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SpaceX had Starship SN8 prepped for a high altitude test launch but conditions were not ideal for the test today. SpaceX will likely try again tomorrow. SOURCE – SpaceX Written by Brian Wang,...

Saule Technologies has made perovskite solar cells into solar sunblinds. Perovskite inkjet-print solar cells on basically any surface and produce energy even when the exposure to light is limited....

The battle for global EV dominance is now a game of electric car-truck factories and also a game of self-driving. The starting point is having a desirable EV design and the next step is a profitable...

Loup Ventures, Gene Munster is a long-time Tesla bull and has also been correct on Big Tech. Gene has set a new three-year price target of $2500 for Tesla. This would put Tesla at a $2.3 trillion...

Oxford Photovoltaic is building the world’s first volume manufacturing line for perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells. Oxford is working with leading photovoltaic equipment supplier, Meyer Burger....

Deep Mind has been able to make significant progress toward solving the protein folding problem. Protein folding is not solved yet. Here I will describe : * the complexity the protein folding...

SpaceX launched the Cargo Dragon C208 to the International Space Station. CRS-21 launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Block 5. It is the first SpaceX launch under the CRS 2 contract. SOURCE- SpaceX,...

Scott Aaronson originated the proposal of Boson Sampling as an area where quantum computers should be better than regular computers. He discusses the new claim from China of Quantum Supremacy where...

Chinese researchers performed Gaussian boson sampling by sending 50 indistinguishable single-mode squeezed states into a 100-mode ultralow-loss interferometer with full connectivity and random...

Lior Pachter said “Deep Mind AlphaFold (protein folding) results are just markedly different from what a lot of other methods are producing. This is not an incremental improvement.” But...

U.S. National Science Foundation provided video of the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory. Credit: Courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory. This video was taken from the vantage point of the Arecibo...

Deep Mind AI predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry out life’s tasks. DeepMind AI will massively speed up drugs for...

There are two huge aspects to a new antiaging drug. The first aspect is that a large portion of age-related brain decline is not permanent damage. This non-permanent damage is repaired overnight by a...

The UK has already approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine. This is ahead of the EU and the USA. Everyone knows the Pfizer COVID vaccine will be approved in each of the jurisdictions. However, the U.S....

It is not easy to copy Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Hyperloop, OpenAI, Neuralink etc…). However, successful copycats of Musk companies and Musk methods are finding substantial...

Imagine a technological breakthrough that increased computer resources by a billion times. The world would be minimally changed. Almost everyone would not have problems that would need the computer...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Aztecs may have held the key to the next biotech breakthrough. During ceremonial rituals, they used a special compound they called “the flesh of the gods”… And...

Elon Musk is highly confident Tesla will have level 5 full self-driving ready in 2021 and will release it to Tesla customers in 2021. Some jurisdictions will allow full self-driving in 2021. By 2030,...

OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellite communications company,is emerging from U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is restarting production of satellites. A consortium of UK Government...

A few weeks ago, Nextbigfuture noted the plan to dismantle the Arecibo Telescope after some wires and small sections of the telescope failed. However, the vast majority of the Arecibo telescope has...

There have been three important eras for electric cars which are characterized by Tesla as the dominant EV maker. I will review the three main eras that have already occurred in electric cars and the...

The US Congress is looking to spend $6 billion in 2021 for a Pacific Deterrence Initiative which would be funding for operations in the Pacific to counter China. The general in charge of the U.S. Air...

“First, you get the money, then you get the power, and then you get the women.” Tony Montana Scarface. For Warp drive. First, we get the math, then we get the physics and then we get the...

A top Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by five gunmen. There have been successful assassinations of leading Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010. This is the first...

WKRP is part of the Thanksgiving tradition with its Turkey drop episode. There was a famous line from Mr Carlson. As god is my witness I thought Turkeys could fly. the episode had a marketing...

Using rapid-spray plasma processing, the Stanford team was able to produce 40 feet (12 meters) of perovskite film per minute – about four times faster than it takes to manufacture a silicon cell. “We...

Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu had a meeting with Saudi meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. There are also reports that Saudi Arabia is pressuring...

Venezuela has one active oil rig according to the Baker Hughes international oil rig report. Venezuela is producing 367,000 barrels of oil per day. In 2016, Venezuela’s economy needed about...

The IMF now expects Vietnam to have 2.4% GDP growth in 2020 and 6.4% in 2021 while the world will average -4.4% GDP in 2020 and could bounce back 5% in 2021. The world would normally see 3-4% GDP...

Bitcoin is near an all time high at over $19,348. Bitcoin peaked at $20,089 on Dec 17, 2017. Ethereum is at $593, which is well off its peak of over $1200 in January, 2018. SOURCES- Coinmarketcap...

Last year, Elon Musk tweeted that Starship Version 2.0 will be 18 meters in diameter instead of 9 meters. Nextbigfuture wrote about this conceptual plan last year. The upgraded for the Ultra Heavy...

Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Cerebras showed that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 X....

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have demonstrated that the CRISPR/Cas9 system is very effective in treating metastatic cancers, a significant step on the way to finding a cure for cancer. The...

A new study from Tel Aviv University and the Shamir Medical Center indicates that HBOT (treatments with high-pressure oxygen) in healthy aging adults can stop the aging of blood cells. The...

Elon Musk spoke about EV range and the cost of batteries at a European Battery Conference. Here is the key points from the Electrified copy of the interview with Elon Musk. 1:00 Elon Musk talks about...

Elon Musk is close to passing passed Bill Gates to become the second richest person in the world. As of Sunday, Elon trailed Bill Gates by about $7 Billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaire...

Joe Tegtmeyer has videos on the construction of Tesla Giga Texas. There has been four months of construction of the Tesla Texas factory. The Texas factory is ahead of where GigaBerlin was after four...

Optically transparent aerogel is essentially a lightweight foam made of silica, the material of beach sand, and consists mostly of air. It reduces the rate of heat loss by tenfold. This transparent...

Nuclear commercial ships have been studied for decades and there is renewed interest. The newest justifications focus on the decarbonization climate change aspects. The first nuclear navy ship was...

In October, General Motors’s Cruise LLC unit will be allowed to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in San Francisco without a safety driver. they are the fifth company to get this permission....

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX developed and uses LIDAR for Dragon docking with the Space Station. Elon and Tesla do not use LIDAR for for self-driving. Elon commented that if you are going to do...

Global plugin electric car sales in September, 2020 were 345,000 which on an annualized basis would be over 4.1 million cars. This was 4.9% of global car sales. October numbers for EV sales in China...

GM is promoting a plan to spend $27 billion on all-electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025. This is an increase from $20 billion from initial plans announced in March. GMs goal is be only four...

Seven months ago, Nextbigfuture looked at the post pandemic world future as the pandemic was starting. We are now about halfway through the global pandemic. The World Bank’s baseline projection...

For most of the last 57 years, the Arecibo radio telescope was the largest telescope in the world. Two cable breaks over the past few months. The telescope will be dismantled before it collapses. The...

Abengoa is a world leader in solar thermal technology and is making the largest hybrid solar plant incorporating vanadium redox flow storage. They have already developed, designed, built and/or...

Tesla is worth $480 billion and Elon Musk is worth about 20% more than Mark Zuckerberg. Another 10% move in Tesla stock will send Elon Musk past the net worth of Bill Gates ($128 billion). SP Global...

Ferroelectric Memory Company has $20 million in funding for sub-7 nanometer FeFET memories. This is energy saving non-volatile memory. They will first have 28nm planar CMOS for consumer applications...

Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA) reported the results of its Phase 3 study of mRNA-1273 has met the statistical criteria pre-specified in the study protocol for efficacy, with a vaccine efficacy of...

SpaceX and NASA had a successful launch yesterday and today they are docking to the International Space Station. NASA is paying SpaceX $3.1 billion for Crew Dragon development and to launch six...