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A China-led space science mission provide a tantalizing hint—but not firm evidence—for dark matter. Initial analysis of 1.5 million cosmic rays detections has shown a gap in the spectrum. Something...

Foresight Vision – Blockchains – Master Key to Unlock the Future – Panel Zooka Wilcox, Nathan Sharma (Singularity University), Mark Miller, Nick Kritikos on how to build better...

The Foresight vision weekend has its first panel Sonia Arrison, Aubrey De Grey, Max More, Kevin Perrott compare strategies to extend human healthspans – Snake oil vs the holy grail –...

Senate Republicans passed a $1.4 trillion tax bill. The Senate bill will have to be reconciled with house tax bill. This process is likely to be completed before christmas 2017. The Senate bill...

Space Heavy test launch next month will try to reach Mars with Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster. Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars...

18 months of effort has been enabled Oilprice.com to fulfill its name with free oil pricing information which would normally cost $30,000 to $50,000 per year. The only place to obtain a fairly...

The Foresight Institute Vision Weekend is a gathering dedicated to taking stock of the most compelling ideas of today, turn them into coherent visions for a better future, and get to work on them....

IBM, other large companies and startups are working on a global shift to decentralized identity that is built on blockchain technology. This would mean a person would control their digital identity...

True immortality means living forever. Lasting forever is very hard even for a civilization or humanity. What are things that put a species or civilization at risk of ending ? We can look at the...

Experts estimate about 30,000 people per year are dying alone in Japan and many have bodies discovered weeks later. Yoshinori Ishimi, who runs the Anshin Net service that cleans up afterwards,...

Alibaba Group on Friday launched a 10 billion yuan (US$1.51 billion) fund to support China’s ambitious poverty alleviation campaign. The Alibaba Poverty Relief Fund will have the $1.51 billion...

Many believe that Bitcoin with a price over $10,000 and a market valuation of $176 billion are unstoppable and will remain the dominant cryptocurrency. In the past there were other products and...

Brian Cox is correct that we are likely 15-20 years from having thousands of people living in space on near Earth asteroids, space stations, the moon and on Mars. However, he is talking about...

If every window in the United states was converted to transparent solar cell windows with 10% solar efficiency then researchers claim it would produce 80% of the electrical needs of the USA. Above...

Since the 1990s, the Colorado School of Mines has been a leading institution for the study of space resources and in situ resource utilization (ISRU). It has also become a destination for space...

Cryptography and radar were technologies that won World War 2. Broken codes let the allies know where major forces were being moved. So the US fleet could choose where to intercept the Japanese Navy...

Enlightened, Inc. is an award-winning Information Technology (IT) Consulting firm that helps clients solve complex business problems by leveraging technology. They work in the following areas:...

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a research arm of the US intelligence community is warning that if China is successful in developing superior Artificial Intelligence the balance of economic and military power will be shifted. The report said China is no longer in a position of technological inferiority relative to the United States but rather has become a true peer that may have the capability to overtake the United States in AI. China’s military thinkers anticipate the approach of a “singularity” on the battlefield, where humans can no longer keep pace with the speed of machine-led decisions

China is starting construction on a marine nuclear power platform which is designed to supply power for the country’s offshore oil drilling platforms and islands. The platforms have two modes – floating and submersible, and the first will be commissioned before 2020. The platforms will focus on solving power supply issues in the Xisha Islands and other islands in the South China Sea where infrastructure construction is underway. The nuclear reactor-related technology, when successfully reduced in size, could be later applied to the country’s military vessels, including nuclear-powered aircraft carriers or next generation nuclear submarines. The first floating ACPR50S nuclear

Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic missiles and Skif missiles hiding at the ocean bottom are part of the arsenal of the Russian Armed Forces according to ex-Chief of the Aerospace Force and Head of the...

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said China must stop exporting crude to North Korea, or “we can take the oil situation into our own hands.” “The dictator of North Korea made a...

Researchers from Google and the University of California Santa Barbara have taken an important step towards the goal of building a large-scale quantum computer. Writing in the journal Quantum Science...

The University of Maryland has created the largest quantum simulation using 53 trapped-ion qubits. It is the largest quantum simulation ever performed with high- efficiency single-shot measurements...

Here is a projection of the GDP in nominal and purchasing power parity terms for China, India and the USA out to 2030. On an exchange rate basis, China should pass the USA in the mid-2020s. India...

The Microwave circulator is a key part of many quantum computer implementations and researchers has been miniaturized by 1000 times. Making parts like these smaller will help enable quantum computers...

Bitcoin surged past $11,000 before dropping back on some profit taking. Bitcoin has had about 442,000 in daily volume so far. So about $4-5 billion in trading volume.

Ars Technica reported that Comcast dropped its no paid prioritization pledge from its net neutrality page. Comcast has drawn a distinction between “paid prioritization” and...

MIT has a 3D printer that makes parts 10 times faster than current 3D Printers. Objects that take around an hour to print on conventional systems are done in a matter of minutes. – it can print...

Korean scientists have developed a potential cure for baldness by growing new hair. * they discovered that a protein called CXXC5 acts as negative regulator of the Wnt signaling pathway inside of a...

The new permissions available thanks to the South Asia strategy mean the campaign is on the “path to a win,” the commander of NATO’s Resolute Support mission and U.S. forces in...

Avengers: Infinity War will be in theaters May 4, 2018. The trailer looks like it will deliver on the decade long buildup. The first Iron Man movie was released May 2, 2008. The Marvel movies since...

Give more Russian athletes have been banned for life. The International Olympic Committee will decide next week whether Russia can compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. As of Monday,...

Pacific Rim 2 – Uprising will be out March 23, 2018. Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and...

The German Aerospace Center, DLR, conducted an analysis of Falcon 9 first-stage reuse and concluded that SpaceX could begin to realize significant cost savings with as few as 20-25 launches per year,...

SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket will have a hold-down firing of its 27 Merlin main engines in December but the first test launch will not be until January, 2018.

China had 176 million surveillance cameras in operation last year and the speed of growth is expected to see that figure more than triple to reach 626 million by 2020. The UK is currently still...

The Winter Olympics will be in South Korea from Feb 9-25, 2018. Germany, Norway, USA and Canada are predicted to top the medal counts with about 30-35 each. Germany and Norway are expected to be the...

Morgan Stanley had a ten year forecast where the mid-range had China surpassing the World Bank High income level in 2027. At the end of 2016, the exchange was 6.92 CNY to one US dollar. Currently the...

The US Army is testing the Lockheed Martin FORTIS exoskeleton. Using independent actuators, motors and lightweight conformal structures, lithium ion battery powered FORTIS allows soldiers to carry...

Russia will not make large purchases of the fifth-generation Su-57 PAK-FA stealth fighter until after 2027. Russia will wait until improved engines are available. The Center for Naval Analyses senior...

North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile from South Pyongan Province early Wednesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said according to Yonhap News. The Pentagon said it believed...

SpaceX has raised another $100 million as part of its latest funding round and in August raised $349.9 million worth of shares. The latest SEC filing and information from Equidate show Spacex has a...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Bo Ewald who is D-Wave System’s President of International Business. Bo previously worked at Cray, Silicon Graphics and Los Alamos National Laboratory. How does Quantum Annealing work ? Imagine the solution to complex math and science problems are like a mountain landscape. The goal is to find the lowest valley. The 2000 qubit annealers start with a quantum fog covering the mountains then the annealing removes the fog and the qubits move to lowest valley based on the input parameter qubits. Dwave introduced Reverse Annealing recently, what is it and how does it work ? Reverse annealing lets

Bitcoin has gotten as high as $9929 today. It is hovering just shy of the $10,000 milestone.

This is a update on rail plans in China, ASEAN and across Russia to Europe. China is pushing ahead to more than double the current high speed rail network by 2030. There are some minor modifications...

As Saudi Arabia spins from crisis to crisis, U.S. oil hasn’t missed a beat. It’s stronger and more resilient than ever– and it has nothing to do with OPEC oil production cuts. In this war, U.S....

The August 17, Gravitational wave measurements of a Neutron star collision have opened a window onto nuclear astrophysics, neutron star demographics and physics and precise astronomical distances...

Researchers have found a way to get around the initial limitations of laser cooling, to cool atoms into Bose Einstein condensates using laser light from start to finish — a much faster,...

Researchers have created origami-inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using only air or water...

Samsung has created a graphene ball coating for use inside a regular li-ion battery cells, which will increase the overall capacity by up to 45 percent and speeding up charging by five times. Nature...