Lockheed Martin’s announcement last week that it had secretly developed a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.
Nuclear fusion could produce far more energy, far more cleanly, than the fission reactions at the heart of today’s nuclear power plants. But there are huge obstacles and no hard evidence that Lockheed has overcome them. The so-far-insurmountable challenge is to confine hydrogen plasma at conditions under which the hydrogen nuclei fuse together at levels that release a useful amount of energy. In decades of research, nobody has yet produced more energy from fusion reaction experiments than was required to conduct the experiments in the first place.
El 36º Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Médicos de Atención Primaria - SEMERGEN que se celebra estos días en Bilbao ha acogido hoy la presentación de los resultados preliminares del Estudio EROSKI a la Población Española sobre Hábitos Alimentarios y Estado Nutricional de la Población.
ZipLine Medical announced today that it has closed a $5.7 million extension to its Series C financing, which was announced on Jan. 21, 2014. The financing extension was led by new investor China Materialia LLC, a Shanghai, China-based, venture capital company.
People don’t want to cook, and while ordering takeout used to be the fix to that problem, now you can order chef-made food (such as from Munchery) or, better yet, order a chef to your house and temporarily live the life of the rich and famous.
La Belle Assiette, a French startup, lets folks do exactly that. The startup is announcing today that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding to continue growing and make some key hires.
Es conocido que, de forma general, los procesos de emprendimiento presentan un rendimiento altamente ineficiente, como lo evidencia la tasa de supervivencia de las inversiones realizadas por las 40 principales Venture Capital americanas en “el período dorado” comprendido entre 1980 y 2000, que se sitúa en el 25,70%.
Por ello, se hace preciso desarrollar la competencia emprendedora, es decir las capacidades necesarias para explotar eficazmente las oportunidades de negocio detectadas.
¿Cómo calculan, reducen y compensan las instituciones y los órganos de la UE sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero? El nexo adjunto permite acceder al informe:
Nowhere is the war for the smart home raging harder than on the lighting front.
Traditional players and new contenders with connected lighting products are duking it out to replace the humble lightbulb. The goal: to give consumers total control over their lighting, whether they’re at home or not.
Philips, a company that has had lighting tech baked into its DNA for decades, is arguably today’s front-runner with its Hue line of smart lights. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for others.
“The gadget is a smart watch that will passively track a wearer’s heart rate and work across different mobile platforms. It will also boast a battery life of more than two days of regular use, sources close to the project say,” Forbes writes.
The first murder through the internet of things will likely take place in 2014, police service Europol warned this month. The crime could be carried out by a pacemaker, an insulin dosage device, a hacked brake pedal or myriad others objects that control life-and-death functions and are now connected to the internet. In control of a malicious hacker, any of these devices could give “killer app” a whole new meaning.
