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There is a lot of talk about a hypersonic weapons arms race to create missiles and then a decade later hypersonic drones and then a decade after that hypersonic spy planes and fighter planes. It will...

Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are working together to launch a B330 expandable module on ULA’s Vulcan launch vehicle. The launch would place a B330 outfitted module in Low Lunar...

A Japanese space probe data confirmed that an enormous cavern stretching for about 50 kilometers exists beneath the moon’s surface, offering a possible protected site for future lunar bases, the...

Michael J. Green and Matthew Kroenig put forward a plan that uses US economic and superior world position to put constant pressure on North Korea. 1. simultaneously refuse to recognize North Korea’s...

Israel Aerospace Industries is course correction artillery fuzes. The fuze, called TopGun, is an add-on fuze mounted on 155mm shells. It allows guiding the shell to its a pre-defined coordinate after...

CapitalG — Alphabet’s growth investment fund — is leading a $1 billion financing round in Lyft. This brings Lyft’s post-money valuation to $11 billion. 2017 has been an important year for the Lyft...

Researchers have created engineered proteins that lowered body weight, bloodstream insulin, and cholesterol levels in obese mice, rats, and primates. The delivery of the GDF15 gene reduced body...

The City of Stockton went bankrupt in 2012 and it now has a budget of $626 million. A random sample of the 300,000 residents of Stockton, a port city in California’s Central Valley, will get $500 per month ($6,000 a year) with no strings attached. It’s the latest test of the basic income policy. It is funded from philanthropy. The first $1 million in funding comes from the Economic Security Project, a pro-basic income advocacy and research group co-chaired by Facebook co-founder and former New Republic publisher Chris Hughes and activists Natalie Foster and Dorian Warren; Hughes provided the group’s

AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a world champion in the game of Go. The tree search in AlphaGo evaluated positions and selected moves using deep neural networks. These neural networks were...

A RAND study requested by the US NAvy looked at different american aircraft carrier options and concludes that the US Navy is correct with its current $13 billion a piece Gerald Ford Supercarriers....

Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is to build a digital city in Toronto. It will have fast wi-fi, many sensors, sustainable energy and autonomous cars. We couldn't...

700 million people in China watched NBA programming on TV last season. The NBA now has 200 employees in China. Point to Point rockets from Spacex will make it travel between Asia and America in under...

At 23 minutes of this video. SSI SA Dr. Heidi Fearn explains how just scaling power and size causes problems. (heat, arcing and other problems). For Mach effect propellentless propulsion it will be...

The Mach-Effect thruster is a propellantless propulsion concept that has been in development by J.F. Woodward for more than two decades. It consists of a piezo stack that produces mass fluctuations,...

Spacex’s Elon Musk talked about flying to different points on the Earth in his BFR rocket presentation. Spacex would be able to transport people at 18,000 mph and make 5000 miles trips in 20 minutes (regularly 10 hours) and 8000-9000 miles trips in 30 minutes (regularly 12-14 hours) and 10,000-11,000 mile trips in 40 minutes (18 hours or more with connections). In 2018, there will be about 4 billion airline passengers. About 2% fly first class on international routes. This is about 80 million first class seat flights per year. Flights are growing at 2-4% per year. If Spacex were

USA Eagle Prime is taking on Japan’s Suidobashi megabot. MegaBots, Inc (USA) and Suidobashi Heavy Industry (Japan) have spent the past two years preparing real-life Giant Fighting Robots for a...

Boron nitride nanotubes could be used to make hypersonic planes. NASA has one of the few facilities in the world able to produce quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes BNNTs. Carbon nanotubes can stay...

Price ranges for different TV sizes are as follows 55 inch $400-1000 65 inch about $1780 but range from $1200 to $3000 75 inch about $3150 but range from $2500 to 5000 80-100 inch about $8000 to...

The observation is being made that the war on ISIS united many factions in the middle east. This is similar to how the Cold war between the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states)...

Just a few years ago, the consensus on a timeline to large-scale, reliable quantum computers was 20 years to never. This was in spite of the success that DWave systems had with adiabatic quantum...

In Elon Musk’s video announcement of the Spacex BFR he indicated that it would be lower cost to launch than the Spacex Falcon 1. Above was the graphic which showed the Spacex BFR at lower cost...

Pieces weighing up to 200 pounds of China’s space station could make it to the surface when out-of-control 8.5-tonne laboratory breaks apart in the atmosphere. An 8.5-tonne Chinese space...

IBM today announced a new blockchain banking solution that will help financial institutions address the processes of universal cross-border payments, designed to reduce the settlement time and lower...

The Black Panther movie is in theaters February 16, 2018.

China is planning to invest tens of billions of dollars in the next few years to master artificial intelligence. A large part of Alibaba’s planned $15 billion per year in research and another...

Dubai police have announced they will soon have officers buzzing around the skies on Star Wars-style electric hoverbikes capable of speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour. The Hoversurf Scorpion was...

Elon Musk answered questions about the Spacex BFR, Raptor Engine, Mars colonization and other space related topics. Here are Elon Musks answers to questions. * Elon on space radiation – Ambient...

Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis presented an Abundance 360 webinar on Friday, October 13 on mind-boggling predictions and transformative (even “dangerous”) ideas. They discussed * Radical life...

President Vladimir Putin has officially stated that Russia will issue its own ‘CryptoRuble’ at a closed door meeting in Moscow, according to local russian news sources (via Cointelegraph). The news...

The Zilliqa team expanded their network to 3,600 nodes (6 shards), and they observed a peak throughput of 2,488 transactions per second. Zilliqa is a blockchain developed by National University of...

In 2016, China developed its first 20,000-watt fiber laser, which will help to reduce the cost of such machines by 40 percent. Yan Dapeng, with the Fourth Research Institute of China Aerospace...

The full virtual reality demo for Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab is below. It was captured on the Oculus Rift, this free demo releases on October 19th. Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab does not have good...

Early Saturday morning Oct 07, 2017, Spike Aerospace successfully test flew the subsonic subscale SX-1.2 demonstrator aircraft for the first time. The jet is an early unmanned prototype of the...

Yesterday, nearly 11,000 firefighters beat back the flames and made good progress towards the containment of now 15 large wildfires across California. 217,566 acres have burned in the current 15...

Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara, Directed Energy for Interstellar Study Starting at 26 minutes of this video. They are making progress with laser locking over kilometer distances. They are making 2 gram starchip prototypes. they are looking at making ultrathin starchips that would be a meter across but very lightweight. Arxiv – A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight Lubin’s designs would enable wafersats to reach 25% of lightspeed and a 100 ton spaceship to reach 1000 kilometers per second.

David Kirtley, MSNW, LLC, Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters The Magnetoshell deploys a simple dipole magnetic field containing a magnetized plasma. It is...

A 100 meter to 150 meter solar array that is attuned to the lithium ion will be about 70% efficient. JPL is working on the gridded lithium ion arrays to achieve 60,000 ISP. There is work on 60 meter...

I tried out the Alienwheels hoverboard. ($298) I was able to take about twenty minutes to get standing and balanced on the board and fairly comfortable with basic control. Control is with shifting...

Bitcoin is at $5750 and some exchanges had bitcoin at $5800. Bitcoin has an overall market valuation of $95 billion. Investors believe the momentum is warranted given the results of the last hard...

More than 10,000 firefighters are now battling 16 large wildfires that have burned more than 330 square miles (214,000 acres) of California neighborhoods, forests and businesses since Sunday, with...

The X3 thruster was designed by researchers at the University of Michigan in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force. It is a Hall thruster — a system that propels spacecraft by accelerating a...

China’s state news agency Xinhua reported last month that a Chinese ship had conducted a successful test of a trading route along the Arctic Northwest Passage. The announcement from Beijing confused...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has been the largest and strongest R and D industry sector. Artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, machine learning, and deep learning have...

The primary challenge with microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) involved the spin torque oscillator (STO)— and those issues have now been solved thanks to Western Digitals innovative STO...

Almost 40% of american adults are obese. 42.8% of those aged 40–59 (42.8%) 35.7% of those aged 20–39 (35.7%). 41.0% of those aged 60 and over (41.0%) Above picture – Prevalence of obesity among...

Watch the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi and see it in theaters December 15.

A cryptocurrnecy hard fork is a software upgrade that introduces a new rule to the network that isn’t compatible with the older software. You can think of a hard fork as an expansion of the...

Adam Jonas, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, values Spacex at about $46 billion, which is on par with Tesla ($60 billion). His range is pretty wide, though, and spans between $5 billion and $120...

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The nuclear-powered submarine. Ultra-advanced stealth bombers and fighters. These all represent the most lethal, sophisticated and expensive weapons in the US...