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This is the Carnival of Space 626. Here is an archive of all of the past weekly Carnivals of Space. This where space-related blog joined together for weekly summaries of articles from all of the...

The Carnival of Space 625 is up at Cosmoquest. Richard Lawn of SETI Home is revisiting the Drake Equation. Nearly everyone interested in SETI has heard of the Drake Equation, but views of its utility...

Boring Company is Elon Musk’s third-highest value company after Tesla ($39 billion valuation as of Aug 28, 2019) and SpaceX ($33 billion). They just raised $120 million with a valuation of $920...

A guest post by Joseph Friedlander In a reader comment I shall always treasure, I got this: What’s next, the economics of importing methane by wormhole from Titan? ...

Tesla and China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) and other companies that have shown an initial interest in the Indian government’s plan to build large battery factories at an...

Graphene sheets can block the signals mosquitos use to identify a blood meal, potentially enabling a new chemical-free approach to mosquito bite prevention. Researchers showed that multilayer...

SpaceX just had a successful 150-200 Meter hop of the Starhopper. SOURCES- SpaceX Written By Alvin Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

Kyle Nel of Singularity University Uncommon Partners was interviewed by Nextbigfuture. After a long-time partnership, Singularity University acquired Uncommon Partners (UP) to expand the capabilities...

John Blincow is the President of the Gateway Foundation. John Blincow has worked as a pilot for 24 years, flying all over the world in such aircraft as the Boeing 757, DC-10, and Boeing 747-400. John...

Tuesday’s attempt is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. ET. The launch will be streamed live online by several different sources. Elon Musk believes the Monday abort was caused by simple wiring issues in...

2O21: A SPACEX ODYSSEY with Elon Musk has deep fake video integration into the 2001 Open the Pod Bay door scene. SOURCES – 2001 Clip, Youtube of 2O21: A SPACEX ODYSSEY Written by Brian Wang,...

电池王 on Weibo has pictures of the inside of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory. The english translation of the Weibo account holder is Battery King. The picture are internal conditions of the Tesla China...

The SpaceX Starhopper 150 meter launch was minutes away. The countdown was 2 minutes from launch and they have a hold on the test. Hold is released. Seconds away. (16:04 PM PST) Test aborted just...

Tal Melenboim discusses how AI will take influencer marketing to the next level. Influencer marketing has always been here and is constantly evolving. The next evolution that is taking over...

Disney D23 dropped new Mandalorian and Star Wars Rise of Skywalker trailers. They look pretty good. Star Wars 9 looks like it will have many changes. Changes were clearly needed to win back fans. It...

Tesla has delayed the $1k full self-driving option price increase until May 10 for those unable to order by May 1. We will delay $1k full self-driving option price increase until May 10 for those...

Elon Musk Tweeted that the Starhopper 150-meter flight could be today. On August 26th around 5pm EDT, SpaceX will attempt to launch their Starship prototype, #Starhopper. The mission is to rise to an...

Get Less Tired With Exosuit that Provide Some Walking Assistance

Startup Bounce Wants to Support a Future Without Car Ownership

The Goal of Gateway Foundation Von Braun Station is to build a dual-use station that is economically self-sustaining. This space station would have 11 million cubic meters of pressurized volume...

The SpaceX will have its second flight on Monday, August 26, 2019. This should be a 200-meter flight while the first flight was about 20 meters. Finally! @SpaceX looks to be targeting Monday for...

Cambridge Quantum Computing uses photonics and quantum entanglement to generate truly random numbers. They also constantly verify that quantum randomness is being maintained. Failure to of quantum...

China created a satellite for secure distribution of keys for encrypted data. The hope was that this would enable totally secure unbreakable transmission of the keys for coded data. Quantum key...

There is a Quantum hacking lab which is a site of the Russian Quantum Center. This site has a collection of videos, research papers and presentations about quantum cryptography and quantum security....

Mindesk 3 is new modeling software that has a live-link between CAD models and virtual reality and can link to the UNREAL gaming system for simulations with realistic physics. Nextbigfuture...

General Electric has recently been accused of accounting fraud for not properly reporting the cost of providing Long Term Care to old people on insurance policies sold many years ago. All of the...

Nextbigfuture spoke with an experienced quantum computing machine learning solutions lead from 1qbit. 1qbit solves problems with quantum computer solutions with D-Wave Systems quantum and with...

Health Nucleus offers a personalized health assessment that integrates imaging and genomics to generate a more complete picture of your current state of health and future risks. A third of the risk...

Neil Jacobstein gave a workshop on AI and Machine Learning Implementation at the 2019 Singularity Summit. It turns out there is a fatal flaw in most companies approaches to machine learning, the...

Fujitsu calls its quantum device a quantum-inspired Digital Annealer. It is classical hardware emulating systems. They are trying to solve a complex combinatorial optimization problem currently...

Fujitsu has a Digital Annealer with 8192 Qubits and a 1 million qubit system in the lab. This is a classical hardware emulation of quantum annealing (analog) system. This is not a quantum computer...

Cambridge Quantum Computing has a demo of its quantum key security generation at Ironbridgeapi.com. Above is a picture of a quantum random key generation device IronBridge is the world’s first...

Cambridge Quantum Computing is developing quantum software and quantum security systems.

Insights from the Frontlines of VC: Scott Barclay, Partner, Data Collective; Amy LaMeyer, WXR Fund, Will Weisman, Executive Director, Summits, Singularity University, Neal Bhadkamkar; Bold Ventures...

A Bold Perspective on Investing: Neal Bhadkamkar, General Partner, Bold Capital Partners Neal brings more than 30 years of investment and start-up experience as General Partner of BOLD. Previously,...

Will Weisman is hosting the investment track at the 2019 Singularity Summit. Catherine Wood of Ark Invest ($10 billion under management) is speaking and saying that innovation is the key to growth....

In 2018, OpenAI discovered that the amount of compute used for AI training doubles every 3.5 months. By comparison, the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits only doubles every...

Neil Jacobstein just gave a talk on Artificial Intelligence at the 2019 Singularity Summit. He described the advance in robotics and artificial intelligence. He reviewed the number of training steps...

Starship Technologies is making delivery robots and they just received $40 million in funding. The robots are advanced devices that can carry items within a 4-mile (6km) radius. Our delivery platform...

The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the largest chip ever built and has one 1.2 trillion transistors. It is the heart of a deep learning system. It is 56x larger than any other chip. It delivers...

What happens when the world’s biggest miners run out of gold? We already know. We’ve already hit peak gold, and the only companies sitting on promising new reserves are the junior miners. The big...

D-Wave Systems has a webinar in which they explain how to apply the power of quantum computing to gaming optimization using data from one of the world’s most popular fighting games: Pokémon. They...

The metal rings for the Super Heavy booster appear to be under construction. The ring segments for the Super Heavy Booster match up with the ring segments on the lower portion of the upper stage...

Elon Musk has tweeted out a picture of his Nuke Mars t-shirt. Nextbigfuture reviewed the option of using nuclear options for getting most of the ice carbon dioxide into the Mars atmosphere to...

The McKay-Zubrin plan for terraforming Mars in 50 years was cited by Elon Musk. Orbital mirrors with 100 km radius are required to vaporize the CO2 in the south polar cap. If manufactured of solar...

Elon Musk is promoting his plan to use nuclear bombs to melt the polar ice of Mars. A thermonuclear attack on Mars would use nuclear bombs vaporize the elements trapped in the ice and create a...

USA Wants to Buy Greenland and a Fair Value Price Would Be $30-70 Billion

Animations of nuclear battleship Orions fighting in space. It was created by Rhysy who has made some of the best Project Orion related animations. In George Dyson’s book, he mentioned an Orion...

Russian Nuclear Project Orion Battleship Might Happen