By Kevin Zhang Now that Big Tech companies are pretty big, there has been some commentary that Big Tech is too big. Now that major tech companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google get even larger and more influential, the criticism intensifies. Now, …
Read More »Versatile Test Reactor
by David Zhang The Department of Energy recently announced it plan to build a nuclear reactor, its first since 1970. This will not be just any reactor however, as the reactor that is currently being planned is known as a Versatile Test …
Read More »Why Apple Canceled Its AirPower Wireless Charging Pad
Why Apple Cancels AirPower Wireless Charging Pad It is very unusual or even rare that Apple canceling an announced product, but on March, 29, 2019 it cancelled Airpower, the charging pad that it first announced in 2017, because of an inability to …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg’s Call to Action.
By: Kevin Zhang Recently, Mark Zuckerberg has written in multiple newspapers that he wants more regulation of social media sites by government. Zuckerberg is trying to say that social media companies such as Facebook do not have the power to control everything …
Read More »Condenser Vs. Dynamic Microphones
By: Evan Li A microphone is a device we use everyday, yet we know so little about it. This little useful everyday devices converts the sound inputted into small electrical currents. Microphones are one category of transducers, similar to headphones and loudspeakers. …
Read More »Graphene: The Best Material?
By Alex Wang Sorry Minecraft fans, but the hardest material in the world is not diamond; instead, it is a certain arrangement of carbon atoms called graphene. Discovered in a laboratory in Manchester, graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms that …
Read More »Night Vision in Humans?
by Kevin Zhang Scientists in the United States and China have recently claimed that they have developed a way to possibly enable humans to see infrared light. The technique is based on injecting the human eye or eye of another mammal with …
Read More »The future is here – with HoloLens 2
by Michael Zhang Augmented Reality, or AR, is an interesting field that draws a lot of attentions recently. Unlike VR (Virtual Reality) that has already established a user base focused on gaming, people are still trying to figure out what AR can …
Read More »NASA to send humans to the moon once again and “will stay”
by Alex Bao NASA to send humans to the moon once again – ‘but this time we’ll stay’ In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, becoming the first people in human history to do so. Between 1969 and …
Read More »Successful SpaceX Launch, Docks with Space Station
by Derek Dong Recently, on March 2, 2019, SpaceX launched it’s Crew Dragon capsule, and successfully docked with the ISS (international space station). The Crew Dragon capsule is actually an enhanced version of their Dragon capsule, which had already been ferrying cargo …
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