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Current solar cells are able to convert into electricity around 20% of the energy received from the Sun, but a new technique has the potential to convert around 60% of it by funneling the energy more...

The US currently cannot match the number of submarines of all its potential enemies. China has 68 to 73 and will likely build to 80-90 submarines. This “submarine gap” is being used as a...

China might station up to 10,000 marines, navy seamen and other personnel in its African base at Djibouti. China is expanding their marine forces from 20,000 up to 100,000. The US has 186,000 marines...

US second quarter grew at 4.1% but GDP failed to meet some of forecasters’ loftiest targets. Above are the components of Q2 GDP growth Real GDP 4.1 percent in the second quarter and the first...

Yukon Huang points out that China had far faster growth without innovation. China had less patents and fewer innovative services. Patents and research are nice things and they can be good. China got...

US second quarter grew at 4.1% but GDP failed to meet some of forecasters’ loftiest targets. Above are the components of Q2 GDP growth Real GDP 4.1 percent in the second quarter and the first...

According to senior figures in the Australian Government say the US is almost ready to bomb sites related to Iran’s nuclear program, in a move that would no doubt impact the wider region. The United...

The US currently cannot match the number of submarines of all its potential enemies. China has 68 to 73 and will likely build to 80-90 submarines. This “submarine gap” is being used as a...

Disney officially owns X-men and the Fantastic Four. The New Mutants and Dark Phoenix movies are basically canceled. Disney will make more money with the various X-men characters in the Marvel comics...

A cup of coffee in Venezuela costs 2 million Bolivars but the week before it was 1.4 million Bolivars. This means the prices are doubling every two weeks. 26 doublings in a year is 67 million which...

Accion Systems uses electrospray ion drive propulsion. The thrust-producing ions are supplied from their ionic liquid propellant — a safe, non-toxic liquid salt. This novel source of ions...

According to senior figures in the Australian Government say the US is almost ready to bomb sites related to Iran’s nuclear program, in a move that would no doubt impact the wider region. The United...

A cup of coffee in Venezuela costs 2 million Bolivars but the week before it was 1.4 million Bolivars. This means the prices are doubling every two weeks. 26 doublings in a year is 67 million which...

In synthetic biology, the control of gene expression requires a multistep processing of biological signals. The key steps are sensing the environment, computing information and outputting products....

There have already been several quantum computer technologies that have scaled to 50-100 qubits. Gatemon superconducting qubits appear ready to scale to that level as well. Nature Nanotechnology...

Faceboook has dropped $120 billion in early trading to $500 billion. * Facebook had 42% year-over-year revenue growth this quarter. They expect high single-digit drops each quarter to year-over-year...

Many people are worried about their future jobs and about long recessions and economies collapsing. There is a good chance that there will be a strong global economic and technological boom...

China’s debt-to-GDP ratio is the sum of corporate debt, household debt, and government debt all together as a portion of GDP. This ratio is currently around 250 to 260 percent of GDP. Globally, China...

The USA and the EU have agreed on a trade deal which appears to avert a trade war. The EU will import more natural gas and soybeans from the USA and both sides will lower industrial tariffs. There...

Honeybee Robotics has been working on a Planetary Deep drill. It has been tested to a depth of about 100 feet (30 meters). The plan has to been to have the lightweight system reach kilometers of...

The European Space Agency has used ground penetrating radar to detect an underground liquid water lake on Mars. The radar investigation shows that south polar region of Mars is made of many layers of...

Geoffrey Landis works at NASA and has made many contributions to advanced space concepts. In particular to laser pushed sails. The interstellar distance issue was summarized Moon 0.5 million...

Tau is a blockchain system that intends to remove bottlenecks in large-scale human communication and accelerate productivity in human collaboration. They will use logic based Artificial Intelligence....

Kevin O’Leary is a Canadian businessman, author and television personality. He co-founded O’Leary Funds and SoftKey. He is famous for being on the Shark Tank TV show. Kevin has a net...

China Tower is raising US$8.7 billion in an IPO tomorrow. China Tower announced plans to speed up the construction of 5G networks and keep costs down by making use of electric power companies’...

Poland has had annual GDP growth that mostly stayed in the 3-7% from 1993 to 2018. Nominal GDP per capita went from $5000 per person in 1993 to about $15800 per person in 2018. On a purchasing power...

A Roskosmos facility called TsNIIMash are under suspicion for leaking information of hypersonic missile secrets to Western spies. Last week, the Russia defense ministry released video of two new...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Iridium-7 went vertical earlier today on the SpaceX launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Weather is 90% favorable for tomorrow’s launch at 4:39 a.m. PDT,...

NASA has been unable to fly people from U.S. soil since the shuttle was retired in July 2011. US astronauts have flown to the international space station on Russian rockets. In 2014, NASA awarded...

There is an analysis on Youtube of how the need for oil for German’s Panzer tanks, Luftwaffe planes and industrial war production shaped WW2. There was also a 2011 US Air Force Command paper by...

The US federal government has extended five hydro dam construction licenses. * the Gathright Hydroelectric Project located in Alleghany County, Virginia; * the Flannagan Dam and Reservoir...

In Laos, a hydroelectric dam that was under construction has collapsed. Hundreds of people are missing and many are likely dead. Rescue efforts were underway as top government officials rushed to the...

An Oakland woman was stabbed to death on a San Francisco Bay Area BART platform Sunday night. This was the second BART related homicide of the weekend and the third fatal assault over five-days. John...

The South Korea company that claimed discovery of $130 billion in Russian gold from a shipwreck appears to be stock and cryptocurrency scams using the stolen location of a shipwreck. In 2000, Dong-Ah...

There is a video where critics of a proposed 2015 plan to power the US with 100% renewables lay out their case. They are not anti-renewables but they are pro-math. They worked out the issues of...

The dot-com bubble was a historic economic bubble ran from 1997 to 2001. It was a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet. Between 1995 and 2000, the Nasdaq Composite...

China now has more than 4,000 companies with blockchain in their name. (Qixin search) Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. Qukualian, the Chinese...

According to JetNet (reported in Knight Frank’s 2017 Wealth report), within the largest 10 markets for private aviation there are around 17,000 (16,854) privately owned aircraft registered. The US...

In June, NASA’s Curiosity rover found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that...

Kevin Kelly sees AI being better on a subset of intelligence. Over the next 20 years we will make things smarter and smarter. We will put different kinds and types of sensors and intelligence an...

WARR Hyperloop, students from the Technical University of Munich, are the overall winner of the 2018 Hyperloop Pod Competition. Team WARR’s hyperloop pod hit top speeds of 290 mph which surpassed the...

The Chinese PLA Marine Corps (PLAMC), part of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), appears to have a new lightweight battle tank called the ZTQ-15. Each PLAMC brigade is divided up into one...

China plans to increase the size of its marine corps from about 20,000 to 100,000 personnel to protect the nation’s maritime lifelines and its growing interests overseas. China is shifting brigades...

The first Gravity human flying suit was sold for 300,000 euros. Current versions of the suit sell for $440,000. They will add 3D printed wings for more efficient and faster flight. They will add AR...

China is developing large, smart and relatively low-cost unmanned submarines according to scientists involved in artificial intelligence (AI) projects. These robotic submarines are expected to be...

No one has effective anti-hypersonic missile systems now and there is no anti-hypersonic missile system in development that looks to be very effective or near deployment. This means any major power...

Tiger Woods was leading the final day of the British Open with 9 holes to play. He then shot a double bogey. He is contending in major championships. Tiger Woods was also in contention at the 2018...

George Church talks about how success with adult cures for diseases would also enable cognitive enhancement, antiaging and transhumanism. There are many diseases where there are cognitive decline...

Shazam is a DC universe movie. It will be released April 2019. It seems like it will be fun movie.

Researchers have shown that a quantum computer does not need the arrow of time like a classical computer. In some cases, it’s as if the quantum computer doesn’t need to distinguish...