by brian wang on (#40MMX)
August plug-in car sales record in the U.S. of 36,380 (up 120% year-over-year). This was 2.4% of the overall 1.5 million August US car sales. 93,000 plug-in electric cars were registered in August in...
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by brian wang on (#40KFV)
The world has about 3.5 billion cooling appliances (fridges and air conditioners). That number is projected to grow to about 9.5 billion cooling appliances by 2050. If we actually want to deliver...
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by brian wang on (#40KDA)
SpaceX has had 62 successful launches and landed 28 times and reused boosters 15 times. They have had 34 successful launches in 2017 and so far in 2018. The new block 5 Falcon 9’s are coming...
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by brian wang on (#40KAY)
Tokenized Securities company Desico is excited to announce that notable entrepreneur and investor Marc Bernegger has joined the team in an advisory role. Bernegger will give added expertise, with...
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by brian wang on (#40K8Q)
Engineers have designed the world’s smallest version of an optical gyroscope, a device that relies on light rather than moving parts, in a feat that could lead to models with much higher precision...
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by brian wang on (#40K8S)
Paul Sankey of Mizuho Securities discussed the Tesla effect which is the concept that the 20th century was centered on oil and the 21st century will be centered on electricity, and what it is doing...
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by brian wang on (#40K4A)
BWXT provided progress updates and technology demonstrations related to BWXT’s nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) program. Jim Reuter, NASA’s acting associate administrator of STMD, toured BWXT’s...
by brian wang on (#40K4B)
Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’— powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The team’s...
by brian wang on (#40K05)
If SpaceX hits its timeline for SpaceX BFR development with sub-orbital hops in late 2019 and orbital flights in 2020 they will beat the Boeing Space Launch System (SLS) into space. The SpaceX BFR...
by brian wang on (#40K06)
As of August 2018, Boeing has spent $11.9 billion working on the Space Launch System. (SLS) Boeing will spend at least $8.9 billion through 2021—double the amount initially planned—while delivery of...
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by brian wang on (#40JTD)
Hugo Chavez and his successor Maduro have brought starvation and economic ruin to Venezuela. Venezuela did have 60% poverty when Chavez started but starvation and crime rates become far bigger...
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by brian wang on (#40JTF)
The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius predicts a tolerable climate-changed world. Why is it tolerable? The IPCC predicts...
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by brian wang on (#40JK1)
Who makes money on cryptocurrencies? Professional traders and market analysts, private investors and miners. There are many opportunities in cryptocurrency market, despite the substantial drop in the...
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by brian wang on (#40H1Y)
Recent advancements in commercial drones and their use by the military bring vehicle and drone manufacturers closer offering integrating drones with manned or unmanned combat vehicles. AeroVironment...
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by brian wang on (#40H1Z)
The US Army is shifting over $25 billion over the next five years to 6 major high priority projects like better guns for frontline soldiers. The first phase of the better guns effort is the Next...
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by brian wang on (#40H21)
Virgin Galactic next phase of test flights will see its spaceship burn its rockets longer and go faster with the goal of reaching space. A ticket on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two does not...
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by brian wang on (#40GGR)
Unity Biotechnology is a biotech leader in developing treatments to eliminating accumulated senescent cells, which are a fundamental mechanism of aging and a driver of many common age-associated...
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by brian wang on (#40GE8)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40FZT)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40FZW)
China will try to use lasers, microwave radar and a lot of computation to detect submarines down to 500-meter depth. Experiments carried out by the United States and former Soviet Union achieved...
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by brian wang on (#40FVK)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40FVM)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40E5X)
The (IPCC) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has given its 2018 report on world climate. * IPCC estimates that global model pathways limiting global warming to 1.5°C are projected to involve...
by brian wang on (#40DZT)
Google is shutting down Google+ the consumer version of Google+ in ten months. Google+ is better suited as an enterprise product where co-workers can engage in internal discussions on a secure...
by brian wang on (#40DV7)
With a Higher Demand for Accurate Information and Increased Drone Usage, the Mapping Industry is Due for Big Changes in the Near Future One of the industries we don’t often associate with disruptive...
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by brian wang on (#40DHS)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40DHT)
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor) taped out its first chip in a process making limited use of extreme ultraviolet lithography and will start risk production in April on a 5-nm node with full EUV. The...
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by brian wang on (#40DDT)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40DDW)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40DDY)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40DA6)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40D5D)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40D5F)
There some online pictures of both of China’s aircraft carriers at the port in Dalian. China has two aircraft carriers: the refurbished carrier Liaoning and a second ship the Type 002 is...
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by brian wang on (#40BN4)
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...
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by brian wang on (#40BJW)
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...
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by brian wang on (#409Q4)
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...
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by brian wang on (#409M8)
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...
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by brian wang on (#4090P)
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...
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by brian wang on (#408YC)
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...
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by brian wang on (#408YD)
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...
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by brian wang on (#408WD)
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...
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by brian wang on (#408TM)
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...
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by brian wang on (#408TN)
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...
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by brian wang on (#4083N)
There are many new drones (including improvised drones) with grenade launchers, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank weapons.
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by brian wang on (#4083Q)
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...
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by brian wang on (#407ZS)
Rethink Robotics is shutting down. Rethink developed collaborative robots. Rethink was trying to sell itself but the deal fell through and the robotics firm has to shut down. Danish firm Universal...
by brian wang on (#407QK)
Between blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and plenty of other buzz-worthy topics in the tech world over this past year, there’s another giant topic that must not be forgotten:...
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by brian wang on (#406NA)
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...
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by brian wang on (#4068J)
Here is a list of the largest consumer markets in 2017. Overall world consumer spending is at about $44 trillion. Country HFCE (millions of USD, nominal) % of GDP Year United States 12,820,694 69%...
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by brian wang on (#4061K)
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...
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