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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....

Exoplanets are planets in other solar systems. They are very faint but they are even harder to see because of the much brighter star they are orbiting. If we send a telescope to the solar...

Sarcos Robotics has been awarded a contract by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to deliver a pre-production version of its Guardian™ XO® (“XO”) full-body, autonomously powered...

The US is working on a 1000 mile range super-cannon but appears to be behind China for railguns. China has been testing a railgun on a naval ship for over a year. They claim that railguns will be...

In 2020, the US military will spend nearly a quarter of trillion dollars to buy military weapons and hardware. The Navy will get the most at about $70 billion, then the air force at $57 billion....

The goal of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Mike Griffin, is making megawatt lasers, hypersonic weapons and directed energy weapons. Griffin wants * megawatt lasers in space...

In 1271, Marco Polo traveled from his home in Venice to China via the Silk Road. The Travels of Marco Polo had huge influence. Italy is now signing agreements to join China’s Belt and Road...

Israel’s unmanned lunar mission is on course to land on the moon’s Sea of Serenity on April 11. It will be between the Apollo 12 and 15 landing sites. The lower power of the booster rocket...

Space Padre reports that today’s SpaceX Starhopper test was canceled due to bad weather. The new scheduled first hop test is now scheduled for tomorrow. Just spoke with sheriff….today’s...

China announced plans to invest 81.2 billion yuan (US$12 billion) in four new nuclear reactors for the first time since 2016. CNNP’s reactors are planned in Zhangzhou city, Fujian province, while CGN...

The picture above is California Highway sign is from the quarterly Metro Transportation Commission report. I have personally never seen the digital sign mention the Flex Fastrak transponder. You will...

If Elon Musk and SpaceX hit the targets for the Starhopper and the SpaceX Starship then SpaceX will have accelerated rocket development by about four times. This would be accelerating the rate of...

There was a video where Elon Musk chat about the history of Elon Musk and SpaceX that has led to the SpaceX Crew Dragon. They also talk to the astronaut crews who will fly on the SpaceX Crew Dragon....

China’s Belt and Road has some questionable economic return potential. However, the Belt and Road is providing geopolitical returns. The Belt and Road has successful projects in Pakistan,...

Planet Labs received $168 million in funding and some of the funding will be to launch many more satellites. On April 1, 2019 they will launch 20 next-generation Dove satellites – Flock 4a – are...

Cost-benefit climate change analyst Bjorn Lomborg has the following analysis of the costs. Bjorn is taking the UN panel report as being mostly credible and accurate. Bjorn does believe that sea...

The bootstrapped LPP Fusion dense plasma focus nuclear fusion project will be starting a potentially big year of testing. They are completing work on their beryllium electrode. If everything goes...

SpaceX will begin test firing the Starhopper. The Starhopper will be tethered and the hops will not be visible from offsite. This will likely be only a few feet or less of lift in the initial tests....

Caltech and Northrop Grumman are continuing to make research progress towards space-based solar power. In 2018, the aerial density of the 1-meter solar tiles in 600 grams. This is an improvement from...

SpaceX will not build a new nosecone for the Starhopper. Elon Musk tweeted that the new nosecone is being built for the orbital Starship. Elon has previously indicated that the orbital version of the...

China is working on magnetized plasma artillery which could enable hypersonic projectiles from a tank. This technology is different than railguns. China has started testing railguns on large navy...