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Nextbigfuture expects Elon Musk’s Boring Company will make massive amounts of underground tunnels in China to bust traffic. China loves building massive amounts of infrastructure. When China...

August 24th, either at Cape Canaveral or Boca Chica, Elon Musk will present a detailed review of the first Orbital Starship with pros and cons of the design decisions. Yes, detailed review of the...

Become a part of the new decentralized Marketplace, Particl. Submit your keys to be in with a chance of winning prizes. Particl is celebrating the launch of its Open Marketplace and is giving users...

The US Army will field 50 kilowatt (kW)-class lasers on a platoon of four Stryker vehicles in 2022. They will support the Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) mission. The directed energy...

The Brahmaputra River starts in China and runs through India and Bangladesh and there are serious concerns for regional stability in conflicts over the water of the Brahmaputra River. China and India...

The projected global spending on water and waste-water services is steadily increasing: from US$ 576 billion in 2006, to US$ 772 billion in 2015, to over US$1 trillion in 2025. The projected...

United Launch Alliance made short-sighted decisions to keep taking Space Launch System (SLS) Pork over making real technological progress. The SLS is a Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle. The shuttle was...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced July 25 the agency will conduct a “Green Run” core stage test for the Space Launch System rocket ahead of the upcoming Artemis 1 lunar mission. Perhaps in...

Bloodstream microbots are old news, but now Caltech has laser activated microbots

Facebook, OpenStreetMap, and Map with AI are creating tools that will enable vastly faster mapping of unmapped roads and other unmapped feature. Artificial intelligence to predict features on...

Facebook has created devices that read all the words of your inner voice and Elon Musk’s Neuralink is creating brain-computer interfaces (BCI) that will have thousands and later millions of...

Capella Space constellation of small but powerful satellites employ space-based radar, beaming through darkness and cloud cover to gather the information you need to make informed decisions. When...

University of New South Wales (UNSW) Professor Michelle Simmons and her team have developed the fastest two-qubit gate between atoms suspended in silicon. A two-qubit gate is the central building...

Elon Musk’s Boring Company raised $120 million and has a $920 million valuation. Boring has a $48.7 million mile-long project to build a tunnel with people moving pods around the Las Vegas...

There is a tweet from the Tesla Show of the inside of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory. Tesla agreed to pay China 2.23 billion yuan ($323 million) in tax every year as part of a deal with local...

SpaceX 200 meter Starhopper test will be in about two weeks. There's your Starhopper 200 meter test NET (No Earlier Than) date. August 12. https://t.co/y9hoBc4w9f — Chris B – NSF...

The world we know today has largely been shaped by geography, populations and agriculture. Peter Zeihan has some useful analysis of how geography has shaped geopolitics. He correctly notes the large...

George Dvorsky, Futurist and Transhumanist, has written at Gizmodo that Humans will never colonize Mars. This is an interesting position from George who wrote in favor of Dyson Spheres in 2012....

China Fixing Polluted Land and Upgrading Farmland

Super-thin, lightweight X-ray mirrors made of silicon can make next-generation X-ray space telescopes. Above – Goddard scientist Will Zhang holds mirror segments made of silicon. These X-ray...

NASA has 19 new technology research projects for technology to enable Moon to Mars exploration. SpaceX will work with NASA for a moon landing project (landing the Starship on the moon) and for...

China passed Japan in 2010 to become the second-largest economy in the world based upon nominal (exchange rate) GDP. China may not pass the United States to become the world’s largest economy...

Chinese scientists claims to have several breakthroughs in stealth materials technology that will make fighter jets and other weapons lighter, cheaper to build and able to avoid radar detection....

Elon previously described a vision of radically transforming the factories that build his cars. In 2016, Elon had the goal of making his factories ten times more productive every ten years. Elon...

Thin Mirrors Boost Solar Efficiency to 29% and Soon 50% For Better Drones and Space Probes

1. Universe Today – LightSail 2 is Sending Home New Pictures of Earth LightSail 2, the brainchild of The Planetary Society, has gifted us two new gorgeous images of Earth. The small spacecraft...

Paul Krugman wrote an opinion piece where he rants against future radical life extension. Krugman fears that it will only be available to billionaires. Krugman scenario is that Peter Thiel would...

The US is increasing hypersonic weapon investment in 2020 to $2.6 billion. The UK has a $12 million contract with Rolls-Royce to develop high-Mach aircraft propulsion systems. Russia has the Avangard...

Elon says the Spacex Starhopper which has its first untethered flight will fly suborbital when it has three Raptor engines installed. Single engine will have his truck s was p to one mile high. Elon...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Robert Hargraves of Thorcon to clarify some information about the status of the revolutionary Thorcon molten salt nuclear reactor and the implications of the new agreement...

On the recent quarterly conference call, Elon Musk indicated that Tesla will have clear roadmap to a Terawatt hour per year of battery production. If all of the Terawatt hour per year of batteries...

Tesla is speeding up their European Gigafactory efforts and are hoping to finalize a location choice in the coming quarters. Elon said in Q and A at the 2019Q2 conference call that he was hoping to...

SpaceX had a successful 20 meter first untethered flight for the Starhopper. They will go higher and higher with test hops similar to the Falcon 9 grasshopper flight tests. Starhopper flight...

SpaceX has a 44th successful first stage recovery and a good launch. This mission will add a second docking port to the space station to handle more traffic from future crew Dragon and future Boeing...

LPP Fusion Will Scale to Higher Fusion Yield With New Beryllium Electrode

Elon Musk indicated that SpaceX will test thin ceramic tiles to protect the Super Heavy Starship from re-entry heat instead of using active transpirational cooling. This will only need to be on...

The full Neuralink paper describing how their multi-thousand channel brain interface system will be built and implanted is here. It is called “An integrated brain-machine interface platform...

The IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) has a roadmap to one-nanometer semiconductor devices in 2033. The updated IRDS includes new information on cryogenic electronics and...

In 2017, China spent about $8.4 billion on its civilian and military space budget while Russia cut its space program back to $3 billion. The US NASA and Military Space budget is about $48 billion....

Social engineering is when someone tricks people into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information. Social engineering attacks are increasing. According to the FireEye email threat...

In an interview with Time magazine, Elon Musk thinks SpaceX could land a cargo mission to the moon in less than two years. Time magazine editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger’s interview with Elon...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical ahead of tonight’s resupply mission to the space station. Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical ahead of tonight’s resupply mission to the @Space_Station....

Tesla has released its second quarter earnings. The analysts expected $6.41 billion in revenue and a forty cents on adjusted per share loss. Revenue reported was $6.35 billion in revenue and a $1.21...

A video shows some of the interior of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory and there is another video indicated the potential financial impact of the factory in 2020. After spoke with my source in China, I...

Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will have 41 raptor engines. This means that instead of 31 engines on the first stage super heavy there will be 35. There will be six engines...

Elon Musk tweeted that a 10-kilometer hyperloop track with a full vacuum tunnel and a curve will be built. It will be built by The Boring Company with SpaceX. They currently have a 1.6 km (1 mi)...

Update: Enables Completely Untraceable Currency Transactions at Low Cost and Precedes Upcoming Particl Open Marketplace Mainnet Launch On the day of its second anniversary, Particl, the open-source...