by brian wang on (#3TV07)
SpaceX has improved the boat that will catch Falcon rocket nose cone shell. SpaceX made the catching net four times larger. The nose cone shells are called payload fairings. Once outside the...
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by brian wang on (#3TTVF)
Twelve members of russian intelligence were indicted for trying to hack the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the presidential campaign of Hillary...
by brian wang on (#3TTVG)
Hygon, chinese semiconductor company, is now making Zen-based x86 CPUs using a licensing agreement it signed with AMD in 2016. Dhyana†x86 processors are essentially identical with AMD’s own...
by brian wang on (#3TTVH)
The World of supercomputers is shifting rapidly with most of the compute power coming from GPU acceleration. In June 2018, 56 percent of the additional flops were a result of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs...
by brian wang on (#3TTVJ)
The China New Era Technology Fund is raising 100 billion Chinese yuan ($15 billion) to invest globally in technology companies. The new company with the backing of the Chinese government will be...
by brian wang on (#3TTVK)
DARPA Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is seeking information on new capabilities that could be enabled by current and next-generation quantum computers for understanding complex physical systems,...
by brian wang on (#3TTVM)
A 2048 qubit D-Wave 2000Qâ„¢ quantum computer was used to predict phase transitions within a particular quantum mechanical system known as the transverse field Ising model. This work has significantly...
Hubspot has a free and easy CRM system that could be sufficient for small and medium sized companies
by brian wang on (#3TTVN)
Hubspot has a suite of products to organize, track and manage leads, sales and marketing. They have an interesting completely free to use CRM offering. Hubspot is offering a basic CRM product for...
by brian wang on (#3TTVP)
In the World Bank’s ranking by 2017 GDP, the largest economy is the United States, followed by China, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom. In the rankings of 2017 GDP released in early July,...
by brian wang on (#3TT7G)
At intensities around 1024 Watts per square centimeter the field should be strong enough to start to break the mutual attraction between some of the electron-positron pairs. This is basically...
by brian wang on (#3TSYM)
In 2006, the RAND corporation found that from 1965-2005 the US Navy had 7-11% annual inflation for its ships which is worse than the inflation for US college tuition and US healthcare. This was...
by brian wang on (#3TSQF)
Russia claims that will soon put a new hypersonic mach 6 Vympel R-37M air-to-air missile onto its fighter planes. The claimed specifications are * a range of 188 miles * 132 lbs of explosives in the...
by brian wang on (#3TSQG)
Isreali startup SpaceIl plans to launch a lunar lander and robotic rover to the moon in December, 2018. SpaceIL had been competing in the Lunar Xprize contest. The Lunar XPrize had a few deadline...
by brian wang on (#3TSKA)
Loon (stratospheric balloon internet) and Wing (drone delivery) are graduating Google’s X-lab to become two new independent businesses within Alphabet. Loon will work with mobile network...
by brian wang on (#3TSKB)
Millions of Chinese are using assisted reproductive (IVF and egg freezing). The market could potentially be worth around US$15 billion. For decades, couples in urban China were only allowed to have...
by brian wang on (#3TRD9)
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) project will cost about $40 billion from now to 2030 and will produce a chemical rocket about 1000 times more expensive to launch than a SpaceX BFR. SLS will...
by brian wang on (#3TQZ6)
Elon Musk made a serious attempt to provide another rescue option for the boys trapped in the Thai cave with a mini-sub. His newest commitment is to fund fixing Flint water contamination. Elon Musk...
by brian wang on (#3TQTX)
Self-driving cars were expected to eliminate millions of driving jobs over the next few years but Uber just fired 100 self-driving operators (reported by Quartz.com). The Uber self-driving operators...
by brian wang on (#3TQHZ)
A paper by MIT’s David Autor and Utrecht University’s Anna Salomons determined that overall automation created more jobs than it destroys over 47 years of data from 28 industries in 19 countries....
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by brian wang on (#3TQ5R)
One of two operating Zumwalt Destroyer will need to have a main turbine engine replaced. They completed acceptance trials in February, and the Navy accepted partial delivery of the ship in April. It...
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by brian wang on (#3TQ18)
There have been hundreds of articles written about a wave of unemployment arising from the widespread automation of work. However, US labor statistics show that currently there are more job openings...
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by brian wang on (#3TP3C)
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by brian wang on (#3TP3E)
Elon tweeted out evidence that the dive rescue team co-leader did want the mini-sub option. BBC News previously indicated that the rescue chief indicated that the SpaceX rescue mini-sub was not...
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by brian wang on (#3TP3F)
The SpaceX BFR factory is expected to take 12-18 months for Phase 1 and another 12 or so months for Phase 2. Pictures indicate the work to prepare the site of the SpaceX BFR factory is ramping up...
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by brian wang on (#3TP1A)
No reservation is needed to order a Tesla Model 3. The lowest price configuration is a $49,000 rear wheel drive version. Reservation holders get priority. It still will take 3-5 months to receive the...
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by brian wang on (#3TP1C)
The scanning tunneling microscope has been able to move atoms over surfaces since the late 1980s. Now, the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is able to reliably focus an electron beam...
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by brian wang on (#3TNYZ)
The South China Morning Post in conjunction with a US venture capital firm have published the 2018 China Internet Report. * Whether it’s building, investing, or acquiring, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent...
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by brian wang on (#3TNK4)
BYD is increasing the size of new battery plant in Qinghai province. In 2019, it will produce 24 GWh. Globally BYD aims to churn out 28 GWh in 2018 and will double their output to 60 GWh in 2020....
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by brian wang on (#3TNAH)
Flibe Energy has teamed with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture as a preliminary step for...
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by brian wang on (#3TN39)
Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have captured the one cell that is capable of regenerating an entire organism (flatworm). These used a technique that combines genomics,...
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by brian wang on (#3TMPS)
Formal presentation of latest Turbo Rocket developments at 2018 AIAA Energy and Propulsion Conference. The Turbo rocket is the only rocket with the delta-V to get back to earth from the moon. A...
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by brian wang on (#3TMHQ)
Divers in northern Thailand have rescued all 12 boys and their football coach from flooded caves, 17 days after they got trapped underground.
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by brian wang on (#3TKQG)
“Heavy Oil†is basically a dirty word in the energy world. But that’s all about to change. Technology company Petroteq Inc. is using a new proprietary Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) system that could...
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by brian wang on (#3TKNF)
NASA had funded a study that would examine SpaceX’s next-gen BFR rocket as an option for launching LUVOIR. The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is a concept for a highly capable,...
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by brian wang on (#3TKNH)
Cryptocurrencies can still become the future of money. There is a 25-page paper that makes the case for crypto. * Cryptocurrencies can become units of account only if there is a friendly and...
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by brian wang on (#3TK95)
Elon Musk flew to Thailand with the mini rescue submarine. He tweeted out a picture after returning from Cave 3. There are still four boys and the coach to be rescued from the cave in Thailand....
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by brian wang on (#3TK4B)
Nextbigfuture comment system switching to the Vuukle system today. This comment system is used by 3 million users. I am told it will be faster in terms of site page loading. Comments are being ported...
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by brian wang on (#3TJQX)
Keith Henson has some concerns that high volume flight rates for the SpaceX BFR could be a problem for the atmosphere if it was used for many thousands of flights to place massive amounts of...
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by brian wang on (#3TJM2)
Bucknell described using a 72-ton machine for harvesting water from ice on the moon in a presentation from the 2017 Icarus Interstellar conference. The best estimates indicate there is 18 billion...
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by brian wang on (#3TJM4)
Bucknell has led advanced engineering teams at Chrysler and General Motors for three production high performance engine families. Was Senior Propulsion Engineer for the Raptor full-flow staged...
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by brian wang on (#3TJM6)
John Bucknell created the pre-conceptual design for the SpaceX Raptor engine. It will be the advanced full-flow staged combustion rocket engine for the SpaceX BFR. He designed and built the subscale...
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by brian wang on (#3TJCS)
The mini-sub rescue pod built for the Thai cave rescue could be modified as escape pods for space. Elon Musk tweeted out how the escape pods built for the Thai cave rescue could be made to work in...
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by brian wang on (#3TJ88)
The Thai Navy Seal facebook page has provided live updates on the rescue of the boys from the cave in Thailand. Four more boys were rescued on Monday and have been admitted to the hospital according...
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by brian wang on (#3THGC)
Elon Musk has tweeted out short video of underwater tests of the rescue mini-subs. These mini-subs could be used to save 8 boys and their coach who are still trapped in caves in Thailand. Four of the...
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by brian wang on (#3TGRH)
Andrew Branagh, CEO of Arcata-based Wing Inflatables, was asked by Elon Musk’s engineering team from SpaceX to help construct an inflatable escape pod. Branagh and his team refined the idea. The...
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by brian wang on (#3TGRK)
A team of 90 expert divers – 40 from Thailand and 50 from overseas – has been working in the cave system. Divers have been guiding the boys through darkness and submerged passageways...
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by brian wang on (#3TG4P)
Researchers have increased the efficiency of producing hydrogen from direct solar water-splitting to a record 19 percent. They combined a tandem solar cell of III-V semiconductors with a catalyst of...
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by brian wang on (#3TFFM)
TrustLogics will reduce the gap between recruiters and jobseekers by using the full potential of blockchain technology. The recruiting industry will be able to simplify its processes and reach new...
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by brian wang on (#3TFFP)
Thomas Sterling has retracted his prediction that we will never reach ZettaFLOP computers. He now predicts zettaFLOPS can be achieved in less than 10 years if innovations in non-von Neumann...
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by brian wang on (#3TFD4)
Blue Frontiers is decentralizing governance by launching a seasteading industry that will provide humanity with new opportunities for organizing more innovative societies and dynamic governments. The...
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