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Not flowing water on Mars but flowing Sand
Dark features that were believed to be evidence for significant liquid water flowing on Mars have now been identified as granular flows, where sand and dust move rather than liquid water. The...
Facebook will use AI to speed up response to suicidal posts
Facebook will be using pattern recognition artificial intelligence to more quickly identify suicidal posts. * Using pattern recognition to detect posts or live videos where someone might be...
Japan approves two more nuclear reactors to restart
The governor of Japan’s Fukui Prefecture has today approved the restart of units 3 and 4 of Kansai Electric Power Company’s Ohi nuclear power plant. The utility reportedly plans to...
Toilets can save many lives and prevent rapes
Having toilets makes your everyday life better. Globally toilets and sanitation can save millions of lives through disease prevention. Toilets can also prevent rapes. According to a study, women in...
Almost 26000 US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and similar number of contractors
The U.S. has almost 26,000 troops deployed total in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, according to a new DOD report, far exceeding the Pentagon’s previously acknowledged troop levels overseas. The U.S....
US and China racing to deploy quantum ghost imaging in satellites for stealth plane tracking
China is developing a new type of spy satellite using ghost imaging technology which could spot stealth aircraft and see through smokescreens and camouflage. Above – A 2009 US Air Force...
Bitcoin between $9500 and 9800 and could easily surge past $10,000
Bitcoin is trading between $9500 and $9800 today and could easily surge past the $10,000 milestone.
More detailed analysis of the global warming fix that is 100 times cheaper and technically simple
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is an affordable and technically simple method of geoengineering. Using a balloons or drones lifting a hose into the stratosphere or modifying the fuel used in...
One hundred $100,000 grants for innovative poverty and education solutions
Over a three-year period, Misk Grand Challenges plans to launch new challenges every six months. They will be offering 100 young innovators across the world a grant of $100,000 to develop their...
Gene therapy to fix failing hearts works in pigs and will be tried in humans in 2018
Scientists have been able to reverse heart failure in pigs by delivering a new gene to the heart that makes it better at pumping blood and supplying the body with oxygen. The goal is to reverse heart...
Step to fully decoding the biology of blood vessel growth which will help fix major medical problems
Researchers have identified a signaling pathway that is essential for the growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels. This can be used to improve blood flow in ischemic tissue which will...
Bitcoin has another record as it passes $9400 and could reach $10,000 in days
Bitcoin has passed $9400 and has reached $9481. The combined market value for all cryptocurrencies is nearing $300 billion. Bitcoin’s market capitalization is now $157 billion.
Baidu, BAIC adding autopilot to electric cars in 2018, L3 self driving in 2019 and L4 in 2021
Beiqi, Baidu and Beiqi Automobile announced a strategic cooperation to make Level 4 self driving cars by 2021. They will create a comprehensive “AI + car” ecosystem in areas such as...
China going from 2% electric cars last month to 20% in 2025 to possibly 100% in 2030
China is requiring automakers (making over 30,000 cars per year) to make zero- and low-emission vehicles- of at least 10 percent starting in 2019, rising to 12 percent in 2020. Car makers that do not...
Bitcoin nears $9000 and Bitcoin plus Bitcoin Cash is at $10,450
Bitcoin is nearing $9000 at $8843. Bitcoin Cash is at $1572. The combined price of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash is at $10,451. Ethereum previously reached a high of $475 and is now at $460. * Bitcoin...
US Navy, Air Force are overworked so Russia and China ramped up activity to exploit the weakness
The US Navy was taking risks by scaling back crew size and piling work onto remaining sailors, who sometimes work more than 100 hours a week while deployed. The US Navy has been flexing its muscle...
GDP forecasts for India and ASEAN to 2030
India and ASEAN will both be passing Japan on a nominal exchange rate GDP basis around 2026. ASEAN will both be passing the combined PPP GDP of Germany, France and the UK around 2026. India will be...
Tens of billions on exploration and mines will secure lithium supplies
Varying estimates of lithium deposits could provide lithium for anything from a further 100 million cars — about 10 percent of the global auto fleet — to 10 billion or more. * estimate...
ASEAN and India focus of global growth for next decade
India will have more population than China in 2022 and ASEAN (Ten Southeast Asian countries) has more population than Europe. India and ASEAN will both have nominal GDP between France and Germany...
Adding blockchain angle causes a surge in stock prices
Blockchain-related stocks provide an alternative for investors who want in on the boom but are wary of buying cryptocurrencies directly. Companies that touch anything related to blockchain see a...
Transportable solar powered EV charging station
Envision Solar’s patented EV ARC™ is the worlds only transportable, solar powered EV charging station. Delivered to your location complete and ready to charge cars, it does not require any permits,...
Russia military official claims mach 8 Zircon hypersonic missile is operational
The head of Russia’s defense council Viktor Bondarev confirmed the Zircon cruise missile is now available in Russia’s arsenal while speaking on Tuesday. The weapon – which Russia boasts is...
$100 pocket size muon detector
Cosmich Watch is simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students and schools. Our detector is a self-contained apparatus that employs plastic scintillator as a detection medium and a silicon photomultiplier for light collection. These detectors can be battery powered and used in conjunction with the provided software to make interesting physics measurements. The total cost of each counter is approximately $100. Why is this better than conventional instructional muon detectors? It is fully self-contained: you don’t need a HV power supply, NIM modules, oscilloscopes… It is efficient. It draws less than 1 watt per detector. It is USB
Personal CRISPR genetic experimentation
Tristan Roberts is injecting himself with a previously an untested, experimental gene therapy. Several individuals have publicly attempted to augment themselves with genes that will inhibit cell...
Tissue engineering, replacement organs and regenerative medicine are getting friendlier regulations
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is rolling out a new “regulatory framework” aimed at encouraging and speeding legitimate development of regenerative therapies. The FDA intends to...
UK and China joining the USA in the supercarrier club
The United States Navy has 11 active supercarriers. Supercarrier is an unofficial descriptive term for the largest type of aircraft carrier, typically those displacing over 70,000 long tons (71,000...
China starting construction of supercarrier with electromagnetic launch but using older heavier fighter jets
The weight of China’s J15 fighter is one of the key reasons China will use an electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) on China’s third carrier. Construction of the third carrier is...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is worth over $100 billion
Jeff Bezos is worth $100.3 billion, as Amazon shares jumped more than 2 percent on optimism for Black Friday sales. Online purchases for the day are up 18.4 percent over last year. The $100 billion...
Shweeb, bike sharing and compact bike parking would be 20 times cheaper for an urban commuting network
BMW has proposed networks of elevated roads exclusively for e-bikes and scooters. The elevated road is simple and modular in design, economical to build as a result, and provides a fast, direct link...
Tesla revolutionary electric semi-truck half the price experts expected with utter domination by 2025
Tesla announces surprising low prices for the planned Semi Truck. Telsa claims it will have the lowest cost of ownership at half the cost when they are several are used to together to drive in a...
Over 25 years of the same failed US-North Korea policies
Declassified documents on White House discussions on North Korea policy show the plans and approach have remained the same. * They considered military action but decided against it (Dick Cheney was...
Head of Google talks AI, China, Robotics and Quantum computers
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, answered questions about the future of Artificial Intelligence and quantum computers and robots. Highlights from Schmidt – * The rise of China...
Spacex heading to 40 launches per year without including Spacex internet satellite launches
Spacenews has an interview with Spacex CEO Gwynne Shotwell. Here are the highlights. * Spacex will increase 2018 launches by 50% to up to 30 launches over 2017 and then go to 30-40 launches per year....
Tom Baker returns to Dr Who to complete lost episode
The Fourth Dr Who, Tom Baker, returns to film new footage to complete Shada, an episode that was abandoned due to a BBC strike. Baker last appeared as the Doctor in 1981, when the character...
China considering exporting its J-20 stealth fighter and other high-end military gear
China may be considering sharing its J-20 fifth generation stealth fighter jet technologies with allies such as Pakistan. Sino-Indian ties following a stiff face-off since June on the Doklam Plateau,...
China is grabbing the solar battery EV future and transition could happen before 2030
In March, 2017, Elon Musk made a bet guaranteeing the installation of 100+ MWH battery for Australia within 100 days of signing, or he would supply it for free. This would have cost Elon Musk over...
ASEAN surprised with stronger GDP growth in 2017 and trying to sustain
The majors ASEAN economies (Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand) had solid to great economic growth in 2017. October projection of world growth by the world bank increased...
Singapore trying to be the first to put its currency on the blockchain
Deloitte and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched Project Ubin: to the put the Singapore dollar onto a Distributed Ledger (blockchain). The project started in 2016. MAS and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) announced on 5 October 2017 that the consortium which they are leading had successfully developed software prototypes of three different models for decentralized inter-bank payment and settlements with liquidity savings mechanisms. The consortium includes 11 financial institutions and five technology partners. The participating financial institutions are Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Credit Suisse, DBS Bank Ltd, HSBC Limited, J.P. Morgan, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial
Nextbigfuture will be switching comments back to Solid Opinion
Solid Opinion has improved the response time of their system. Once some reintegration work is done, Nextbigfuture will switch the comment system back. It was previously believed that WordPress...
At least 16 companies developing Deep Learning chips
There are many established and startup companies developing deep learning chips. Google and Wave Computing have working silicon and are conducting customer trials. * Wave Computing says its 3U deep...
Graphcore AI chips are 100X times faster
AI chip Startup Graphcore IPU systems are designed to lower the cost of accelerating AI applicationsA in cloud and enterprise datacenters to increase the performance of both training and inference by...
Japan launching quantum computer prototype likely based on quantum dot and photonics
Japan has unveiled its first quantum computer prototype, amid a global race to build ever-more powerful machines with faster speeds and larger brute force that are key towards realizing the full...
Robotic device grips part of the heart to assist with pumping from outside the heart
Researchers have made external actuators to help squeeze blood through the heart’s own chamber. This means the patient would need minimal use of anticoagulants. Running heart through pumps...
Biodegradable Magnetic microrobots and nanorobots for diagnosing disease and delivering medicine
A team of scientists have created a new generation of tiny remote controlled nanorobots which could one day allow doctors to diagnose disease and deliver drugs from within the human body. The team...
World’s fastest gamer beats 30,000 to win Formula 1 simulator contest
Rudy van Buren, a 25-year-old sales manager from Lelystad in the Netherlands, has beaten more than 30,000 contestants to be crowned the World’s Fastest Gamer – the McLaren Formula 1 team’s...
Variable compression engine will increase fuel efficiency by 27%
The 2019 Infiniti QX50 crossover arrives in 2018 and it will be powered by a 2.0-liter variable compression turbocharged four-cylinder engine. It will change the distance the pistons travel in their...
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Video on the first Interstellar Object
Scientists were surprised and delighted to detect –for the first time– an interstellar asteroid passing through our solar system. Additional observations brought more surprises: the...
Spacex dedicated tanker versions of BFS for orbital refueling business
SpaceX indicated that will have orbital refueling in Elon Musks IAC 2017 presentation. Tanker versions of the BFS (top half of the BFR) will enable an orbital refueling business. Spacex may also...
Uber paid a $100,000 ransom to hackers who stole data on 57 million customers in 2016
Uber lost data on 50 million riders and 7 million drivers in 2016 and paid ransom and did not tell users. Compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone...
High Energy Laser and RF weapon roadmap by early 2018
Pentagon directed energy plan was delivered internally in the fall of 2017 and will be fully completed by early 2018. This will be an update to a roadmap made in 2015. They will be creating a...
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