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by Brian Wang on (#4739E)
ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood believes the whole transportation industry will shift to electric. They have a price target of $4000 for Tesla. They think Tesla will reach that level by 2023. The...
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| Updated | 2025-11-21 00:45 |
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by Brian Wang on (#4737B)
Elon Musk has tweeted that the first orbital Starship upper stage prototype should be completed by June 2019. He has stated that the Super Heavy first stage will start construction in the spring....
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by Brian Wang on (#4732Y)
The chinese lander on the moon brought cotton seeds which have sprouted. Potato seeds and rapeseeds also had sprouted. This is the first time humans have done biological growth experiments on the...
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by Brian Wang on (#472W0)
SpaceX continues to build the Starship hopper test rocket. They are removing placeholder engines and opened up the rocket to add fuel tanks and the real raptor engines. Here are tweets about progress...
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by Brian Wang on (#472SP)
SpaceX has taken the Starship Hopper apart again. They are removing the placeholder Raptor engine. They will be adding in the fuel tanks and the new Raptor engines. Elon Musk had sais the previously...
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by Brian Wang on (#4726Z)
Arxiv – If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today? Researchers summarize...
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by Brian Wang on (#471SZ)
Researchers at the George Washington University have taken a major step toward reaching one of the most sought-after goals in physics: room temperature superconductivity. The key to this discovery...
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by Brian Wang on (#470VH)
Tesla is predicted by analysts to turn a profit in the fourth quarter of 2018. The average estimate is a profit of $206 million on a GAAP basis. In April, analysts expected a fourth-quarter loss of...
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by Brian Wang on (#470VJ)
Calculations confirm the room-temperature superconductivity found by other authors, and show that it results from a strong e-ph interaction which is rather uniformly spread over electronic and...
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by Brian Wang on (#470VM)
Exploration of small bodies, namely comets and asteroids remain a challenging endeavor due to their low gravity. The risk is so high that missions such as Hayabusa II and OSIRIS-REx will be...
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by Brian Wang on (#470VP)
Nanoco Technologies and Plessey Semiconductors have partnered to shrink the pixel size of monolithic microLED displays using Nanoco’s cadmium-free quantum-dot (CFQD quantum dots) semiconductor...
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by Brian Wang on (#470NX)
Earlier this year, a little-known U.S. Supreme Court decision ripped open the door to a potential multi-billion dollar market. Only, it’s not what you think. I’m not talking about legal cannabis. I’m...
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by Brian Wang on (#470NY)
George Church describes going beyond cutting DNA to precise editing. 1. Phage Integrases (Protein and DNA) 2. TAL Deaminases (custom Protein) 3. Chemical Targeting (custom polymer) 4. lambda (λ)-red...
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by Brian Wang on (#470P0)
3D printed implants are soft bridges that guide new nerve cells to grow across a tear or break in an injured spinal cord and restored movement. The work has so far shown promise in rats with severe...
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by Brian Wang on (#4705K)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is replicating China’s fossil fuel-based climb from poverty in two-thirds of the world. These countries have two-thirds of the world’s population, 30...
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by Brian Wang on (#47001)
Nuclear power provides half of the low-carbon clean energy in the United States. Providing $12-17 per megawatt hour in credits would preserve this clean energy. This would be the cheapest way to...
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by Brian Wang on (#46ZMQ)
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino observatory constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Its thousands of sensors are located under the Antarctic ice,...
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by Brian Wang on (#46ZMS)
On January 10, 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $144 billion general fund budget on Thursday that’s up 4 percent from the current year and predicts a $21.4 billion surplus from robust...
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by Brian Wang on (#46YBF)
Standard Chartered forecasts the top 10 countries in the world by purchasing power parity GDP in 2030. 1. China: $64.2 trillion 2. India: $46.3 trillion 3. US: $31 trillion 4. Indonesia: $10.1...
by Brian Wang on (#46Y92)
Elon Musk had tweeted that the Super Heavy first stage will start getting built in the spring. Both, but demo Starship is being built now, whereas Super Heavy hardware will start getting built in...
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by Brian Wang on (#46XGB)
Nextbigfuture has predicted ultra-high resolution cameras would become relatively common and high-resolution images and video would impact privacy. In 2006, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture made two...
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by Brian Wang on (#46X82)
Bill Gates saw two positive trends in Alzheimer’s research in 2018. 1. Researchers focused on a new set of ideas about how to stop Alzheimer’s. The first generation of theories, which dominated the...
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by Brian Wang on (#46VSN)
George Church revealed progress on aging reversal using gene therapies. They have delivered 45 gene therapies to provide aging reversal. They find the combined treatment is effective against obesity,...
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by Brian Wang on (#46VSQ)
Nebula Genomics offers free human genome sequencing. Sign up for free and get matched with research institutions to get free genomic sequencing and other rewards. Harvard Scientist George Church is...
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by Brian Wang on (#46VQ4)
In a New Year’s Day speech, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un made an offer toward denuclearization. Kim indicated that North Korea wants a deal and is interested in another summit. Kim would put...
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by Brian Wang on (#46VMH)
NFI Industries vice president of fleet services James O’Leary says NFI ordered 10 Tesla Class 8 trucks and they are expecting them to be delivered in 2020. Daimler and Volvo will start...
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by Brian Wang on (#46VMJ)
Tesla is discontinuing the 75 kWh battery pack versions of the Model S and X cars. Sean Mitchell makes the case in a video that Tesla has advantages to standardize on the 2170 battery cells If Tesla...
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by Brian Wang on (#46TNT)
SpaceX is laying off ten percent of their 6000+ staff. SpaceX has very expensive projects to develop the Superheavy Starship (aka BFR) and the Starlink global space-based internet. SpaceX makes most...
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by Brian Wang on (#46T5B)
China’s Chang’e-4 probe took panoramic photos on the far side of the moon. The images were sent back via the relay satellite Queqiao, which was operating around the second Lagrangian...
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by Brian Wang on (#46T5D)
The US Navy is considering converting available merchant ships into missile-armed Navy ships. They would be able to make 15-20 merchant ships for the cost of one destroyer. The merchant missile ships...
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by Brian Wang on (#46SY5)
SpaceX has another successful launch of the Falcon 9. They deployed the Iridium 8 satellites. They launched ten more Iridium satellites to complete a $3 billion upgrade to the company’s global voice...
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by Brian Wang on (#46SS6)
Elon Musk has officially unveiled the Starhopper. It is actual images and not renderings. Nextbigfuture has been tracking the construction for the last month. Starship test flight rocket just...
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by Brian Wang on (#46SS8)
Baidu, who is China’s version of Google, has entered a partnership deal with California-based autonomous delivery start-up Udelv that will see self-driving vans powered providing delivery...
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by Brian Wang on (#46R80)
In 2006, I made about 156 predictions. One of the predictions was that carbon nanotube fiber would be inexpensive and with over 50GPa tensile strength around 2014-2018. Relative to 2006, there is...
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by Brian Wang on (#46R81)
Kheiron Biotech using clones thoroughbred horses and announced in 2017 that they would use CRISPR gene editing to create super horses. They plan to perform myostatin inhibition to boost the muscles...
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by Brian Wang on (#46R83)
The Clean Energy Research Foundation has discovered a method of manufacturing the worlds strongest and toughest materials. Fused double-walled carbon nanotube (DWNT) fibers were made with a strength...
by Brian Wang on (#46R2Q)
Canada’s radio telescope has detected the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB). FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs...
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by Brian Wang on (#46QHD)
In the 4th quarter, Tesla cars had one accident for every 2.91 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot, we registered one accident for every...
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by Brian Wang on (#46Q8K)
Kimi Talvitie has produced a new rendering with the SpaceX Starhopper, Falcon 9, the Super Heavy first stage, the Starship Upper Stage and the combined Super Heavy Starship. It can be seen that the...
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by Brian Wang on (#46Q8M)
D-Wave Systems had a presentation that summarized the utility of their quantum adiabatic system. It is a specialized QUBO solver. QUBO stands for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization and is a...
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by Brian Wang on (#46Q3B)
LG Electronics has an immersive exhibit of flexible commercial displays at CES® 2019. The “LG OLED Falls†display features 260 LG OLED digital signage screens, in curved and flat configurations. It...
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by Brian Wang on (#46NT4)
The SpaceX option package for new Tesla Roadster will include ~10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around car. These rocket engines dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking and...
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by Brian Wang on (#46NNV)
Astronomers have discovered the brightest gravitationally lensed object ever seen. They don’t expect to find many quasars brighter than that in the whole observable universe. The quasar is...
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by Brian Wang on (#46NK7)
Dr He Jiankui created the world’s first gene-edited babies and has received at least 298 million yuan (US$43 million) in funding for two biotech start-ups from Chinese and international investors....
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by Brian Wang on (#46NK8)
Robin Lovell-Badge, Ph.D., a geneticist at The Francis Crick Institute, said Chinese scientist He Jiankui contacted him to deny there was a death penalty risk for his editing of human embryos....
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by Brian Wang on (#46NGS)
In mid-2018, a US destroyer fired 20 hypervelocity projectiles (HVP) from a standard Mk 45 5-inch deck gun. The Hypervelocity projectiles will make the guns effective and low-cost weapons against...
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by Brian Wang on (#46NE2)
Australia’s New South Wales scientists have adapted single atom technology to build 3D silicon quantum chips – with precise interlayer alignment and highly accurate measurement of spin states....
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by Brian Wang on (#46NAQ)
China now has 46 power reactors in operation with a combined installed capacity of more than 45 GWe. China will add another 11 nuclear reactors that would add 11 GWe of electricity over the next two...
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by Brian Wang on (#46N74)
Elon Musk indicates that the rocket engines currently on Starship hopper are a blend of Raptor development and operational parts. The first hopper engine to be fired is almost finished assembly in...
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by Brian Wang on (#46MY7)
Pegasus is the first fundamental change in D-Wave’s architecture since the D-Wave One. The D-Wave Two, 2X, and 2000Q all used the Chimera architecture, which had unit cells of K4,4 graphs....
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