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Russia’s Avangard strategic silo-based hypersonic missile complex has been included in the state armament plan through 2027 instead of Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as a weapon...

Donald Trump slapped tariffs on at least $50 billion in Chinese imports. China has said that they will retaliate. China announced a 25 percent levy on U.S. pork imports — a heavy blow to Iowa,...

China is testing unmanned tanks that use artificial intelligence-based systems. An oldType-59 tank was fitted with new remote control technology and seemingly being driven by a soldier sitting at a...

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by traded value, is planning to open an office in Malta, said founder Zhao Changpeng in an interview from Hong Kong. Binance will soon start a...

The Beijing municipal government is easing visa policies and offering cash incentives of up US$158,000 to attract top class global talent to work in the capital, as China competes with the US and...

Scientists with the University of Chicago and Cornell University revealed a technique to “sew” two patches of crystals seamlessly together at the atomic level to create atomically-thin fabrics. The...

In 2021, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will deploy Aurora, a new Intel-Cray system. Aurora will be capable of over 1 exaflops. It is expected to have over 50,000 nodes and over 5...

In 2013-2014, India was able to successfully complete the Mangalyaan Mars orbiter mission for a total of $74 million. This was almost ten times cheaper than a $671 million NASA Mars orbiter mission...

Japan is restarting its seventh nuclear reactor. They are restarting operation of unit 3 at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Japan’s Saga prefecture. The reactor is scheduled to resume...

Princeton researchers recommend targeted geoengineering to preserve continental ice sheets. “Geoengineering interventions can be targeted at specific negative consequences of climate change, rather...

Global energy demand grew by 2.1% in 2017, according to IEA preliminary estimates, more than twice the growth rate in 2016. Global energy demand in 2017A reached an estimated 14 050 million tonnes of...

Singapores sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte is one of the largest public sovereign wealth fund in the world and manages over $398 billion. The fund is giving it equal attention to Chinese technology...

The Planetary Society’s solar sailing CubeSat (Lightsail2) has been installed into a spring-loaded deployer, and that deployer was bolted to the Prox-1 spacecraft. It was a double integration;...

Raytheon ramping up High Energy Laser (HEL) and High Powered Microwave (HPM) weapons that can find, fix and kill or disable the increasingly cheap and capable drones. Antidrone lasers and microwave...

Water and energy are inextricably linked. * Billions of gallons of water are used each day in the United States for energy production * huge amounts of energy are consumed in pumping, treating,...

NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is scheduled to launch as early as April 16, 2018. TESS is expected to find thousands of planets outside our solar system,...

Deadpool 2 will be released on May 8, 2018. The first movie had Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. The previous trailer had already shown Cable and Domino. This trailer appears to have Psylocke,...

Following a $25 million ICO, award winning startup Proxeus signs a groundbreaking partnership with high-security data center MOUNT10. March 21, 2018 – Proxeus, the workflow engine and document...

Optalysys has created convolutional neural network using its optical coprocessor. The UK-based company has developed optical computing hardware that uses lasers and spatial light modulators (SLMs) to...

The USS Wasp (mini-aircraft carrier) and its strike group went out for its first regional patrol since arriving in Japan earlier this year. The US could have spent half the money for a larger carrier...

Relativity Space is 3D printing rockets. Rocket Labs is also trying to 3D print rockets. Relativity Space is making a rocket that has 4 times the thrust of the Rocket Labs rocket. Relativity rocket...

The US Air Force announced two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts. SpaceX has been awarded a $290,594,130 firm-fixed-price contract, for launch services to deliver...

A new process called Laser Wire Direct Closeout (LWDC) was developed and advanced at NASA to build a less-expensive rocket nozzle in significantly less time. LWDC is a different process than most 3-D...

Inside EV shows that the Tesla model 3 was the top-selling electric car in the US in both January and February of 2018. February is the slowest car selling month in China. Electric car sales were...

Toyota has temporarily suspended its self-driving car program after Uber fatal self-driving car accident. it would t suspend testing of its ‘Chauffeur’ autonomous driving system on US...

The Piz Daint supercomputer is a Cray XC50. It was upgraded for about $42 million with almost 5000 Nvidia processors late in 2016. With a peak performance of seven petaflops, “Piz Daint” has been...

Japan has selected a Cray XC50 supercomputer to support its mission to advance nuclear fusion research and development. It will be a 4 petaflop computer that will replace a 1.5-petaflop Bullx cluster...

EPRI, the electric utility industry’s R&D collaboration, thinks that advanced nuclear could dominate the US power sector. EPRI has a detailed analysis of what it would take to fix nuclear...

In the myth about the Tower of Babel, people conspired to build a city and tower that would reach heaven. Their creator observed, “And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have...

The US Navy wants to have contract for two aircraft carriers at time to potentially save $1.25 billion for each and get a new carrier every 3 to 4 years instead of every 5 years. * five percent cost...

Almost 1 in 5 women in Japanese prisons is a senior. Their crimes are usually minor—9 in 10 senior women who’ve been convicted were found guilty of shoplifting. Japan has about 50 to 60 thousand...

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, told Congress that the US does not have any defenses against hypersonic weapons being developed by Russia and China. US Strategic...

Russia’s most advanced Avangard hypersonic strategic missile system is expected to come into service no later than 2019, a source in the Russian defense sector told TASS. Putin announced during his...

Trump issued an order on Monday prohibiting U.S. citizens from engaging in transactions using the oil-backed currency, called the Petro. He authorized Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to issue any...

Researchers at Leti, a CEA Tech institute, recently developed an electron holography technique capable of imaging material structures with a spatial resolution of just one atom. Electron holography,...

The Vasimr rocket is on track to a 100-hour continuous firing this summer of the company’s VX200SSTM VASIMR® prototype at a power level of 100 kW. This would produce about 2 newtons of propulsion. It...

Indonesia’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Batan) has launched a roadmap for developing a detailed engineering design for its Experimental Power Reactor. Batan launched a plan in 2014 to build...

CEA-Leti, a French technology research institute of the CEA and Inac, a joint fundamental research institute between the CEA and the University Grenoble Alpes, today announced a breakthrough towards...

The electric car revolution is driving a lithium-ion battery boom that could be worth $67 billion by 2022 – as long as a supply crunch doesn’t choke it to death. Thankfully, International...

Verb Surgical has about $500 million in investment and Alphabet (Google) and Johnson and Johnson are the primary investors. Verb’s goal is to introduce a better, cheaper surgical robot into the...

IBM’s mission is to help their clients change the way the world works. There’s no better example of that than IBM Research’s annual “5 in 5” technology predictions. Each year, they showcase...

IBM’s mission is to help their clients change the way the world works. There’s no better example of that than IBM Research’s annual “5 in 5” technology predictions. Each year, we showcase some...

IBM’s mission is to help their clients change the way the world works. There’s no better example of that than IBM Research’s annual “5 in 5” technology predictions. Each year, we showcase some of the...

IBM’s mission is to help their clients change the way the world works. There’s no better example of that than IBM Research’s annual “5 in 5” technology predictions. Each year, they showcase...

Tesla’s latest Autopilot update (v8.1 2018.10.4) is the biggest improvement to the Autopilot 2.0 suite since it was introduced. * improved vehicles’ lane-keeping capabilities * smooth lane changing *...

Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute, has a 15-page analysis of a race to colonize the Universe. Over the next hundreds years or so humanity should be able to develop molecular...

China has set a 2020 target for the core AI industry’s gross output (RMB 150 billion) would represent a tenfold increase of the AI industry in the next three years. Oxford and the Future of Humanity...

A self-driving car operated by Uber appears to have caused the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on a public road. Uber has suspended testing of its self-driving cars...

There were MIT presentations about getting into space and beyond the cradle of the Earth There were presentations by Blue Origin, SpaceX, StarLabs and Planetary Resources. Vision of Blue Origin is...

Decentralized gaming platform, BitGuild, announces successful funding of their ICO pre-sale. The funding totaled over $20 million and was raised from supporters like Justin Sun of TRON, as well as...