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NASA plans to launch the Psyche mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid that is also called Psyche. The critical design review is done and construction has started. They plan to launch August 2022...

95 brown dwarfs stars have been found and most are within a few dozen light-years of the Sun. Above – n this artist’s rendering, the small white orb represents the white dwarf (a remnant of a...

Aguas Zarcas is a meteorite that broke up over Chile in 2019 but it is new meteorite sample that contains nucleobases that are part of RNA. A similar meteorite his fifty years ago but this is the...

Tesla ended the day at a valuation of $352 billion, while Walmart (tenth biggest in SP500) is worth $384 billion. This has made Elon Musk the fourth richest person in the world. He is behind Jeff...

Intel’s Raja Koduri gave the Monday keynote talk at the Hotchips 32 conference today. He argued in the keynote that within the next 5 years the industry would be able to increase performance by...

IBM is updating its mainframe chips with the Z15. It is a 14-nanometer chip. This matters because COBOL and mainframes are still processing the bulk of global business transactions. The IBM...

Marvell introduced their ARM based Thunder X3 server processor, with 60 cores/240 threads per die. It has a 30% single-thread performance increase over the X2. It employs up to 4 threads per core,...

IBM Power10 CPU will have 2.6x performance per watt and the 7nm CPU will be fabbed by Samsung. It should become available in late 2021. This is another report from Sander Olson. It will have up to...

The 32nd Hot Chips conference is happening now. Sander Olson is attending. He has provided presentations to Nextbigfuture that are highlights of the conference. Intel described their Xeon “ice...

The 22 wildly successful Marvel movies led up to Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame with the villain Thanos. This article will discuss the plan that Thanos had and why the plan was stupid as...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 23 for the first operational flight with astronauts of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station. This will...

More than 270,000 California residents experienced a second round of rolling blackouts on Saturday. PG&E said rotating outages began around 6:30 p.m. Power was restored to most customers around...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel have normalized relations. As part of the deal, Israel has suspended the annexation of the West Bank. The UAE is one of six members of the Gulf Cooperation...

Singapore researchers have a terahertz (THz) wave chip that can transmit at a data rate of 11 Gigabits per second (Gbit/s). It is capable of supporting real-time streaming of 4K high-definition video...

Rob Mauer of Tesla Daily provided a bull case for Tesla to Northwestern University Masters Students. Tesla has grown revenue over the last four years by 250% but only increased operating expenses by...

Purdue University engineers have a built a website (cam2project.net ) that gathers live video and images from about 30,000 network cameras in more than 100 countries and they are using to monitor and...

DARPA deployed a cubesat that has a new mini-space telescope. DARPA’s Deformable Mirror (DeMi) CubeSat deployed from the International Space Station July 13 and uses a microelectromechanical systems...

Scott Galloway who wrote a book on the big four tech companies has suggestions for handling their monopoly. Scott suggests breaking up Facebook by spinning off their recent acquisitions, Instagram...

The Lucid Air electric car has been independently tested with an estimated EPA range of 517 miles on a single charge. This range appears to be for a 175 or 205 kWh from two battery packs for an...

Apple announced a 4:1 stock split on July 31 and today Tesla announced a 5:1 stock split. The Tesla stock split would convert Tesla from a $1400 stock to five $280 share. Apple shares went up about...

The US Air Force is ending Launch Service Agreement contracts awarded in October 2018 to Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman, as well as to ULA. The Launch Service Agreement contracts were to help Phase...

Alberta is joining New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan to work together to support the development and deployment of SMRs (small modular reactors). Combined the four provinces are 21 million out...

A new method of computer simulation sheds light on the present structure and past evolution of Ice Giant planets like Uranus and Neptune. Researchers analyzed the conduction of electricity and heat...

The USA has almost 19 million college students. There are about 1.5 million faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions. Most US colleges are re-opening because they would go bankrupt if...

The US State Department has a broader action on technology from China that is banning apps and is part of a US-China split of the internet, technology and business world into the China side and the...

Tesla is using large cranes to put pre-constructed wall and roof sections into place for the Gigafactory in Berlin. This appears to be on track to reach the completion of the outside building...

In mid-2019, Nextbigfuture predicted that 2020 would be year that Tesla would begin dominating the world with dry battery technology. Gali at Hyperchange is predicting that the major announcement...

Apple is at a valuation of $1.95 trillion. Apple is how a strong quarterly earnings report and announced a 4:1 stock split. Apple is now worth nearly $200 billion more than second place Saudi Aramco....

Eli Lilly a Phase 3 trial studying LY-CoV555 for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in residents and staff at long-term care facilities in the U.S. (skilled nursing facilities,...

The Beirut explosion was the result of over six years of criminal incompetence and bureaucracy in Lebanon. 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the form of small pellets was intended as agricultural...

Virgin Galactic has released first-stage designs of mach 3 passenger jet that would hold 19 passengers and fly at an altitude above 60,000 feet. British engine maker Rolls-Royce has signed on as a...

I eyeballed the big Beirut explosion and thought it was 1000 tons of explosive, however, it was 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate. Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said an estimated 2750 tons of...

The SpaceX SN5 Starship prototype has had a successful 150 meter hop test. SOURCES – Everyday Astronaut, Space Frontier, Overlook Horizon Written By Brian Wang, nextbigfuture.com

A large blast has hit the Lebanese capital, Beirut, causing widespread damage and injuring many people. It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the port area of the city. Video posted online...

Most of the world has 10-100 times less per capita COVID-19 testing than the USA. The USA has probably only detected about 10-20% of its total COVID-19 cases. South Africa has the fifth most cases in...

OpenAI’s GPT-3 is the most powerful AI language model ever. GPT-2 was released in 2019. GPT-3 is a big leap forward. The model has 175 billion parameters (the values that a neural network tries...

Minister of Economy, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg Jörg Steinbach said Tesla’s goal is to complete the construction Gig Berlin factory at a faster pace than the 11-month Giga...

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Facebook had combined 2019 revenue of $899 billion and should have over $1 trillion in revenue in 2020. Most of the revenue gains will be from Amazon. Amazon...

The Boeing Starliner crew capsule will fly a second time without astronauts after software problems and other issues caused the first test flight on 20 December 2019 to fail to reach the...

On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and today NASA...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke with Automotive News Publisher Jason Stein in the first of a three-part interview. Elon said that today car factories have a speed of 0.2 meters per second. Walking is five...

Tesla Berlin Gigafactory has modular walls and many pillars built. This is three months faster than the first walls being put up at the Shanghai Gigafactory. If Tesla builds Gigafactory Berlin at the...

Sandy Munro has done ultra-detailed teardowns and reverse-engineering of Telsa cars. He describes how the thermal management used in the Tesla Model Y is vastly superior to other carmakers. This...

Other solar system could have as many as seven Earth-like planets, when those solar systems do not have a gas giant planet like Jupiter. The team created a model system in which they simulated...

Apple is trading at a market valuation of $1.78 1.84 trillion. Saudi Aramco has been the most valuable public company since their IPO. They are valued at $1.77 trillion. Apple is now $70 billion more...

George Church (biotech genius with over two dozen companies several with multi-billion valuation) says he has not stepped outside of his house in five months. He believes the vaccine designed by...

US real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic...

Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas now has raised its main price for Tesla to $1050 per share. This is below the current $1450-1600 trading range for Tesla. Adam Jonas has a bull case of $2500. The...

Google has over 1 billion installed voice assistants while Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana and Baidu DeurOS have about 400-500 million installed assistants. Apple Siri is mainly used with iPhone. This...

The fate of the $2-trillion auto industry is now sealed: In this double disruption that’s defying the global pandemic, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has gained over 433%, sailing past a $1,500 share price and...