Pentagon Helps New Stealth Fighter Cheat on Key Performance Test
It seemed like a promising step for America’s next stealth fighter: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter passed a key Pentagon test of its combat capability. But it turns out that the family of jets cleared the mid-February exam only because its proctor agreed to inflate its grade. In essence, the military helped the F-35 cheat…
Incredible Lion Photos Taken with Camouflaged RC Camera Car, and More from TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger we have robotic cheetahs, solar backpacks, doggie vacation rentals, penny-sized flying robots and more! 1. Robotic Cheetah Smashes Speed Record for Legged Robots By flexing its back, this galloping robot increases its stride and dramatically beats previous speed records for legged robots. Here’s how. 2. ZBoard Crosses a Skateboards with Segways…
HP’s Laser-Powered Chip of the Future
By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light. Codenamed Corona, this laser-powered contraption would handle ten trillion floating points operations a second. In other words, if you put just five of them together, you’d approach the speed of today’s supercomputers. The chip’s 256 cores…