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Pictures and videos of the pole dancing robots resurface online occasionally. They are in the news again because a strip club near the CES 2018 had them. Giles Walker hires them out to tech...

Researchers using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars’ surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes. Above – A...

UVision’s HERO Family is an all-inclusive loitering munition solution designed to meet the complex requirements of the modern battlefield. HERO incorporates a wide range of advanced, cost-effective...

An object that looks like it could be a hypersonic vehicle prototype has appeared in satellite photos. It could also just be an unusual drone. Some commenters think it might only be a racing boat....

Amphibious warship Portland (LPD-27) will have a combat laser weapon installed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and will serve as the flagship of this year’s Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise...

The global remittance market is a big business. In 2016, remitters sent nearly $600 billion in cross-border payments to help support family members living in their home countries or to settle...

California’s Department of Water Resources was blasted in an independent report for having a culture of complacency and incompetence that contributed to last year’s near-disaster at Oroville...

The magazine Ikea ad, running in Sweden, encourages the reader to pee on it. If she does so, and is pregnant, the ad reveals previously invisible text offering a discounted price on a crib—using...

Bill Gates sees enormous opportunities to make progress on some of the toughest health challenges. Gates described what he sees in a keynote to the JP Morgan 36th Annual Healthcare Conference in San...

Detailed exawatt laser systems are being designed now. Pulsed lasers are rapidly reaching higher power by shortening the pulses and increasing the power. Multiple ten petawatt systems are either...

An exawatt-scale, short-pulse amplification architecture based upon a novel pulse compressor arrangement and amplification of long-duration chirped beam pulses is described. This architecture is...

State-of-art laser systems in 2016 are capable of delivering a laser pulse with intensity up to 2 × 10^22 W cm−2. Multi-Petawatt and ten PetaWatt lasers have been built and are expected to reach...

The International Committee for Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers provided a 56-page report on global ultrahigh power laser projects. Ultra-intense lasers are lasers with capabilities exceeding 10^19 Watts...

The L3-HAPLS advanced petawatt laser system was installed last week at the ELI Beamlines Research Center (link is external)in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic. L3-HAPLS — the world’s most advanced...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two-photon lithography (TPL), a high-resolution 3D printing technique capable of...

Mega funding rounds in Asia led by the biggest ever fund raise of $5.5 billion by China-based Didi Chuxing propelled the overall venture capital funding to reach record levels in 2017. According to a...

EIA (Energy Information Administration) forecasts total U.S. crude oil production to average 10.3 million b/d in 2018, up 1.0 million b/d from 2017. If achieved, forecast 2018 production would be the...

Softbanks’s CEO Masayoshi Son is creating a mechanism to increase their funding ability from 10 trillion yen to 20 trillion yen to 100 trillion yen. The funds will probably have invested in at...

There were 235 ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) with a total value of $3.7 billion in 2017. Top Ten ICOs of 2017 Position Project Total Raised 1 Filecoin $257,000,000 2 Tezos $232,319,985 3 EOS Stage 1...

The Solutions Project is an environmental group with a claim that the world can be powered with 100% renewable energy (wind, water and sunlight) and a simultaneous phase-out of fossil and nuclear...

Researchers have a design that layers graphene oxide, to create flexible heterostructure humidity sensors for remote sensing. * layer by layer printing allows for scalable and mass production at a...

JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday he regrets past comments in which he called Bitcoin a fraud at a September banking conference. “The blockchain is real. You can have crypto...

G. Ferrell was the winner of the Nextbigfuture Newsletter – Google mini prize winner. The Nextbigfuture Newsletter will be increasing to a twice-weekly schedule. The last two Newsletters...

At the Global Fortune Forum in Guangzhou on December 7th, 1180 EHang drones danced and blinked out an aerial show for 9 minutes. Each drone cost $1,500. Each drone had a datalink and control...

D-Wave Systems has commercially sold 2000 qubit quantum annealing systems. D-Wave System announced reverse annealing. Reverse annealing lets programmers start the search for the best solution at a...

Nissan unveiled research today that will enable vehicles to interpret signals from the driver’s brain, redefining how people interact with their cars. The company’s Brain-to-Vehicle, or B2V,...

With more than 9 billion transistors, Nvidia’s Xavier is the most complex system on a chip ever created, representing the work of more than 2,000 NVIDIA engineers over a four-year period, and...

At CES 2018, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the successful design, fabrication and delivery of a 49-qubit superconducting quantum test chip. The keynote also noted the promise of neuromorphic...

Samsung has launched a 146-inch display at CES 2018 using self-emissive modular micro-LED technology. The TV is called “The Wall”. Samsung also featured the world’s first QLED TV...

Youtube chess masters are impressed with AlphaZero. Alphazero does not just have the super-defensive play of regular computer program software. Alphazero has taken positions and openings that have...

Electric vehicle company Byton has operations in China, Germany and the USA. It has around 400 employees. They have gigabit networks and a 50-inch widescreen for its SUV dashboard. BYTON takes you to...

Jack O’Banion, Vice President of Strategy and Customer Requirements, Advanced Development Programs for Lockheed Martin, at a presentation said that the SR72 could not have been made without digital...

Bell Helicopter revealed the cabin of a 4-seater autonomous flying electric taxi at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2018). It did not have the wings and propellers. A full-sized version has been...

the nonprofit Wildlife and Bushlands in Campbelltown had photos of hundreds of dead flying foxes from a heatwave in Australia. In Florida, frozen iguanas are falling out of trees. Iguana’s are...

China opened a one-kilometer stretch of photovoltaic highway – built of solar panels which cars can drive over on December 28. A narrow 1.8-meter panel was removed and seven surrounding panels...

Telegram is already a huge messaging app. Telegram has 180 million users. Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all...

Hugh White makes the case that America’s influence is decreasing in Asia and China is on the eventual but inevitable path to dominating Asia. Others make the case that the USA still has...

China has an exaflop supercomputer budget of $150 million to $300 million. The exaflop supercomputer could be built as early as 2019. It is to be built in Shandong province coast as soon as 2019 to...

China is planning to build a 13.8 billion yuan (US$2.1 billion) technology park dedicated to developing artificial intelligence (AI), state-backed news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday. It will host...

Within the next two weeks, the White House could unveil an infrastructure proposal. It is believed to have at least $200 billion in infrastructure projects over the next decade and would incentivize...

Microscale machines – equipped with electronic, photonic and chemical payloads – could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms. * prototypes three times...

MIT has used new gel electrospinning for thinner fibers. This has enabled them to create materials that are stronger and tougher than Kevlar and Dyneema. Journal of Material Science – Ultrafine...

Iran’s leadership will not be able to just use the tool of oppression to maintain power in the longer term. China and other countries have shown that there can be a relatively stable...

On Instagram, Elon Musk says the SpaceX Falcon Heavy is now vertical on the former Apollo 11 moon rocket launchpad. At 2500 tons of thrust, equal to 18 Boeing 747 aircraft at full throttle, it will...

The Global movie box office hit a record in 2017 of $39.92 billion according to Comscore. That is 3% higher than 2016. 2017 is the highest-grossing year ever in global box office history. North...

Google Lunar XPRIZE Team HAKUTO raised $90.2 million in Series A funding toward the development of a lunar lander and future lunar missions.

AgeX Therapeutics (AgeX) a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE American: BTX) announced a newly-published peer-reviewed study that reveals genes implicated in tissue regeneration, cancer, and aging....

The University of Colorado has created next generation healing soft muscle actuators. It is inspired by biological muscle. he newly developed hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic...

North Korea and Iran have large underground facilties where they have their nuclear weapons and other operations. DARPA is looking at breakthroughs for dealing with tunnels and underground cities....

Cryptocurrencies are mainly traded on Coinbase. Coinbase only allows trading on about four cryptocurrencies. Trading on the thousands of other cryptocurrencies is often on less secure exchanges....