NextBigFuture.com

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...

CMB (cosmic microwave background) science goals require much improved CMB polarization and CMB-lensing: – Inflation: B-mode polarization and de-lensing – Neutrinos: Neff or “dark radiation” requires...

The ‘Stage-4’ ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, CMB-S4, consisting of dedicated telescopes equipped with highly sensitive superconducting cameras operating at the...

Arxiv – A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? (16 pages, March 4, 2018, Stephen Hawking, and Thomas Hertog) The usual theory of inflation breaks down in eternal inflation. They derive a dual...

South Korea is starting to commercialize 10-gigabit (Gb) transfer speeds for its online network systems, which is 10 times faster than Giga Internet, the fastest broadband service currently...

TerraPower, chaired by Bill Gates, has a joint venture to build traveling-wave reactors with China National Nuclear Corp. TerraPower has been leading the charge in the development of cutting-edge...

Terrestrial Energy is developing a 190 megawatt small modular molten salt reactor that will cost less than $1 billion to build. This will result in kilowatt-per-hour costs of less than 5 cents, a...

China’s gross domestic product is forecast to reach about $13.2 trillion in 2018, beating the $12.8 trillion combined total of the 19 countries that use the euro, according to data compiled by...

China used 6307 TWh in electricity for 2017. The USA has had no growth in electricity usage for many years and will likely use about 4100 TWh in 2017. The EU-28 uses about 3100 TWh each year. China...

China’s most recent nuclear energy plan calls for five new nuclear power reactors to be brought online in 2018 and construction to be started on a further six to eight units. In its Energy Work...

The military.com reports that U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told Congress that with funding the US Army might be able to field operational hypersonic weapons by 2022. The Army has had two...

Russia has proclaimed the Kinzhal as a breakthrough mach 10 hypersonic missile. ICBM rockets have long been able to go to Mach 20. The reason that hypersonic missiles and hypersonic planes have been...

China has completed a 60-meter-high chimney sucks in polluted air to green houses at the base. Air is then filtered through the green house to release cleaner air. The head of the research, Cao...

There is a 26-page technical report of the SRI investigation and testing of the Brillouin Energy low energy nuclear reaction system. In August 2012, SRI International (SRI –...

Elon Musk says the Boring Co urban loop system would have 1000’s of small stations the size of a single parking space that take you very close to your destination and blend seamlessly into the fabric...

At the Satellite 2018 conference, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell revealed that SpaceX plans to conduct the first orbital launches of BFR (Big F**ing Rocket) as early as 2020, with...

May 1 and May 2 Crypto Invest Summit Crypto Invest Summit is the biggest investment conference and expo for ICOs, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies on the west coast. Join us May 1-2 at the...

The US went soft over the decades in economic competition with Europe, Japan and the USSR. Europe had to rebuild itself after World War 2 and then Europe had more regulations and less willingness to...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) has received U.S. State Department approval to market its Mako High Performance Jet Tactical Unmanned Aerial System to certain European and...

The consensus view among the participants of the Emerging Markets Trade Association and Siobhan Morden, a managing director for Nomura Securities in New York, is that Venezuela’s leader Madura...

Nectome wants to preserve your brain and at some point in the future they would digitize your memories to upload your consciousness. Alcor wants to preserve your brain and body so that when future...

Avengers Infinity War is in theaters April 27.

There was a 2016-2017 Kickstarter for Antimatter fuel production. It was an effort by Dr. Gerald Jackson. He has an antimatter drive website which has an outline of the steps needed for working out...

Video of Chengdu J-10 and Shenyang J-11 jets flying low over snow-capped mountains was posted on the People’s Liberation Army’s official website on Monday. The jets are part of China’s fleet of...

The China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) briefly put online China’s next aircraft carrier, next submarine and other naval projects. CSIC will make China’s first nuclear-powered...

Crypto Invest Summit Crypto Invest Summit is the biggest investment conference and expo for ICOs, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies on the west coast. Join us May 1-2 at the Los Angeles...

A turboprop Cessna with Hellfire missiles is appropriate technology for air superiority and close air support in Afghanistan. The Cessna 208 Caravan is an American single-engined turboprop,...

Barclays analysts predicts that Venezuela’s oil production will average 1.43 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2018. This would be a decline of roughly 700,000 bpd from the 2017 average. In the...

Russia plans to launch an unmanned mission to Mars in 2019. Vladimir Putin says Russia is planning unmanned and later manned launches, into deep space, as part of a lunar program and for Mars...

Austin Bay is a contributing editor at StrategyPage.com and adjunct professor at the University of Texas in Austin. He describes the North Korea situation as denuclearization with maximum...

Various reports from BBC News in 2013 and 2015, indicated that Saudi Arabia had invested in Pakistaninuclear weapons projects and believes it could obtain nuclear bombs at will. Intelligence reports...

BioLumic, creators of the first ultraviolet (UV) crop yield enhancement system, today announced the close of $5 million in Series A financing. Led by top AgTech investors Finistere Ventures and...

World population is expected to reach 8 billion people in 2023 according to the United Nations. The current world population is 7.6 billion as of March 2018 based on extrapolation from the 2017...

Using a compact but powerful laser to heat arrays of ordered nanowires, CSU scientists and collaborators have demonstrated micro-scale nuclear fusion in the lab. They have achieved record-setting...

Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology has the potential to affect every industry. Trust, inventory and reconciliation Decentralization is valuable for resolving “the cost of trust.”...

Blockchain can provide vastly improved efficiency to all financial systems and other industries. Blockchain can make transactions instantaneous, in-Sync, and transparent. Currently stock, bonds,...