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In 1999, Bill Gates net worth surpassed $100 billion. Bill Gates has since given tens of billions to charity to help cure Malaria in Africa and for other anti-poverty causes. Warren Buffet would also...

Brian Wilcox of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology came to the conclusion that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or...

Fifteen years ago, if you added up the gross domestic product of all China’s 31 provinces, you’d get a number more than 10 per cent larger than the official national total. By around 2019, the...

A Chinese television propaganda piece that the english title claims to describe the EMdrive propellentless drive project. It appears they have or will very soon attempt to put the EMdrive into space...

The Metropolis (Ethereum 3.0) hardfork upgrade is scheduled for late September. It will be the first upgrade since Homestead (Ethereum 2.0) from early 2016. Innovations are known for Metropolis:...

GPS data shows the Harvey flood was so large it flexed Earth’s crust and pushed Houston down by ~2 centimeters. Information was tweeted out by Chris Milner of NASA jet propulsion laboratory....

Nextbigfuture interviewed Alex Lidow, CEO of EPC. EPC is a leader in Gallium Nitride electronics and now is leading the charge to a new age of wireless power. EPC is licensing gallium nitride...

Blockchain is coming to healthcare and medical fields. There are over a thousand blockchain startups, various open source implementations. There are dozens of blockchain companies targeting healthcare applications. There different use blockchain healthcare use cases. Blockchain for electronic medical records. Blockchain for Medicaid applicants. Blockchain for payments. Blockchain to enhance secure mobile and remote distribution system innovations. Blockchain for pharmacy tracking and tracing. Here are some interesting healthcare related blockchain companies. 1. MedRec is a system that manages medical records through the Ethereum blockchain. It gives users access to census-level data of the medical records, making it both a clinical

Instapundit relayed information from Alex Pournelle that Science Fiction author Jerry Pournelle has died. Wikipedia also confirms the death of Jerry Pournelle. Jerry Pournelle wrote online at Chaos...

Putin addressed 16000 Russian Schools with the following statement: “Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humankind,” he said, via live video beamed to 16,000 selected schools. “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” There is an intensifying race among Russia, China, and the US to accumulate military power based on artificial intelligence. All three countries have proclaimed intelligent machines as vital to the future of their national security. Technologies such as software that can sift intelligence material or autonomous drones and ground vehicles are seen as ways

U.S. Army trucks brought four more THAAD anti-missile launchers onto a former golf course in South Korea. On Wednesday, the South Korean Defense Ministry gave approval to the placement of six...

Blockchain data storage network Filecoin has officially completed its initial coin offering (ICO), raising more than $257 million over a month of activity. The internet is in the middle of a revolution: centralized proprietary services are being replaced with decentralized open ones; trusted parties replaced with verifiable computation; brittle location addresses replaced with resilient content addresses; inefficient monolithic services replaced with peer-to-peer algorithmic markets. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchain networks have proven the utility of decentralized transaction ledgers. These public ledgers process sophisticated smart contract applications and transact crypto-assets worth tens of billions of dollars. These systems are the first

The U.S. Army announced on Wednesday that it is rapidly procuring more than 1,000 shoulder-fired 84mm recoilless rifles. (Carl-Gustaf M4, known as the M3E1 in the United States) The titanium...

The Carnival of Space 525 is up at Everyday Spacer Universe Today – Exoplanet-Hunters Detect Two New “Warm Jupiters” As of August 1st, 2017, a total of 3,639 exoplanets have been discovered in...

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a powerful tool that rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery, delivering results in...

A Calgary engineer thinks an invention he stumbled upon in the laboratory could transform the way Alberta gets its heavy oil to market. Ian Gates was researching ways to upgrade bitumen when he and...

Deutsche Bank’s Rod Lache believes Tesla semi truck could disrupt the trucking market. Morgan Stanley’s Ravi Shanker, Adam Jonas and team says the Tesla truck could be “the biggest...

The Russian Ground Forces are expected to receive up to 100 third-generation T-14 Armata main battle tanks (MBT), by 2020 and not the old plan for 2500 new tanks by 2020. The T-14, an armored vehicle...

Every day, 3800 robotic floats bob up and down, tracking temperatures in the world’s oceans, which sop up an estimated 90% of the heat from global warming. In the course of a decade, the...

China Aerospace Science and Industrial Corporation (CASIC) has said it will build a supersonic superconducting magnetic levitation (maglev) tansportation system. Nextbigfuture covered the CASIC...

There are many analysis of potential conflict with North Korea. In general the expert opinion is that North Korea would be mostly defeated within 4 to 8 weeks. Assumptions * China does not intervene on the side of North Korea Factors * North Korea will likely try to fully utilize chemical and biological weapons * North Korea will likely not be able to use its few nuclear weapons * North Korea has extensive tunnels and about 100,000 committed troops for a long mess after the main conflict With conventional artillery, tanks and forces, North Korea could likely inflict 100,000 to

Nature Communications – Silicon quantum processor with robust long-distance qubit couplings Practical quantum computers require a large network of highly coherent qubits, interconnected in a...

The Bionic Lens is a dynamic lens that replaces the natural lens inside the eye via one of the most common and successful procedures in medicine – cataract surgery. Once there, the lens...

The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on Mars. “Because borates may play an important role in making RNA—one of the building blocks of...

Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, says the US Navy could get closer to the 350 ship target faster by counting unmanned vessels with capabilities similar to a manned ship— a new...

Lilium raised $90 million (Tencent led the round) which will be used for the development of the five-seat Lilium Jet that will fly commercially. Lilium will grow their current team of more than 70....

India’s official statisticians released the real 2017Q2 GDP growth number last week—5.7% over the equivalent quarter of the previous year. This was below the 6.5% consensus estimate of...

Russia has new 25-ton Armata based platform for new armored personnel carriers. They are known as Kurganets and be replacing BMP and BMD and MT-LB and other types of tracked armored platforms...

Nvidia, graphic processing unit (GPU) maker, was announced as the smartest among all public and private companies by MIT because of its business savvy and innovative technologies. Nvidia is the...

Researchers have built a quantum memory device that is a millionth times smaller than previsous devices. It is small enough to install on a chip. This crystal is the first quantum memory device of...

Oracle joined the Hyperledger consortium because of the consortium’s approach to blockchain using open source collaboration, modular architecture, horizontal/cross-industry technology support, and support for enterprise needs. Oracle looks forward to participating in Hyperledger for the benefit of our global customer base and the market at large. The Hyperledger project is an open source initiative that aims to advance the use of Blockchain technology for the recording and verification of transactions. The technology is a shared, transparent, and decentralized system that is peer-to-peer in nature. Using Hyperledger Fabric as a starting pointA, Oracle plans to make a Blockchain Cloud Service available,

A decentralized online quantum cash system, called qBitcoin, is given. Researchers designed a system which has great benefits of quantization in the following sense.A Firstly, quantum teleportation...

SpaceX has completed testing of all three first-stage cores on its Falcon Heavy rocket. The Spacex Falcon Heavy is scheduled for an early November launch. One of the boosters used in the Falcon Heavy...

New solar water coolers may sharply lower the cost of industrial-scale air conditioning and refrigeration. The new water coolers are panels that sit atop a roof, and they’re made of three components....

China’s central bank has declared that initial coin offerings are illegal and should be halted immediately. More than $1.8 billion has been raised through the 135 initial coin offerings listed...

Some researchers want to know why quantum mechanics has the form it does, and they are engaged in an ambitious program to find out. It is called quantum reconstruction, and it amounts to trying to...

China and the USA will have increased their combined share of world nominal GDP over the next 15 years. Japan in third place will drop to about one fourth the nominal GDP of the second place country...

Motorized molecules driven by light have been used to drill holes in the membranes of individual cells, including cancerous ones. The technique shows promise for either bringing therapeutic agents...

For 20 years the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has supplied independent economic forecasting and analysis to hundreds of private firms and public organisations. They have annual forecasts of world GDP and GDP per capita. In 2016, CEBR forecasts : India is now starting to catch up with China and will eventually overtake in the second half of the century. Korea is overtaking most of the European countries and will be one of the world’s top 5 economies at some point in the 2030s. Nextbigfuture notes that a lot has to go right for India to achieve that

Each acre in the greenhouse yields as much lettuce as 10 outdoor acres and cuts the need for chemicals by 97 percent. The Netherlands is a small, densely populated country, with more than 1,300...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s campaign against inflated economic data is starting to catch on, with Liaoning Province reporting a plunge in nominal gross domestic product that likely reflects...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from Shinshu University (Japan) and the director of Penn State’s ATOMIC Center, has developed a graphene-based coating for desalination...

IBM, Georgia Tech and DARPA developed a new cooling technology to overcome the thermal barrier of stacking chips, an on-chip solution that could help to even cool off entire datacenters. The...

Hours after the North’s sixth nuclear detonation, an announcer on its official Korean Central Television declared: “The hydrogen bomb test was a perfect success.” Earlier monitors measured a...

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation announced plans on Wednesday to research a futuristic train network that would first run at 1,000km per hour between cities, eventually developing to...

The UK submarine force is also being modernized. The Royal Navy maintains a fleet of ten nuclear-powered submarines, currently comprised of three types. The four Vanguard Class Strategic Ballistic...

Last Saturday, a telescope in a remote area of West Virginia picked up those 15 bright radio burst signals from a distant corner of the universe, and yesterday, a group of astronomers and...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Iain Kerr at the Singularity University Global Summit. Iain Kerr is with the Ocean Alliance. Ocean Alliance has been pioneering methods of studying and learning about the...