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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...

Saudi Aramco will raise $25.6 billion in world’s biggest I.P.O. This will be a bit bigger than the 2014 IPO of Alibaba. Aramco made a net profit of $68 billion for the first nine months of the year....

A study analyzed the nuclear power capacity needed in China by 2050 to realize the 1.5 °C target, as well as the feasibility, necessary measures, and difficulty. China generated 6990 terawatt-hours...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a startup commercializing fusion energy, has raised $115 million and closed its Series A round. New participants in the round include Future Ventures, Khosla...

There is a relatively common belief and idea that we are in an age of accelerating technology. Technology is advancing and there is a good chance that various super-technology will be developed over...

2020 starts in 26 days. 2020 is a milestone year and those are years when people love to make long-range predictions. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, have been tracking global developments for over...

A NASA NIAC study is developing the technology to get within 0.5 solar radii of the sun. The goal is to scatter 99.9% of the solar radiation. A solar radii is 700,000 kilometers. They want to get to...

The Mach Effect Propulsion NASA NIAC study went through a lot of effort to prove there was no vibration generated errors. The entire presentation and most of the Q&A was a defense of the...

Rigidized polymers appear to be a feasible technology to create space telescopes larger than kilometer sizes. It should be possible to make 50 meter space telescope elements in 1000 kilometer...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has uncovered the processes that drive the solar wind – the constant outflow of hot, ionized gas that streams outward from the Sun and fills up the solar system – and...

This is an update of the system under development by John Brophy and his team and it will use a kilometer-scale, multi-hundred-megawatt phased-array laser to beam power to a vehicle that converts it...

Robert Adams updated the work on a phase 2 Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion Concept. Robert works at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. This system should be able to achieve 15 kW/kg and...

Artificial neurons on silicon chips that behave just like the real thing have been invented by scientists – a first-of-its-kind achievement with enormous scope for medical devices to cure chronic...

There is an amusing rendering of an imagined Tesla Cyber-Roadster. It is a Tesla Cybertruck inspired version of a Tesla Roadster with the windows broken like the cybertruck had during its debut. A...

Muon-catalyzed fusion has been studied for 60 years and new work with lasers and ultradense material could lead to commercial nuclear fusion. A 100-watt laser power could create a megawatt nuclear...