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Intel’s director of quantum hardware, Jim Clarke, sees a path with their current quantum technology to perhaps 1000 qubits. This is the highlights of what he told Spectrum IEEE. Intel is...

Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully...

Elon Musk and Tesla announced that they are solving their Model 3 production in 2018 and will hit battery cost and other milestones which should translate to millions by 2023. In the near term in...

Elon Musk says Tesla will achieve a battery cell cost of $100 per kWh by the end of 2018 if commodity prices remaining stable. Elon Musk sees Tesla batteries becoming cheaper than $100 per kWh for...

The Kitty Hawk Flyer is the first personal flying vehicle. The Flyer is 100% electric and the first step to making flying a part of everyday life. The 250-pound Flyer can fly up to 20 mph and flies...

Oak Ridge National Labs has unveiled the 200 petaflop Summit supercomputer. The USA has retaken the world’s most powerful computer. They have smartest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer and...

China’s Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, has raised a total of $14 billion. It was a yuan and dollar-denominated tranches. Investors included Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds GIC...

Volkswagen experts will simulate the chemical structure of batteries on quantum computers. They have succeeded in simulating industrially relevant molecules using a quantum computer. This is...

Ground-Based Air Defense (GBAD) Counter-UAS system were developed over the last two years to detect, identify, track and defeat drones. GBAD combines systems like the existing RADA RPS-42 S-band...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests Mars could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the...

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis says the United States will “compete vigorously” with China’s actions in the South China Sea if needed. Washington again challenged Beijing’s increasing maritime...

Nature – Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought Researchers at Carbon Engineering in Calgary, Canada, have been operating a pilot CO2-extraction plant in British...

The US DOE announced $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy...

In an interview with Joe Rogan, UFC champion George St Pierre (GSP) talks about performance-enhancing drugs. * the new drugs can not just make you stronger but can enhance your reaction time and...

NuScale Power small modular reactor (SMR) will be able generate 20 percent more power than originally planned. Advanced testing and modeling tools helped NuScale identify optimization and increased...

China announced that all United Nation member counties are welcome to cooperate with China to jointly utilize its future China Space Station (CSS). “All countries, regardless of their size and...

Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit indicates the US PMI is consistent with an annualized GDP of 3.5%. A markedly improved service sector performance takes the final composite...

The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot program has issued a request for proposals. Timeline The next 5 years to determine the feasibility of both laser and sail. (Starshot’s sail committee, a photon...

Horne Technologies is developing an inertial electrostatic nuclear fusion system. They claim to have the world’s first superconducting, high-beta plasma research device in operation. They have...

The US Air Force skipped having competitive hypersonic cruise missiles prototypes and only has Lockheed for its $1 billion hypersonic cruise missile development contract. There was not enough money...

Russia’s new Husky-class fifth-generation nuclear-powered submarine armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles is expected to be built by 2027. The construction will start in 2023 and the first sub...

The Russian Su-57 has several major design issues (seams, rivets, wing flaps, tail, canopy) which are not optimized for stealth. The rivets and sharp edges throughout the underside shows that no...

SpaceX is going all-in on building in-house its own satellite constellation. They are even building their own ground terminals and gateways. SpaceX is hiring ground station and user terminal...

CU Boulder Assistant Professor Ann-Marie Madigan and a team of researchers have offered up a new theory for the existence of planetary oddities like Sedna—an icy minor planet that circles the sun at...

The Carnival of Space 564 is up at Nextbigcoins. Blasting News – Jeff Bezos’ Amazon has saved ‘The Expanse’ Blasting News – Alan Bean explored the moon and then told the story in paint...

SpaceX will not launch a pair of space tourists around the moon this year as previously announced but sometime in mid-2018 or later. SpaceX expects to launch between 25 and 30 missions in 2018....

Currently, the dominant internet advertising method is intrusive banners. Apart from the user experience issues, this creates a growing problem of spam, fraud and bots infecting the banner ad...

For more than a decade, eToro has been a leader in the global Fintech revolution. eToro is the world’s leading social trading network, with millions of registered users and an array of innovative...

Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub is the world’s leading software development platform. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us....

SpaceXfirst two prototype Starlink internet satellites tests are working three months after launch. Elon tweeted – TinTin A & B are both closing the link to ground w phased array at high...

The Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the leading builder of Chinese space launch rockets, announced that its Long March (CHang Zheng in Chinese) LM-8 space rocket will...

One day large sections of desert could be turned into rice paddy fields. Chinese scientists have successfully grown and harvested rice in the deserts of Dubai after developing a strain that allows...

A ‘self-eating’ rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily and more affordably is under development at universities in Scotland and Ukraine. Engineers from the University...

The Carnival of Space 563 is at Everyday Spacer. Universe Today- There was Evidence for Europa’s Geysers Hiding in Plain Sight in Old Spacecraft Data From 1997 Jupiter’s moon Europa continues to...

McGill experiments in fruit flies show 60% increased lifespan thanks to a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement. the bacteria living in our intestinal tract eat and this could have an...

A new Italian government was sworn in Friday in Rome after months of political turmoil that unnerved investors and sparked worries that the eurozone’s third-largest economy could ditch the...

Friday’s economic data provided evidence the U.S. economy is heading into the second half of 2018 with strong momentum. Economists are slowly ratcheting up expectations for growth through the...

Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense for analyzing drone footage after its current contract expires....

Robert Smith believes are at the equivalent of the ENIAC computer stage. He views quantum computing like co-processors to classical computing. Quantum computing help solve certain classes of problems...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralized materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone. Enamel, located on the outer...

3D printed corneas could be used in the future to ensure an unlimited supply of corneas. They have a unique gel – a combination of alginate and collagen – which keeps the stem cells alive...

The artificial intelligence market is forecasted by Research and Markets to grow to USD 191 Billion by 2025 from USD 21 Billion in 2018, at a CAGR of 36.62% during the forecast period. This could be...

A 2017, report Grand View Research projects the global biotechnology market is expected to reach USD 727.1 billion by 2025. In 2017, the biotech sector has a total market value of US $370 billion....

Alexa ranks Reddit as the third most popular website after Google and Youtube. They have just passed Facebook. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance...

“A new generation of technology represented by artificial intelligence, quantum information, mobile communications, internet of things and blockchain is accelerating breakthrough...

Plants such as soybeans and wheat waste between 20 and 50 percent of their energy recycling toxic chemicals created when the enzyme Rubisco—the most prevalent enzyme in the world—grabs oxygen...

Block.one is an open source software publisher specializing in high performance blockchain technologies. Its first project, EOSIO, a blockchain protocol designed to enable secure data transfer and...

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SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion in General Motors Co’s (GM.N) autonomous vehicle unit, Cruise, the companies said on Thursday, announcing a deal that validates the venerable Detroit...