The US Navy hopes to have operational laser cannons on their ships within the next four years. They will be used against fast-moving targets like cruise missiles, speedboats and drones. ­The Navy hopes to have a working prototype for the futuristic laser weapon within two years, Wired reports. “The contract will probably have options go through four years, but depending on which laser source the... 

Last week, Intel introduced to the public in Russia and other CIS countries a family of processors Intel Xeon E5-2600. They are more powerful and reliable and, importantly, are very economical in terms of energy consumption. Their presence opens a new era in the field of IT technologies and means that the cloud technology is getting closer. These processors are primarily designed for servers, data... 

An interesting report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) states that a test launching of a “massive” and “highly secretive” space-type aircraft by the US Navy sparked a panic in Washington State this past week after this crafts Magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) / lithium Lorentz force accelerator (LiLFA) engines failed to properly ignite. Local... 

Samsung Galaxy Note: The new S3 has a bigger screen, closer to the mid-sized Note tablet/phone. It will also have a quad-core processor when it launches in April, say several reports Samsung’s Galaxy S3 will go on sale in April – and will launch in the UK first as part of a tie-in with the Olympics this year. The hi-tech handset is the follow-up to one of the most iconic Android smartphones... 

The speech-jamming gun Japanese researchers have invented a hand-held speech-jamming gadget that can painlessly force people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University developed the portable ‘SpeechJammer’ gun that can silence people more than 30 meters (100 feet) away. In their research... 

A three-dimensional image of a single-atom transistor Scientists have built a one-atom nano-transistor by placing a tiny phosphorous atom within atomic scale electrodes all within a silicon crystal. Physicists from the ARC Center for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at the University of New South Wales in Australia used a scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate atoms on the surface... 

Associate Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh (L) and Professor Michael Strano have discovered a new power source through nanotechnology. Australian professor Michael Strano and Iranian associate professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh have discovered a new power source for energy storage and power generation. Associate Professor Kalantar-Zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT... 

Soyuz-5 rocket at vehicle assembly building of Plesetsk space center A former chief test engineer of Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome, who was exposed as a CIA agent, has been sentenced to 13-year prison term. He admitted selling top secret data on Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles to the US. Ex-Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Nesterets was found guilty of treason by a closed military court, the... 

Today, Nokia announced that it’s going to cut 4,000 more jobs at its factories in Hungary, Mexico and Finland in an effort to improve the production efficiency of said plants. The company plans on moving a larger part of the production of its smartphones to Asia, which it says will help reduce the time it takes for its products to reach the market. As Nokia continues to suffer the effect of... 

A senior lawmaker says Iran’s Majlis is considering a plan to cut off the country’s economic transactions with South Korea’s Samsung in reaction to the company’s anti-Iran teaser. Head of Majlis Energy Committee Arsalan Fat’hipour said the double-urgency plan, aimed at imposing a complete ban on buying all Samsung products, would make the company regret making the insulting... 

Having considered the toughness of the rock-hidden Iranian nuclear facilities, America’s Nutcracker military command has decided to save jaw and develop a new conventional superbomb, since the US still plans to do the job in Iran without nukes. ­Washington has once again reminded Tehran that it has the military capability to crack Iranian hard-target nuclear sites with conventional weapons, leaking... 

A new international project is scheduled to be launched to assess the threat posed by asteroids or comets and look for solutions to protect Earth from an impact. The new European-led NEOShield project will calculate any threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and figure the best possible way to shield the Earth. The project initiated by the German space agency’s (DLR) Institute of Planetary... 

Samsung unveiled its transparent 46-inch LCD Smart Window panels at CES 2012 show, Vesti.Ru reports. The lighting, which is an inseparable part of any LCD display is only used during the dark time of the day. During the daytime, the panel uses the light that comes from the sun or from the room illumination. The South Korean electronic giant promised to establish the production of such transparent... 

Scientists at Cornell University have created a new invisibility technique that doesn't just cloak an object but also masks an entire event. Pentagon-sponsored scientists at Cornell University have invented a time cloaking device that makes an entire event invisible for a very short period of time. According to a study published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature, the new device... 

The ADS (Active Denial System) is an American non lethal weapon. Non-lethal weapons leave no immediately visible marks on their victims, but can cause startling psychological and physical destruction. And a leak of the latest Pentagon projects shows that fears of such dystopian damage are already coming true. ­In a 1908 New York Times letter to the editor, revolutionary scientist Nikola Telsa wrote,...