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US GDP at the end of 2020 is estimated at $21.48 trillion and China (with Hong Kong and Macua) is estimated at $16.03 trillion. China reported 2020 GDP at 101.6 trillion yuan. The USD to Chinese Yuan...

Researchers describe creating powerful, unipolar electrochemical yarn muscles that contract more when driven faster, thereby solving important problems that have limited the applications for these...

Canada’s nominal GDP is $1.80 trillion. Canada’s dollar converts to a US dollar at C$1.26 to $1 USD. The Canadian dollar was at C$1.45 to $1 USD in March 2020. The Canadian dollar was at...

Globally, there has been a lot of money printed to fight COVID and stimulate economies. The total US currency in circulation soared to $2.07 trillion by the end of 2020, according to Federal Reserve...

Worldwide debt increased to $281 trillion and worldwide debt-to-GDP ratio is now over 355%. The Institute of International Finance’s global debt monitor estimated government support programs were...

A European consortium was launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. This will be a four-year 15 million euro projecte named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon)....

A visionary EU 6G research project, called RISE-6G, will create next-generation wireless connectivity. RISE-6G will design, prototype and test smart and energy-sustainable technological advances...

CEA-Leti scientists have opened a pathway to large-scale integration of Si-spin qubits using existing flip-chip processes with die-to-wafer 3D-interconnect technologies developed in-house. They...

Researchers were able to communicate with people who were in REM sleep and asked them math problems and yes/no questions to prove the person was responding to questions and was communicating....

China has a sodium-cooled, pool-type fast reactor. It was refueled and had maintenance at the end of July 2020. It completed a power test phase last year. The reactor has a thermal capacity of 65 MW...

You have chosen not to invest in Tesla and missed more than a 100 times runup in stock price. Now you are still “scared” to invest in Tesla. You think maybe the other car makers will...

The 2019 revision of the World Population Prospects (WPP), the United Nations projected that the world’s population would grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in...

The Tesla Factory in Berlin is looking very close to finishing the first main buildings and they have made great progress installing equipment. The Tesla factory in Texas is also making great...

How quickly will all cars and trucks become electric? How quickly will we have thousands of reusable rockets? We can see the future being developed but the speed of transformation and the speed of...

Nextbigfuture has covered many of the ideas of Alexander Bolonkin. Bolonkin He was a Russian-American scientist and academic who worked in the Soviet aviation, space and rocket industries. He died on...

The World population of people is not expected to double by 2100. There are currently 7.9 billion people and this should reach 10 billion in 2050 and maybe 11.2 billion in 2100. This assumes that...

EV-Volumes reports 3.2 million electric cars were sold in 2020. This was BEV (battery electric vehicles and PHEV (plus in hybrid vehicles) sales of 3.24 million. The 2021 estimate for BEV and PHEV...

Volkswagen is starting pre-production of the ID5 electric SUV. Volkswagen already has the ID.3 5-door hatchback and the ID.4 compact SUV. The ID.4 will start deliveries this month or next month. The...

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover arrives at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. It is about 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is days away from...

The US passed a half million total COVID deaths according to Worldometers. The daily new cases has dropped a lot in the US and is dropping globally. The seven-day moving average of global daily COVID...

China’s CATL will spend up to 29 billion yuan ($4.49 billion) to build or upgrade domestic factories to meet growing demand. This is in addition to Contemporary Amperex Technology 2020 plans to...

Life extension has been happening for over 100 years. It doubled in the UK from 40 years to 80 years from 1850 to 2015. It has almost tripled in India from 24 to 69 from 1920 to 2015. An article...

There is an article at Value Walk that reports on chinese researchers using CRISPR gene editing to extend the lives of mice by 25%. Matthew Bacher, the writer of the Value Walk article then discussed...

Worldometers reports a count of over 497,000 total COVID deaths in the USA with about 9 hours left on Sunday Feb 14, 2021. Worldometers had a count of 496,063 total COVID deaths in the USA for Feb...

Deep Space Courier has an animation of the inside of a SpaceX Starship. SpaceX should be attempting another test launch within a week or so. SpaceX is heading to test flights every two weeks and is...

Elon Musk spoke with Joe Rogan about getting Mars colonization to the point where it would be self-sustaining without additional supplies or support from Earth. The entire point for Elon is to...

Elon Musk thinks he could have the Starship making regular flights with people by 2023. He said this in an interview with Joe Rogan. Elon Musk had SpaceX make the Starship more pointy because it...

NASA has switched to the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the first two pieces of the Gateway lunar outpost in 2024. This will be a $331 million contract and will use a modified version of the Falcon...

Elon Musk owns 22.4% of Tesla and 54% of SpaceX. SpaceX is now worth about $60 billion and Tesla is $783 billion. Elon is worth $205 billion from Tesla and SpaceX. Elon also owns most of the Boring...

Apple has partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to develop advanced micro OLED display technology. Micro OLED will be useful for augmented reality devices. The new displays will be...

This is an update on the projection that the US will reach 500,000 cumulative COVID deaths according to the Worldometer tracking. Worldometers reporting about 489,571 deaths on February 11, 2021....

The text of the GREEN act renewable energy bill was released. If it was passed in its current form it would subsidize Tesla for * 400,000 cars at $7000 per car * Battery energy storage at 30% of cost...

Ark Invest has 15 big ideas for 2021 and these are their main investment themes. Ark Invest now has funds with $50 billion in assets. 1. Deep Learning. From $2 trillion in market cap today to $30...

The SpaceX Starship SN10 has all three of its Raptor engines installed. The Starship SN11 is in the high bay and has had its nosecone installed. SN11 nosecone stacking in the high bay....

A new microscope uses a combination of hardware and software-based adaptive optics to reconstruct object image. Non-invasive microscopic techniques such as optical coherence microscopy and two-photon...

Using a silicon photonic chip platform, Volker J. Sorger and other researchers at the George Washington University and University of California, Los Angeles, have created an all optical...

The CEA-Leti-based team’s uses machine learning on RRAM to get 100,000 times less energy usage. They use randomness instead of trying to prevent it. This allows in-situ learning to be realized...

Tesla’s 10K filing reveals they have invested into bitcoin and have a position valued at about $1.5 billion. Bitcoin and Tesla are up today on the news. Tesla was up 2% to $870 per share....

The US currently records 474,915 deaths from COVID and the seven day average or daily deaths is over 3000 per day. This will likely update to about 476,000 deaths by the end of the day Feb 7, 2021....

Simple, microscopic robots, remotely driven by magnetic fields, can use capillary forces to manipulate objects floating at an oil-water interface. The micro-robots in the Penn team’s study are thin...

The reality of SpaceX mass production rockets is unfolding before our eyes. SpaceX Starships will cost over ten times less than current cargo planes, have over twice the range and will be thirty...

Elon Musk is taking some Twitter suggestions to light all three engines on the Starship landing. Two Starship prototypes (SN8 and SN9) have crashed on landing. By default, engine with least lever arm...

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...