2016 September

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Researchers are moving closer to helping fully paralysed people communicate just by thought alone.   “To be or not to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Balancing is a difficult skill and now one robot has mastered it.   Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot – the world’s…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world’s first robot assisted eye surgery paves the way for surgeries that were previously impossible.   British surgeons have…

Henry the lonely hedgehog now has an Emmy to keep him company For a few years now virtual reality filmmakers have fought for recognition and acceptance…

Advanced warfare platforms are increasingly using unused spectrum, now the Pentagon needs a system to cripple it The US military is cultivating new electronic warfare…

Worried that AI’s one day could make us their pets Elon Musk is teasing a new brain-hacking tech There’s no doubting that Elon Musk is…

While the cause of the crash hasn’t been determined yet investigators are turning their attentions to the cars safety systems Driverless cars have gone from the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF I take a look at the exciting Emerging Technologies that Apple could put into the next iPhone – but probably…

Eat my dust, these self-driving tractors could hit a field near you soon Last week CNH Industrial brought along a few of it’s newest Batman inspired self-driving…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Carbon nanotube transistors finally out perform their traditional silicon counterparts.   The computing industry has long seen carbon nanotube transistors as…

Moore’s Law might have been struggling recently but there’s no stopping universities churning out bigger and bigger chips Researchers at Princeton University want to give…

Experts around the world agree that we could be entering an era of Cold War 2.0, and that’s bad news Foreign states such as China…