
The great Chinese leap towards an impregnable internet
Chinese scientists have just established a record distance for quantum teleportation, 1,200km apart. A step further for data protection.
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Published 20 June 2017
Chinese scientists have just established a record distance for quantum teleportation, 1,200km apart. A step further for data protection.
Published 13 June 2017
The cream of the contemporary art world has finally caught up to the virtual reality frenzy. Never too late...
Published 30 May 2017
Early May, NASA launched a call for projects to create the future fablab of the International Space Station and develop digital fabrication in orbit.
Published 23 May 2017
After launching the Bio Academy and the Textile Academy, the Fab Academy is considering expanding its programs to design and storytelling.
Published 16 May 2017
Tortoises ridden by robots that guide them is the experience of a team of Korean researchers. A first step towards biobots?
Published 9 May 2017
Researchers in the United States demonstrated that the replication of the HIV could be stopped thanks to the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, kind of genetic scissors.
Published 5 May 2017
Safecast, best known for its DIY Geiger counter, the bGeigie, just announced on April 29 its newest device: Solarcast has sensors to measure temperature, humidity, radiation and air quality.
Published 28 April 2017
Programing an assistant robot has never been as simple, thanks to the software developed by a team from Georgia Tech University that offers a point and click interface.
Published 20 April 2017
On April 28 will be held in Toulouse (Southwestern France) the first NanoCar Race. Four international teams will “drive” molecular machines on a nano-sized racetrack.
Published 7 April 2017
Researchers from the University of California presented a rubber-like material that is stretchable and transparent, conducts ions and can heal itself to regain all its fantastic properties.
Published 5 April 2017
A research published by U.S. scientific journal «Nature» describes how CNRS developed the first physical model of an artificial synapse.
Published 3 April 2017
The e-commerce giant Alibaba signed agreements to collaborate with Australian and New Zealand companies to launch pilot frameworks based on blockchain.
Published 3 April 2017
An internet user on the other side of the world can remotely pilot objects of So Kanno and Yamaguchi Takahiro's "Avatars" installation, presented at Ycam, the arts and media center in Japan.
Published 28 March 2017
Preview of the winning prototypes of the Haptic Design Award exhibited at FabCafe Tokyo. When every object has a palpable soul...
Published 20 March 2017
In the biggest garbage dump in West Africa, in Ghana, a makerspace is being set up where one is beginning to imagine projects to improve the life conditions of the families living there and to create added value from rubbish.
Published 16 March 2017
The Democracy Fund, Knight Foundation and Rita Allen Foundation teamed up to launch a joint fund to support fresh and creative ideas to counter the spread of misinformation and build trust in quality journalism in the United States.
Published 12 March 2017
This March 14, one particularly numerically oriented artist duo decided to celebrate π Day (3/14) by launching an... unlimited edition artwork.
Published 1 March 2017
On one side, Handle by Boston Dynamics, a military-grade equine robot that rolls, jumps and spins; on the other, Spider, an excavator commissioned to crush and remove nuclear debris in Fukushima.
Published 1 March 2017
70 mini fablabs are set to be built in the next 9 months with the support of the Indian government in Kerala, South India.
Published 27 February 2017
Imagine a “DIY and inventive destruction” in animation from a 3D model: “White Noise” magazine calls for a project around the BBC East Tower, which will be soon destroyed for real.