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SpaceX’s Mars rocket may be built in Los Angeles, a location that would give the company easy access to the water necessary to transport the huge rocket. Unlike the spacecraft it currently constructs in Hawthorne, California, SpaceX won’t be able to transports its Mars rocket, the BFR, using roads. Instead, the company will need to ship the rocket using waterways, … Continue reading

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Another day, another tech conference. Now that SXSW is behind us, it’s time for GDC 2018. We’ve arrived in San Francisco to cover the latest edition of the Game Developers Conference, where you can expect to see plenty of new indie titles, AR and VR…

Japan is popular for a great many things and the Shinkansen is one of them. Better known as the bullet train, the Shinkansen lets you cover great distances in a relatively short period of time compared to normal, slower trains. The country has now unveiled a prototype “Supreme” version of its Shinkansen bullet train capable of hitting 186 miles per hour. This version of its bullet train is expected to enter service prior to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Central Japan Railway’s N700S series trains retain the iconic bullet train nose profile but opt for a sharper look. Moreover, there are power sockets for every seat and luggage racks that light up. The seats themselves have been improved with new fabric and more recline. There’s 15 percent more legroom for passengers in first or green class as well.

The nose redesign doesn’t put form over function. It’s actually meant to improve airflow and reduce the sonic boom effect when the train moves through tunnels. However, it will only be able to hit a maximum of 186 miles per hour on the Sanyo Shinkansen line which is the same top speed as the previous trains so no real gains have been made in the speed department.

The Supreme trains will be emblazoned with a large gold “S” which will make them easily distinguishable. According to reports, the latest version of this bullet train is expected to enter service in 2020 on the Tokaido Shinkansen line which connects Tokyo and Shin-Osaka.

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Computers don’t have to be big, bulky contraptions that while being quite powerful are restricted in their versatility. The industry understood this decades ago which is why we now have the devices that we have today and not computers that take up an entire room (though we still have them but only for specialized purposes). IBM has now unveiled what it claims to be the world’s smallest computer. It’s even smaller than a grain of salt.

IBM is going to unveil the world’s smallest computer on the first day of its IBM Think 2018 conference. It says that this computer is smaller than a grain of salt and has the same computing power as an x86 chip from 1990. It’s certainly not enough for the tasks that most of us rely on computers for every day but that’s not the purpose of this chip in the first place.

IBM says that this chip is going to have “several hundred thousand transistors” and will cost under ten cents to manufacture. It will be capable of monitoring, communicating, analyzing, and even acting on data.

It’s meant to be a data source for blockchain applications, having the capability to track the shipment of goods, detect theft, fraud, and non-compliance. It will even be able to perform basic artificial intelligence tasks which including sorting through data.

IBM researchers are only testing the first prototype of this chip so it’s unclear at this point in time when we might see it in commercial applications.

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