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China – US economies will be within 10% currency fluctuations from 2022-2027
China’s GDP was over 82.71 trillion yuan in 2017. The Exchange rate was 6.45 at the end of 2017. A previous Nextbigfuture article had an error and divided 83.8 trillion yuan by the exchange...
Smallest Electro-optic modulator is 100 times more energy efficient
Researchers at Oregon State University have designed and fabricated the world’s smallest electro-optic modulator, which could mean major reductions in energy used by data centers and supercomputers....
Artificial synapse for neuromorphic chips
Nature Materials – SiGe epitaxial memory for neuromorphic computing with reproducible high performance based on engineered dislocations Although several types of architecture combining memory...
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is finally happening for 7 nanometer and 5 nanometer chips
Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) is set to enable 10-nm and 7-nm process nodes over the next few years, but significant work is still needed on photoresists to enable 5-nm chips. ASML has plans...
China will again triple dredging and will have over 50 fortified islands by 2030 in South China Sea
China has purchased 200 dredging ships over the last 11 years. Most of the technology was from Germany, Japan and other countries. China tripled its dredging capacity over the last 15 years. China...
IMF expects US tax cut to boost world economy by about $200 billion dollars per year for 4 years
The IMG expects U.S. tax policy changes to stimulate world economic activity for several years. The short-term impact in the United States mostly driven by the investment response to the corporate...
US Navy $440 million fast agile Littoral Combat Ship has been stuck in ice since Christmas eve
The $440 million Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock’s maiden journey was complicated by unusually heavy ice conditions that have kept it in Montreal since Christmas Eve. The U.S. Navy has decided...
US government shutdown to end this evening to clear the way for the SpaceX Heavy test
The US Senate passed pending bill that would fund the US government through Feb. 8 and reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for six years. This will be passed by the House and...
China plans 40 launches in 2018
Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island is the main space launch site for China. It is one of the two spacecraft launch sites of Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It is a former sub-orbital...
Software, improved rifles and sensors could make 1.5+ mile sniper shots less rare
Sniping is weaponized math. Although a .50 caliber sniper rifle bullet can fly as far as five miles, a host of factors including gravity, wind speed and direction, altitude, barometric pressure,...
Lightweight alloy enables folding wings in flight for more fuel efficiency and performance
NASA has successfully applied a new technology in flight that allows aircraft to fold their wings to different angles while in the air. The recent flight series, which took place at NASA’s Armstrong...
10 nanometer materials enable three times the conversion of heat to electricity
In simulations, MIT researchers found that tin telluride’s electron characteristics have a significant impact on their mean free paths. They plotted tin telluride’s range of electron...
University of Twente boosts efficiency of sunlight conversion of hydrogen fuel using microwires
Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have made significant efficiency improvements to the technology used to generate solar fuels. This involves the direct conversion of...
Ultrasonic Sound tornadoes levitate objects in a soundless void
Researchers at the University of Bristol have been able to levitate objects using ultrasonic waves larger than the wavelengths of sound used by the device. This could enable touchless control of drug...
First Amazon Go opens in Seattle tomorrow Monday, January 22, 2018
Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. We created the world’s most advanced shopping technology so you never have to wait in line. With our Just Walk Out Shopping experience,...
Government Shutdown delays SpaceX Falcon Heavy Static Test
SpaceX will be unable to test fire its three-core Falcon Heavy rocket at Kennedy Space Center due to the government shutdown. “Due to the shutdown removing key members of the civilian...
Rocket Lab successfully reaches orbit and deploys payloads and will charge less than $5 million per launch
Rocket Lab has successfully reached orbit with the test flight of its second Electron orbital launch vehicle, Still Testing. Electron lifted-off at 14:43 NZDT from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the...
Carnival of Space 545
1. Universe Today – James Webb Wraps up 3 Months in the Freezer. It’s Ready for Space The sunshield test unit on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is unfurled for the first time. Credit: NASA...
Carnival of Space 544
The Carnival of Space 544 is up at Cosmoquest. Universe Today – In mid-March, the Chinese Tiangong-1 Space Station is Going to Come Crashing Back Down to Earth… Somewhere The station’s mission...
China plus Hong Kong and Macau GDP for 2017 is $13.5 trillion
China’s quarterly GDP numbers for 2016 and 2017 suggest that the soon to be released Q4 2017 GDP number will be about 23.5 trillion RMB. China leadership has already indicated the fourth...
Buildings are responsible for almost half the worlds emissions and energy usage
According to Navigant Research, the global building stock is expected to grow from 151.8 billion m2 in 2014 to 171.6 billion m2 in 2024. Most of the new growth is expected to occur in China, where...
China’s next aircraft carrier will make its Navy distant second behind the USA
China’s third carrier (called the 002) is expected to be launched in 2019 or 2020. It will be almost as large as the US Nimitz carriers and include electromagnetic launchers. 002 will...
Stable antibodies enable vast improvements to medical diagnostics and treatment in disaster-stricken areas
When large groups of people are suddenly cut off from electricity, shelter and medical supplies, the initial crisis may be only the tip of the iceberg. Sanitation issues, disease and physical fatigue...
Tech Tuesday in Davos to power relationships in the Tech community
Tech Pioneers and Influencers will gather at Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvédère on January 23, 2018 to exchange Ideas, discuss latest trends and network. Introducing Leaders, a strategic business...
Blood test can detect eight cancers in early stages which could save half a million lives every year
CancerSEEK is a blood test that detects tiny amounts of DNA and proteins released into the bloodstream from cancer cells. This can then indicate the presence of ovarian, liver, stomach, pancreatic,...
Key hurdle overcome towards organic solar cells up to 1000 times cheaper than solar panels
University of Michigan researchers have found a way to coax electrons to travel much further than was previously thought possible in the materials often used for organic solar cells and other organic...
The UI of the mobile Nextbigfuture site has been upgraded
There had been problems with the UI of the Nextbigfuture mobile site. Hopefully a recent upgrade has resolved those issues. Give it a try on smartphones and tablets and let me know if it is better....
If you dare – personal Green Goblin like flight up to 90 mph, a mile high for ten minutes
Zapata’s Flyboard Air EX™ is the next generation of advanced individual mobility. An embedded stability program uses vectored thrust from six small turbine engines to create an intuitive, responsive,...
Electrically controlled DNA robot arm is 100,000 times faster – millisecond moves enable molecular factories
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots. It allows molecular machines to move a hundred thousand times faster than...
Nanoparticle gel could make mass-market low-cost Holography, LIDAR
Why aren’t holograms or related optical devices part of our everyday lives yet? The technologies can be created by using magnetic fields to alter the path of light, but the materials that can...
Google Trends searches for Cryptocurrency and other terms
Google Trends shows the how searches for cryptocurrency, bitcoin, ethereum and bitcoin bubble have gone up over the past few months.
Jibrel encodes compliance with financial regulations into tokenized currencies -US dollars and Korean Won
Nextbigfuture interview with Talal Tabbaa who is the Jibrel BizDev Lead and co-founder. JCash is launching tokenized US dollar and Korean Won. Working with three to four banks (tier1 and tier 2...
China and Russia have $20 billion partnership to replicate Airbus history and make competitive jets
China, Russia and some western suppliers are teaming up on a $20 billion project to replicate the success of Airbus and achieve a major breakthrough into the passenger jet market. The China-Russia...
China’s 30 story tall air cleaning tower is a successful test for many150 story air cleaning towers
China has created an experimental air purifying tower that is over 100 meters (328 feet) tall in northern China. It reduces 2.5 micron air pollution by about 15% over a 10 square kilometer area. The...
Fastest NY to London flights are now just over 5 hours but sub-3 hour supersonic flights coming around 2023
Currently you can fly from NY to London in just over 5 hours if you get lucky with tailwinds in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Around 2023-2025 there will be several options for $5,000-30,000 supersonic...
Kilopower, Megapower reactors would revolutionize energy safety and space and military applications
NASA, Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Lab hoste a news conference at noon EST (9 a.m. PST) Thursday, Jan. 18, at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, to present the Kilopower...
New York Suing Oil Companies but how about suing New York For shutting nuclear reactors
New York is blaming the oil companies for climate change and for the damage from hurricanes and for supporting Republicans. In 2021, the Indian Point Nuclear Power plant in Westchester County will...
Was there global warming in the 1880s? Because 25 hurricanes hit the USA in that decade
A total of 293 Atlantic tropical cyclones have produced hurricane-force winds in every state along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, as well as Pennsylvania. Florida more than any other...
NASA ASAP Safety report wants more money, more delays and not boldly going anywhere
Robert Zimmerman boils the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel to key parts of a one-page summary. NASA’s current bureaucratic framework demands a risk-free space effort, more money and schedule...
Apple will pay $38 billion in tax and repatriate about $250 billion
Apple announced a new set of investments to support the American economy and its workforce, concentrated in three areas where Apple has had the greatest impact on job creation: direct employment by...
Improved analysis of global warming means no catastrophe this century but serious to bad is possible
The UU.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) worst-case predictions of an increase of 4.5 degrees Celsius by 2100 are too high according to a new climate study. University of...
Iridium CEO believes Spacex not at fault for loss of secret Zuma satellite
US taxpayers may end up paying for the missing secret satellite launched by SpaceX that crashed into the ocean earlier this month. it was part of a classified U.S. government mission called Zuma. The...
Combining the best results of 18 different cancer algorithms boosts treatability from 60% to over 80%
Scientists in Singapore have made a unique discovery about how to treat cancers – when it comes to pinpointing cancer treatment targets, it is better to listen to many computer programmes rather than...
Singapore creates AI, robotics, data analytics and IoT lab
Under a five-year partnership, Singtel, NTU Singapore and the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF Singapore) will establish a S$42.4 million corporate lab, to be called Singtel Cognitive and...
Google AutoML makes adding AI as simple as drag and drop
The goal of Google Cloud was to lower the barrier of entry and make AI available to the largest possible community of developers, researchers and businesses. Google is introducing Cloud AutoML to...
California high speed rail is doomed and ultimately will cost $19.5 billion to repay in bonds including interest
The cost of the 119 mile Central Valley section has now officially gone up to $10.6 billion. California does not have budgeted money to finish. California has to find extra money for that section....
Defense Innovation Board Recommends how to Boost US military innovation
The Defense Innovation Board is an organization set up in 2016 to bring the technological innovation and best practice of Silicon Valley to the U.S. Military. The board will have up to a dozen...
Graphene Nanoribbons are 100 times brighter than previous single molecule devices
Researchers observed a bright and narrow band emission of red light from individual graphene nanoribbons, only 7-atom-wide, at a high intensity comparable to bright light-emitting devices made from...
Russian and UK physicists develop superconducting quantum state detectors
Russian and UK physicists have developed a superconducting quantum state detectors. The researchers, who come from MIPT, the Institute of Microelectronics and High Purity Materials of the Russian...
China has an increasing dependence on oil imports
China’s apparent oil demand is expected to rise 4.6% year on year to hit 600 million mt (12.05 million b/d) in 2018, with net crude imports to increase 7.7% to 451 million mt, according to a...
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