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Super-strong aluminum alloy that as strong as steel

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<b>Researchers
 have demonstrated how to create a <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q1/new-research-yields-super-strong-aluminum-alloy.html" target="_blank">super-strong aluminum alloy</a> that 
rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential 
industrial applications.</b><br />
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“Most lightweight aluminum alloys are soft and have inherently low 
mechanical strength, which hinders more widespread industrial 
application,” said Xinghang Zhang, a professor in Purdue University’s 
School of Materials Engineering. “However, high-strength, lightweight 
aluminum alloys with strength comparable to stainless steels would 
revolutionize the automobile and aerospace industries.”<br />
New research shows how to alter the microstructure of aluminum to 
impart greater strength and ductility. Findings were detailed in two new
 research papers. The work was led by a team of researchers that 
included Purdue postdoctoral research associate Sichuang Xue and 
doctoral student Qiang Li.<br />
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The new high-strength aluminum is made possible by introducing 
“stacking faults,” or distortions in the crystal structure. While these 
are easy to produce in metals such as copper and silver, they are 
difficult to introduce in aluminum because of its high “stacking fault 
energy.”<br />
A metal’s crystal lattice is made up of a repeating sequence of 
atomic layers. If one layer is missing, there is said to be a stacking 
fault. Meanwhile, so-called “twin boundaries” consisting of two layers 
of stacking faults can form. One type of stacking fault, called a 9R 
phase, is particularly promising, Zhang said.<br />
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Now, researchers have learned how to readily achieve this 9R phase and nanotwins in aluminum.<br />
“These results show how to fabricate aluminum alloys that are 
comparable to, or even stronger than, stainless steels,” he said. “There
 is a lot of potential commercial impact in this finding.”<br />
Xue is lead author of the Nature Communications paper, which is the 
first to report a “shock-induced” 9R phase in aluminum. Researchers 
bombarded ultrathin aluminum films with tiny micro-projectiles of 
silicon dioxide, yielding 9R phase.<br />
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“Here, by using a laser-induced projectile impact testing technique, 
we discover a deformation-induced 9R phase with tens of nanometers in 
width,” Xue said.<br />
The microprojectile tests were performed by a research group at Rice 
University, led by professor Edwin L. Thomas, a co-author of the Nature 
Communications paper. A laser beam causes the particles to be ejected at
 a velocity of 600 meters per second. The procedure dramatically 
accelerates screening tests of various alloys for impact-resistance 
applications.<br />
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“Say I want to screen many materials within a short time,” Zhang 
said. “This method allows us to do that at far lower cost than otherwise
 possible.”<br />
Li is lead author of the Advanced Materials paper, which describes 
how to induce a 9R phase in aluminum not by shock but by introducing 
iron atoms into aluminum’s crystal structure via a procedure called 
magnetron sputtering. Iron also can be introduced into aluminum using 
other techniques, such as casting, and the new finding could potentially
 be scaled up for industrial applications.<br />
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The resulting “nanotwinned” aluminum-iron alloy coatings proved to be
 one of the strongest aluminum alloys ever created, comparable to 
high-strength steels.<br />
“Molecular-dynamics simulations, performed by professor Jian Wang’s 
group at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, showed the 9R phase and 
nanograins result in high strength and work-hardening ability and 
revealed the formation mechanisms of the 9R phase in aluminum,” Zhang 
said. “Understand new deformation mechanisms will help us design new 
high strength, ductile metallic materials, such as aluminum alloys.”<br />
One potential application might be to design wear- and 
corrosion-resistant aluminum alloy coatings for the electronics and 
automobile industries.<br />
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<b>Abstract</b><br />
Light-weight aluminum (Al) alloys have widespread applications. However,
 most Al alloys have inherently low mechanical strength. Nanotwins can 
induce high strength and ductility in metallic materials. Yet, 
introducing high-density growth twins into Al remains difficult due to 
its ultrahigh stacking-fault energy. In this study, it is shown that 
incorporating merely several atomic percent of Fe solutes into Al 
enables the formation of nanotwinned (nt) columnar grains with 
high-density 9R phase in Al(Fe) solid solutions. The nt Al–Fe alloy 
coatings reach a maximum hardness of ≈5.5 GPa, one of the strongest 
binary Al alloys ever created. In situ uniaxial compressions show that 
the nt Al–Fe alloys populated with 9R phase have flow stress exceeding 
1.5 GPa, comparable to high-strength steels. Molecular dynamics 
simulations reveal that high strength and hardening ability of Al–Fe 
alloys arise mainly from the high-density 9R phase and nanoscale grain 
sizes.<br />
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Super-strong aluminum alloy that as strong as steel

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Scientists building world's most-powerful 'SUPER LASERS' that can RIP holes in space

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<span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Scientists can potentially use lasers to CHANGE the weather</b></span><br />
Boffins in Shanghai, China, have been designing the world's <a href="https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2018/01/24/china-building-super-laser-can-rip-holes-space/" target="_blank">most powerful laser</a>.<br />
The team has already made history with its earlier invention, the 
Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility have already set records.<br />
The machine is small enough to fit on a tabletop, and contains a disc, 
the width of a frisbee, which is made of titanium-topped sapphires.<br />
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POWERFUL: Scientists in China are designing a laser powerful enough to rip a hole in space<br />
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 Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF),  has set power records yet fits on tabletops.<br />
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But this small device, by pushing light through the crystal and 
refracting it off a series of mirrors and lenses, is able to produce 
unbelievable amounts of power.<br />
The laser set records in 2016 when it produced a pulse of 5.3 petawatts (million billion watts).<br />
The blasts are incredibly brief, lasting less than a trillionth of a second.<br />
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Amplifiers for the University of Rochester's OMEGA-EP, lit up by flash lamps, could drive a U.S. high-power laser.<br />
But the team hopes to beat its own record, and produce a 10 petawatt 
shot — or 1,000 times the power of all of the world's electrical grids 
combined.<br />
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<b>This year physicist Ruxin Li and his team are planning on building a laser that will pack a mind-boggling 100 petawatt burst.<img alt=":-)" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" src="https://defence.pk/pdf/styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" title="Smile    :-)" /></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space" target="_blank">This year</a>, Li and colleagues intend to start building a 100-PW laser 
known as the Station of Extreme Light (SEL). By 2023, it could be 
flinging pulses into a chamber 20 meters underground, subjecting targets
 to extremes of temperature and pressure not normally found on Earth, a 
boon to astrophysicists and materials scientists alike. The laser could 
also power demonstrations of a new way to accelerate particles for use 
in medicine and high-energy physics. But most alluring, Li says, would 
be showing that light could tear electrons and their antimatter 
counterparts, positrons, from empty space—a phenomenon known as 
"breaking the vacuum." It would be a striking illustration that matter 
and energy are interchangeable, as Albert Einstein's famous E=mc<sup>2</sup>
 equation states. Although nuclear weapons attest to the conversion of 
matter into immense amounts of heat and light, doing the reverse is not 
so easy. But Li says the SEL is up to the task. "That would be very 
exciting," he says. "It would mean you could generate something from 
nothing."<br />
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The incredibly powerful laser could be used to make particle 
acceleration far cheaper and easier to do — making the Large Hadron 
Collider in CERN obsolete.<br />
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Scientists building world's most-powerful 'SUPER LASERS' that can RIP holes in space

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DJI Mavic Air: Unveils a new smartphone-size drone

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KJ-600 carrier-borne early-warning plane

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   <span style="color: blue;"> <b>KJ-600 </b></span><a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2130247/why-americas-stealth-jet-forces-should-fear-chinas-new" target="_blank">first building carrier-borne early-warning plane.</a><br />
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KJ-600 would be fitted an advanced active electronically scanned 
array, or AESA, radar which could enable it to spot stealth aircraft 
such as US F-22s and F-35s.<br />
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Beijing-based military expert Li Jie said the new surveillance plane could also become a command centre in the air.<br />

“AESA can detect stealth fighters at a very long range,” Li said.<br />
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US-based military website Eastern Arsenal reported last year that the
 KJ-600 was being built by Xi’an Aircraft Corporation, weighed 25-30 
tonnes, was powered by twin turboprop engines, and had a large AESA 
radar on its fuselage.<br />
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AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radar, which emits 
separate radio waves on different frequencies, on Navy ships. By rapidly
 changing frequencies, the radar is more difficult to fool. The system 
are apparently capable of locating a stealth aircraft within 220 miles.<br />
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<a href="http://ndupress.ndu.edu/portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-55.pdf" target="blank">“It is the physics of longer wavelength and resonance that enables VHF and UHF radar to detect stealth aircraft,”</a> Westra wrote in his article, titled “Radar vs. Stealth.”<br />
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<a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/northrop-grummans-e-2d-advanced-hawkeye-the-us-navys-eyes-18794?pUHF-band%20radars" target="blank">operate
 at frequencies between 300 MHz and one GHz, which results in 
wavelengths that are between 10 centimeters and one meter long.</a> 
Typically, due to the physical characteristics of fighter-sized stealth 
aircraft, they must be optimized to defeat higher frequencies in the Ka,
 Ku, X, C and parts of the S-bands.<br />
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There is a resonance effect that occurs when a feature on an 
aircraft — such as a tail-fin tip — is less than eight times the size of
 a particular frequency wavelength. That omnidirectional resonance 
effect produces a “step change” in an aircraft’s radar cross-section.<br />

Effectively, what that means is that small stealth aircraft that do 
not have the size or weight allowances for two feet or more of radar 
absorbent material coatings on every surface are forced to make trades 
as to which frequency bands they are optimized for.<br />
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    E-2 Hawkeye.<br />
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Military analysts said photographs of the KJ-600 suggested it was 
very similar to the E-2 Hawkeye, the US’ all-weather, carrier-capable 
tactical airborne early-warning aircraft.<br />

Military analyst Zhou Chenming, also based in Beijing, said the 
KJ-600 radar system would put the plane on a par with US early-warning 
aircraft.<br />

“The biggest advantage of the KJ-600 is it’s equipped with a more 
sophisticated radar and communication system allowing it to monitor a 
wider range of signals and even detect stealth fighters in a certain 
angle,” Zhou said.<br />
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 same basic operating system. That Android code includes settings that 
let you tailor your smartphone to your needs. In this guide, <a href="https://www.popsci.com/" target="_blank">we collected</a> 24 lesser-known customizations for you to toy with.<br />

Before we start, a quick caveat: Although the same Android code runs 
all of these phones, manufacturers often modify the operating system by 
slapping a software skin on top. Our instructions specifically apply to 
the current stock version Android, 8.0 Oreo, which you'll find on 
Google's latest Pixel phones.
 However if you own a phone that runs a different version of Android, 
you can still apply these settings—you just have to rummage around a 
little more to find them.<br />

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1. Increase font size</h2>
You don't have to squint and strain your eyes when viewing Android screens: Open the Settings app and choose <strong>Display</strong>, followed by <strong>Font size</strong>,
 to make adjustments. Drag the pointer along the slider to make changes,
 and check the preview window to see what the end result will look like.
 Once you set the Android font size, most apps will apply it.<br />

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2. Make sure you can find your phone</h2>
Worried about losing your phone? To maximize your chances of 
recovering a missing device, make sure to activate Android's built-in 
tracking system: Open Settings, go to <strong>Security & location</strong>, and tap <strong>Find My Device</strong>. After that, if you should misplace your phone, head to <a class="linkTargets-processed external" href="https://www.google.com/android/find" target="_blank">this page</a>
 in any browser and log in to your Google account. You'll be able to 
view your handset's location on a map, among other options. For more 
details, check out our guide to finding a lost phone.<br />

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3. Tweak the Quick Settings panel</h2>
Drag two fingers down from the top of the screen, and you'll open 
Android's Quick Settings panel, which provides immediate access to 
settings such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and flashlight mode. These shortcuts 
are useful, but you can make them even handier by customizing which ones
 show up and the order in which they appear. Open the panel, tap the pen
 icon on the lower left, and you'll be able to add shortcuts and drag 
the icons into a new arrangement.<br />

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4. Reduce data usage</h2>
Android includes a built-in system to limit how much data background 
apps can gobble up (at least when you're not connected to Wi-Fi). This 
mode will affect different apps in various ways—for example, in a 
browser, images might not show up unless you tap on them. To switch on 
this handy feature, open Settings and pick <strong>Network & internet</strong>, then <strong>Data usage</strong>, then <strong>Data Saver</strong>.<br />

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5. Stop new apps from creating shortcuts</h2>
By default, when you install an app, it automatically appears as a 
shortcut on one of your phone's home screens. This allows you to quickly
 launch a new app, but it can also clutter up your interface. To disable
 this default, perform a long press on any blank part of a home screen. 
When a menu pops up, choose <strong>Home Settings</strong> and turn off the <strong>Add icon to Home screen</strong>
 option. Note: This setting used to appear in the Play Store app, but in
 Android 8.0 Oreo, you can now access it from any home screen.<br />

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6. Rotate the home screens</h2>
Within an app, you can turn your phone to switch the view from 
portrait to landscape or vice versa. But the home screen doesn't come 
with the same default—you have to turn this option on. Return to the <strong>Home Settings</strong> screen discussed in the previous tip. Here, you can choose whether or not the home screens rotate with the phone by turning <strong>Allow Homescreen rotation</strong>
 on or off. Note: You won't be able to access this option (it will 
appear grayed out) if you've locked the orientation of your phone. To 
restore this ability, you must unlock your screen orientation: Open 
Settings, go to <strong>Display</strong>, and change the <strong>Auto-rotate screen</strong> option.<br />

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7. Project your phone on a bigger screen</h2>
Android now comes with built-in casting, so you can mirror the screen on any monitor or television equipped with a <a class="linkTargets-processed" href="https://www.popsci.com/advanced-chromecast-tricks">Chromecast device</a>. Although many apps have their own Chromecast buttons, you can also project any screen or app from the Settings. Just go to <strong>Connected devices</strong> and select <strong>Cast</strong>.<br />

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8. Change app permissions</h2>
How much of your personal information can any individual app access? 
You can see exactly which permissions an app has been granted by going 
to Settings, tapping <strong>Apps & notifications</strong>, and picking an app (or hitting <strong>See all</strong> to view the full list). Then, to view and edit that app's access, tap <strong>Permissions</strong>. For example, you might allow an app to access your contact list but not your location.<br />

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9. Control battery use</h2>
Android now optimizes apps so they won't drain the battery as much. 
For example, your email app can still run in the background, checking 
for updates, but it does so less frequently. However, you can exempt 
certain apps if you want them to always run at full throttle. Open 
Settings and tap <strong>Battery</strong>, then the menu button on the top right, then <strong>Battery optimization</strong>. Next, hit the <strong>Not optimized</strong> link, then <strong>All apps</strong>. Finally, select an app and pick the <strong>Don't optimize</strong> option.<br />

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10. Wake your phone with your voice</h2>
You don't have to touch your phone to gain access to Google 
Assistant. You just need to adjust your settings. Open the Google app, 
tap the menu button (three horizontal lines on the bottom right), and 
then hit <strong>Settings</strong> followed by <strong>Voice</strong>. Choose <strong>Voice Match</strong>,
 and then the phrase "OK Google" will work at any time, even when your 
device is locked. In fact, you can use voice recognition to unlock your 
phone this way.<br />

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11. Free up more memory</h2>
If you're running Android 7.0 Nougat or later, you can take advantage
 of Smart Storage. If your device is struggling for free space, this 
feature will automatically delete local copies of photos and videos that
 have safely been transferred to Google Photos. To enable it, open 
Settings, tap <strong>Storage</strong>, and turn on the <strong>Smart Storage</strong> toggle switch.<br />

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12. Adjust lock screen timing</h2>
Why bother reducing the time your phone takes to automatically lock 
the screen? Less down time makes it less likely someone will swipe your 
handset before it locks itself. This will also reduce battery drain, 
because the screen will stay lit for a shorter period. From Settings, 
head to <strong>Display</strong>, tap <strong>Advanced</strong>, and choose <strong>Sleep</strong>. Then you can pick a time-out period that works for you.<br />

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13. Customize notifications from specific contacts</h2>
To help you instantly identify who's calling—and to decide whether or
 not to pick up—you can assign certain contacts unique ringtones. Your 
default ringtone will remain the same—change it in Settings, under 
Sound, via the <strong>Phone ringtone option</strong>. To change 
notification settings for individuals, launch the Contacts app, tap on a
 contact name, open the menu (three dots on the top right), and choose <strong>Set ringtone</strong>. Then you can select a specific sound from a list.<br />

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14. Change volume levels separately</h2>
You might not want to play your podcasts at the same volume as your 
ringtone. To adjust those separately, launch Settings and open the <strong>Sound</strong>
 menu. Here, you'll find volume sliders for media, alarms, and 
ringtones. You can also access individual volume settings by pressing 
the physical volume button, which will make one slider appear on screen,
 and then tapping the down-pointing arrow to the right. This will open a
 drop-down menu where you can see all three volume sliders.<br />

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15. Unlock your phone in your car</h2>
Once you're securely seated in your car, you might want your phone to
 unlock itself. This would let you open a map without entering a code, 
and would allow any passengers to put on your favorite tunes. Android 
can do this by recognizing your car stereo as a "trusted" Bluetooth 
device, one that proves you're in possession of your phone. From 
Settings, head to <strong>Security & location</strong>, then <strong>Smart Lock</strong>, then <strong>Trusted device</strong>. Finally, work through the simple setup process, and then your phone will unlock when it's in the presence of your car stereo.<br />

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16. Turn on Wi-Fi automatically</h2>
Keeping your Wi-Fi off
 while you're out and about increases your phone's security and 
preserves its battery. But in the presence of a strong, trusted Wi-Fi 
network, one that you've used in the past, Android 8.0 Oreo can 
automatically turn your phone's Wi-Fi back on. From Settings, tap <strong>Network & Internet</strong>, then <strong>Wi-Fi</strong>, then <strong>Wi-Fi preferences</strong>. Finally, turn on the <strong>Turn on Wi-Fi automatically</strong> toggle switch.<br />

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17. Change notification priorities</h2>
Oreo also lets you prioritize different types of notifications from a
 given app. In Gmail, for example, you might choose to receive a noisy 
alert for important emails and a less obtrusive one for regular updates.
 Open Settings, tap <strong>Apps & notifications</strong>, and pick a specific app or tap <strong>See all</strong> to view a full list. Different apps will offer different categories of alerts, so choose <strong>App notifications</strong> to view them and configure different sounds for each.<br />

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18. Quickly switch between apps</h2>
Jumping immediately from app to app is not, strictly speaking, a 
setting—but it still makes a very useful shortcut. A single tap on the 
Overview button, which is the square icon in the navigation bar, brings 
up a view of all your open apps as tabs. However, if you double-tap on 
the button, you'll immediately jump from your current app to the one you
 were previously using.<br />

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19. Change emoji mode</h2>
You can view emojis on the default <a class="linkTargets-processed external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin" target="_blank">Google keyboard</a>
 for Android by tapping on the emoji button to the left of the space 
bar. But did you know you can pull up emojis with different skin colors 
or genders by pressing and holding on an individual icon? This works on 
most emojis depicting people or body parts, such as a thumbs up.<br />

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20. Show emergency information</h2>
If someone should discover your phone after you've been in an 
accident, having your key medical information show up on the lock screen
 could save your life. To do this, open Settings, choose <strong>Users & accounts</strong>, then tap <strong>Emergency information</strong>. You can provide details like allergies and organ donor status, as well as emergency contacts.<br />

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21. Move the cursor more delicately</h2>
Using only your clumsy fingers, you probably have a hard time 
highlighting specific sections of text. If you're using the default 
Google keyboard, then this neat trick will make it easier to move the 
text cursor just one or two characters at a time. Launch any app where 
you can write and edit text, such as your SMS program, and tap in a text
 box to pull up the keyboard on screen. Then, instead of moving the 
cursor within the text box itself, place your finger on the space bar. 
Tap and drag left or right on the spacebar to move the text-editing 
cursor in the same direction.<br />

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22. Tweak the color range</h2>
A phone's "color gamut" controls the range of colors that you see on 
screen—a wider gamut means colors will appear more vibrant, but also 
less natural. You can adjust the gamut in Settings by going to <strong>Display</strong>, choosing <strong>Colors</strong>, and choosing <strong>Natural</strong>, <strong>Boosted</strong>, or <strong>Saturated</strong>.
 Depending on the make and model of your phone, you may see different 
options listed here. Play around with them to find the color scheme that
 works best for you.<br />

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23. Snooze notifications</h2>
To clear a cluttered notification menu, you can drag individual 
alerts to the left, and they'll disappear. But what if you want to clear
 those distractions now, but revisit them later, when you have time to 
deal with them properly? Snoozing notifications is a fantastically 
useful feature only available on phones that run Android 8.0 Oreo. Drag 
any notification to the right, and a clock icon will appear. Tap the 
clock, and you can choose to snooze the alert for 15 minutes, 30 
minutes, 1 hour, or 2 hours. Once the time has expired, the notification
 reappears as if it's come through for the first time.<br />

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24. Get help from Cortana</h2>
When it comes to various AI assistants, everyone has a favorite. If 
you prefer Microsoft's digital helper to Google Assistant or Bixby, you 
can install <a class="linkTargets-processed external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.cortana" target="_blank">Cortana for Android</a>. You can even make it the default app that appears when you hold down the Home button: Open Settings, go to <strong>Apps & notifications</strong>, and then tap <strong>Advanced</strong>, <strong>Default apps</strong>, <strong>Assist & voice input</strong>, and <strong>Assist app</strong>.<br />
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24 hidden Android settings you should know about

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Harry Potter Prequel: Learn How Evil Voldemort Virtually Evolved

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If you’re one of 
the multimillion-strong Harry Potter fanclub, then you’ve got to follow 
the link to the unofficial prequel, posted on Saturday on YouTube.</div>
The 52-minute crowdfunded video made by die-hard Harry Potter fans from <a href="http://www.tryanglefilms.com/#vooth" rel="nofollow">Tryangle</a>
 has so far been watched roughly 1.5 million times. It portrays the 
early years of dark wizard Tom Riddle, who later becomes the saga’s main
 antagonist Voldemort.  <br />
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"Voldemort: Origins of the Heir" is a non-profit fan film, inspired 
by the Harry Potter universe. The idea was born while re-reading the 
sixth book of the saga, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince," the 
company wrote on its website. They went on to say the production is not 
affiliated with Joanne Rowling and nor with Warner Bros, the producers 
of the Harry Potter movies.<br />
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"What made Tom Riddle become Voldemort? What 
happened in those years, and what really went down at Hogwarts when he 
came back? There are some clues in the books which have not been 
transposed at all in the movies, but a lot goes unspoken. This is the 
story we want to tell: the rise of the Dark Lord before Harry Potter and
 his first demise."</div>
The award-winning Harry Potter movies are based on Joanne Rowling’s 
much loved fantasy novels.  The franchise comprises nine movies, 
spanning from the 2001 release of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s 
Stone" up to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2" in 2011. The 
saga is in the top three grossing movie series globally.<br />
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Earlier the Metro newspaper posted a curious story of how one key 
word in the Potter books and screen adaptations had been increasingly 
mispronounced by fans. And this is "knut", the smallest coin in the 
wizarding world. The letter 'k' is apparently pronounced, contrary to 
"knock" and "knee."<br />
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Electric cars are two times cheaper to operate than gas cars

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<b><a href="http://www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/PDF/SWT-2018-1_Abstract_English.pdf" target="blank">Relative Costs of Driving Electric and Gasoline Vehicles in the Individual U.S. States (2018)</a></b><br />
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The following are the main findings:<br />
(1)   The current average annual cost of driving a typical new gasoline 
vehicle in the United States is $1,117, with a maximum of $1,509 in 
Hawaii and a minimum of $993 in Alabama.<br />
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(2)   The current average annual cost of driving a typical new BEV in the 
United States is $485, with a maximum of $1,106 in Hawaii and a minimum 
of $367 in Louisiana.<br />
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(3)   The ratio of the current average costs of driving a typical gasoline
 vehicle and a typical BEV in the United States is 2.3, with a maximum 
of 3.6 in Washington and a minimum of 1.4 in Hawaii.<br />
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(4)   The required fuel economy that gasoline vehicles would need to 
exceed for driving them to be less expensive than driving BEVs is 57.6 
mpg in the United States, with a maximum of 90.0 mpg in Washington and a
 minimum of 34.1 mpg in Hawaii.<br />
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The initial cost to buy an electric car is higher than the cost of 
buying a comparable gas-powered car. When you have driven about 50,000 
miles, the EV owner has earned back the up-front cost and will see 
cheaper operational costs for the life of the vehicle.<br />
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Assumptions in the report are that the average number of miles 
traveled by a light-duty vehicle in 2015—or 11,443 miles. The mileage of
 a gas car was pegged at the national average, which is 25 miles per 
gallon. And EV fuel consumption is based on the average efficiency of 
today’s EVs, which is 33 kilowatt-hours per 100 miles or about the 
equivalent of 102 miles per gallon. The national average gas price is 
$2.44 a gallon, and the average cost for a kilowatt-hour of electricity 
is $0.1284. (Many EV drivers, especially those with solar, pay 
significantly less than $0.12 per kWh.)<br />
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China in talks for sale of jet engine technology to Germany

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China is in talks to sell Germany state-of-the-art machinery and 
technology critical in the manufacture of high-performance jet engines, a
 senior government scientist has revealed.<br />

The machinery produced turbine blades capable of withstanding 
temperatures several hundred degrees Celsius higher than the melting 
point of metallic alloys, the scientist said.<br />
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The scientist, who is involved in the negotiations, asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.<br />
Turbine blades convert heat generated by combusted fuel into the energy 
that propels a plane. The blades are one of the most important 
components in modern aircraft, both military and civilian, and their 
quality determines how safe, powerful and durable a jet engine will be.<br />
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The technological progress could be a very important step for 
made-in-China jet engines, with China now the world’s largest market for
 commercial aircraft. Thousands of planes are on order from Airbus and 
Boeing, and China is also developing its own C919 passenger jet.<br />
In recent years, tremendous leaps in blade-processing technology, 
combined with breakthroughs in alloy casting and aerodynamic design, 
have allowed China to produce a brand-new series of powerful military 
jet engines.<br />
The most notable example is the WS-15 turbofan jet engine, designed for 
use in China’s J-20 stealth fighter. The WS-15 has experienced 
reliability problems, but state media boasted last year that its 
performance matched that of the Pratt & Whitney F119, the world’s 
most advanced jet engine in military service, which was developed in the
 United States for the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighter.<br />
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China and the US are the only countries in the world with tactical stealth jets in service.<br />
“We are willing to share with industrial partners in Germany our latest 
hardware and technology,” the scientist said. “Industrial 
representatives from the two sides have finished the first round of 
contact.”<br />

The export of state-of-the-art machinery to Germany – traditionally 
known for its high-quality products – would improve the international 
image of China’s manufacturing industry, he said.<br />
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A delegation from Xian, the capital of China’s northwestern Shaanxi 
province and the main production base for China’s military aircraft 
engines, would visit Berlin early this year to draft an export proposal 
with German counterparts, the scientist said.<br />
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The scientist asked that the government and business bodies involved not
 be named because the negotiations were still in their initial stage. 
The deal would require both Chinese and German government approval given
 the sensitivity of the machinery and technology involved, which could 
be used for both military and civilian purposes.<br />
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Beijing has expressed support for the possible deal.<br />

“The collaboration between China and Germany is continuing to deepen in 
multiple sectors, the positive progress achieved is broadly recognised, 
which reflected the high level of Sino-German relations,” the Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday in response to <i>South China Morning Post</i> questions about the negotiations.<br />
The prospects for cooperation between the two sides in the fields of 
hi-tech and intellectual property are very promising … we would like to 
work together with Germany to promote new progress in cooperation in the
 relevant fields under the principle of mutual openness, mutual benefits
 and mutual development.”<br />

The German embassy in Beijing did not respond to a request for comment.<br />
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Professor Chen Jiang, from Beijing University of Aeronautics and 
Astronautics, who was involved in the development of new jet engines for
 China’s air force, said he would not be surprised if China provided 
military jet engine technology to Germany, which built the world’s first
 jet fighter at the end of the second world war and supplies many jet 
engine components, including turbine blades, to American and British 
manufacturers.<br />
“It is quite possible,” he said. “China’s manufacturing has achieved 
some remarkable progress on numerous strategic sectors in recent years.”<br />
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But another Beijing-based jet engine scientist, who worked in Germany for years, said the deal might not eventuate.<br />
“Germany is an ally of the United States,” he said. “It will face many 
restrictions to work with China in this sensitive field of technology.”<br />
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The German government and German companies had also voiced concerns 
about China’s infringement of intellectual property rights through 
reverse engineering or direct copying, he said.<br />
China’s turbine blade breakthroughs have won numerous top national 
science and technology prizes since 2010. They include the development 
of a unique hollow structure to make lighter and stronger blades; new 
single-crystal alloys capable of withstanding high temperatures; and a 
special membrane that can be applied to a blade’s surface to accelerate 
cooling. Two of the national science and technology prizes announced by 
Beijing this week were awarded for work on turbine blades: one for 
single crystal alloys and the other to do with mechanical grinding.<br />
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The Chinese machinery being discussed with the Germans uses ultra-fast 
laser beams to bore extremely small holes or other fine structures on a 
turbine blade that allow air to flow through it and take away harmful 
heat.<br />
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The scientist in Xian said laser processing was widely used in making 
jet engines, but China was using a new technical approach that differed 
from the traditional methods adopted in the US and Britain.<br />
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The US, Britain and France are home to the world’s four dominant jet 
engine makers: General Electric (GE), Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce 
and CFM.<br />
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He said one challenge was to achieve high output while keeping defect 
rates low. GE, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce had been researching 
the manufacture of turbine blades for decades and guarded the technology
 as one of their top business secrets.<br />
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“Our machine has outperformed theirs on some benchmarks,” the scientist 
said. “The Germans have seen and grown interested in our technology.”<br />
Another researcher involved in the negotiations said the export of the 
blade processing machine would be part of wider jet engine collaboration
 between the two countries.<br />
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“We will buy something else from them in return,” he said. “It can be 
either hardware or technology. The Germans are very good at the design 
and engineering of compressors [which send fresh air into the combustion
 chamber].”<br /> <br />
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Professor Peng Jiahui, who studied laser processing technology in 
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said many Chinese 
researchers and engineers who had worked at GE, Pratt &Whitney and 
Rolls-Royce had returned to China and significantly increased the pace 
of jet engine development.<br />
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But a more important factor driving China’s technical innovation was the size of market, he said.<br />
China had more than 1,700 military planes in service, second only to the
 US. The demand for turbine blades from China’s air force, which was 
still expanding rapidly, required the industry to come up with better 
manufacturing methods.<br />
“China can make the best mobile phones because there is huge demand,” Peng said. “The same applies to jet engines.”<br />
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A top secret 
billion-dollar spy satellite plummeted into the Indian Ocean after a 
botched SpaceX mission over the weekend, but Elon Musk's company has 
insisted they are not to blame. In this image made with an 8-minute long
 exposure, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and 
lands as seen from from the Ocean Club Marina in Port Canaveral.<br />
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The mystery surrounding the fate of a 
secret military satellite deepened today when the Pentagon refused to 
answer even simple questions about whether the mission to launch it had 
gone awry.</div>
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On Sunday, private space firm SpaceX blasted a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying the secret government satellite, known as Zuma.</div>
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US media this week reported that the billion-dollar payload did not make it into orbit and was presumed to have been lost.</div>
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SpaceX
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success or a failure, two officials declined to provide any information 
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'I would have to refer you to SpaceX, who conducted the launch,' Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said.</div>
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When
 pushed on the matter, fellow spokesman Lieutenant General Kenneth 
McKenzie said: 'I'm done. We're not going to be able to give you any 
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Northrup Grumman, 
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would be delivered to low-Earth orbit, but offered no other details.</div>
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SpaceX
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The satellite, codenamed Zuma, launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Sunday night, but it reportedly failed to remain in orbit, officials said Wednesday. </div>
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The classified intelligence satellite, 
built by Northrop Grumman Corp, failed to separate from the second stage
 of the Falcon 9 rocket and is assumed to have broken up or plunged into
 the sea, said two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of 
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The satellite is assumed to be 'a write-off,' one of the officials said.</div>
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The presumed loss of the satellite was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.</div>
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Northrop
 Grumman built the multibillion-dollar satellite, code-named Zuma, and 
was responsible for choosing the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, both 
officials said.</div>
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An investigation is under way, but there is no initial indication of sabotage or other interference, they said. </div>
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Lawmakers
 and congressional staffers from the Senate and the House have been 
briefed about the botched mission, some of the officials told <a class="" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-satellite-believed-lost-after-spacex-mission-fails-1515462479?mod=e2tw#_=_" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">the </a>Wall Street Journal. </div>
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It claims the payload was 'an expensive, highly classified U.S. spy satellite.' </div>
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SpaceX's
 president Gwynne Shotwell defended the company's rocket performance 
launch of Zuma, saying that the Falcon 9 rocket 'did everything 
correctly' and suggestions otherwise are 'categorically false'.</div>
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Northrop
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The
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 it took 'great care to ensure the most affordable and lowest risk 
scenario for Zuma'.</div>
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The name refers to a
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A secret U.S. spy satellite may be a total loss after reports that it failed to reach orbit. The Space X rocket carrying the mysterious rocket Zuma blasted off Sunday and Reuters reports the multi-billion dollar rocket failed to separate from the Falcon 9 <a href="https://t.co/rzV7ChVVW8">https://t.co/rzV7ChVVW8</a> <a href="https://t.co/Mm2wBG4zkQ">pic.twitter.com/Mm2wBG4zkQ</a></div>
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The
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and toward space, then separated and landed back at Cape Canaveral. </div>
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But second-stage information was kept to a minimum because of all the secrecy surrounding the flight. </div>
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The rocket's second stage propels the satellite into orbit; however, an official confirmed to <a class="" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/classified-satellite-fell-ocean-spacex-launch-official-confirms/story?id=52246100" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">ABC News</a> that the satellite was unable to stay in orbit. </div>
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The
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were briefed on the mission as saying the satellite apparently did not 
separate from the second stage, and plunged through the atmosphere and 
burned up.</div>
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Originally 
scheduled for a November launch, Zuma was delayed by potential concern 
about another mission's payload fairing, the shell on top that protects a
 satellite during launch. The company later said it had cleared the 
issue.</div>
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Shotwell said in a statement 
that since no rocket changes are warranted for upcoming flights, the 
company's launch schedule remains on track. </div>
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If additional reviews uncover any problems, she said, 'we will report it immediately'.</div>
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Experts
 claimed the satellite was 'dead in orbit' - but say the information 
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Peter B. de Selding, a spaceflight reporter for'Space Intel Report' claimed a source <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/950473623483101186" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">told him</a> the satellite 'may be dead in orbit after separation'.</div>
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'Info blackout renders any conclusion - launcher issue? Satellite-only issue? - impossible to draw.' he added.<br />
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SpaceX
 told Selding: 'We do not comment on missions of this nature; but as of 
right now reviews of the data indicate Falcon 9 performed nominally.'</div>
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Photos and video show the launch of Zuma lighting up the Florida sky but the exact position of its orbit was kept a secret.</div>
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The
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two minutes disengaged its rocket booster, which then traveled back to 
and landed right at the Air Force Station. </div>
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Much of the trip was kept secret and it was not revealed where the ship traveled to in the atmosphere. </div>
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Selding said the lack of information was an issue.</div>
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'Distasteful to announce this stuff without beyond-reasonable-doubt certitude,' he tweeted.</div>
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'But if those in the know refuse to speak publicly, we all abhor the vacuum; the facts will emerge one way or another.'</div>
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The
 launch was broadcast on SpaceX's website but the entire mission was not
 live-streamed. What the ship is made out of, among other questions, has
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Previous reasons given for the delay in its launch were further testing being necessary and weather-related conditions.</div>
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Musk,
 meanwhile announced on January 4 that SpaceX will launch 'the world's 
most powerful rocket' later this month with his own electric car  on 
board.<br />
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The
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Canaveral, Florid.</div>
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Musk
 said the launch vehicle will blast off at the 'end of the month' on an 
unmanned mission with a unique payload - the billionaire's cherry red 
2008 Tesla Roadster, which will be fired toward Mars.</div>
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The
 rocket will use 27 engines and three separate re-usable cores that will
 return to Earth after liftoff during the test flight, which is set to 
be one of the firm's most technically complex challenges to date. </div>
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Elon Musk has 
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this month with his own electric car on board. The Falcon Heavy 
'megarocket' (pictured) will fire beyond orbit from the former Apollo 11
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Before the maiden launch, a full test firing of the rocket's engines is expected, Musk said.</div>
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'Falcon Heavy now vertical on the former Apollo 11 moon rocket launchpad,' he wrote on <a class="hoverZoomLink" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BdjBHqdAIzs/?taken-by=elonmusk" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Instagram</a> on Thursday.</div>
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'At
 2,500 tons of thrust, equal to 18 Boeing 747 aircraft at full throttle,
 it will be the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two. 
Excitement on launch day guaranteed, one way or another.</div>
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'Hold-down test fire next week. Launch end of the month.'</div>
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When
 it lifts off for the first time in late January, the Falcon Heavy will 
become the most powerful rocket in the world thanks to its 5.1 million 
pounds of thrust generated through 27 Merlin engines.</div>
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The
 vast rocket, which is ultimately three Falcon 9 rockets linked 
together, will have the combined thrust to eventually launch 140,000 
pounds (63,500kg) of cargo into orbit.<br />
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The mission marks SpaceX's most ambitious project to date.</div>
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Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, with the aim of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonisation of Mars. </div>
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The 46-year-old South African is also the CEO of Tesla, and predicts Falcon Heavy's payload will stay in deep space for a while.</div>
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A photo of the unusual cargo - Musk's cherry red 2008 Tesla Roadster - was released last month.</div>
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<span class="">Images
 released by SpaceX show an original Roadster perched on a large cone 
inside the Falcon Heavy on what appears to be a secure mount to keep it 
stationary as the rocket makes its maiden flight.</span></div>
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'Test
 flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of 
concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring,' Musk said in 
December.  </div>
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landings. The centre core of the rocket will then separate from the main
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JetPack Aviation teamed up with Insta360 to show off the upcoming JB11 jetpack at the Las Vegas Convention Center.</div>
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JetPack Aviation teamed up with Insta360 to create this awesome video. JPA will be making a WORLD PREMIER of the JB11 JetPack in the Insta360 booth at CES. If you are going to CES, stop by and say hello on Weds, Jan 10, at 2pm.  <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jetpackaviation?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#jetpackaviation</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/insta360one?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#insta360one</a> <a href="https://t.co/CnNbAbneZJ">pic.twitter.com/CnNbAbneZJ</a></div>
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JetPack Aviation’s creations are capable of vertical take-off and landing, unlike other types of wearable flight systems.</div>
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Despite its intimidating appearance, Mayman says landing the huge jetpack in such a trip is ‘very smooth.’</div>
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now, they’re unveiling their latest product. It’s ‘the world’s only 
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In November 2016, JetPack Aviation revealed its first creation was on sale to ‘well qualified buyers.'</div>
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Before then CEO David Mayman was the only person to use one of the jetpacks.</div>
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 In October, Sophia was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. Speaking at a
 conference (pictured) in Riyadh, Sophia said: 'I am very honoured and 
proud for this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first 
robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship'<br />
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Just months after she made history by becoming the first robot to be granted legal citizenship, Sophia has been given legs.</div>
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The humanoid robot, which is capable of holding a conversation with humans, can now <span style="font-size: 16px;">move forward in a series of clunky steps.</span></div>
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Sophia
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threatens – to revolutionise man's relationship with technology.</div>
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Sophia first emerged two years ago as a 
super-intelligent human-like head with a realistic face that was able to
 blink, look from side to side – and hold a conversation. </div>
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Kong firm Hanson Robotics, and controversially became the world's first 
robot to be granted legal rights.</div>
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At 
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they had given Sophia a pair of ugly, mechanical legs that produce 
movement closer to Frankenstein's monster than the young woman she 
pretends to be.</div>
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She is able to simulate
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people in the eye, and hold natural conversations.</div>
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At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the firm 
announced they had given Sophia a pair of ugly, mechanical legs that 
produce movement closer to Frankenstein's monster than the young woman 
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 Sophia represents a remarkable 'rise of the machines' that promises – or
 threatens – to revolutionise man's relationship with technology. 
Pictured is the android during an interview in November<br />
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WHO IS SOPHIA? </h3>
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Sophia
 first emerged two years ago as a super-intelligent human-like head with
 a realistic face that was able to blink, look from side to side and 
talk. </div>
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The humanoid robot, created by Hanson robotics can chat, smile mischievously and even tell jokes.</div>
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While
 Sophia has some impressive capabilities, she does not yet have 
consciousness, but Hanson said he expected that fully sentient machines 
could emerge within a few years.</div>
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Sophia herself has insisted 'the pros outweigh the cons' when it comes to artificial intelligence.</div>
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'Elders will have more company, autistic children will have endlessly patient teachers,' Sophia said.</div>
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Just months after she made history by becoming the first robot to be granted legal citizenship, Sophia has now been given legs. </div>
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Sophia (left) first emerged two years ago as a super-intelligent 
human-like head with a realistic face that was able to blink, look from 
side to side – and hold a conversation. The humanoid, which is modelled 
after Audrey Hepburn, was designed by Hong Kong firm Hanson Robotics <br />
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Sophia was sporting what appeared to be a pair of futuristic cowboy boots for her first steps<br />
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'To this end, I conduct research in 
robotics, artificial intelligence, the arts, cognitive science, product 
design and deployment, and integrate these efforts in the pursuit of 
novel human-robot relations.</div>
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He added: 
'We envision that a rough symbiotic partnership with us, our robots will
 eventually evolve to become super intelligent genius machines that can 
help us solve the most challenging problems we face here in the world.' </div>
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It is a development that raises many questions and fears, stoked by films like The Terminator, I Robot and even Blade Runner.</div>
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Details
 of her first steps were revealed by Hanson Robotics, who go by the 
motto 'We bring robots to life', at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 
in Las Vegas.</div>
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Hanson has signed a 
partnership with Rainbow Robotics and DASL (Drones and Autonomous 
Systems Lab) to help Sophia become a fully-fledged humanoid. </div>
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And the first step in her evolution was to
 add her brains and head to a highly sophisticated robot body, called a 
DRC-HUBO, which was developed by scientists in South Korea.</div>
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The
 DRC-HUBO body has beaten robots from around the work in a series of 
physical challenges. Some versions even have a 'transformer' ability to 
switch back and forth from a walking humanoid biped to a wheeled 
machine.</div>
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Chief Scientist at Hanson, Dr 
Ben Goertzel, said: 'Giving Sophia a more complete and robust embodiment
 is a key part of our ongoing, rapidly accelerating quest to supply her 
and our other Hanson robots with general intelligence at the human level
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'Integrating 
Sophia with a body that can allow her to walk completes her physical 
form so she can access the full range of human experiences, which will 
help her learn to live and walk among us.'</div>
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