3D-printed food could expand the options for hungry soldiers

BYBilly Steele @wmsteele4 hours ago

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In a recent issue of Army Magazine, the possibilities of 3D-printing tech for military use are outlined in great detail. We've already discussed the research into crafting mission-specific weapons, but expanding culinary options for soldiers is high on the to-do list as well. Currently, Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs) provide 24 rather unappealing options -- like the imitation pork rib pictured above -- that won't spoil and still provide nutritional value. Heck, a suitable pizza option just arrived recently, and it lasts for three years. Now, with the advances in 3D-printed food, the Army is researching ultrasonic agglomeration that fuses particles with ultrasonic waves to expand the menu. In addition to constructing meals to suit varied tastes, 3D printing allows the addition of specific nutrients (like protein or vitamin C) to a dish as needed. And the project isn't stopping there, as printing on-demand with a compact unit capable of using foraged ingredients is within the realm of possibility during missions.

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Court ruling could force YouView to change its name

BYMatt Brian @m4tt10 hours ago

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YouView could soon be forced into a rebrand after it suffered another loss in the courts. After almost two years of legal battles, telecoms company Total successfully argued that YouView had infringed on its "Your View" trademark. Judges agreed that the brand would was "confusingly similar" to Your View, allowing Total to push ahead not only for damages but also seek an injunction on "any further use of the name." YouView maintains that there's "no confusion" between its consumer TV service and Total's business-to-business mobile top-up platform, but today marks the third (and most likely final) time it has come off second best in the courts. Last year, Livescribe was on the wrong end of a UK trademark dispute and was forced to rebrand its Sky Wi-Fi pen having lost to BSkyB. If YouView suffers the same fate, its backers, which include the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT and TalkTalk, will have the fun job of figuring out what to call their TV offering moving forward.

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Your next Uber ride could be 20 percent cheaper

Who would've though that an app that flags down roving towncars would blow up as dramatically as it has? Apparently every venture capitalist worth their salt. Uber revealed earlier this afternoon that it just raised a staggering $1.2 billion in funding from a slew of investors, but the more interesting news didn't appear on the company's blog - instead, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Uber would cut its prices by at least 20 percent in certain markets. That means cheaper rides for you, more competition for traditional cabs, and a path to new heights for an already insanely buzzy startup.

Uber confirmed the price cuts to us in an email but wouldn't divulge which of the 128 cities it services would get the discounts (c'mon New York!). The move has been in the works for a while now: the Journal pointed out last January that the company experimented with price cuts while demand slowed over the winter, and Valleywag reported that the cuts could remain permanent in some cities. Guess they liked what they saw. While this may be good news for you and me, current Uber drivers (who, let's remember, can do very well for themselves) may wind up taking a financial hit unless they drive more hours. And then there are the drivers who work for dedicated cab companies -- some folks are worried that they'll go extinct completely in some locales.

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New telescopes could uncover a wormhole in our own galaxy

If you're ever unlucky enough to be sucked towards a super-dense black hole, you'll soon arrive at something called the event horizon -- from which nothing can escape, including light. Thanks to a new "earth-sized" radio telescope, scientists may soon know whether you'll become stretched out infinitely ("spaghetti-ized") or merely vaporized. Knowing which of those gory fates is correct will help astronomers in their quest to unify Einstein's theories involving planetary motion with sub-atomic quantum mechanics. Even more intriguingly, a separate telescope called the GRAVITY in Northern Chile may soon tell us if the Sagitarius 'A' black hole at the center of our own galaxy is actually a wormhole instead.

Leaving wormholes aside for a moment, the Event Horizon Telescope is designed to spy the structure of "regular" black holes. Located in Chile, it combines multiple radio telescopes around the world and an extraordinarily precise atomic clock to simulate one huge, earth-sized telescope. When trained on black holes, it should deliver pictures of a very bright ring of gas surrounding a circular dark spot, as close to "imaging" one as we're likely to get (considering they emit no light). Along with pretty pictures, it may give insight about whether a black hole's event horizon would allow matter in before elasticizing it or be an impenetrable "firewall" that incinerates anything foolish enough to enter.

The GRAVITY telescope, meanwhile, is designed to image black holes for a different purpose. Instead, it's looking to see if our own Milky Way galaxy's Sagitarius 'A' isn't a black hole at all, but a wormhole. Both types of structures contain an impenetrable event horizon, but are otherwise very different. For instance, black holes theoretically take a long time to form following the collapse of large stars and can be massive. Wormholes are also permitted by general relativity, but if they actually exist, were formed in a split second after the big bang and would be small structures. And as any science fiction buff knows, wormholes aren't bottomless pits like black holes but can join two vast sections of space-time, or even two separate universes. GRAVITY will detect the signature of our own black hole, and look for telltale energy signatures of wormholes created by orbiting plasma (see below). As for the rapid space-time travel, though, don't hold your breath -- while stabilizing a wormhole is theoretically possible, it wouldn't be easy.

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The future of Formula 1 could involve AR headsets and farting

What's the next frontier for F1? If these guys get their way, races will be run on intelligent tracks, drivers will wear augmented reality headsets and cars will breathe air for extra thrust. Team Lotus and the energy drink Burn (nope, us neither) have teamed up to produce Human Ignition, a documentary that imagines what Formula 1 could be like in 2022, while also telling you that energy drinks are really rad (it's embedded, in three parts, after the break). One of the concepts offered up was that the driver would wear an AR helmet that showed them the airflows around their vehicle, making it easier to slipstream their rivals. Another would be to have the cars re-shape their gills in motion in order for them to "breathe," drawing in more air and forcing it out for more thrust coming out of a bend. After which, the designers thought about how those jets could be used to create "dirty wind," channeling the airflow to prevent your rivals from slipstreaming you. Nasty.

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AT & T multi billion dollar buy DirecTV could depend on... Football?

An idyllic Sunday afternoon with news of a multibillion-dollar takeover of AT & T and DirecTV ruined people and - surprise, surprise - have not stopped to talk about yet. It is at least partly due to a clause in interesting break the two parties have developed: AT & T can wash your hands of the acquisition if DirecTV somehow locking up the rights to NFL Sunday ticket for a couple of years to do.

Not a fan of pigskin? Sunday ticket subscribers receive access to the full set of NFL games, not by local television affiliates in Exchange for approximately $39 per month (you can pay natch mobile, a bit more access) are managed. Finally something like 2 million 20 million DirecTV customers for everything pay fame - rust shows count, assuming that all figures for the General Plan (which is certainly not the case), a little back of the napkin math, that DirectTV more than 1.32 billion $ this customers can annually earn. Disable the rights to offer that cost a these games of football DirecTV large tranche of 4 billion $ for 4 years, so advantage of entertaining is not so impressive, but there is little me require the at & t is so interested. If we want to be honest, you can chances of DirecTV mucking things of his NFL deal are very low, but it's always interesting to see what (if present) throw roadblocks that these two giants closer pulling each other. 0 comments to share

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Netflix could launch in France on a technicality

Netflix could soon arrive to the streaming-deprived netizens of France, but looks set to use a Luxembourg loophole to dodge stringent film industry laws, according to Les Echos. The US company has a similar arrangement in the UK and other parts of the EU, mainly for tax reasons. In France, however, broadcasters must also re-invest around a quarter of their revenues in French and European productions due to cultural protection laws. Netflix would be exempt from those rules in Luxembourg, and the French Culture Minister told Le Figaro that she couldn't block the company from operating in France that way. Still, with Netflix rumored to be coming there this fall, the film industry is already lobbying for foreign-based streaming companies to pay the same fees as local broadcasters. And as Google learned, regulators there don't tolerate any merde. 0 Comments Share

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