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In November, DARPA X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) flew for more than two hours, successfully validating all autonomous formation flying positions and safety features. Nine attempts were made at...

The US Army is making new drones to replace the RQ-7B Shadow which will give brigade commanders’ primary day/night, reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition system. Commanders will see...

Nextbigfuture found cost of living data indicating that China’s purchasing power parity economy is about $31 trillion. This is 30% larger than official estimates and is 50% larger than the $21...

Wells Fargo, Chris Harvey, was wrong about 2020. He called for getting out of the stock market before the 16% increase in the SP500 in 2020. “We kinda hate this market,” Harvey told CNBC’s “Trading...

The official purchasing power parity (PPP) statistics say that China’s PPP GDP is $24 trillion, but people can buy 30% more than those figures indicate. Reviewing cost of living data and living...

Elon Musk indicated that Spacex is a few months away from test hops for the Super Heavy booster. Above – Brendan Lewis @brendan2908 on twitter shows the status of the SpaceX prototypes. A few...

Nuclear Energy generation increased 5% in 2020 over 2019. China’s nuclear energy production was 331 TWh for the first 11 months of 2020. China generated 349 TWh in 2019 and is on track to...

In November, 2020, China’s power generation was 641.9 billion kwh, an increase of 6.8 percent year-on-year. The average daily power generation was 21.4 billion kwh, with a month on month...

Rural China has a better power grid than Northern California. Rural China power outages in 2019 averaged 900 minutes while Northern California had 2019 power outages of over 1300 minutes. Rural China...

China’s energy improvements are hugely important for the world. China has the highest share of global energy usage. China is the main global source of energy pollution. In 2019, China coal...

Gali at Hyperchange has sources who say Apple has been testing it’s EV battery. The Apple EV battery pack is almost ready to be driving around the road. His source told him there are 312 cells...

Youtuber Chicken Genius Singapore argues against the X Holding Company. He is also a large Tesla shareholder. David Lee who made the suggestion is also a large Tesla shareholder. Chicken Genius...

David Lee suggested creating a holding company called X to hold all of Elon’s major companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company and Neuralink). Elon responded with a tweet that this seems like a...

On December 1, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) gave its recommended COVID-19 Vaccination Priority plan and it is still wrong. The CDC is ignoring its own science on the most...

New simulations show what might be a solution of the current oscillation problem that LPPFusion’s research team has been struggling to solve since mid-2019. These oscillations are the most likely...

We have to protect the old people first to prevent the most COVID-19 deaths. COVID-19 is most deadly to older people, so vaccinating the roughly 7-10% of people who are over 70 would prevent over 75%...

Apple is trying to create a self-driving electric car in 2024. There are claims they will have breakthrough battery technology. Apple’s electric car effort is called Project Titan and the...

A game-changing technique for imaging molecules known as cryo-electron microscopy has produced its sharpest pictures that for first-time can see individual atoms in a protein. By achieving atomic...

Researchers led by chemistry professors Sen Zhang and T. Brent Gunnoe have produced a new form of catalyst for more efficient hydrogen hydrogen using the elements cobalt and titanium. The advantage...

I am going to be getting a new Tesla Solar roof. This link is the Tesla Solar Roof Construction Guide. Tesla is backlogged on starting the process for a new Solar roof. I initiated the process at the...

The Boring Company’s application to expand into downtown Las Vegas has been approved by the Las Vegas City Council. This marks the first step in a continued process for the project. They will need to...

In order to understand and plan for the future, we need to know how much change will occur and when things will happen. Understanding the present and near future is informed by identifying and...

Nithya Thadani is the CEO of RAIN, a voice technology company that has just raised $3 million in a series A. Rain has been created voice solutions using the Alexa and Google Home APIs for the last...

SpaceX is in talks with investors to raise another round of funding and seeks to double its valuation to as much as $92 billion. SpaceX is looking to close the deal in January 2021. SpaceX is...

The best predictions of the solar energy cost and solar energy adoption have come from Ramez Naam. There have been hundreds of forecasts of the future costs of solar power and the projected share...

Taiwan Tech News Site DigiTimes reports that Apple is working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), on self-driving chip technology. Apple and TSMC have reportedly established plans...

Above – Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels With people working from home more this year the opportunity for hackers to use mobile connectivity to gain access to personal and work systems has...

China is integrating multiple cities into megacity regions. China has deployed regional integration plans in 2019. They are accelerating integration of the YRD (Yangtze River Delta – Shanghai...

Boring Revolution indicates that the Boring Company Prufrock tunneling machine should start digging test tunnels in 2021. Boring Company had announced in Feb 2020 that they had built Prufrock. They...

Boring Tunnel is Elon Musk’ company that is working to revolutionize tunneling and public transportation. Boring Company has been building their system around the Las Vegas Convention Center...

TSMC’s 5nm is in mass production. The 3nm will also be put into production in 2022. The more advanced 2nm process is also reported to have made significant progress. The 2nm process will start mass...

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI...

Many important and valuable planning and scheduling problems in logistics and automation are combinatorial optimization problems. The most famous problem of this type is the traveling salesman...

A group backed by a foreign government cyberattacked and breached the security of the U.S. Treasury Department. Three of the people familiar with the investigation said Russia is currently believed...

In July, 2020, ThorCon and Indonesia’s Defense Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study developing a 50 MW thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) for either power generation or marine...

MSR (Molten Salt Reactor) is a fast or thermal reactor technology cooled by molten salts in the liquid phase and moderated, in most cases, by the graphite. In this technology, the fuel can be in...

Moltex Energy calculated that abundant solar and wind energy will mean nuclear energy needs low capital and fixed operating costs to be profitable at 30-50% capacity factor in unsubsidized...

Economic sanctions have cut Iran’s oil production in half and dropped oil exports to less than 20% of normal. Iran’s oil production is currently below 2 million barrels per day and Iran...

The Terrestrial Energy Molten Salt reactor development avoids all risk in technology, science and regulation to build the commercial molten salt reactor by 2030. They have the first stage of...

The Marvel Movies, MCU series and new Star Wars series were revealed by Disney Plus. All of the Warner Brothers movies are going to HBO Max. It seems that Disney Plus, HBO Max and Netflix will be...

Morocco joins Bahrain, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates in joining peace deals and economic normalization with Israel. Morocco has a population of over 37 million people and is a member of the Arab...

Here are highlights from Elon Musk’s recent panel discussion in Germany. Elon indicated that Gigaberlin could reach a production of 500,000 cars per year around the end of 2022. This would...

Flu vaccination effectiveness has ranged from 10-60% over the past 20 years. This compares with the 90+% effectiveness of the new COVID-19 vaccines. The reason for this is that national health...

The consensus of the SpaceX YouTubers is that this was the best test flight ever as the flight was groundbreaking and then having a crash on the landing for an early test flight was more enjoyable...

The Spacex SN8 Starship flew to high altitude but explodes when it came in too fast for landing. Elon says fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn. Successful ascent, switchover to...

The exact gene that caused stem cell aging has been identified. Above – When mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) age, the transcription factor GATA6 is increasingly produced in the cell to...

The SpaceX SN8 test flight countdown is paused at about 2 minutes set for 4:40 pm CST. This is one hour and fifteen minutes from now. UPDATE: SpaceX successfully flew the Starship SN8 to high...

The Moderna COVID Vaccine was created on Jan 13, 2020. This was one month before the first recorded US COVID death. Ten months was mainly spent on trials and statistical proving how effective vaccine...

The US Federal Communications Commission awarded SpaceX $885.5 million worth of federal subsidies to provide Starlink broadband internet to rural communities across 35 U.S. states. SpaceX is one out...

Self-driving vehicle start-up Aurora bought Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group (Uber ATG), which works on self-driving technology. Uber is investing $400 million into Aurora. The Aurora Driver...