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The IPCC published their latest climate change report. They tried to justify spending $48 trillion over the next 20 years to transform world energy by claiming 180 million lives could be saved from...

Poland already passed Greece in GDP per capita and Polands leaders expects Poland pass Portugal in GDP per capita in 2019. Poland could pass Italy in GDP per capita within 10 years. They need to be...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rates the Model 3, Model S and Model X as the cars with the lowest probability of injury. The Tesla Model 3 has the lowest probability of injury of...

Michael Hanlon has an updated forecast which areas of military technology could have revolutionary change over the next 20 years. Revolutionary change is defined as a type and pace of progress that...

The Carnival of Space 581 is up at Photon Fishing. Universe Today – Musk Gives an Update on When a Mars Colony Could be Built On Monday, Sept. 17th), Elon Musk revealed new information about...

The Air Force has designated the GOLauncher1 (GO1) hypersonic flight research vehicle as X-60A. The vehicle is being developed by Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. under contract to the Air...

A team led by scientists from Cardiff University in Wales predicts that fields of sharp ice growing to almost 15 meters tall could be scattered across the equatorial regions of Europa. The hazardous...

Civil wars are defined as a violent conflict within a country fought by organized groups that aim to take power at the center or in a region, or to change government policies. The Cold War was a...

On Sunday, October 7 at 7:21 p.m. PDT, SpaceX successfully launched the SAOCOM 1A satellite from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite was...

Apple and DHS (Department of Homeland Security) have denied the Bloomberg report of China chip hacking the security of servers. Here is the DHS statement: The Department of Homeland Security is aware...

Late in 2017, NATO defense ministers agreed to create two new commands to facilitate the rapid reinforcement of Europe in the event of a conflict with Russia. NATO has a “4×30” initiative which...

Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed the first method for selecting and switching the mechanical motion of nanomotors among multiple modes with simple visible light as the...

Vladislav Lobaev, the founder and chief engineer of Lobaev Arms is researching hypersonic ammunition and with funding could create a precision cartridge that will have a muzzle velocity of 2,000 m/s...

NASA has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019. A manned flight on Boeing spacecraft is set to follow in...

Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Dr. Michael Griffin’s top priority is hypersonic weapons. The urgency for hypersonic weapons is because of a growing capability gap the...

AI and related technologies such as robots, drones and autonomous vehicles could provide a net boost to employment in China of around 12% over the next two decades, equating to around 90 million...

The total market capitalisation of the Global Top 100 companies has increased by 15% since last year to $20 trillion. This compares with a 11.5% increase in the MSCI World Index. The US retains the...

The digitization and automation of processes and delivery vehicles will reduce logistics costs for standardized transport by 47% by 2030, according to a new report from PwC’s Strategy and...

PwC’s Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI) 2018 finds the goal of limiting global warming to two degrees looks even further out of reach as national decarbonization rates fail to match up to the Paris...

HES Energy Systems revealed its plans for Element One, the world’s first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft. They have been developing hydrogen propulsion systems for drones for the last...

There are many new drones (including improvised drones) with grenade launchers, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank weapons.

The US soldier will be getting more advanced technology and more electrical power for those systems over the next 20 years. Over the next five years the electrical power will double to about 25 watts...

An Exoplanet that is several times the mass of Jupiter has a moon that is the size of Neptune. The moon is estimated to be only 1.5 percent the mass of its companion planet. They are both 8000 light...

Christian Bale transforms into Vice President Dick Cheney in the trailer for the movie Vice. Sam Rockwell does a good impression of George Bush and there looks like a good performance from Steve...

Bloomberg reports that China place small chips into servers and other machines that allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines. Multiple...

D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems and software, today announced the immediate availability of free, real-time access to the D-Wave LeapTM Quantum Application Environment...

Mayo Clinic anti-aging researcher James Kirkland published about a drug combination that can slow and reverse senescent cells in mice. A leukemia drug dasatinib and the dietary supplement quercetin...

AU Coin is excited to announce the release of the TAU Exchange, scheduled for October 18, 2018. This comes at an opportune time for TAU, as the new Proof-of-Transaction (PoT) coin has begun to see an...

DARPA seeks to achieve high levels of brain-system communications without surgery, in its new program, Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3). DARPA intends the four-year N3 effort to...

China economy on a GDP purchasing power parity basis became the largest in 2013 and it is now 25% larger than the USA. China’s economy will be 30% larger in 2019 and 50% larger in 2023....

Romit Shah, Nomura Analyst, believes that Tesla will have sustainable profitability. Tesla is near profitability or at profitability with the increased third quarter car production. Romit feels that...

France said on Tuesday there was no doubt Iran’s intelligence ministry was behind a June plot to attack an exiled opposition group’s rally outside Paris and it seized assets belonging to Tehran’s...

The Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop is hosting a special Symposium to discuss Catalyzing major human space activities by 2030. What are the next levels for space activities? 1000 or more times...

Kai-Fu Lee heads up a $2 billion AI and technology-focused venture fund (Sinovation) and used to lead Microsoft Research in Asia and Google China. He has written a book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon...

This October the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop is hosting a special Symposium at the Y-12 New Hope Center in Oak Ridge TN that will promote safe, fast, and affordable human development of...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sees the U.S. economy generating highly optimistic expectations. The jobless rate is at 3.9% and inflation is around the Fed’s goal of 2%. Historically,...

Peter Swan, president of International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), was quoted as saying that an Earth Based Space elevator could cost close to $10 billion to build and could reduce the cost of...

Morten Bay of University of Southern California Center for the Digital Future has written a non-satire academic paper claiming that Russian internet trolls increased the Star Wars fan divide over the...

The World became 50% urban in 2007. The global urban population increased from a mere 13% in 1900 to 29% in 1950. In 1960 the world was one-third urban. The world will have gone from 55% urban now to...