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The United States will likely extend the May 1 deadline for pulling all its troops from Afghanistan. A bipartisan report to Congress said on Wednesday recommends making force cuts contingent on...

I, Brian Wang, was interviewed for the FutureX podcast. I discussed the Future of Food. Topics discussed: Is Hemp the new Soy? Hemp can be an important protein source. However, soy is important for...

Dr James Knight and Prof Thomas Nowotny from the University of Sussex’s School of Engineering and Informatics used the latest Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to give a single desktop PC the...

Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon and become Executive Chair of the Amazon Board in 2021 third quarter. Andy Jassy will become CEO. Bezos will focus on new products and early initiatives. As...

This is a link to the Reddit Wallstreetbets article that indicates it is Hedgefunds pushing silver and not Wallstreetbets. By buying silver/going long on silver, you would be directly putting money...

SpaceX SN9 Starship matched the SpaceX SN9 Starship flight and also matches the crash on the final attempt at landing. There still seems to be difficulty getting the header tank issues resolved. They...

FuelGems uses carbon-based nanoparticles as a fuel additive to make gasoline and diesel engines more efficient and cleaner-burning. Nextbigfuture interviewed FuelGems CEO Kirill Gichunts. Kirill was...

Elon Musk was interviewed about the future of humanity on Clubhouse. Here are some highlights: * Neuralink has a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull who can play video games using his mind...

Youtube Channel Boring Revolution has detailed tracking of all current and potential Boring Company projects. There were the small tunnels in Los Angeles and the expanding Las Vegas projects. The Las...

Exceed.AI is an intelligent AI assistant that engages your potential customers in conversations over email, chat, website and even SMS. It seamlessly integrates into your existing systems, whether...

Actress Mira Furlan played the role of Ambassador Delenn on the science fiction TV show Babylon 5. She died from complications from West Nile Virus at the age of 65. Babylon 5 ran from 1994-1999. 74...

Tesla will work with Samsung to develop a 5nm-class semiconductor for the HW4 version of the Tesla Full Self Driving Chip. Samsung is supplying 14nm chips to Tesla for the HW3 version of FSD. The...

SpaceX SN9 Starship is targeting a Monday launch. The SN9 and SN10 prototypes are both complete and are on launch pads. Elon Musk plans to drill for natural gas in Texas to supply methane for the...

Clinical trial data on two COVID-19 vaccines are less protective versus the South Africa coronavirus variant. Novavax reported midstage trial results on Thursday that showed its vaccine was 50%...

The Space Launch System (SLS) will not have a first flight until 2022 or later after it had an unsuccessful full engine hold down test. The SLS program was started in 2010 by President Obama and...

Tesla has the Plaid verson of Model S and X and they have Plaid Plus Model S as well. They have updated the interior with new design and new screens. Tesla missed on earnings. Tesla doubled its...

The two-dose regimen of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at the 100 µg dose is expected to be protective against emerging strains detected to date. Moderna will test an additional booster dose of its...

CATL is the largest lithium-ion battery supplier in the world and they plan to increase production by four times to 263 GWh in 2023. CATL Chairman Zeng Yuqun said global lithium battery market demand...

CBAK Energy Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAT), a lithium-ion battery manufacturer and electric energy solution provider, signed a three-year strategic agreement with Anhui Jianghuai Motors Group Co.,...

SpaceX says it plans to increase Starlink’s download speeds from ~100 Mbps currently to 10 Gbps in the future. SpaceX says it plans to increase Starlink's download speeds from ~100 Mbps...

Falcon 9 launches 143 spacecraft to orbit — the most ever deployed on a single mission — completing SpaceX’s first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission. Falcon 9 launches 143 spacecraft to...

The SN9 prototype of the SpaceX Starship should be flying today. The SN8 was successful except for its landing. Hopefully, the SN9 will complete everything including a safe landing. UPDATE: 3 minutes...

COVID variants could get around the human immune response. “Immune escape” could mean more people who have had COVID-19 could get reinfection and current vaccines may need an update. UK Variant...

How different can things get by 2100? Prediction site Metaculus attempts to ponder what a fundamental change to the human condition would be like. Nick Bostrom, philosopher and Founding Director of...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s Senior Director of Automotive. Nio and Nvidia had announced the use of the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for NIO’s new...

MOTS-c is one of several recently identified hormones known to mimic the effects of exercise. However, MOTS-c is unique because it is encoded in the small genome of mitochondria rather than the...

RethinkX proposes and predicts a 100% SWB (solar wind and battery for the USA) system by 2030 for less than $2 trillion. This would have an average cost of electricity nationwide of under 3 cents per...

It is very difficult to have full economic development without about 5000-kilowatt hours per capita for electricity. The UK has about per capita electricity generation for a developed nation at about...

In Mid-October, 2020 (when the US had 215000 COVID deaths), COVID had caused a reduction in US life expectancy at birth of 1.13 y to 77.48 y, lower than any year since 2003. There was a 0.87-y...

The Limiting Factor reports that Tesla will use Polycrystal cathodes with new coatings and dopants to enable cobalt-free batteries with greater energy density and more charge cycles. This will be...

The test-fire of the Space Launch system rocket two days ago should have lasted eight minutes but the engines shutdown after one minute. Eight minutes is the time to launch the rocket to orbit. A...

As a business or an individual, it is important that you keep up with technological advances and continue to follow leading practices. Part of staying on top of best practices is to make sure you are...

Prior categorizations of world development were not flexible to changing technology or changing geopolitics. The Second world of the first, second and third world referred to the countries under...

Zhenda Xie at Nanjing University has created cheap quantum encrypted communication between drones. Above – Quantum network and physical realization with mobile drone-based nodes. (a) A...

Tesla new 2021 Model 3 will only lose about 13-19% range in cold weather versus 40% range reduction in older models. This will help Tesla increase sales in Canada and Northern Europe. There is...

A thermoradiative devices (TRD) based power generator that harvests solar energy via concentrated solar irradiation during daytime and via thermal infrared emission towards the outer space at...

Tesla had 16% of its revenue from its non-car business in the third quarter of 2020. This might have increased to 20% in Q4 of 2020. Tesla should be proving the ramp of car production to about 4...

Ark Invest has started a new space focused investment ETF called ARKX. ARK Invest is famous for its ARK Innovation fund ARKK. Their largest holding has been Tesla and they have been the Tesla Bulls...

The LVCVA board approved $6.25 million to Boring to operate the mile-long convention center system from Feb. 1 through June 30, 2022. At no cost, authorized access to Boring to dig tunnels connecting...

NASA is now targeting Saturday, Jan. 16, for the final test in the Green Run testing series for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the agency’s Artemis I mission....

Orbital Assembly Corp. (OAC) is planning a virtual media event on Friday, January 29 from 1-2 pm PST / 4-5 pm EST. OAC was established in September 2019 as the world’s first large-scale space...

As we live out more and more of our lives online, the need for a comprehensive digital identity solution is becoming more pressing, and for several good reasons. First, and perhaps the most...

Tesla started 2021 at a price of $735 per share.The post Tesla Skeptics Three Conditions for Tesla to Double in 2021 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com.

China-based PV manufacturing industry has possibly over built new Solar PV Module technology for 2021. If global installs follows the 20% annual global growth of recent years then the world will...

Caroline Wang passed away peacefully yesterday at the age of 86. She was born October 4th, 1934 in Shanghai. She was married to Chung-lie Wang, who was a professor of Mathematics. They were my mother...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today’s lithium-ion batteries that...

NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. The NIO ET7 sedan will ship in China...

Tesla Daily is providing an update on Tesla. Rob discusses the fact that Benchmark funds need to buy Tesla. SP500 index funds acquired Tesla shares Dec 18, 2020. They got in at $695. Benchmark funds...

Tesla now has a $780 billion market capitalization. I wrote in August, 2020 that Tesla will overcome denial within 8 months to become a $1 trillion tech giant. Five months have passed. A surge to...

Tesla is trading at about $800 per share. Elon Musk is now worth about $187 billion. CNBC reported that Elon Musk is the richest in the world earlier this morning as Tesla traded at about $790 per...