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Dominion Energy could spend $4 billion over the next decade on the Surry-North Anna relicensing program and plant maintenance. The two nuclear units at Surry Power Station are both three-loop...

World Energy consumption increased 2.3% in 2018 with 70% of the increase coming from China, the USA and India. The growth was double the average increase from 2010-2017. Global Electricity demand...

Elon Musk tweeted pictures of a Tesla Semi delivering Tesla passenger electric cars. The Tesla Semi was not expected to be in full production until 2020. However, it appears that Tesla will be using...

I was at the MIT EmTech Digital 2019 conference. There was a lunch discussion which involved nuclear energy. A supercomputer and Artificial intelligence expert said that Nuclear Power was great...

The late 2020’s could see the start of a new age of factory mass produced nuclear power. The DOE is putting most of its first of its kind funding ($13 million out of $19 million) for advanced...

The 2022 Foundation is a think tank which has released a report about the plan for Hong Kong integrate with Shenzhen and the other cities in the Great Bay Area. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region...

Senior Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yi Fuxian makes the case that China’s nominal GDP will peak at 84% of the US GDP in 2033. He is the author of Big Country with an Empty...

Bitmain will launch its next-generation 7nm ASIC chip, BM1397, which achieves will improve performance, chip area and energy efficiency for mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin...

Vice President Mike Pence announced a goal for a human landing on the Moon by 2024 during a National Space Council meeting. SpaceX will be the only real option for manned missions to the moon by...

Smart time management is the core of greater business productivity and a smart calendar can make the most improvement for the efficiency of global teams. Calendar, is an dynamic calendar with...

The Us Bureau of Labor reported a 1.0% labor productivity gain in 2017-2018. This number was better across the country than the 0.4% per year gain from 2007-2017. However, labor productivity was...

The current construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope completed excavations for its foundations in six months instead of the planned 8-months. The foundations of the Giant Magellan Telescope’s...

On March 27, 2019 India conducted Mission Shakti which was a successful anti-satellite missile test. In 2008, China had a successful anti-satellite missile test. It is like the European Space Agency,...

Yesterday, Vice President Mike Pence asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to accelerate lunar exploration plans during a National Space Council meeting held at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center...

China will start pouring concrete for a 125 MWe ACP100 nuclear reactor by the end of this year. Construction is expected to take 65 months. The first unit expected to start up by 31 May 2025...

Base editing with reduced DNA nicking allows for the simultaneous editing of over 10,000 loci (13,000) in human cells. Performing this feat in the human genome will require the modification of 4438...

The Carnival of Space 604 is up at Universe Today. Universe Today – Progress for the Skylon. Europe agrees to continue working on the air-breathing SABRE engine ESA, together with the UK Space...

Rohit Prasad is the Vice President and Head Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon. He is discussing scaling AI. Engaging with intelligent assistants has become routine in many of our lives, both at home and on...

Breakthroughs in deep learning are inspiring the evolution of AI. But will this “deep learning + X” model drive AI to its fullest potential? While problem solving with more data and deeper models has...

Google’s VP Kent Walker announced that Google will build an external AI advisory council. They come from our continents and from many disciplines. Google will be providing a release that has...

David Budden is a Research Engineering Team Lead, DeepMind. He will discuss Engineering Intelligence. David talked about how innovation can come from anywhere in the company. A Deep Fake (fake...

Naveen Rao is the Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Intel. Naveen views Moore’s law as an economic law. Naveen is talking about biological...

Hardware is gating the rate of progress in Artificial Intelligence. Bill Dally is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, Nvidia. Moore’s law is not providing performance...

Gideon Lichfield is reviewing highlight from yesterdays talks at EmTech Digital 2019. Dawn Song talked about adversarial machine learning. Adversarial machine learning can be used to learn in spite...

Daphne Koller is the Founder and CEO, Insitro. Insitro will integrate cutting-edge machine learning techniques with the ground-breaking innovations that have occurred in life sciences that enable the...

Jill Becker is the CEO and Cofounder, Kebotix. The Kebotix self-driving lab combines data and AI with robotics to discover and create advanced chemicals and materials at a faster rate and at the push...

Andrew Anagnost is the President and CEO, Autodesk.He discusses using AI to improve construction and many other jobs and industries. Automation and Imagination: Designing a World for 10 Billion...

Taniya Mishra is the Director of AI Research and Lead Speech Scientist, Affectiva. Affectiva is used by leading market research firms like Millward Brown, LRW, Added Value and Unruly, and brands like...

Chazz Sims is the Cofounder and CEO, Wise Systems. Wise Systems automatically schedules, monitors, and adjusts routes in real time – keeping teams on schedule and on plan. Chazz and Wise Systems...

Dmitri Dolgov is the CTO and VP of Engineering, Waymo. Dmitri briefly reviewed the self-driving car work ten to 15 years ago from the DARPA grand challenge to today. They initially chose 10 driving...

AI can be used to augmenting our intelligence. Lama Nachman is an Intel Fellow, Intel Labs; Director, Anticipatory Computing Lab, Intel. She will discuss Enhancing Human Potential with AI. Lama...

Spadre.com is reporting that SpaceX is performing the first new raptor engine firing on the Spacehopper. The Spacehopper is being held down with tethers. Every Day Astronaut is also reporting live on...

Researchers have used an ensemble of NV− centers in diamond for implementing different types of quantum heat engines. They have used these to demonstrate the equivalence of the power output of two...

There are series of three speakers talking about using AI for social good, defend human rights and an analysis on how to mitigate AI generated fake news. Ensuring that the era of AI benefits society...

Recycling was premised that there is not enough room in landfills and that a lot of plastics can and should be recycled. All the garbage produced in the U.S. for the next 1000 years could fit into a...

Leaders in the field are looking beyond cutting-edge research to examine the impact that AI technologies are having in the world. Putting humans at the center of the discussion is critical to ensure...

Sergey LevineAssistant Professor, UC BerkeleyRobots That Learn by Doing Sergey is talking about reinforcement learning. Robots can keep learning from its environment with reinforcement learning. We...

Dawn Song Professor, UC Berkeley; Founder and CEO, Oasis Labs Future of AI and Security Dawn is talking about AI-powered DDOS cyber attacks. Machine Learning in the Presence of the Attacker Cyber...

Harry Shum Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, Microsoft Democratization of AI He is talking about the State of AI. Microsoft AI has reached or exceeded human...

Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will be live blogging the MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital 2019 event at the St. Regis in San Francisco. The focus is on the latest developments in Artificial...

Today Rocket Labs is counting down to launch a DARPA called Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) that will test technologies for deployable antennas. Once in orbit, R3D2...

If the US spends $20-55 billion per year more on ships and maintenance then the Navy will reach its target of 355 ships. They will slow down retirements and increase the purchase of ships. Initial...

US nuclear power plants set a new record for annual power generation in 2018. Capacity additions from plant uprates, combined with shorter refueling maintenance cycles, enabled the country’s...

The US Navy is buying a new breed of armed unmanned surface combat ships that will add more sensors and weapons to the current fleet. These will be 200-foot to 300-foot ships that displace 2,000...

In the next two years, the US Navy wants to deploy a 60-kilowatt Helios combat laser aboard a guided-missile destroyer. In 2021, they will install a High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler...

The Sikorsky-Boeing #SB1 DEFIANTâ„¢ helicopter completed its first flight on March 21, 2019. This next generation vehicle will have twice the speed and twice the range of helicopters. Its two coaxial...

The US Department of Energy is paying $500 million for the Aurora exaflop supercomputer to be built by Intel and Cray in 2021. Aurora will perform regular supercomputer research and artificial...

The United States will recognize Israeli control of the Golan Height. President Trump announced his intent to recognize Israeli control. This could increase the chances for Israeli President...

SpaceX also has the second mission for the Falcon Heavy scheduled for April, 2019. There should be a third Falcon Heavy mission a few months later. If NASA is serious about completing the Exploration...

Boeing has delayed by at least three months its first uncrewed flight to the International Space Station under NASA’s human spaceflight program and pushed its crewed flight until November....