The piece that sticks out is to balance torque from the solar wind, not to prevent "outward" translational force from the solar wind. https://www.aura-astronomy.org...

When he says "upside down" he's talking about the orientation of the text on the capacitor for bad boards vs known good boards. Also, polymer caps (a type of electrolytic cap), which these are, "can withstand for short instants a type dependent reverse voltage for a limited number of cycles". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_capacitor#Reverse_voltage]

So at the 100 PFLOPS stated in the article, this thing ties with the worlds top supercomputer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500#Top_10_ranking)? That's pretty nuts.

Why does a Google search for "Veeo Systems" not return a link to the company? Only returns references to the company. Something seems fishy.

Yes, it's made from metal, which is very cool! But aircraft components undergo rigorous inspection looking for cracks, defects, etc in the structure of the metal itself. Will this 3D-printed metal meet those standards?

Can we even connect a limb in such a way that the person has full mobility and feeling in the limb? Pretty sure the answer is no. Probably should get that one down and working first.

Our galaxy is 1000 billion suns in mass. So this guy is 1.2% the mass of our entire galaxy. That's huge. By comparison, the black hole at the center of our galaxy is 4 million suns in mass.

Take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... 100MHz of bandwidth only equals 100MBps throughput if Signal power = Noise power. Working backwards implies the SNR from the experiment is 30000. I'm not sure if that is a reasonable number or not, but sound high to me. My work: 10 * math.log10(2**(1e12/1e8) - 1)

Test it out by translating to one of the new languages and then translating back to English. I hope it works better than most translation software I've seen. Otherwise we may be fooling ourselves about how much of the language is being preserved.

How much do artists get paid for each play of their track on the radio?

I think this may be in response to at least one other study showing a similar effect when subjects were primed with religious concepts: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/18/9/803.abstract

How is this material any better than wearing a fiberglass t-shirt all day? Sounds pretty itchy - and unhealthy.

James Reinders, the article's author, is the Intel marketing director for the company's Developer Products Division. The Developer Products Division is responsible for the Thread Building blocks (TBB) API, which is mentioned in the article as a solution to the "problem" presented. To his credit, Mr. Reinders does also mention OpenMP.