SETI@Home is well-known to a lot of users from
the past. This project from Berkeley Univversity
has been established to seek for extraterrestrial
existence in space wave recordings.

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If you thought, you’ve seen it all already, well here’s
something new you might not have seen before.
So what’s the least stuff needed to make popcorn?
A microwave? A pan? A popcorn machine?

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Big brother is watching you! This is version 2.0 of
what privacy breach can be. Tianhong Li and his
colleagues at the MIT foud a way to make a visible
radiography of a building and make walls translucent.

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Streaming is a power consumer par excellence. The
EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager has warned that
streaming will be the reason for massive power usage
of the internet. Over 200 billion kWh will be used.

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We all know that lawsuits with ridiculously high sums are
common in the USA, especially when it comes to lawsuits
against non-american companies. But in this case a lawsuit
filed against Johnson&Johnson is getting our attention.

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…we think of the worst case. What would happen
if the ropes of the elevator cabin snap and the
emergency brakes are failing to function. Would it
help to jump then and reduce impact?

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What looks awesome and beuatiful (sort of) is also an
active warning that the glaciers are melting away in a
way faster speed than expected by now. As a result of
global warming this should make us think about it.

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For many people Friday 13th is a day to fear as it
means bad luck for them. Although there’s no proof
why that is, it’s proven that bad things do not happen
more often at this special date constellation.

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Ever wanted to be as a hotel guest on the ISS? Got 35’000
US$ to spare per night? Well then you’re a potential
candidate for being on the ISS. The NASA plans to
commercialize the ISS a bit more to raise economy.

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It took a while for Intel to make 10nm processors ready for
shipment. Now it looks like as if the production of 10nm
chips is running stable. Intel says that it will start shipping
Ice Lake mobile processors in June now.

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When it comes to huuuuuge airplanes, we all suddenly
think of the Airbus A380 or some others might also see
the Antonov 225 as being the largest flying plane to date.
But now the Roc enters the field.

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For a long time, the existence of black holes has been
prooved by Albert Einstein using his theory of relativity.
The main problem is that we still have no real picture
of what a black hole might look alike.

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When it comes to chip production, TSMC is a major brand.
7nm is already working fine although Intel still struggles.
AMDs newer ZEN processors are produced at 7nm already.
TSMC now starts production at 5nm and the Cortex A72.

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The international Motor show in Geneva is just
few days ahead. On thursday the motor show
is opening it’s doors to the public and all major
motor brands are presenting their latest cars.

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It is time again! The bloodmoon in 2019 can be seen
well on January 21st. In Europe the event will start at
4.10am, the full darkness will be reached at 6.12am
and at 6:43am the whole event will be through.

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Big images can become a challenge for older computers,
slim internet lines and mobile devices. Yet do we want to
show you images that are of very large scale, say 16MP
and up. We found a way to do so now with DeepZoom!

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Well, when glass shatters, you see the cracks afterwards. But how
dos the glass actually break? Are the cracks expanding in given
time or are they instantly there? A question, The team of the
Action Lab was trying to find out. The following video is the result.

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Primes are always a challenge to mankind. Especially
if they have millions of digits. M82589933 that’s the
officially detected 51st prime. But what exactly is a
Mersenne prime? Because not every prime is Mersenne!

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Planet discovery in a far distance is quite a challenge. A team
for space science has discovered “2018 VG18” which is 120 AU
(astronomical units) away from the sun. It’s nickname “Farout”
is symbolic according to it’s distance from the sun.

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In Austria a team of four scientists have managed to
communicate with each other over a fully encrypted
channel using Quantum cryptography. This might be
the first step into the next-step secure communication

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While 14TB HDDs are already released to the public, Seagate
has risen the bar a little more. Internal test units of HAMR
drives have broken the magical 16TB barrier meaning that
larger HDDs for datacenters may soon become available.

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Gene manipulation using CRISPR is a topic which is known for some
time now. But in China CRISPR has been used on the embryos of two
girls which have been born recently. Do we start playing God now?
And what about possibe genetic mutations that may occur?

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Living outside the protecting sphere of our planet is
unthinkable. The space is too cold, too air-less and
possibly other things that eradicates a man’s life fast.
But there are planets with similar life conditions.

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A week ago I have written about temperature records in
Switzerland. Now this article is about a big rectangular
ice shelf that broke loose from the Larson C ice shelf.
Now calving if ice isn’t that seldom but the form is!

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We all know this. We launch our browser, we type an URL
and – bingo – there’s our desired content (hopefully!). But
fewer already know that behind a website there’s a large
server farm. LowTech Magazine however is special!

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The CERN in Geneva is leading when it comes to
research of anti-matter. With the LHC the largest
hadron collider in the world has been built. But to
get anti-matter better analyzed, it needs more.

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