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Andrew Yang mentioned Thorium Nuclear Reactors as one of the advanced nuclear fission reactor concepts. Yang has also talked about making a prototype thorium reactor by 2027. There is a US startup...

Boeing just had another failure with the Starliner crew capsule and the rocket launching it. They failed to have a correct orbital burn and the mission failed. Boeing has had huge problems with the...

Insects are naturally eaten by many animals such as carnivorous fish, poultry and pigs. Insects are 50% to 82% protein and can be added to animal feed – with up to 40% insect content for fish feed...

Intel Labs unveiled a first-of-its-kind cryogenic control chip — code-named “Horse Ridge” — that will speed up development of full-stack quantum computing systems. Horse Ridge will enable control of...

With one of the fastest-growing fan bases in the entire entertainment industry… A global audience that’s already bigger than many traditional sports leagues… And players that are becoming overnight...

Google Earth Timelapse (https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/) lets you view all the locations on earth to see how they have changed over the last 35 years. The San Francisco Bay Area Las Vegas...

Sandy Munro is an expert at breaking down cars and determining now to optimize construction and processes. He describes the processes for stamping the metal body of the cybertruck and the tougher...

Diple is a kickstarter for an easy to use, compact, and portable kit transforms any smartphone and tablet into a POWERFUL microscope. Whether you use it for research, education, or just for fun, from...

There is a long delay in properly representing real-life technology in movies and television. The internet burst into popularity in the mid-1990s but the movies and television shows featuring the...

Retail banking is undergoing something of a revolution. Taking advantage of the fact that traditional banks haven’t changed much over the years, so-called challenger banks and payment firms are...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has proposed a constitutional change to allow land seizures without payments. This will trigger conflict between the government and commercial...

The Nasdaq has a new record high. Global Growth has slowed the last two or three years but global fund managers are seeing a bottoming in global growth. Fedex reports that they project an increase in...

General Fusion has successfully closed USD$65 million with a Series E round led by Temasek (Singapore fund). There was US$38 million (C$50 million) released from the Canada’s Strategic Innovation...

1. Universe Today – How Spiral Galaxies Get Their Shape Density wave theory says that the arms themselves are separate from the stars and gas and dust that travel through the density waves. The...

Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory GF3 production rate reached 1000 units per week of MIC Model 3 from multiple sources. Analysts at Oppenheimer on Monday indicated the photos of hundreds of China produced...

Each flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 or any other orbital rocket launch is about the same as a passenger jet like a 777 flying across the Atlantic. The larger SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will use 1kg of...

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) form the backbone of the US economy. In this expose we take a look at some fascinating insights into small businesses and the resources that make them work....

Multiple billions of dollars are being spent to weaponize the entertainment industry’s streaming war, but there’s a new front line in this epic battle that’s gone unnoticed. It’s the $200-billion...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the fourth phase of review of the design certification application (DCA) for the company’s revolutionary small modular reactor (SMR)....

Nextbigfuture has looked at the likely future of SpaceX up to 2030 and now recaps the view to 2030 and extends the view to 2050. The Mars aspect of SpaceX future impact will be less important than...

In 2017, Zapata Computing spun out of Harvard to develop quantum software and algorithms for business and they have received over $26 million in funding. A quantum computing start-up company called...

In mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, the drug candidates (CMS121 and J147) improve memory and slow the degeneration of brain cells. Researchers have shown how these compounds can also slow...

Researchers at the University of Warwick and University of Oxford have developed a new way to simulate quantum systems of many particles, that allows for the investigation of the dynamic properties...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives set to win an outright majority according to exit polls. This will mean Johnson can deliver on his promise for a Brexit by the end of 2020. The EU...

Saudi Aramco’s shares closed at 36.8 Saudi riyals on Thursday, putting the company’s market value slightly below $2 trillion. The shares opened Thursday and reached 38.7 riyals where it briefly...

U.S. negotiators have reached the terms of a phase-one trade deal with China and they are meeting with President Donald Trump for final approval. Trade advisers were set to meet with the president at...

Russia’s only aircraft carrier has a fire that has covered over 600 square meters (6000 square feet) of the carrier. Even if the fire is put out, Nextbigfuture predicts that the carrier will...

The USA and Russia started an informal competition for the most incompetent aircraft carrier. The USA entered its first next-generation Gerald Ford carrier and Russia went with its only aircraft...

ThreeSix to ten people were injured in a fire that broke out onboard Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov at a dock in Murmansk, northwest Russia. 120 square meters (1200 square feet)600 square...

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2020 officially agreed by the House and Senate will officially establish the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed...

This article has information from the quantum computer expert John Preskill. We are going to get more and better quality qubits with lower error rates. The overhead cost for error correction improves...

It seems likely that the UK election will hand Boris Johnson and his Conservatives a majority. This would mean a Brexit where the UK leaves the EU by the end of 2020. At the end of 2019: The US...

The final polling for Thursday UK general election have an 82% chance of a Conservative majority. The results will likely be known by about 9AM Eastern Standard time on Friday. If Boris Johnson and...

In the digital age, we’re better connected than ever before. But until now, a curious blind spot has existed in terms of how well we’re connected to the ground beneath our feet. While Google Maps...

Ark Invest identified four technological moats that Tesla is growing for its electric car and truck businesses. 1. Superior batteries 2. AI (Full Self Driving) Chip The Tesla FSD is an automotive...

Sam Korus of Ark Invest shows analysis that Tesla Cybertruck will be superior to the Ford F-150 on price and various aspects of performance. Sam also reported that the Porsche Taycan (electric car)...

Saudi Aramco opens up $180 billion from its $1.7 trillion IPO price. The petroleum sector provides 87% of Saudi budget revenues, 90% of export earnings, and 42% of GDP. Apple is the second largest...

1. The reactor pressure vessel of the APR-1400 unit 5 of South Korea’s Shin Kori nuclear power plant was installed. The 1340 MWe pressurized water reactor is scheduled to begin commercial...

HZDR (German) scientists are investigating whether controlled fusion could be facilitated with the assistance of tunneling processes using radiation But that is also a question of energy: the lower...

Elon Musk and SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell have said that the per-satellite Starlink cost is already well below $500,000. This means that the internal cost of a Falcon 9 launch is less than $30...

The Global Carbon Project reported that world CO2 emissions reached 37 billion tons per year in 2019. This was an increase from the 36.6 billion tons emission estimate for 2018. This was a 0.6%...

Researchers injected D-ESCs (embryonic stem cells) into porcine blastocysts (pig pre-embyros) to obtain neonatal interspecies chimeras. The D-ESCs differentiated into all three germ layers in the pig...

Ark Invest has a new bull case that Tesla could maintain or even grow its current 17% global EV market share. The bear case for Ark Invest for Tesla for the next 5 years is for Tesla to more than...

China cut subsidies on electric cars which caused a 46% drop in October 2019 electric car sales versus October 2018. Global electric car sales were down 28%. The rest of the world had a 3% increase...

SpaceX was previously developing prototypes of the SpaceX Starship rocket and Super Heavy Booster in both Florida and Texas. SpaceX has combined the teams to work on the Mk3 Starship in Texas. SpaceX...

The Tesla China factory was built in 10 months and is 65% less expensive (capex per unit of capacity) than the US Model 3 production lines. Tesla is extending its lead and advantages over other car...

Drone operator Jason Yang spotted over 300 Tesla sedans within GF3’s parking lot in preparation delivery. Car carriers were also seen transporting locally-made Tesla Model 3 to delivery centers...

There are annual announcements of all global greenhouse gas emissions and some people anticipate those numbers to see if reductions efforts have stopped the increase in emissions. Here I will discuss...

The Tesla Cybertruck is 19.5 feet long and standard US garages range from 20 feet X 20 feet for 24 feet by 24 feet. It would be very difficult to fit a Cybertruck in a 20 X 20 garage and be able to...

China revised up its nominal 2018 gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.1% to 91.93 trillion yuan ($13.08 trillion) and this keeps them tracking to the promise doubling the size of its economy by 2020...