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“Self-Healing” Microchips Bring Us Closer to The Robot Apocalypse On board “immune system” lets chips route around damaged components. Electronic components are delicate. Get them too hot or too cold and they crap out. Hit them with a hammer, and they tend to stop working. Then again, the same thing can be said for people. Much like people, microchips may soon be capable of limited self-repair. A team of researchers at the California [...] ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a bullet that guides itself to the target. Sandia has wide expertise at miniature technology, and the bullet works like a tiny guided missile. The patented design doesn’t shoot straight. Instead of a spiral rotation, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself towards a laser directed point. It can make up to thirty corrections per second while in the air. Jim Jones, [...] Sandia Labs’ bullet doesn’t miss: krqe.com ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a bullet that guides itself to the target. Sandia has wide expertise at miniature technology, and the bullet works like a tiny guided missile. The patented design doesn’t shoot straight. Instead of a spiral rotation, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself towards a laser directed point. It can make up to thirty corrections [...] 011-OCT-28 According to CPM Group’s 2011 Silver Yearbook, investment demand was the main driver behind silver price increases in the past year. Total demand from investors in capital markets reached 142 million ounces, the third-highest level since the start of data recordings. Meanwhile, industry demand has also increased significantly, contributing to rising output from silver producers. Nevertheless, there was a large gap between new supply from mines [...] From this morning’s ISM report, a full look at the commodities where prices are rising, the commodities that are seeing falling prices, and those we’re running out of. Bad news for peanut, cashew, and almond lovers down at the bottom. —————- Commodities Up in Price Aluminum (8); Aluminum Products (4); Brass (5); Caustic Soda (2); Chemicals (2); Cocoa/Cocoa Powder (3); Copper (9); Copper Based Products (6); Copper Wire; [...] As usual, the most information can be gleaned from the general comments in the Survey Panel: 1. ?Commodity inflation hurting profits. Issuing first pricing increase in 3 year to help recover. |
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