier than a typical (European) human heart>/quote> This guy can now work as one of those specialists that break bad news to people ('you're fired', 'the operation was not a success', 'Paul Walker died', 'your son was KIA').

No lying when he says: "It's with a heavy heart that I inform you that..."

Comment Drones (Score 1) 154

From TFS:

'Researchers are developing computers capable of "approximate computing" to perform calculations good enough for certain tasks that don't require perfect accuracy, potentially doubling efficiency and reducing energy consumption.'

I am, for one, welcoming our new approximately accurate, longer-range drone overlords.

Comment I'll have a go (Score 4, Funny) 78

I wish the best of luck to whoever gets to model the behavior of a mixed (mostly) nonpolar gas interacting with a dense, more or less randomly packed, array of 240nm spikes, composed of some sort of complex biological polymer arrangement, at the boundary of the (already complex enough) interaction between an insect wing and the surrounding fluid.

Let us suppose a perfectly spherical spike in a vacuum...

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