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Sergei Skripal was once a colonel in Russia’s GRU military intelligence service. He was given refuge in Britain after he was exchanged in 2010 for Russian spies caught in the West as part of a Cold...

The goal of the Google Quantum AI lab is to build a quantum computer that can be used to solve real-world problems. Their strategy is to explore near-term applications using systems that are forward...

Touch screens and touch feedback systems and other Haptic technologies are power-hungry. To create the virtual sensation of touch, motion generators called piezoelectric actuators are required, and...

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied and Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed an efficient machine...

Turkey might buy new generation F-35B jump jet stealth fighters. Turkey could join Japan and South Korea in using 20000 to 35000 helicopter carriers to base about 10-20 F35b with vertical takeoff and...

Milan Vaishnav, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, notes that despite great projections for India from McKinsey, the World Bank and IBM and many others, India’s rise is not assured....

Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old-school...

SpaceX is building a private spaceport in Boca Chica Village, Texas and the rocket launch facility should be ready around September 2018. The Boca Chica will be a testing facility for the SpaceX BFR...

96.5 percent of all of those trying to become YouTubers won’t make enough money off of advertising to crack the U.S. poverty line, according to research by Mathias Bärtl, a professor at Offenburg...

Having super-high speed trains travel in vacuum or very low pressure is an idea that has been around for centuries and the maglev vacuum concept has been around for decades. A maglev (magnetic...

US Missile defense is very limited today. There are only few dozen interceptor missiles and the system would be lucky to defend against about six ICBM missiles. Russia worried that the missile...

Starving Venezuelan oil workers are growing too weak for heavy labor. They are too fatigued to act quickly which leads to more fatal accidents. Crude oil makes up about 95% of Venezuela’s...

There is much more technology in transforming furniture than the old sofa bed. There is revolving bed and shelves and telescoping tables. The cost is higher and the materials are stronger. The cost...

The US has potentially launched a trade war with heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Steel imports will carry a 25% tariff and aluminum imports 10%. Stock markets dropped and there were...

Russia has a Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped, super-heavy thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile in development by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau from 2009, intended to replace...

SCTV in the 1970s had a skit about interview a large monster. Tim Ishimuni chats with his guest, Grogan, about radiation, his new book, what irritates him, whether he still has an irrational need to...

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will...

Lab-grown meat products will be offered in a number of restaurants in the United States and Asia, starting with chicken nuggets, sausage and foie gras. There will be factory produced meat on store...

Ray Kurzweil gives an MIT course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video does not show any slides. This class is free and open to...

Stephen Hawking describes what came before the big bang. Hawking says the universe had no clear “bang.” You can wind back the clock to the edges of those first moments of existence, but asking what...

The US will increase hypersonic weapon funding by more than double (136 percent increase to $257 million.) * $139.4 million, Air Force-DARPA collaboration on rocket-propelled hypersonics, Tactical...

By 2020, Lockheed will install a 60-150 kilowatt combat laser on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and the laser will be integrated with the Aegis system. The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $150...

NASA has found a lot of water around a Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. The planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much water as Saturn does. Above – Using Hubble and...

The LA Times reviews some of the competitors in the race for global low earth orbit high bandwidth internet satellite networks. Low-earth orbit systems need complex software to run constellations of...

Avengers: Infinity War will be opening all over the world on April 27, 2018. There is speculation that there will be major spoiler story developments which would be leaked if the movie was released...

India’s GDP grew 7.2% in the third quarter, surpassing expectations. India is the fastest growing large country. The rebound puts India GDP growth higher than China. The rebound is from better...

Fox – Lucas Tomlinson reports that the Pentagon is monitoring the Russia tests of a cruise missile powered by an unshielded nuclear reactor and that there is radiation in northern europe and...

The Russian election is on March 18, 2018. The first round will be held on Sunday 18 March 2018. If in the first round no candidate attains an absolute majority of the votes (more than half), then...

Russia in a speech by Putin claims it has a new nuclear reactor that is 100 times smaller than those used by nuclear-propelled submarines and generates more power. The reactor can also reach its peak...

RT (aka Russia Today) had an article titled – :‘Listen to us now’: Putin unveils new Russian nuclear arsenal Russia’s new hypersonic Sarmat ICBM, which is capable of overcoming missile...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to Russia’s Federal Assembly today and showed off concept videos of a multi-warhead nuclear strike against the United States. The...

China might have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the water by 2025. China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), which refitted China’s first aircraft carrier and built its second confirmed...

Stratolaunch is the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan and is the largest all-composite plane ever built. Utilizing six Boeing 747 engines for a payload capacity of over 500,000 lbs. and an...

Customizable smallsats can cost as little as $11,000 these day. Planet Labs now operates more than 200 Earth-observing smallsats for governments, agricultural companies, investment firms and others....

A groundbreaking new wearable designed to be worn on the throat could be a game changer in the field of stroke rehabilitation. The sensors stick directly to the skin, moving with the body and...

China’s domestically-produced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Caihong 4 (CH-4) recently completed a six-day live-fire test with various ammunition. The tested CH-4 is an upgraded version of the...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its extensive, long-standing collaboration has resulted in the industry’s first 3nm test chip tapeout. The tapeout project, geared...

The unregulated, “Wild West” environment of the crypto market left investors wide open to fraudsters, scammers, and shady firms out to make a quick buck. The technology of blockchain and Bitcoin is...

Stargate Fans should prepare to make some twitter noise on March 9, according to Mallozzi. At 6pm on the west coast and 9pm on the east coast and international fans will have their own tweetfest on...

SpaceX is using vastly improved heat shielding to achieve high reusability goals with the block 5 version of the Falcon 9. SpaceX wants 10 flights with a bare minimum of refurbishment and 100 or more...

A team of researchers found that there is at least one life form on Earth that likely would do just fine living under the presumed conditions on Enceladus. It’s a single-celled organism known...

Canada has launched a process to prepare a roadmap to explore the potential of on- and off-grid applications for small modular reactor (SMR) technology. The roadmap will help position Canada to...

Ford is headed to Florida to test and prove out their self-driving car business model. With the help of Miami-Dade County, we’re taking our service directly to the streets of Miami and Miami Beach....

A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain. The water...

Baidu has demonstrated that a single deep learning voice system could learn to reproduce thousands of speaker identities, with less than half an hour of training data for each speaker. This...

The Carnival of Space 500 is up at The Venus Transit. Universe Today – Astronomers Observe the Rotating Accretion Disk Around the Supermassive Black Hole in M77 Universe Today –...

Carnival of Space 549 is up at Universe Today Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope blog – The Billion-year Race Between Black Holes and Galaxies: Mar Mezcua Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope blog –...

DARPA’s new Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation (ECHO) program aims to build a field-deployable platform technology that quickly reads someone’s epigenome and identifies signatures that...

DARPA wants to use genetically modified sealife that is integrated with electronics in order to monitor the oceans. The Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program envisions using the natural...

DARPA will kick off a space launch competition in two months. Currently the only details are they want fast launches. DARPA has previously funded efforts to develop a spaceplane able to achieve ten...