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Loss of Net Neutrality will mean more overcharging but technological reckoning is coming
The FCC will vote to get rid of Net Neutrality in December, 2017 and then there will be lawsuits to delay implementation. Past behavior of Comcast, AT&T and Verizon will mean that they will use...
Singularity University Partners with Airbus on Mixed Reality Training
In an effort to improve internal communications, Airbus recently partnered with Singularity University for a 6-month partnership. Together they were able to scope, design, engineer and test a...
China sold 66,000 electric cars in October over quadruple the US level
China had 66,000 electric cars sold in October, 2017. Globally 123,000 plug in electric cars were sold in September, 2017. October global sales are not yet tabulated. It seems likely that China has...
Tencent is first Asian company to top US$500 billion
Tencent, headed by Pony Ma Huateng, has seen its stock price soar nearly 120 per cent so far this year. The Shenzhen-based company reported third quarter net income rose 69 per cent on year, beating...
If Solar must increase 600% for all new power additions to be solar
China will install about 54 gigawatts of solar-power capacity in 2017 which is about 80% more than most forecasters had predicted at the beginning of 2017. “The amount of rooftop solar plants and...
China DF-41 ICBM to be deployed in 2018 is actually 8-13 years late
Around 2000, the US Department of Defense expected China to deploy the DF-41 missile between 2005 and 2010. The three-stage solid-fuel DF-41 is larger than the DF-31 missile, and has a range of up to...
How will it become more unfair without net neutrality ?
How will the pending FCC ditching of net neutrality make things worse ? FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon attorney who was appointed to the agency by President Donald Trump, has revealed plans...
Strict limitations on small drones needed because of our soft target problem
On average it takes about 50,000 bullets to kill one soldier. Soldier have protection and are working together to avoid getting killed. A bullet costs about 50 cents. It costs about $25000 to kill...
30+ years of US military bloat with some costs over ten times a reasonable level
War on the Rocks has an article about how the US is looking for home run technology that will provide long term military dominance. This is called the “Third Offset”. The First Offset was...
Dwave Systems has upgraded reverse annealing quantum system that is 150 times faster
D-Wave Systems Inc., the world’s leader in quantum computing systems and software, announced major upgrades coming to the D-Wave 2000QTM quantum computer in the first quarter of 2018. Two of the most...
Interstellar asteroid is unusual 400+ meter long cigar shape and probably highly metallic
For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories...
Foresight Institute Vision Weekend for Molecular nanotechology, AI and more
Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend, Dec 2-3, SF You may apply the code “THENEXTBIGFUTURE” for a 50% discount when purchasing your Vision Weekend ticket. (This is a Foresight member-only event, so...
Carnival of Space 536
1. Universe Today -Triton’s Arrival was Chaos for the Rest of Neptune’s Moons A recent study offers a possible explanation as to why Neptune’s system of satellites differs from those of other gas...
Weaponsized drones vs Anti-drone systems
The US had Predator drones and other large drones with sidewinder missiles and other missiles for quite a while. Smaller and cheaper quadcopter drones have had machine guns and grenade launchers...
Combat lasers versus Dielectric mirrors, ablative materials countermeasures
Combat lasers (30-60kw) heats the inside of an incoming mortar round and cause it to explode mid-air. Mortar rounds are moving at hundreds of miles per hour. Lasers pierce the outer skin of a drone,...
Form of your robotic destructor will not be Mini slaughterbot drones but a Waymo self driving car
UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell and the Future of Life Institute have created video titled “Slaughterbots” that depicts a future in which humans develop small, hand-sized drones that are...
Crude Slaughterbot projection of existing drone technologies
Berkeley University a video of Slaughterbot microdrones. It is a fictional visualization of an autonomous weapons scenario. The technology to achieve what is in the video is close. It would be...
Now another situation where Elon Musk World changing requires total commitment
Tesla built 180 Tesla model 3 cars in October for a total of 440 over the last few months. Telsa main goal to produce 5,000 vehicles per week at some point in December. Tesla was supposed to start...
Robotic convoying key to making Tesla trucks an economic home run
Canada’s Loblaw supermarkets is pre-ordering 25 Tesla electric trucks by placing a $5000 downpayment on each. They will also convert all of their fleet of 350 trucks to Tesla electric trucks by 2030. Tesla will not complete their first trucks until 2019. Platooning will be revolutionary in cost with energy efficiency and fewer jobs In Elon Musk’s presentation he indicated how the trucks by themselves would have 20% lower operating costs per mile than regular diesel trucks. However, by themselves for an unproven technological product the risk to adopt the electric semi truck for a commercial business would be too
7% GDP growth in Vietnam, Philippines start of a fintech-AI-reform powered long World Economic Boom
There could finally be return to a global economic boom (GDP growth over 4%) similar to the PC and internet boom of the 1990s and early 2000s. The Boom years of the 1960s and early 1970s at over 5%...
Space Expansion makes observable universe over triple the age of the universe
The limit on our observation universe is not the age of the universe and the speed of light which would be 13.799 billion light-years for two reasons. This article is selected material from the...
Laser arrays for propelling spaceships can also be used like nuclear cannon weapons
A powerful 70 gigawatt laser propulsion system that could accelerate an 100 kilogram object over 122 seconds to 2% of light speed (6000 kilometers per second) would also be able to fire kinetic...
Poorly Trained US Navy sailors have another accident
The USS Benfold sustained slight damage when a Japanese tug drifted into the guided-missile destroyer during a towing exercise off central Japan on Saturday, the U.S. Navy said. “No one was injured...
CRISPR muscle boosting gene therapy at few thousand dollars per year will go mainstream
Josiah Zayner is CEO of the biohacking-promoting startup The Odin. He has injected himself with performance enhancing gene therapy to grow larger muscles. He is selling a $20 myostatin inhibitor...
Using Spacex BFR to rapidly and affordably build interplanetary photonic railway by the 2030s
The Lubin UCSB laser propulsion system efforts have been funded by Breakthrough Starshot for $100 million. They are working working to demonstrate proof of concept for light-propelled nanocrafts. A large scale network of several 70 Gigawatt lasers on Earth, Earth Orbits, the moon Mars and asteroids is not as distant as one might think because of several converging systems and technological shortcuts. A laser power of 70GW (without photon recycling) can send a 100 kg craft can be propelled to 1AU in approximately 3 days achieving a speed of 0.4% the speed of light, and a 10,000 kg craft in
New underwater and aerial drones, sensors, small satellites mean exposed stealth planes and submarines
Stealth planes and submarines currently have the great advantage of being very hard to detect. For stealth planes that can be detected but when it is too late to react. Mass production of new underwater and aerial drones with new sensors and assistance from persistent monitoring from thousands to tens of thousands of small satellites means submarines and stealth fighters will be detectable. Teledyne Webb have designed a torpedo shaped drone submarine with a thermal engine which can extract energy from the temperature difference at different depths and continue indefinitely going at about 2 knots. Their current drone submarine can
US government should support Spacex and quickly develop moon bases
Spacex expects they will receive additional funding from the U.S. government for the BFR and Raptor engine. Spacex would still build the BFR even without government money. The US Air Force is...
China is two Europes and richest provinces catching up to middle income Europe
China (1.4 billion) has nearly twice the population of Europe (742 million). The populations of China’s 33 provinces is comparable but larger than the 44 countries of Europe. China will have an...
China wants to catch up to US rockets in 2020 and then get nuclear spaceships in 2045
China plans a fleet of nuclear carrier rockets and reusable hybrid-power carriers by the mid-2040s. They will be ready for regular, large scale interplanetary flights, and carrying out commercial...
Small and passively safe Nuclear reactors for NASA and military missions
This month NASA will start testing a tiny 1 kilowatt uranium fission reactor Stirling engines for use in possible future missions to Mars. The low power means very little of the uranium is burned up....
How going Full Frankenstein can be made somewhat acceptable
The highly controversial effort to transplant human bodies is not a scam. There must be millions of dollars of funding for these effort which have been ongoing for at least 5 years. Case why Sergio...
Successful Surgical transplant of dead human heads as trial run for live humans
The world’s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China bu Dr Xiaoping Ren according to Professor Sergio Canavero. Professor Sergio Canavero, chief of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, said the operation was carried out by a team led by Dr. Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto a monkey’s body. The 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels. China has 700 road deaths per day and eight times the US number of spinal injuries The WHO estimates that traffic accident claim about
Tesla Roadster 2020 will have 250+ mph top speed
Elon Musk also unveiled the new Tesla Roadster 2020. It will be the first standard production car with 250+ top speed characteristics. Development will start in 2020. It is the new Tesla electric car.
Aging Reversal like the good part of Benjamin Button
In an interview, George Church of Harvard, indicated that one of his company (Rejuvenate Bio) is working on reversing aging in dogs. They will have dog reverse aging trials by 2019. In March 2017,...
Tesla semi truck coming 2019 and when platooning almost half the cost per mile
Tesla electric semi-truck will begin production in 2019. * capable of hauling 80,000 pounds * 500-600 mile range between charging. 500 mile range with maximum cargo. * the truck gets the Enhanced...
Aging Reversal tests in dogs by 2019 and then in human tests by 2022 if that works
George Church is a Harvard Professor -serial entrepreneur of many multi-million dollar and even billion dollar biotech companies. This article (interview with George Church) originally appeared in...
Secret of cancer immunity in Elephants are multiple cancer protection genes
Bigger creatures should have more cancer risk. However, Elephants do not have high rates of cancer. They have some kind of protection. * elephants have 20 extra duplicates of p53, a tumor suppressor gene. * they also duplicate copies of the LIF gene, which encodes for leukemia inhibitory factor. Elephant cells commit suicide at the first hint of abnormality. Above – Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine Biorxiv – A zombie LIF gene in elephants is up-regulated by TP53 to induce apoptosis in response to DNA damage (27 page PDF)
Robotic Process Automation
UiPath Forward User Summit in New York, UiPath, a global leader in Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software, is announcing the launch of its free online advanced RPA learning program,
Intel Introduces Portfolio of Commercial 5G New Radio Modems with Intel® XMMTM 7660 Modem
Intel today announced substantial advances in its wireless product roadmap to accelerate the adoption of 5G. Highlights include the introduction of the Intel® XMMTM 8000 series, Intel’s first family...
Gene therapy infused into persons blood to correct liver enzymes
For the first time, researchers have infused a person’s blood with gene editing tools, aiming to treat his severe inherited disease (
Spacefab bootstrapping higher resolution space telescopes and then manufacturing in space at asteroids
Spacefab is currently building ther Waypoint space telescope with a 21 centimeter mirror. It is launching as a co-payload on a SpaceX rocket in 2019. This commercial telescope will have an image...
Slate reports that Bill Gates investment in Arizona land is a regular real estate investment
There was a flurry of speculation that Bill Gates was going to build a smart city in Arizona but it is almost certainly an ordinary real estate investment. Bill Gates uses Cascade Investment for...
Adam Crowl looks at details of sending Spacex BFR to the moon and Titan
Adam Crowl is going to write a journal article out his blog post analyzing the details and choices for sending the Spacex BFR to the moon and Titan. The article is at his Crowlspace website. The...
China is building a mach 40 wind tunnel to test hypersonic weapons
China is building the world’s fastest wind tunnel to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds of up to 12 kilometers per second (mach 40, 43200 kph, 26843 mph). A hypersonic vehicle flying at this speed...
Tesla reveal electric semi truck tomorrow
Tesla CEO Elon Musk will unveil an electric semi-truck tomorrow. Tesla Semi Truck unveil to be webcast live on Thursday at 8pm! This will blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate...
21st century peace from aging populations, debt, pension and medical costs
The US and China are both having worsening pension and medical costs which will vastly restrict the money available for military programs and wars. By 2040, China could have $10 to 100 trillion in...
Venezuela defaulted but leaders seem willing to rule at all costs
Venezuela has defaulted on two of its US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issues. S&P says that it expects Venezuela to default on other bond payments. This comes as absolutely no surprise. A...
Second closest Earth like exoplanet found 11 light years away at Ross128
A planet just 3.4 parsecs away either having liquid water or just shy of having some makes an extremely appealing characterization target. Stellar activity is probably the highest concern regarding the emergence of life, and even the survival of an atmosphere, on planets orbiting M dwarfs. Restricting the target list to quiet stars would disqualify Proxima Cen b and leave Ross 128 b as the best temperate planet known to date. This will certainly make this new temperate exoEarth a top target for characterization with the 39 meter extremely large telescope ELTs. The ELT is under construction and should be
Electric Car Boom On Hold As Key Ingredient Vanishes
Pay close attention to this cobalt chart. Demand could be about to surge from 2k tonnes today… to over 300k tonnes in 2030. That’s a 14,900% increase in demand. This cobalt chart is the only one you really need to understand. Simply: Cobalt is never going to be cheap again, thanks to the electric vehicle revolution and a massive supply chain bottleneck coming out of Africa. Not only will investors never find cheap cobalt again, but all indications suggest that cobalt prices could go even higher. Smart investors are now looking for the small cobalt miners whose share prices will
Amazon and China Belt and Road delay profits and building logistics
Amazon has posted just a handful of profitable quarters in its two-decade history and now has a $550 billion valuation. “Bezos’ ability to paint an extraordinary vision (i.e., ‘Earth’s Biggest...
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