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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...

Team @TUM_Hyperloop hit a top speed of 288 mph to win the 2019 Hyperloop Pod Competition Team @TUM_Hyperloop just hit a top speed of 288 mph – congratulations on winning the 2019 Hyperloop Pod...

SpaceX is building a new rocket related building. Whatever it is they are building at the #StarshipEast facility must be a high priority. Look how far it has come since yesterday- an arch has been...

World Health Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Level 3 Emergency

Marvel’s Kevin Feige announced two years of movie schedule at Comic Con. This could be called a short Phase 4 slate of movies and shows. There will be a space heavy series of movies starting in...

Kevin Feige announces at Comic con that Avengers Endgame will be the number one movie in global box office on Sunday.. This is based upon Disney’s accounting for both movies. Disney owns the Marvel...

There is a full length trailer for Star Trek : Picard. Star Trek: Picard should start in early 2020. It’ll stream in the US on CBS All Access and on the Space Channel in Canada. Amazon Prime...

In five days, Tesla will release its quarterly earnings. Elon Musk said a month ago that Tesla had a decent shot at having a record-breaking quarter in every way. Tesla did delivery a record number...

Drishti is a company that is helping to analyze the efficiency of actions performed in factories. Drishti uses computer vision to digitize manual human actions. They are able to analyze video and not...

A scenario where a modern society could collapse is if the energy returned from new energy sources drops below critical levels. Clearly, if you spend more energy to build a new reactor or solar farm...

The world’s population is expected to increase by 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050, according to a new United Nations report. The World...

FaceApp is based in St. Petersburg, Russia and over 150 million people have uploaded faces and names to the app. FaceApp owns a never-ending and irrevocable royalty-free license to do anything they...

Chinese customers, who still mainly buy luxury items on overseas trips, buy more than a third of luxury sector sale. They and other Crazy Rich Asians have helped boost the shares of LVMH. Chinese...

Mikhail Kokorich, Momentus’ CEO answered email questions from Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture. Momentus is pioneering new forms of orbital transfer services via shuttles that attach to satellites...

Indonesia’s state company PT PAL Indonesia signed an agreement with next-generation molten salt nuclear energy company Thorcon International Pte Ltd for a development study and construction of a...

Senator Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, said NASA Administrator Bridenstine said Artemis (SLS – Space Launch System – Moon by 2024 program) could cost $20 (billion) to $30 billion over the...

SpaceX performed a test of their StarShip prototype StarHopper with a brand new serial number 6 Raptor Engine. The vehicle was tethered and held down. The engine test appeared to go well at...

Neuralink is recruiting people to work on its brain-machine interface system. It is a less invasive system with about 10,000 electrodes in a neural-lace. Each chip has 1,000 electrode connections and...

There is a social media event where 1.3 million people have signed up to storm Area 51 where alien technology is rumored to be kept. They have the motto “They cannot stop us all”....

AI, Genome Sequencing and New Sensors Creates Pre-Cancer Management

In the next two to three weeks, Avengers Endgame will be passing the global movie box office of James Cameron’s Avatar movie. The actress Zoe Saldana is in both of the movies. She plays Gamora...

China is reporting a GDP growth rate of 6.3% and unemployment of about 5.1%. The agricultural production situation is relatively good, and the summer grain has achieved a bumper harvest. The total...

Elon Musk’s brain interface company, Neuralink, will have a live-streamed event starting tomorrow, Tuesday, July 16 at 8PM PST. * In November, 2018, Elon said Neuralink would create...

India’s Chandrayaan 2 moon mission launch was canceled because of a faulty plumbing issue in its upper stage cryogenic rocket engine. In the next few days, they will open up the plumbing system...

The SpaceX crew dragon explosion was caused by a cup of liquid oxidizer leaking and coming into contact with titanium and this reacted explosively. Data reviews indicate that the SpaceX Crew Dragon...

A pro-Tesla analyst indicates that he used Tesla Navigation on Autopilot for a 13-hour 800-mile drive from Seattle the Bay Area. He found it very relaxing and it is a completely different experience...

Avenger’s Endgame global box office is $7.2 $6.8 million from passing Avatar. The actual box office results were better than the estimates. Many who track movie box office on Youtube and a...

One of the main speculations about future technology is uploading. This is where our minds are copied in exact detail from our biological physical bodies and then created in artificial bodies....

ProteinQure uses quantum computing, molecular simulations and reinforcement learning to engineer new drugs. They combine state-of-the-art structure-based algorithms, including molecular dynamics...

Atom Computing is building quantum computers using individually controlled atoms. As one of the world’s leading researchers in atomic clocks and neutral atoms, Benjamin Bloom (co-founder of Atom...

The structure of the SpaceX orbital starship appears to be nearing completion. SpaceX will then need to add in about seven Raptor engines. Best pictures I’ve gotten to date of #starhopper in Cocoa...

India will launch Chandrayaan-2 on July 15,2019 and it will be India’s first lunar landing mission. The orbit of Chandrayaan-2 around the Moon will be circularised to 100km orbit through a...

Elon Musk indicates the Raptor engine is on the Starhopper and they are aiming for a hover test on Tuesday. Raptor engine mounted on Starhopper. Aiming for hover test Tues. — Elon Musk...

First self-driving bus is now serving customers in New South Wales, Australia. It is serving the Marian Grove Retirement Village in Toormina, a suburb of Coffs Harbour. Using the BusBot app (iOS and...