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According to the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific – ESCAP’s long-running flagship publication – developing economies are on track to record an overall growth rate of 5.8 percent in...

Arxiv – Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative to prove ultra-fast light-driven nanocrafts, and lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. Along the...

Carnival of Space 560 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – Astronomers See a Pileup of 14 Separate Galaxies in the Early Universe Above -Artist impression of the 14 galaxies detected by...

Nature materials -Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail A solar sail able to be pushed by lasers to 20% of light speed would need to be about 10 square meters but weigh less than a gram....

Researchers report that they used stacks of ultrathin materials to exert unprecedented control over the flow of electrons based on the direction of their spins — where the electron “spins” are...

Myntum is a new blockchain company that has goal of securing your digital assets. Myntum was conceived after the Napa fires, when people had to restore their lives after losing everything in the...

Credible reports indicate that China is already building at least one conventional carrier in the 80,000-ton range and there are rumors China’s Type 003 aircraft carrier will be nuclear...

Teal is already selling its dumbed down but ultra-fast Sport version (at a suggested retail of $799). And in 2018, the company says its Teal 2 will hit the market powered by Nvidia’s Jetson GPU and...

Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and The Wasp is In theaters July 6. There is a new trailer.

Professor, author, and comic book enthusiast E. Paul Zehr looks at how near term technology could be used to create Marvel’s Captain America. Chasing Captain America explores what the real limits of...

Canada will be boosting immigration from 290,000 in 2017 up to 340,000 in 2020. About 58% will be under economic immigration programs. StatCan population forecast to 2036 In 2036, the five CMAs with...

Mark Valencia (writing at the Diplomat) finally admitted that it is s finally clear that the United States is not willing to confront China over the South China Sea. China continues to militarize the...

With a projected annual growth rate of over 5% a year, ASEAN is forecasted to overtake the EU and Japan to become the 4th largest economy in the world by 2050, behind China, India, and the US. This...

Germany is currently upgrading the Leopard 2A7 tanks and getting more tanks by upgrading 2A4 tanks. France and Germany will work on a Leopard 3 tank which will be produced about 2030. At the Berlin...

ussian Aerospace Forces long range interceptor, the MiG-31K (NATO codename “Foxhound”) is shown carrying the new long range, hypersonic Kh-47M2 “Kinzhal” missile. TASS reports that upgraded MiG-31K...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative can help make up for infrastructure funding gap to support ASEAN’s regional initiatives namely the ASEAN Economic Community 2025 (AEC 2025) and Master Plan on...

In 1988, China and India’s economies were relatively close in terms of economic output. China’s economy now is five times bigger, and China’s defense budget is three times larger...

A strong international box office should push Avengers Infinity War to the highest global movie box office after Avatar. In North America, Avengers Infinity War is running about 12% ahead of Black...

Elon Musk stated during Tesla’s first-quarter 2018 earnings call that the production version of the Tesla Semi would have almost 600 miles of range.

Shandong Wanzefeng Fishery said a fully submersible ocean fish farming net cage called Deep Blue No 1, the world’s biggest, was delivered to the shipyard of state-owned Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry...

Fan Xuejun, head of Institute of Mechanics’ “scramjet” division – focused on using high vehicle speed to compress incoming air forcefully before combustion – was lead scientist for the hypersonic...

Elon Musk tweets he will start Cryptocandy company. No details have been provided. Elon has followed through whenever he has tweeted that he would start a company. Elon Boring Company was announced...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis indicates that California had GDP growth of 3.4% and Texas had GDP growth of 5.2%. At the end of 2017, California had a GDP of $2.80 trillion and Texas had a GDP of...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket should be the next mission launched in one week by SpaceX. The Block5 should have up to ten reuses of the first stage. Falcon 9 Block 5 static fire test complete...

Goldman Sachs is preparing a Bitcoin trading desk. Goldman has concluded that Bitcoin is not a fraud and does not have the characteristics of a currency. But a number of clients wanted to hold it as...

The Japan Center for Economic Research released a medium-term economic forecast for Asia from 2018-2030. India, Vietnam and Philippines should have high economic growth through 2030. In the baseline...

A study of Finnish adults found that hitting the sauna four times a week lowered stroke risk, echoing previous research that found heat therapy has positive effects on the cardiovascular system....

The European Space Agency Gaia mission will detect all celestial bodies down to magnitude 20. Gaia measures the positions, distances, space motions and many physical characteristics of some one...

Alibaba’s 2018 first-quarter revenue grew 61 percent to 61.9 billion yuan ($9.73 billion) from a year earlier, beating analyst estimates of a 53 percent increase. The results mark two years of...

Artist drawings for China’s JH-XX supersonic stealth bomber appeared on the May 2018’s Aerospace Knowledge magazine cover. Aerospace Knowledge is China’s leading aviation magazine....

China is developing the H20 long-range stealth bomber and one version could copy the US B2 bomber and another the Russian Tu-160. Above – H-20 impression from Artist Bai Wei. H-20 art put...

Shoppers are shifting multi-national brands to retail store brand products. For the first time in over a decade, shoppers in the U.S. actually made more trips to stores in 2016, taking an average of...

Deloittes Global Powers of Retailing identifies the 250 largest retailers around the world based on publicly available data for FY2016 (fiscal years ended through June 2017), and analyzes their...

Twitter advises all Twitter users to change their password. Twitter exposed all user passwords via a bug that stored passwords in plain text — without protecting them with any sort of encryption...

During Tesla’s first quarter 2018 earnings call, Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s next Gigafactory would be built in China. All future Gigafactories would support the manufacture of Tesla...

China Construction Bank opens a branch in Shanghai run by ‘smiling’ robots. China Construction Bank (CCB), the nation’s second largest lender by assets, opened one in Shanghai this week, run by pure...

Patrick Tucker of Defense One reports that the US military has a microwave gun that can stop any vehicle including trucks used in the Toronto and other attacks. Defense Department’s Joint Non-Lethal...

Elon Musk reported in the Wednesday’s Q1 2018 earnings call that Tesla has managed to reduce the time to make a Model 3 battery pack by 94%, from 7 hours to under 17 minutes. This still remains to be...

A delay in funding from February 2018 forced Planetary Resources to lay off some of its 70 employees. Planetary Resources had planned on using several small spacecraft, launched as secondary payloads...

Aleph Farms is producing clean meat that resembles free range meat using a 3D textured process. Aleph Farm’s technology overcomes a critical clean meat issue – similarity to real meat. Our...

Southwest flight WN957 diverts and makes emergency landing in CLE due to busted window. This is two weeks after a woman was nearly sucked out a Southwest flight when an engine exploded midair,...

Oculus Go is a new standalone VR (Virtual Reality) headset with pricing starting at $199. Oculus Go is the easiest way to jump into VR. With a 538ppi 2560 x 1440 WQHD, fast-switch LCD display, we’re...

The NASA Insight Mars mission is targeting a launch within a few days. InSight will study the deep interior of Mars, taking the planet’s vital signs, its pulse and temperature. This makes...

Texas Central, developers of the high-speed train between North Texas and Houston, announced an agreement today with Bechtel to work together on project management services. Bechtel has completed...

The US has tripled the annual funding level for hypersonic weapons compared to prior years. However, Russia appears to already be deploying hypersonic weapons as the warhead for missiles. Russia has...

Jeff Bezos is racing ahead in the billionaire net worth race. At $132 billion dollars in net worth, Bezos is 45% richer than number 2 Bill Gates. Bezos has net worth equal to the combined wealth of...

Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data from WHO shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Updated estimations reveal...

Construction Robotics has a bricklaying robot commercially available and doesn’t actually replace a traditional mason. It works in collaboration with a mason, increasing their productivity up...

Aaron Traywick, CEO of Ascendance Biomedical, biohacker and transhumanist, was found dead this weekend in a flotation tank in Washington DC, according to Tristan Roberts. He was 28 years old. He was...

CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. has announced that an automated high-speed railway line linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou will be tested in 2019. The 174-kilometer intercity railway is a high-speed...