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Visit Tunexwizard for more tech The world's "largest, fastest" 3D printed drone. CREDIT: Stratasys A new jet-powered drone might be the most complex flying machine ever built using 3D printing. The drone, which made its debut at the Dubai Airshow earlier this month, looks nothing like your average 3D-printed toy plane. It has a 9-foot-long (3 meters) wingspan and an aerodynamic design that gives it a futuristic appearance. But about 80 percent of the sleek, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is designed and manufactured using  3D printing methods, according to Aurora Flight Sciences and Stratasys, the companies that developed the drone. The UAV weighs just 33 lbs. (15 kilograms) and can fly at speeds exceeding 150 mph (241 km/h). [ The 10 Weirdest Things Created by 3D Printing ] "To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest, fastest and most complex 3D-printed UAV ever produced," Dan Campbell, aerospace research engineer at Aurora Flight ...

The RF-Capture device can track people's movements through walls. Credit: MIT/CSAIL View full size image "X-ray vision" that can track people's movements through walls using radio signals could be the future of smart homes, gaming and health care, researchers say. A new system built by computer scientists at MIT can beam out radio waves  that bounce off the human body. Receivers then pick up the reflections, which are processed by computer algorithms to map people’s movements in real time, they added. Unlike other  motion-tracking devices , however, the new system takes advantage of the fact that radio signals with short wavelengths can travel through walls. This allowed the system, dubbed RF-Capture, to identify 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy, the researchers said. The RF-Capture system could even track their movements to within 0.8 inches (2 centimeters). [ 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Li...

In a new study, researchers were able to bend and "squeeze" light. This light-warping technology could drive the development of light-based microchips for quantum computers. Credit: Peter Allen, Harvard SEAS View full size image For the first time, scientists have achieved infinite speeds on a microchip. Although this advance will not enable faster-than-light starships, the light-warping technology behind this innovation could lead to new light-based microchips and help enable powerful quantum computers, researchers said. Light travels at the speed of about 670 million miles per hour (1.08 billion km/h) in a vacuum, and is theoretically the fastest possible speed at which matter or energy can travel. Exceeding this speed limit should lead to impossible results such as time travel, according to  Einstein's theory of relativity . However, in a way, researchers have overcome this barrier for decades. [ Warped Physics: 10 Effects of Faster-Than-Light Tr...

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Nvidia Updates Shield Tablet, Shaves $100 Off Price By Quinten Plummer Nov 20, 2015 5:00 AM PT ManageEngine OpManager , a powerful NMS for monitoring your network, physical & virtual (VMware/ HyperV) servers & other IT devices. Deploy and start monitoring in less than an hour. Trusted by over a million admins world-wide.  Try it for free . Nvidia  on Tuesday revealed a refreshed Shield Tablet K1 and indicated that it isn't done updating the gaming slate. One of the biggest parts of the refresh is a cut of US$100 off the price of the 16-GB tablet. The original Shield Tablet was available in a $299 16-GB version and a $399 32-GB variant. There's also a new battery, replacing the fire-prone cells that caused Nvidia to recall the original Shield Tablets back in July. What Else Is New The refreshed Shield Tablet has picked up silicon grips, but it dropped LTE and the 32-GB variant. WiFi and the 16 GB of storage remain. With its microSD card and micro-U...