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The walls and roof for the first factory building at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin are done. There appear to be four main buildings and several smaller ones. Tesla has published plans which...

US Federal Reserve Chairman James Powell has said interest rates are likely to stay low for years as the economy fights its way back from the coronavirus pandemic. For decades, the goal of US Federal...

Serbia and Kosovo have committed to economic normalization. By focusing on job creation and economic growth, the two countries were able to reach a real breakthrough on economic cooperation across a...

Nextbigfuture has had dozens of articles covering the experimental and theoretical propellantless propulsion system of James Woodward. In 2017-2018, there was belief that significant propulsion...

The SpaceX SN6 Starship prototype had a successful 150-meter hop test. This is the second SpaceX 150 meter hop test using a prototype Starship. There was Starhopper test flight in 2019. Elon Musk...

SpaceX has tweeted out that Starlink is providing over 100 Mbps download speeds in user tests. They launched the twelfth batch of 60 Starlink satellites. The speed and low latency is fast enough to...

Pfizer and BioNTech have a COVID-19 mRNA (messenger RNA) Vaccine candidate in a phase 3 trial. Pfizer will have up to 30,000 participants in phase 3 clinical trial that started in July 2020. As of...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputer modeling analysis suggests COVID-19 causes the inflammatory molecule bradykinin to run amuck in the human body. The Bradykinin storm cause gel to form in...

A letter from Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is telling states they will soon be receiving permit applications from McKesson Corp to distribute...

Mark Twain said history does not repeat but it often rhymes. This will likely be the case with the future of lithium-based battery storage having a dominance like silicon was dominant for decades for...

India had 35 million motorized vehicles in 2019 and this is expected to triple by 2035. 12% were cars but a third were two-wheel scooters and another third were motorized rickshaws. The top-selling...

Various companies will be making card-based COVID-19 tests. These will be simple to use and will be similar to some home pregnancy tests. They will eventually be usable at home but will be usable at...

Dr. Aubrey de Grey of SENS Research Foundation gave the keynote speech at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2020. Aubrey discussed the current state of the rejuvenation biotechnology industry and how the...

NASA reports that Space Launch system has a new development baseline cost estimate of $9.1 billion and the initial ground systems capability to support the mission is now $2.4 billion. Those costs...

South Korean researchers increased production of the VRK-1 protein to increase the lifespan of the C. elegans worm. The effect seems to be about a 30% increase when we look at the difference in 50%...

Intel is working on spin qubit quantum computer technology. Spin qubit transistors would be about the same size as existing CMOS transistors. The spin qubits would have the potential to have...

Neuralink is recruiting for great engineers to make brain repair affordable and reliable. They implanted brain read-write devices into brains in pigs. They have received emergency FDA approval in...

Some people are expecting some kind of crash for the big technology stocks. The run in the big technology companies has given Jeff Bezos a net worth over $200 billion. When you get historically...

Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, reports that the first generation of COVID-19 vaccines will give people who have vaccinated a 50% lower chance of...

Google has career certificates that can replace the four-year degree. People can complete the 3 to 6 month online programs that are taught by google employees. The certifications are currently for...

The Apple iOS 14 operating system will require apps to ask users for permission to collect and share data using Apple’s device identifier. Facebook will not collect the identifier for advertisers...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) is a NASA infrared space observatory that will launch in 2025. The funding for this and all NASA projects is...

The White House has announced additional funding for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum computing research. The US is adding over $1 billion in funding to setup seven Artificial Intelligence...

Older Redwood trees are able to survive wildfires because their bark is over one foot thick. 95% of California redwood trees were logged. Most of the trees are 10 to 100 years old. They tend to...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for investigational convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. The tests on 70,000...

This article will start with a financial comparison of Amazon in 2017 and 2018 with Tesla today and a financial projection for the third quarter and the fourth quarter. The article will also briefly...

Researchers have dated and studied 104 mustatil stone structures from the southern margins of the Nefud Desert in northern Arabia. Lead author is Huw S Groucutt of the Max Planck Institute in...

This is summarized information from Calfire on the major fires around the San Francisco bay area. Major fires are only barely being contained. If weather and luck go against the fire fighting then...

California has over 800,000 acres of wildfires. The biggest fires are only 10-15% contained. These fires will easily pass 1 million acres of fires. California had about 150 million dead trees in 2019...

The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) was presented at Hot Chips. Sanders Olson provided Nextbigfuture with the presentation deck. The Cerebras in the most powerful processor for AI with 1.2 trillion...

Dan Belov from DeepMind gave an overview of AI Research. He says for AI we should abandon our complex reliable processors for smaller, less reliable but much cheaper ones. Machine Learning is about...

The Nvidia A100 chip was presented at the Hot Chips conference. Sander Olson provided Nextbigfuture with the presentation. The Nvidia A100 is a third-generation Tensor Core chip. It is faster and...

The scale of Tesla’s near term and future dominance tricks you into thinking it is hype. You think that people who are trying to tell you about it are Elon Musk fans or people who have drunk...

Sander Olson has provided a new, original 2020 interview with Artificial General Intelligence expert and entrepreneur Ben Goertzel. Ben is the founder of SingularityNET. Question: Hanson Robotic’s...

Tesla and Elon Musk have accomplished a lot over the past ten years since June 2010 when they became a public company. This will review key aspects of what was done and how 8 months of continued...

The pandemic, with its various ripples across all aspects of our lives and society, has caught everyone off guard, prompting us to reevaluate our predictions of what the future holds. But out of the...

A new pocket-sized particle accelerator has proven capable of projecting ultra-short electron beams with laser light at more than 99.99% of the speed of light. Researchers, led by Lancaster and...

IBM has upgraded one of its newest 27-qubit client-deployed systems to achieve a Quantum Volume 64. Congratulations to IBM for advancing quantum computer technology that matches the best quantum...

This is a guide for best practices for stopping the spread of diseases (COVID-19, flu and other diseases.) We can maximize our economy, businesses and society while reducing disease. Simple steps can...

Written and Researched by Evan Wang (15), Certificate of Distinction by placing in the top 0.57% of more than 19,000 students (top 100 out of 19000) writing the Fermat Math contest globally....

Jeff Bezos is 2.5% away from being worth $200 billion. Amazon is worth $1.65 trillion which is about 7% away from passing Saudi Aramco to become the second most valuable company in the world. Apple...

The Fugaku supercomputer is the new fastest supercomputer and is almost 3 times faster than the Summit Supercomputer. Fugaku High Performance Linpack (HPL) was 415.5 petaflops. Fugaku uses Fujitsu’s...

NASA plans to launch the Psyche mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid that is also called Psyche. The critical design review is done and construction has started. They plan to launch August 2022...

95 brown dwarfs stars have been found and most are within a few dozen light-years of the Sun. Above – n this artist’s rendering, the small white orb represents the white dwarf (a remnant of a...

Aguas Zarcas is a meteorite that broke up over Chile in 2019 but it is new meteorite sample that contains nucleobases that are part of RNA. A similar meteorite his fifty years ago but this is the...

Tesla ended the day at a valuation of $352 billion, while Walmart (tenth biggest in SP500) is worth $384 billion. This has made Elon Musk the fourth richest person in the world. He is behind Jeff...

Intel’s Raja Koduri gave the Monday keynote talk at the Hotchips 32 conference today. He argued in the keynote that within the next 5 years the industry would be able to increase performance by...

IBM is updating its mainframe chips with the Z15. It is a 14-nanometer chip. This matters because COBOL and mainframes are still processing the bulk of global business transactions. The IBM...

Marvell introduced their ARM based Thunder X3 server processor, with 60 cores/240 threads per die. It has a 30% single-thread performance increase over the X2. It employs up to 4 threads per core,...

IBM Power10 CPU will have 2.6x performance per watt and the 7nm CPU will be fabbed by Samsung. It should become available in late 2021. This is another report from Sander Olson. It will have up to...