by brian wang on (#40X86)
Geoengineering refers to a set of emerging technologies that could manipulate the environment and partially offset some of the impacts of climate change. Solar geoengineering in particular could not...
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by brian wang on (#40WSN)
INRS professor and ultrafast imaging specialist Jinyang Liang and his colleagues, led by Caltech’s Lihong Wang, have developed what they call T-CUP: the world’s fastest camera, capable of capturing...
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by brian wang on (#40WDN)
The availability of up-to-date and accurate data is a fundamental requirement for the vast majority of industry sectors. Whether it’s Facebook exploring where we like to eat or major credit...
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by brian wang on (#40VDN)
Climate change is the byproduct of the industrial economy. Production of CO2 and black carbon (soot and particulates) are not the goal of industry and transportation. However, CO2 and black carbon...
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by brian wang on (#40TFJ)
Huawei has announced two new chips for artificial intelligence applications. The Ascend AI IP and chip series, the world’s first AI IP and chip series that natively serves all scenarios,...
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by brian wang on (#40TFM)
High energy density sodium ion batteries using Cobalt oxide plating are providing better performance than lithium ion batteries. Sodium ion batteries (SIBs) have emerged as the most direct route to...
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by brian wang on (#40SDS)
Over the last ten or so years there have been technological changes to our daily lives and there have been noticeable changes to our world. Eleven years ago there was the introduction of the iPhone....
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by brian wang on (#40S0T)
Google’s self-driving car program, Waymo, is allowing cameras inside their autonomous minivans in Arizona as Google prepares to launch the nation’s first self-driving taxi service....
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by brian wang on (#40R90)
Today’s machine learning systems are more advanced than ever, capable of automating increasingly complex tasks and serving as a critical tool for human operators. Despite recent advances, however, a...
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by brian wang on (#40R92)
DARPA OFFSET looks to empower dismounted units by transforming how humans and autonomous swarms interact in dynamic and complex urban operations. DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET)...
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by brian wang on (#40R94)
In 2017, a Rwandan cookstove company revealed this week that it has raised more money in the past six months than the entire cookstove sector has raised in any single year. Inyenyeri, a Rwandan...
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by brian wang on (#40QTF)
29 baby mice were produced out of 210 attempts at breeding from two female mice. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences were able to produce healthy mice with two mothers that went on to have...
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by brian wang on (#40QN8)
Robotics company Boston Dynamics has a robot is hopping over a log and then up a series of blocks, an activity called parkour. Boston Dynamics was sold by Alphabet to SoftBank last year. This...
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by brian wang on (#40QJT)
Sandia National labs developed the hypersonic prototype – “Sandia Winged Energetic Reentry Vehicle Experiment†from 1979 – 1985. This cone-shaped system will be the basis for...
by brian wang on (#40QF7)
What is the purpose of the UN IPCC climate reports when they have insane economics and do not provide any remotely reasonable action plans, goals or priorities? There are many simpler steps that can...
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by brian wang on (#40P3V)
The global fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 combat jets have been temporarily grounded to investigate engine problems following a Marine Corps plane crash last month. Officials said the fleet of about...
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by brian wang on (#40P1G)
The Air Force’s recent funding should see close to $1 billion go towards Blue Origin and its BE4 engine. The BE4 engine is used in Blue Origin rocket and the ULA Vulcan rocket. $500 million in...
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by brian wang on (#40NYT)
A Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned two minutes after liftoff Thursday on a mission to the International Space Station. The two-member crew — an American and a Russian parachute landed in their...
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by brian wang on (#40NR4)
China wants to integrate four areas for stronger AI. China will use abundant data, hungry entrepreneurs, many AI scientists, and AI-friendly policy. 29 U.S. states have enacted their own laws...
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by brian wang on (#40NMN)
The US Air Force gave out contracts for rockets Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and United Launch Alliance to develop launch system prototypes. Each company will receive an initial...
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by brian wang on (#40NMQ)
Amazon’s new AI recruiting engine did not like women. Amazon had a team working since 2014 for AI software to review job applicants’ resumes with the aim of mechanizing the search for top...
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by brian wang on (#40MZ8)
NY Mag writer David Wallace-Wells talks about a climate genocide. He implies that if we do not stop climate change at 1.5 degrees of warming then the climate change will cause 150 million more deaths...
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by brian wang on (#40MSY)
In NY Mag, a climate journalist David Wallace-Wells wrote about a study of the difference between 1.5 degrees of warming and two degrees. He cited a Nature climate change paper – Quantified,...
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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...