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The New York Times proposes that the Star Wars movies are coming out too frequently which is why Solo a Star Wars story had relatively poor box office. This is not the reason. There has been a...

Nextbigfuture covered the C2 Montreal conference this past May 23-25, 2018. My overall impression is that C2 Montreal is a useful and informative conference with unique entertainment woven into the...

Solo: A Star Wars Story fell well short of box office expectations with a $101 million 4 day opening. Disney entered the weekend projecting a performance anywhere from $130-150 million for the...

AI in Blockchain at C2 Montreal Blockchain and AI are among the most promising technologies and will surely disrupt just about every industry. Combined, they can become powerful drivers for any...

Qtum is designed to implement the best parts of the Bitcoin and Ethereum projects, into a business-friendly blockchain. They are implementing the Bitcoin Improvement Protocols and using the Ethereum...

C2 Montreal talk and forum on Blockchain There was a futurist talk by Dubai’s futurist Noah Raford. Dr Noah Raford – Dubai Future Foundation What does the world look like in 2068 (next 50...

This morning there is an Intellectual property panel for the AI Forum at the C2 Montreal The Key highlight – Chinese Universities are patenting everyones research from AI journals. Not just...

This morning there is another panel for the AI Forum at the C2 Montreal Panel: AI for good This panel will survey humanitarian AI applications — how AI is being implemented to help charities and...

BIO X is the new go-to bioprinter for life science companies, researchers and innovators who work with bioprinting. Cellink focuses on the development and commercialization of bioprinting...

Kyle Kemper is executive director of the nonprofit Blockchain Association of Canada (BAC). Kyle shows leaders and influencers the potential of Blockchain technology in an effort to supercharge the...

Skylar Tibbits is the founder & co-director of the the Self-Assembly research lab at MIT. They are inventing self-assembly and programmable material technologies. The Lab looks at making simpler...

Kim Cope is Product lead for Cryptokitties which was developed Axiom Zen where she works. Cryptokitties are breedable beanie babies CryptoKitties is a game centered around breedable, collectible, and...

C2 Montreal talk and forum on Blockchain Singer and then dancers There were two parts to this talk. One was a futurist talk by Dubai’s futurist Noah Raford. This Dubai future talk is now is a...

This is a AI Forum at C2 Montreal. This is sponsored by Element AI. Yoshua Bengio, Element AI Philippe Couillard, Premier of Quebec The Ethical and Economical Questions Surrounding AI In this talk,...

This is a AI Forum at C2 Montreal. This is sponsored by Element AI. Claude Gay, IBM General Manager talks about AI Challenges. Iterate be agile. You fail quickly and you learn fast with AI STart now...

C2 Montréal is about experiencing the unexpected, taking a step back, recharging and leaving your comfort zone behind. This three-day event brings together visionaries and forward-thinkers from...

Samuel Moreau, Microsoft AI Lead and Ruth Gil, Microsoft Design Architect from the Office Experience team, lead an AI workshop at C2 Montreal. Samuel Moreau is a Partner Design Director –...

This is information from an interview with Christofer Mowry, CEO of General Fusion. The highlights are that General Fusion is rapidly pushing ahead to achieve commercialization and the next step is...

C2 Montreal has a workshop on “the Future of Work: Meeting the Demands of Digital”. The Workshop is with Box.com. Ian Phillipot, VP Box Canada David Majetic There were several exercises...

Samsung plans to establish three artificial intelligence (AI) Centers in Cambridge, the U.K. (May 22nd), Toronto, Canada (May 24th) and Moscow, Russia (May 29th) to strengthen the company’s AI...

Samsung plans to bring to mass production in 2021 the architectural successor to FinFETS, gate-all-around (GAA) transistors, at the 3nm (nanometer) node. They will begin 7nm (nanometer) production...

Virginia Rometty, CEO of IBM, said that over the next two years, IBM will hire 1,800 people in France. In January, IBM announced a project to recruit 400 people for research. These jobs will include...

Erik Gatenholm is Co-Founder and CEO here at CELLINK. In 2017, he founded CELLINK to revolutionize the way that we conduct medical research worldwide. He led a workshop at the C2 Montreal conference...

Former Pentagon Under Secretary of Defense for acquisition tech and logistics John Young told CNBC in February that no one can compete with even Falcon Heavy, let alone BFR. “Musk said...

A team of scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to develop a variety of rice that produces 25-31 percent more grain and...

Newly analyzed Galileo data provides “compelling independent evidence that there seems to be a plume on Europa,” said study lead author Xianzhe Jia, an associate professor in the...

A few days ago Nextbigfuture reported that a research group TU Dresden in Germany led by Martin Tajmar, is finding more magnetic interaction from cables. He is not conclusively saying that is all...

Aaron Harris is Senior Vice President and Head of Engineering and Technology for Sage Intacct. Sage Intacct is a provider of cloud financial management software. Aaron has examined how to apply...

Nextbigfuture is at the C2 conference in Montreal from May 23-May 25. C2 Montréal is a collaborative event that unlocks creativity in order to help leaders from all industries better face disruption...

Ariane only has 2 out of seven contracts guaranteed Ariane 6 rocket launches that are needed to give financial viability to initial rocket production. Ariane is hoping for four “Galileo”...

China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children a family can have. The State Council, China’s cabinet, has commissioned research on the repercussions of ending the country’s roughly...

The startup Obelisk wants to create more secure, more future-proof networks for cryptocurrencies like Decred and Siacoin. Obelisk is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nebulous, Inc. Nebulous, Inc. is the...

New optical modulators (the device that encodes digital information onto a light signal) use 100 times less energy than commercial modulators and the research modulators are only 5% of the size of...

Analysis from Foreign Policy Review and the Miami Herald indicate the likelihood that China and Russia will continue to pay for a lot of influence in Venezuela and will build on existing...

The next-generation gravity observatory, called LISA, is expected to be in space in 2034, and it will be sensitive to gravitational waves of a lower frequency than those detected by the Earth-bound...

China plans to launch a relay satellite into space next Monday, May 21, for the Chang’e-4 lunar probe scheduled later this year. The Chang’e-4 lunar probe will undertake the first ever...

China and the United States have reached an initial agreement on trade. Both parties said in a joint statement on Saturday that China has agreed to “significantly increase” purchases of...

Trams, buses and trains for free for registered Estonia resident’s. Each city makes a profit of €1,000 from the citizen’s income tax every year. People need a €2 green card and carry...

France uses about 80% nuclear energy for its electricity supply. The US has used about 16-24%. The US was on track to go to 80% nuclear energy but allowed this to be derailed with over-regulation....

Robert Zubrin says it takes life to create an atmosphere with free oxygen. If we analyze the spectrum of atmosphere for exoplanets and find free oxygen he argues we will have found alien life. If we...

With composite booms, the NASA principal investigator believes we could make 1000 to 4000 square meter solar sails today with a funded project. Then with the learnings from that mission we could...

Beamed propulsion could achieve single stage to orbit. It could be 6 to 100 times cheaper. Most of the rocket becomes payload. DARPA funded developing a heat exchanger for direct energy. They tested...

Robert Zubrin was an inventor of the magnetic sail with Dana Andrews when they looked at the drag of a magnetic scoop intended for a Bussard ramjet. The magnetic sail would be great for a lighter...

Positron Dynamics gave an overview and update on their Antimatter propulsion work. They are slowing the positrons that are generated. Krypton isotopes to generate hot positrons. Use their system to...

Breakthrough Discuss is an academic conference focused on the question of life in the Universe. More information on the Breakthrough Initiatives is available at https://breakthroughinitiatives.org....

Tajmar is finding more magnetic interaction from cables. He is not conclusively saying that is all that is happening with EMdrive or Mach Effect but he thinks it is a significant error source for...

Previously, planets have been detected only in the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers show that quasar microlensing provides a means to probe extragalactic planets in the lens galaxy, by studying the...

AirMap is the world’s leading airspace management platform for drones, supporting more than 100,000 drone flights per day. The only platform that powers millions of flights today with APIs and...

The Russian Avangard mach 20 hypersonic glide vehicle is expected to enter Russia’s arsenal by 2020. Russia successfully tested the weapon, which could carry a nuclear warhead, twice in 2016....