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Rigetti Computing has designed a microchip for quantum computers that would have more than six times as many qubits as Rigetti’s current 20 qubit machines. That would be more powerful than...

Russia will spend $24 billion to develop a super-heavy carrier rocket is intended to deliver over 70 tonnes of cargo into low near-Earth orbit. This would be a bit over the payload capacity of the...

The University of Exeter has new compounds which reduced the number of senescent cells (older cells that have deteriorated and stopped dividing) up to 50%. The Exeter team also identified two...

The IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update predicts Macau will behave the world’s highest per capita GDP of US$143,116 in 2020. Qatar will be second with US$139,151. Qatar has a population of 2.5...

The power of electromagnetic chorus radio waves are a million times more intense near the Jovian moon Ganymede, and 100 times more intense near the moon Europa than the average around these planets....

Samsung is going to mass produce 1 Terabyte, 2 Terabyte and 4 Terabyte SSD drives at prices that will cause a massive move to terabyte-SSDs by consumers. I am thinking the prices need to be about $80...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential...

Elon Musk could be in trouble if Tesla does not vote on the going private offer at $420. Elon Musk twitter announcement on the buyout could look like stock fraud if they do not out the offer to a...

Elon Musk Tesla and Solarcity were both publicly trading from 2012 to 2016. Tesla went public June 29, 2010. Solarcity went public Dec 12, 2012. Solarcity was bought by Tesla in a $2.6 billion...

There were about 34 million Tesla shares that were shorted. The last day and the likely final buyout price of $420 means that shorts lost about $80 per share. This would be about a $2.7 billion loss...

Elon Musk has tweeted that he has the funding to take Tesla private at $420 per share. A shareholder vote would be needed to approve it. This would be about a $70 billion valuation. Elon has 33.7...

Japan joins a growing list of countries with active railgun programs. Japan’s railgun is shown in the lab. It seems to be a fairly large railgun at about the level shown by the USA about 8...

Currently tanks are loud and emit a lot of heat. A quieter tank with a low level of infrared signature might not be detected until it was too late. Future tanks could also control several large...

Australia has just passed 25 million people. They currently grows by 1 new person every 83 seconds. By 2020 they will reach a population of 26 million, in 2030 a population of 30 million, and by 2048...

Johan Rockström made big predictions of 9 environmental systems that would each reach tipping points and doom humanity. Now Johan Rockström has co-written a paper that predicts climate doom caused by...

Ocean Farm 1 is the world’s first deep-sea aquaculture farm. It is designed by leading salmon farmer SalMar ASA (of Norway). They paid China Shipbuilding Industry $300 million for six...

In 2017, Chinese Academy of Engineering completed a detailed design for an 84 mile long Tunnel to Taiwan. The Academy is the largest central governmental advisory body on infrastructural...

Nextbigfuture has gone over 2 million pageviews for a one month period from July 7 to August 6, 2018. Thanks to my readers for the support of Nextbigfuture. SolidOpinion is still working on usable...

There is a proposal to reclaim an artificial island measuring almost half the size of Kowloon to house up to 1.1 million people. One-third of the land would be allocated for housing, 70% of the...

SpaceX will host a “Mars Workshop” on Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the University of Colorado Boulder. SpaceX regularly meets with a variety of experts concerning its missions to...

China on Sunday put into operation a prototype supercomputer that will test out possible technologies and architectures for an exaFLOP supercomputer in 2020 or 2021. The Sunway exascale computer...

China has successfully tested its first waverider boost and glide hypersonic vehicle. It is a missile which can carry nuclear warheads and penetrate existing anti-missile defense system. The...

Tokyo Technology has fixed one of the major disadvantages of all-solid-state batteries by developing batteries with a low resistance at their electrode/solid electrolyte interface. All-solid-state...

The online streaming services CBS All Access and Showtime OTT will reach 8 million subscribers by 2019. This will be a year earlier than projected and might reach 16 million subscribers by 2022.

Injecting Placental stem cells into old mice at the end of their lives can boost longevity by 50%. It extends the life of 2-year-old mice to three years. Peter Diamandis states that he personally...

In 2019, China will start deploy J-20B stealth fighters with a new Xian WS-15 jet engine. This engine could finally bring China to about the engine performance level of the US PW-119 engine that were...

Kyoto University Hospital will start clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease that transplants dopaminergic progenitors generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. About 5 million iPS...

The creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, talked about his vision for enabling global open platforms and positively impacting human economic coordination. This will be via * censorship resistance *...

When NASA announced the astronaut crews for the first SpaceX and Boeing crewed launches in 2019, they showed them with the new SpaceX and Boeing spacesuits. This seems to confirm that the new lighter...

Russia has canceled its 5th generation fighter the Su57 (aka T50). They will build in some stealth into older planes. Russia is not able to buy large numbers of its new Armata tanks at $4 million...

Yujin Accounting Corporation has verified two trees at South Korean Cryptocurrency exchange Upbit. In May, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), along with the Korea Financial...

The first SpaceX block 5 booster was flown on May 11 and it is scheduled to be used again for a launch on Tuesday August 7. This will be a slightly less than three-month turnaround. SpaceX plans to...

NASA Jet propulsion laboratory has released designs for building a Mars Curiousity Rover that is targeted for High School Students building with $2500 or less in off-the shelf parts. The design can...

The Parker Solar Probe should be launched August 11, 2018 on a Delta IV Heavy class launch vehicle and an upper stage based on the STAR-48B solid rocket motor. Interplanetary gravity assists will...

Michael West explains his theory that the body normally gets rid of senescent cells when we are younger because the body has enough rejuvenation to replace the cells. However, the older body cannot...

Clearing old “zombie” cells from the human body has been shown to extend the lives of mice. When cells detect that they have been irreversibly damaged, they enter a non-dividing condition...

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has stated that it is not worth it for Russia to compete for space launches against SpaceX and China. Russia used to dominate commercial space launches...

Firefighters say the “claimed assassination drone attack” was actually a gas tank explosion inside an apartment. President Maduro was giving a live televised speech in the capital city of...

Jeff Bezos is increasing the staff of his rocket company Blue Origin to 3000 people over the next two or three years. Blue Origin currently has 1500 people. SpaceX has 6000 people. Blue Origin has...

Patrick Stewart is returning as Star Trek Captain Picard in a new streaming TV series. It will not be a Star Trek Next Generation reboot. The new series will tell the story of the next chapter of...

A group of exoplanets have the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth. The star give off sufficient ultraviolet (UV) light could kick-start life on their orbiting planets in the...

Up until now small variations in the current passing through a memristor device was not precise enough for numerical calculations. The Nanoelectronics group, University of Michigan, got around this...

Fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene. Rebar graphene, developed by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour in 2014, uses carbon nanotubes for reinforcement....

Saudi Arabia wants its Public Investment Fund (PIF) to control more than $2 trillion by 2030 so that it can be used to support transition from oil. Saudi Arabia wants to diversify its the economy...

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. They found...

US Natural gas fracking is enabling the boom in natural gas production and will be building up liquid natural gas imports to tens of millions of tons over the next few years. China will increase...

Total U.S. natural gas consumption averaged 74.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2017 and is forecast to increase by 7% to 79.7 Bcf/d in 2018 before slightly decreasing to 79.6 Bcf/d in 2019....

NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge. They had both exterior and interior designs. Team Zopherus from Rogers, Arkansas, was the first-place winner of Phase 3: Level...

NASA announced four astronauts who fly aboard the SpaceX crewed dragon. The astronauts for SpaceX mission are Bob Behnken, Col. Doug Hurley, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins. The crewed dragon will...

Exchange traded funds can be traded like stocks but they can track any index or type of financial assets. They can track commodities or a basket of stocks or bonds. There are several groups trying to...