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Ray Kurzweil gives an MIT course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video does not show any slides. This class is free and open to...

Stephen Hawking describes what came before the big bang. Hawking says the universe had no clear “bang.” You can wind back the clock to the edges of those first moments of existence, but asking what...

The US will increase hypersonic weapon funding by more than double (136 percent increase to $257 million.) * $139.4 million, Air Force-DARPA collaboration on rocket-propelled hypersonics, Tactical...

By 2020, Lockheed will install a 60-150 kilowatt combat laser on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and the laser will be integrated with the Aegis system. The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $150...

NASA has found a lot of water around a Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. The planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much water as Saturn does. Above – Using Hubble and...

The LA Times reviews some of the competitors in the race for global low earth orbit high bandwidth internet satellite networks. Low-earth orbit systems need complex software to run constellations of...

Avengers: Infinity War will be opening all over the world on April 27, 2018. There is speculation that there will be major spoiler story developments which would be leaked if the movie was released...

India’s GDP grew 7.2% in the third quarter, surpassing expectations. India is the fastest growing large country. The rebound puts India GDP growth higher than China. The rebound is from better...

Fox – Lucas Tomlinson reports that the Pentagon is monitoring the Russia tests of a cruise missile powered by an unshielded nuclear reactor and that there is radiation in northern europe and...

The Russian election is on March 18, 2018. The first round will be held on Sunday 18 March 2018. If in the first round no candidate attains an absolute majority of the votes (more than half), then...

Russia in a speech by Putin claims it has a new nuclear reactor that is 100 times smaller than those used by nuclear-propelled submarines and generates more power. The reactor can also reach its peak...

RT (aka Russia Today) had an article titled – :‘Listen to us now’: Putin unveils new Russian nuclear arsenal Russia’s new hypersonic Sarmat ICBM, which is capable of overcoming missile...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to Russia’s Federal Assembly today and showed off concept videos of a multi-warhead nuclear strike against the United States. The...

China might have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the water by 2025. China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), which refitted China’s first aircraft carrier and built its second confirmed...

Stratolaunch is the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan and is the largest all-composite plane ever built. Utilizing six Boeing 747 engines for a payload capacity of over 500,000 lbs. and an...

Customizable smallsats can cost as little as $11,000 these day. Planet Labs now operates more than 200 Earth-observing smallsats for governments, agricultural companies, investment firms and others....

A groundbreaking new wearable designed to be worn on the throat could be a game changer in the field of stroke rehabilitation. The sensors stick directly to the skin, moving with the body and...

China’s domestically-produced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Caihong 4 (CH-4) recently completed a six-day live-fire test with various ammunition. The tested CH-4 is an upgraded version of the...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its extensive, long-standing collaboration has resulted in the industry’s first 3nm test chip tapeout. The tapeout project, geared...

The unregulated, “Wild West” environment of the crypto market left investors wide open to fraudsters, scammers, and shady firms out to make a quick buck. The technology of blockchain and Bitcoin is...

Stargate Fans should prepare to make some twitter noise on March 9, according to Mallozzi. At 6pm on the west coast and 9pm on the east coast and international fans will have their own tweetfest on...

SpaceX is using vastly improved heat shielding to achieve high reusability goals with the block 5 version of the Falcon 9. SpaceX wants 10 flights with a bare minimum of refurbishment and 100 or more...

A team of researchers found that there is at least one life form on Earth that likely would do just fine living under the presumed conditions on Enceladus. It’s a single-celled organism known...

Canada has launched a process to prepare a roadmap to explore the potential of on- and off-grid applications for small modular reactor (SMR) technology. The roadmap will help position Canada to...

Ford is headed to Florida to test and prove out their self-driving car business model. With the help of Miami-Dade County, we’re taking our service directly to the streets of Miami and Miami Beach....

A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain. The water...

Baidu has demonstrated that a single deep learning voice system could learn to reproduce thousands of speaker identities, with less than half an hour of training data for each speaker. This...

The Carnival of Space 500 is up at The Venus Transit. Universe Today – Astronomers Observe the Rotating Accretion Disk Around the Supermassive Black Hole in M77 Universe Today –...

Carnival of Space 549 is up at Universe Today Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope blog – The Billion-year Race Between Black Holes and Galaxies: Mar Mezcua Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope blog –...

DARPA’s new Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation (ECHO) program aims to build a field-deployable platform technology that quickly reads someone’s epigenome and identifies signatures that...

DARPA wants to use genetically modified sealife that is integrated with electronics in order to monitor the oceans. The Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program envisions using the natural...

DARPA will kick off a space launch competition in two months. Currently the only details are they want fast launches. DARPA has previously funded efforts to develop a spaceplane able to achieve ten...

The performance and reliability of quantum sensors and devices is dependent on the length of time the underlying quantum states can remain coherent. If you wait long enough, interactions with the...

A team of Ohio State researchers has received a $6.34 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel magnetic materials by unlocking the power of skyrmions,...

The Navies of the mid-term future will be shifting to many drones and sensors and placing long duration systems all over the ocean and seafloor. There will also be a revolution in going all the way...

The US Air Force is already accelerating the development of a sixth-generation fighter as China ramps up its military. The Air Force is investing $10 billion in the next generation fighter platform...

China’s ruling Communist Party has proposed removing a limit of two consecutive terms for the country’s president, the official news agency said Sunday, appearing to lay the groundwork...

Elon Musk tweets that the Starlink constellation of thousands of gigabit per second internet satellites will help get internet to the last billion and areas in the developed world with bad internet...

A research team at Chalmers University of Technology is now among the first in the world to submit results indicating that they have actually succeeded in manufacturing a topological superconductor....

A Northwestern research team has developed a novel device called a “memtransistor,” which operates much like a neuron by performing both memory and information processing. With combined...

Researchers have determined a method to identify characteristic statistical signatures across unmeasurable probability distributions. Instead of a complete “fingerprint,” they were able to distill...

Just 24 hours after gently landing in the ocean, SpaceX recovery technicians have successfully recovered one half of an intact Falcon payload fairing for the first time ever. Next month it seems...

D-Wave Systems is involved in a grant-funded UK project to improve logistics and planning operations using quantum computing algorithms. The work will focus on an area known as AI/Hierarchical Task...

D-Wave Systems, the leader in quantum computing systems and software, announced that it has met the key conditions to lock in new funding of $20 million. In April 2017, D-Wave closed on the first $30...

Nextbigfuture had a database corruption after the hosting service had a datacenter outage. The last two articles on Spinlaunch and China’s crispr gene therapy against cancer had to be...

China has at least eight CRISPR gene therapy clinical trials to treat various forms of cancer. CRISPR is being tested as a treatment for cancers of the lung, bladder, cervix and prostate....

The first two SpaceX Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A and B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations. First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and...

In December, 2017 the team at Rigetti Computing became the first to solve an unsupervised machine learning problem on a gate model quantum computer. They did this by connecting one of our recent...

Broad Group which has built factory mass produced skyscrapers has a new construction innovation – Core Tubular Steel Slabs (CTS). * CTS are 8 to 20 times lighter than reinforced concrete * CTS...