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DARPA has scheduled the first test of a new advanced hypersonic glide weapon interceptor defense for 2020.

D-Wave has been selling quantum annealing computers since 2010 and customers have built over 150 early applications on D-Wave computers. They currently sell a 2000 qubit quantum annealer but should...

Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL) and China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC), the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) will now be 40 kilometers shorter for a total of 648 kilometers and pass through...

SpaceX finished raising $273 million and has now starting raising another $500 million according to Prime Unicorn Index and the Wall Street Journal. This will be at $204 per share and a $29 billion...

Future of Optical-infrared Interferometry in Europe

Ground Based Optical Interferometry Directly Images Exoplanet and Sees Its Atmosphere

Google has a new end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer to power speech input in Gboard. It is only 80 megabytes in size and can work offline.

Two organs-on-a-chip experiments will try to understand why astronauts get so many infections.

The University of Pennsylvania confirmed for the first time that two US patients had been treated using CRISPR gene editing. Several other human trials of CRISPR are starting or are set to start in...

The XM556 Microgun is smaller and lighter than some current 5.56mm belt-fed Squad Automatic Weapons currently on the market but with 4x's the firepower.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed initial testing of a nearly flight-weight and production-ready configuration of its next-generation RL10C-X upper-stage rocket engine that contains major...

The spire of Notre Dam was previously destroyed around 1789 during the French revolution. Notre Dam was rebuilt in the 1840s and that rebuilding included a new spire. The good news is that Notre Dam...

Israeli researchers have printed the world’s first 3-D vascularized, engineered heart using human tissue. They used a patient’s own cells and biological material and the heart has blood vessels. The...

Apple will pay Qualcomm license fees that they withheld. They reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019, including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset...

By 2025, Texas oil production will double and US and gas production will increase by around 50%. Enterprise Partners forecasts that Texas will surpass 10 million barrels per day of crude oil...

Elon Musk indicates that the Falcon Heavy central core booster’s engines could be recovered and reused pending inspection.

Researchers have discovered new properties of supercooled water. It has long been known that clean water with no particulates that is placed in a smooth enough container can be cooled below its...

The Carnival of Space 607 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – Hayabusa2 Fires an Anti-Tank Warhead at Asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft had to break up the surface material by shooting it...

Video’s and pictures from Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory show metal wall and roof framing. The factory building and site appear on track for May 2019 completion. Tesla will keep up the...

Self-driving car expert Brad Templeton does not believe that Tesla is close to having its software ready for full self-driving cars. Brad has lengthy assessment of the current capabilities of the...

SpaceX had successfully landed the Falcon Heavy center core but the center core fell over and into the sea due to large waves.

Medium voltage (about 12000 volt) DC power distribution that is reliable and affordable is the key to having the power for futuristic technology like railguns and electromagnetic launchers.

Elon measures the fundamental good of Tesla should be measured by the number of years by which it accelerates the transition to sustainable transport.

LIGO and Virgo are publicly announcing candidate gravitational wave triggers with a high likelihood of astrophysical origin within minutes of the waves arriving in the three detectors (LIGO Hanford,...

Trucks are the backbone of the supply-chain delivery system. 70% of goods are delivered by truck. The U.S. trucking industry generated $700.3 billion in economic activity in 2017. Self-driving trucks...

There is no fundamental restrictions to increasing the baseline length of radio telescope arrays. A global array with baseline lengths up to 10 000 km gives an angular resolution of 4 mas @ 21cm and...

OpenAI software has defeated a world champion DOTA team, 2-0. Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It has a steep learning curve...

Tiger Woods has won the Masters Golf Tournament. The response of my 13-year son to this was…What? He did? Isn’t he old? It is not just that Tiger Woods is 43, which is older for sports...

Like the Energizer Bunny Elon Musk says the Tesla Model 3 will keep going and going for a million-mile life. This would be five times more than regular cars which are usually fail before 200,000...

Israel SpaceIL Has Funding for Second Moon Landing Attempt

Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, founded by Paul G. Allen, today successfully completed the first flight of the world’s largest all-composite aircraft, the Stratolaunch.

Two exoplanets might be orbiting the nearest star the red dwarf Proxima Centauri that’s about 4.24 light-years away. It would not be in the habitable zone where water is liquid. Mario Damasso of...

Qualcomm said it plans to begin testing its new Cloud AI 100 chip with partners such as Microsoft Corp later this year, with mass production likely to begin in 2020. Qualcomm’s new chip is designed...

Fully occupited electric VTOL flying cars are more efficient than regular cars that are half occupied and are more efficient for trips over 22 miles.

Advancing toward a whole new hybrid field of protein-DNA nanotechnology with capabilities beyond DNA and Protein nanotechnology alone.

Japanese researchers are creating a new field of science called cluster molecular electronics.

Around 2030, a space-based gravitational array will join other ground and space-based telescopes in exploring the secrets of the universe like the recently imaged black hole.

Star Wars will try to win back fans this Christmas with the Star Wars Episode IX.

UBER’s IPO is seeking to raise $10 billion. The SEC papers for the IPO provide extensive information about UBER and Ridesharing. UBER wants to eventually compete for nearly the entire global...

The payload fairings, two side boosters and the center core were landed and will be reused. This means that SpaceX will be able to reuse 92% of this Falcon Heavy launch. Only the roughly $7.5 million...

The second SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch and first commercial launch and all three booster landings were fully successful. They launched the Arabsat 6A communications satellite from Kennedy Space...

Sandy Munro of Munro & Associates talks more about Tesla car technology, future plans and what Tesla is doing in China. Munro specializes in design for manufacturability and gets paid to tear...

SpaceIL’s unmanned, privately-funded “Beresheet” spacecraft attempted a historic lunar landing! Unfortunately in the last moments, there were issues with the main engine and they...

The power of Shale Oil 2.0 to increase oil production means the US can provide growing world demand and gives the US an economic win if it squeezes Iran out as an oil supply competitor.

HSBC sees China's GDP growth hitting 6.7 percent by the fourth quarter and sees a sustainable recovery. a US-China Trade deal overcomes a key hurdle with an agreement to create enforcement offices.

SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be able to launch a 15-meter LUVOIR space telescope which could be used to find signs of Alien life on exoplanets

Black holes are a critical part of the formation and evolution of galaxies and new radio telescopes will be needed for us to learn how black holes interact with stars and galaxies. Dr. Kristina...

Eight radio telescopes were used to image a black hole. They were ALMA, APEX, the IRAM 30-meter telescope, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano, the...

Eight radio telescopes were used to image to capture the first image of a black hole but there are more radio telescopes that will be added to array to improve future images. As more telescopes are...

SpaceX delayed the second launch of a Falcon Heavy and the first commercial launch to tomorrow. Standing down from today’s Falcon Heavy launch attempt; next opportunity is tomorrow, April 11. —...