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Supersonic commercial travel is on the horizon. NASA awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Skunk Works® a contract to design, build and flight test the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, an X-plane designed...

Virgin Galactic had a supersonic (mach 1.87 test flight). VSS Unity has completed our program’s longest rocket burn duration of 30 seconds, fastest speed of Mach 1.87 and highest altitude of 84,271...

The ICO market has not collapsed. There is still more money being raised by ICO’s in 2018. December 2017 ended with a new record of $1.1 billion raised, and the first quarter of 2018 with its...

IBM has joined nearly 100 startup founders, venture capitalists and industry thought leaders at the first IBM Q Summit Silicon Valley event in Palo Alto, CA. The goal of the day: cut through the hype...

Yuebing Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is working toward with his “nanotweezers” — a new tool for handling nanoparticles using light that...

GPS World tested a development kit systems with the Broadcom® BCM47755 chip. The chip can use the regular L1 GPS frequency as well as the more accurate L5 GPS frequency. The recently released Samsung...

The US Air Force is testing materials produced through ceramic additive manufacturing to advance their potential future use in hypersonic flight vehicles. They are testing additively manufactured...

Judge Dredd: Mega City One is a planned television series. Karl Urban has had many discussions with the rights holders. Judge Dredd patrols an over-populated metropolis in the 22nd Century, where he...

James Woodward and the Space Studies Institute has a Phase 2 NASA Innovative Advanced funded study. They are looking at the implementation of an innovative thrust producing technology for use in NASA...

The Federal Communications Commission approved an application by SpaceX to provide broadband services using satellite technology in the United States and around the world. With this action, the...

SpaceX has launched a small satellite provided by the Surrey Space Center known as RemoveDEBRIS that will be deployed through an airlock in the Japanese Kibo module and released into space by the...

Ars Technica reports that SpaceX has flown seven rockets in 2018—six Falcon 9 missions and one Falcon Heavy. This is one launch every 13 days in 2018. * SpaceX cab use three launch pads in Florida...

Bahrain announced the discovery of 80 billion barrels of shale oil which is its largest oil and gas find ever. The tight oil was discovered in the offshore Khalij Al-Bahrain Basin, which spans some...

Dmitry Savransky, Cornell University, proposes a modular, self-assembling architecture enabling the construction of 30+ m diameter, reflective, space telescopes with active optics. The entire...

Xilinx the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced a new breakthrough product category called adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) that goes far beyond the capabilities...

MX3D is 3D printing a fully functional stainless steel bridge to cross one of the oldest and most famous canals in the center of Amsterdam, the Oudezijds Achterburgwal. They equip typical industrial...

R3 is developing a blockchain-platformed operating system called Corda. A 100-plus member consortium of banks, regulators and technology partners are developing Corda and are led by blockchain tech...

Nasdaq has partnered with Chain, a bitcoin infrastructure firm, for a pilot program to test the use of blockchain for trading shares of private companies. The Chain Protocol is a design for a shared,...

An OECD report on automation project forecasts fewer job losses to automation. Building on the expert assessment carried out by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013, the paper estimates the risk of...

Tesla made just under 9,800 Model 3s from January through March. That’s four times what it made in the fourth quarter. But it’s still only a fraction of the 20,000 per month that CEO Elon...

The Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman has made many statements in a recent interview that indicate a solid alliance with Israel and Egypt versus Iran. The Saudi prince said * the Palestinians and the...

Overseas movie box office is needed to provide profitably to almost all movies in 2018. Other than Black Panther, Fifty Shades Free and a Wrinkle in Time there are no other movies that would be...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a new approach for developing a rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery. Scientists have...

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has a report that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has spent $340 billion from 2014-2017. Private companies in China tend to invest in the USA, UK,...

No parameter in the design of spacesuits for planetary exploration is more important than “weight on the back”: the weight of the suit system which must be supported by the wearer under...

We’re facing an imminent crisis in global lithium markets. Demand is growing exponentially, and lithium consumers are facing a 100,000-ton shortfall by 2025. Traditional lithium brine projects take...

The abundant untapped momentum of solar photons is becoming increasingly attractive as a means to propel spacecraft with an attached solar sail. Decades of theoretical mission studies have examined...

An optimal shielding configuration has been realized during a phase I NASA NIACstudy, and it is referred to as a Magnetospheric Dipolar Torus (MDT).A This configuration has the singular ability to...

There are interesting parallels between blockchain supply chain and containerization and the impacts on the world and their inventors. Blockchain supply chain should have multi-trillion dollar...

The Nash equilibrium featured in the Beautiful Mind movie. It is one of the foundational concepts in game theory. The reality of the Nash equilibrium of a game can be tested using experimental...

Elon Musk told employees in a company-wide email on Monday that Tesla had just passed a rate of 2,000 per week. That was still a big increase from earlier production numbers and Tesla shares...

The world currently wastes or loses trillions of dollars from inefficient management of supply chains. There is hundreds of billions lost of fraud and counterfeiting. There is bureaucracy and...

Coal demand is likely to remain relatively stable in the years ahead, according to BCG’s (Boston Consulting Groups) Global Energy Scenario Model. The main reason: the unquenchable thirst for energy...

NASA NIAC new phase 2 Kilometer Space Telescope (KST) project is a follow up to the 2006-2007 Space bubble phase 1 project. The goal of a kilometer space telescope would be to provide over three...

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Softbank to build 200 GW of solar power by 2030 at a cost of $200 billion. China had built 125 GW of...

Tiangong-1 was predicted to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere on April 2nd, 2018 00:30 UTC ± 1.7 hours. The reentry has been confirmed as 2018/04/02 00:16 UTC. Reentry occurred in the Pacific Ocean....

An editorial in the South China Morning Post by a think tank researcher and CEO of a marketing firm has supported the idea of taxing robots and businesses to offset AI driven job losses. Scott Cheng...

A study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that 23 percent of the total 9.93 million jobs in China’s banking, insurance and securities sectors will be affected by AI by 2027, with...

Quantum batteries should have faster charging time due to the quantum entanglement among the units. The units are all coupled to a common quantized electromagnetic mode, and photons from the energy...

NASA Innovative Advanced concepts has a phase 2 study of a mission to the regions outside our solar system, with the objective of conducting direct high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of a...

Chinese space station Tiangong-1 should be crashing from orbit within the next 12 hours. It is predicted to crash at 8:10 EDT plus or minus 2.5 hours. It is 11:13 AM EDT. So the crash is about 6.5 to...

A Kilometer Space Telescope (KST) will provide over three times the diameter and ten times the collecting area of the Arecibo groundbased radio telescope with diffraction-limited performance at...

Current state of the art in-space propulsion systems based on chemical or ion propellants fail to meet requirements of 21st century space missions. Antimatter is a candidate mechanism for a...

The breakthrough architecture uses a kilometer-scale, multi-hundred-megawatt phased-array laser to beam power to a vehicle that converts it to electrical power for a multi-megawatt electric...

The pulsed fission fusion propulsion (PuFF) system envisions using a pulsed z-pinch to compress a fission-fusion target. The resulting deflagration expands against a magnetic nozzle to produce thrust...

James Woodward and the Space Studies Institute has a Phase 2 NASA Innovative Advanced funded study. They are looking at the implementation of an innovative thrust producing technology for use in NASA...

Researchers claim they are on the cusp of a CO2-recycling revolution, which would capture CO2 from power plants—and maybe even directly from the atmosphere—and convert it into these fuels at scale,...

One of the stated aims of the Trump trade sanctions is to get China to respect US intellectual property protection. Many U.S. firms have been willing to transfer technology in return for access to...

As blockchain technology becomes mainstream, industry participants and blockchain developers will increasingly have to collaborate to develop standards and interoperability protocols. The World...

Miami Herald and Marco Rubio are Anti-Maduro (leader of Venezuela). Conditions are terrible for the people in Venezuela. Gangs are fighting with machetes over “quality garbage”. There are...