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Nextbigfuture was excessively optimistic on quantum computer achieving a smooth takeoff based upon announcements in 2018 with the 72 qubit Google bristlecone, IonQ's trapped ion breakthrough and a...

Synthetic Speech Made from Brain Recordings is a step to brain prosthetic

World War 3 Wargame Shows High Losses and Logistic Gap

The US has begun supplying some missiles to Ukraine. The US could supply a dozen PT boats with missiles and drive the cost to Russia of military escalation in Ukraine beyond any reasonable benefit.

Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe has successfully created a man-made crater on an asteroid. Hayabusa2 shot a copper "impact head" at Ryugu.

MEMS Version of Intel 4004 Chip Could be Made to Prove Nanomechanical Computer Designs

Cornell researchers can use two inexpensive cameras on either side of the windshield to detect objects with nearly LiDAR’s accuracy and at a fraction of the cost. Currently, the LIDAR implementation...

Elon described costs and details of the master plan for a robotaxi fleet and service at Autonomy Day. Many are criticizing the full self-driving plan and do not believe it will be achieved or will be...

Innolith AG, Swiss maker of rechargeable Inorganic Battery Technology, says they have the world's first 1000 Wh/kg rechargeable battery. This would triple the range of electric cars. The Innolith...

Chinese space station core module Tianhe is getting pre-launch tests and the Long March 5B launch vehicle undergoing integration.

Tesla announced their terrible financial results in the first quarter in their earnings call. They had $700 million in losses. Other information from the Tesla call: The Model Y could be built under...

Microsoft stock surging over $1 trillion in market value in after hours trading with a strong earnings report.

DARPA Competition to Launch to LEO From Most Anywhere Twice With a Few Weeks Notice

Skyrmion Crystal Could Make Future Computer Memory

Micro-Encapsulated CO2 Sorbents (MECS) are a possible technology to capture carbon from the atmosphere. They are tiny, reusable capsules full of a sodium carbonate solution that can absorb carbon...

Model S and Model X now come with an all-new drivetrain design that increases each vehicle’s range substantially, achieving a landmark 370 miles and 325 miles on the EPA cycle for Model S and Model X...

Elon Musk has tweeted that Tesla will make a quiet electric leaf blower.

Rivian, electric truck and SUV maker, has a $500 million strategic partnership deal with Ford

The Cape Canaveral landing zone needs to be preserved for the post-explosion investigation work. There are pieces of the Crew Dragon around the landing site.

Six brothers and sisters of one family reached over 100 years of age and show that genetic engineering would make it possible to live decades longer than most people live now.

Adding or removing genes in new animals and plants means that we will have a better understanding of the biosphere and potentially create animal models that more are more accurate than mice at...

Tesla Autonomy Investor Day described their software. Tesla has a shadow mode where they can compare alternative software algorithms against the current software. Tesla will only proceed from shadow...

Elon Musk Predicts that in the future people will demand that there be no human drivers. This will make it inevitable that steering wheels will be removed from safe full self-driving cars. The...

The second part of Tesla's Autonomy day is the self-driving software development and the interaction with fleet data.

Tesla revealed the Full Self Driving Computer and going over all of the technical details.

The Carnival of Space 608 is up at Everyday Spacer

SpaceX Crew Dragon Had a Problem

Peter Klupar is presenting on Breakthrough Starshot at Access Space 2019. Peter reviewed the Breakthrough initiatives, Breakthrough prize, Breakthrough Listen and the Junior Breakthrough challenge....

Gerald Nordley provided a mass beam propulsion overview at Space Access 2019. There have been many kinds of mass beam propulsion. Use of mass beams, instead of light, allows great efficiency by...

James Benford presents his Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails at Space Access 2019. The Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails could enable an interstellar probe to alpha centauri...

John has previously worked on the SpaceX Raptor engine and has presented a nuclear air-breathing rocket design. The new design is a single-stage to Orbit air-breathing rocket. #SpaceAccess2019

Positron Dynamics will use Krypton isotopes to generate positrons and catalyze fusion propulsion. #SpaceAccess2019

Kevin Parkin described the history and status of microwave beam-heated propulsion at Space Access 2019. Technical summary is at Parkin Research. Kevin showed more pictures of the test systems. Kevin...

Jeff's new idea is to take the energy from the passage through the plasma of space to use on the reaction mass that a spacecraft is carrying. This the Drag-powered reaction: Q-Drive. #SpaceAccess

The electric solar wind sail is a propulsion system that uses the solar wind proton flow as a source of momentum for spacecraft thrust. The momentum of the solar wind is transferred to the spacecraft...

Korea has started a new 1350 MWe Shin Kori 4 reactor and will connect it to the electricity grid at the end of this month. It is the second APR-1400 reactor to start up of a planned global fleet of...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size exoplanet. The exoplanet, HD 21749c, is about 89% Earth’s diameter.

SpaceIL will try to make a second attempt to land on the moon.

Nitrous oxide emissions from thawing Alaskan permafrost might about twelve times higher than previously assumed

A nonthermal plasma reactor was able to inactivate or remove from the airstream 99.9% of a test virus, with the vast majority due to inactivation.

The reason for a space Gravity lab is that we do not know the long term effects of partial gravity and do not know if it is safe for humans to live at partial gravity. If we want to colonize space...

Researchers compared atmosphere and radiation models of exoplanets with Earth of nearly 4 billion years ago to today. 4 billion years ago the Earth had a lot more radiation but life still existed and...

Precancerous skin lesions can be treated with topical targeted therapies to significantly reduce their size and inhibit the growth of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, the second most common form of...

Momentus Space's Water-Plasma Propelled In-Space Transportation Services. Vigoride Extended will be able to take 200 kilogram from low-earth orbit to lunar orbit. It could take 300 kilograms from...

Jeff Greason presented a radically new kind of power beaming. This will enable radical changes to drones, planes and eventually space launch. #SpaceAccess2019

Orbit Beyond is providing a ridesharing lunar lander with a first moon mission in 2020. #SpaceAccess2019

Tesla will showcase the full self-driving computer (FSD) on Monday and will provide test drives of Tesla's that are using the FSD computer.

Michigan Multi-Site Spaceport Licensing Plan for Launching to Polar Orbit Over Lake Huron and Lake Superior #SpaceAccess2019

Agile Propulsion engines are well suited for lunar and planetary landers and upper stages. The lower temperature propellant would be good for sample return from the moon. #SpaceAccess2019

Rob Hoyt at Tethers Unlimited described how he plans to integrate their projects to bootstrap an off-world economy. #SpaceAccess2019