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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....

China started building its third aircraft carrier, with a hi-tech launch system, at a Shanghai shipyard last year, according to sources close to the People’s Liberation Army. One of the sources said...

RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) Capital Markets analyst Mitch Steves says cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology underlying them could become a $10 trillion market in 15 years. This $10 trillion...

The pressure vessel head has been installed at one of the two high-temperature gas-cooled reactor units that make up the demonstration HTR-PM plant under construction at Shidaowan in China’s...

Iron fertilization of the ocean is the simulation of natural processes. Hundreds of years ago there were more whales and humans killed the whales. Large whales pooping in the ocean had the same...

Chess players have analyzed the games that AlphaZero played against the Stockfish program and found many innovative moves and tactics. Chessbase has an analysis that discusses the quality of its...

Qilu Transportation Development Group, a state-owned transport firm operating in Shandong, is completing a 2000 meter solar highway in China. The road’s composition is made of three distinct layers,...

Fort Collins, Colorado, with a population of 161,000 is moving ahead with a plan for municipal gigabit internet. They aim to have it fully deployed to all households within 5 years. A $1.8 million...

BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) and Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) announced today that the two companies will collaborate to accelerate the deployment of connected and autonomous vehicle...

Apple has a market capitalization of $882 billion. If Apple stock price goes from $172.23 to $195 then Apple will become a trillion dollar company. Google is at $755 billion. Microsoft is at $666...

Peter Thiel has a net worth of $2.5 billion. Thiel is looking to create a new conservative news channel which would be a competitor to Fox News. Thiel is working with hedge fund billionaire Robert...

Tabby’s star exhibits two unique and very difficult to understand behaviors: the short-term”dips” in brightness (of up to 22%) and long-term brightness variations on years-to-centuries...

Ashish Jha, a physician with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, studies how health systems from various countries compare in terms...

In 1995, Taiwan chose William Hsiao, a professor of economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to lead a task force to design a new healthcare system. Uwe Reinhardt, a longtime...

Baidu Vice-chairman Lu Qi will be among senior executives who will introduce the Beijing-based company’s latest developments in autonomous driving and conversational AI at the CES trade show in Las...

SpaceX provides clear photos of the Falcon Heavy on the launch pad. More photos of Falcon Heavy on the launch pad → https://t.co/095WHX44BX pic.twitter.com/Z5aE1BUFSt — SpaceX (@SpaceX) January...

A Reddit contributor has a graphic showing several major achievements that SpaceX could complete in 2018. The crewed mission could be delayed into 2019 and the two tourists going round the moon will...

Japan Tsubame, Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, is a JAXA satellite intended to demonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (below 200 km), using ion engines to cancel out aerodynamic drag and...

Using two types of “designer” quantum dots, researchers are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for good measure....

The hunt for high temperature superconductivity has been reinvigorated by the experimental discovery that compressed H2S exhibits a Tc of up to 203K at megabar pressures (1Mbar=100GPa). A...

The drop in poverty from the 1980s to present was mainly driven by just two countries: China and India. The statistics for China are especially mind-blowing: In 1981, a staggering 88 percent of...

US Army researchers are using fillers to bridge the gap in damaged bones, hoping to figuratively bridge the gap between current regenerative techniques and the ideal: people regrowing lost limbs....

The birthplace of the photonics revolution may well be named after lithium niobate. While, Lithium Niobate Valley doesn’t have the same ring as Silicon Valley, this material could be for optics what...

The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first single lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light — including white light — in the same spot and in...

A new Tel Aviv University study pinpoints the inverse correlation between a known oncogene — a gene that promotes the development of cancer — and the expression of an oncosuppressor...

Russia’s latest nuclear power reactor, Rostov 4, reached criticality and minimum controlled power on 29 December, 2017. It is Russia’s 36th reactor in a fleet that meets about 18% of the...

You will be able to pre-order clothes folding robots starting in 5 days and 5 hours from foldimate.com. On January 7th, 2018 at 5pm PST during CES UNVEILED, Foldimate will be showing their improved...

Ethereum hit a high of $914 this morning. Most of the top 20 digital currencies are in the green today, and the market cap for all cryptocurrencies is closing on a new record, standing at $645 billion

Jan 2, 2018 2:26 a.m. — Nine people were killed overnight, Iranian state television reported, raising the overall death toll to more than 20 since the protests began last week. Jan 1, 2018...

A guest post by Joseph Friedlander Elon Musk’s new 150 ton payload class rocket, IF usable as described by Brian Wang in various posts here on Next Big Future,...

1. Universe Today – Mysterious Filament is Stretching Down Towards the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Using a pioneering technique, a team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian...

The plasma magnet sail engine is little more than 2 pairs of charged rotating coils and is therefore extremely simple and inexpensive. A fully powered plasma magnet sail using a small nuclear power...