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Miniaturized FSO breakthrough unlocks high-speed wireless communication anywhere Researchers from Nanjing University (NJU) have developed a miniaturized FSO system that promises to revolutionize high-speed wireless communication. As reported in the Gold Open Access journal Advanced Photonics Nexus (APNexus), this remarkable system achieved an astonishing communication bandwidth of 9.16 gigabits per second (Gbps) over a 1-kilometer ... Read more

Molecular thermal motion has been studied but yet never been utilized as an energy source. In this work, researchers demonstrate that the energy of liquid molecular thermal motion can be converted into electrical energy by a novel harvesting device, the molecular thermal motion harvester (MTMH). The MTMH was made by using two ZnO-based nano-arrays and ... Read more

Russia's Air Force is getting wrecked in the Ukraine War. China's Air Force is mainly copies of the same Russian planes that are getting wrecked in the Ukraine. The US military has no interest in telling everyone how pathetic the Russian and Chinese Air Force is. Why? The US military wants to justify getting more ... Read more

It looks like the Israeli ground invasion has begun. Over 100 IDF Armored Vehicles, including a number of Caterpillar D9 Armored-Bulldozers, have reportedly entered the City of Jenin in the West Bank within the last hour. There are reports that the ground war has started in Gaza as well. HAPPENING NOW:It looks like the Israeli ... Read more

During and after World War 2, large areas of the world were conquered and successfully occupied for many years. However, conquering countries and territories has become very rare since 1970. Cambridge studies and other academic studies observe that territorial conquest declined sharply after 1945 and virtually subsided after 1975. However, using new and more comprehensive ... Read more

The Web3 educational platform provider Rise In, which partners with some of the biggest blockchains in the business, is expanding through the acquisition of ed-tech startup BlockBeam. The acquisition was announced as Rise In said it's seeking additional funding from the Open Campus Accelerator for Ed-Tech Founders. Through the acquisition, Rise In said it will ... Read more

There are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 32 countries plus Taiwan, with a combined capacity of about 390 GWe. In 2021 these provided 2653 TWh, about 10% of the world's electricity. About 60 power reactors are currently being constructed in 15 countries, notably China, India and Russia. There is 8-12 GW of new ... Read more

Today BP (British Petroleum) announced a deal in which BP pulse, BP's EV charging business, will acquire ultra-fast charging hardware units from Tesla for $100 million. The investment will facilitate the expansion of the bp pulse public network across the US, while also enabling support for EV fleet customers by deploying chargers at their private ... Read more

GM is canceling and delaying EV Factories and battery factories. GM was going to make several Ultium pouch battery factories with Korean battery maker LG Chem. The LG Chem factory will instead make 4680 cylindrical cell batteries which are the EV batteries used by Tesla. GM is delaying new electric SUV and trucks. GM is ... Read more

In the European Physical Journal Plus, Rafelski and two colleagues mathematically demonstrated that the existence of CUDOs (compact ultra dense objects) do not have dark matter, but are filled with unknown classes of chemical elements beyond the periodic table that are much denser than osmium. The mainstream view is that the density calculations for all ... Read more

Tesla Model 3 Highland deliveries have officially started in China today. Tesla Giga Shanghai is operating at full capacity, with a current Model 3 production rate of 1,200 units per day, most of which are exported to Europe. Model 3 Highland deliveries have officially started in China today. Every customer that gets this vehicle will ... Read more

A Navy Aircraft Carrier Strike Group is an operational formation composed of an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigate. The Air Force will be able to have less risk for the manned fighter planes while still have targets destroyed by large drone planes armed with ... Read more

The Aviationist site is claiming that there is a leaked photo of the secret backend of the B-21 Stealth Bomber. This had been kept secret to hide the design of the exhaust areas, which are made smoother to lower radar reflections. The B-21 Stealth bombers should have first test flights by the end of the ... Read more

In 2011, Nextbigfuture covered a peer reviewed paper that discussed the maximum wind power that could be taken before it acted like doubling atmospheric CO2. Basic circulation model indicates that increasing global wind power by 18-34 times from 1 Terawatt today will be like doubling atmospheric CO2. This would be counter to the stated goals ... Read more

SpaceX continues to grow the Starlink satellites in orbit with the deployment of another 23 satellites. NASA Spaceflight reports that SpaceX Starlink has over 5000 active satellites. Deployment of 23 @Starlink satellites confirmed - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 22, 2023 SpaceX Starlink has over 2.1 million customers globally. There are about 92,000 Starlink customers in Australia. ... Read more

As cryptocurrencies continue to grow as an emerging financial medium, blockchain businesses aim to provide an easy, accessible, and secure method of dealing with decentralized assets. Crypto wallets are now a common term to describe digital hot or cold storage accounts where users can keep their crypto and other digital assets safe. The crypto wallet ... Read more

Israel has delayed an expected invasion of Gaza for now so that the United States can rush missile defences to the region to protect U.S. troops there, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. and Israeli officials. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is a missile system that intercepts incoming ballistic missiles ... Read more

SpaceX loaded 10 million pounds of fuel for a successful flight rehearsal. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is read Starship and Super Heavy were loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant today in a flight-like rehearsal ahead of launch pic.twitter.com/VbBTdR5h9p - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 25, 2023 Vehicle is ready for the second test ... Read more

CATL's new Shenxing ultra-fast charging iron LFP battery (lower-cost lithium iron phosphate) will start mass production over the next two months and should have wide availability in Q1 of 2024. It is the world's first LFP battery to support 4C charging. C refers to the charging multiplier of the battery, and 4C means that the ... Read more

In May 2023, Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, displayed parts from a Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile, shot down by a Ukrainian air defence unit. U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles were used to thwart some or all of the attempted strikes. It happened 10 days after the military said it ... Read more

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Atom Computing announced it has created a 1,225-site atomic array, currently populated with 1,180 qubits, in its next-generation quantum computing platform. This is the first time a company has crossed the 1,000-qubit threshold for a universal gate-based system, planned for release next year. It marks an industry milestone toward fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of solving ... Read more

The DMV suspended cruise over accidents that indicate lack of safety and they are cited misrepresentation (aka lies) by the company about the level of safety. A Cruise's driverless cars struck a pedestrian in downtown San Francisco earlier this month. The incident involved a woman who was first hit by a human driver and then ... Read more

A 75 page report on retail crime and theft shows that the worse levels of retail crime and theft per person are in Pennsylvania, Washington and California. The economic impact of retail crime is profound. Retailers face increased costs for lost product, security, and labor, which lead to higher prices for consumers and ultimately, lower ... Read more

What happens if we slow down the wind around the world by a few percentage points? The Wind Energy industry wants everyone on the planet to find out. Global wind power passed 1 terawatt in 2022 and was 2160 terawatt hours. The global wind industry plans to more than quadruple this level of wind and ... Read more

The cryptocurrency industry is at a pivotal crossroads where the outcome of two events could dictate investor sentiment, at least in the United States, for years to come. On one hand, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, is defending himself against very serious and troubling allegations. On the other ... Read more

Capital One reports that US Stores lost an estimated $86.6 billion to retail theft in 2022 and projections indicate that in 2025, retail theft may cost stores over $115 billion. * Retailers lost as much as $94.5 billion in gross revenue to theft in 2021, up 4.07% year-over-year (YoY). * 58% of organized retail crime ... Read more

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sacks had a Twitter Space discuss how the continuing Russia, Ukraine war and the Hamas-Israel war could expand into larger wars and even something that looks a lot like World War 3.

Before Russia's war with Ukraine started about 2 years ago, Russia and Putin bragged about their new hypersonic missiles (Kinzhal) and its new SU-57 stealth fighter. The new weapons were supposed to be unstoppable. Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 21 October 2023. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of ... Read more

Researchers have modeled the dynamics of an equatorial explosion powered by a millisecond magnetar formed from the core collapse of a massive star. Magneto-centrifugally-driven, relativistic magnetar winds might be powerful enough to produce an ultra-relativistic blade (lamina") that successfully carves its way through the dense stellar interior of another star. They present high-resolution numerical special-relativistic ... Read more

The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on nuclear weapons testing. Wednesday's test used chemicals and radioisotopes to validate new predictive explosion models"\ that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing the Department of Energy. Russian lawmakers announced their ... Read more

NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston contracts for science and exploration missions to the South Pole of the moon in 2024. The commercial delivery is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and the Artemis program. IM-1 Mission The IM-1 mission launch is currently scheduled for a six-day period that opens November ... Read more

The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will help scientists search for water at the lunar South Pole, and will be the first in-situ resource utilization demonstration on the Moon. PRIME-1, which will be mounted to a lunar lander, is made up of two components - The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain ... Read more

NASA's Artemis lunar rover [called VIPER], the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, will explore the South Pole of the Moon in late 2024 on a 100-day mission. It will assess how much water is available and determine how we get and use the Moon's resources for future human space exploration. Above - An artist's concept ... Read more

State channels have emerged as one of the most important blockchain scaling technologies. They make it possible to reduce the data that's processed by the blockchain mainnet and can therefore facilitate much faster transaction speeds with instant finality. One of the major advantages of state channels is that they do not require any changes to ... Read more

There are six B-21 Raider stealth bombers currently completed or under construction. They will soon be starting flight tests. The B-21 Stealth Bomber is smaller than the B-2 Stealth Bomber and uses updated engines. It uses 4 decades of advancement in stealth materials since the B-2 was made. The stealth coatings are lighter versions of ... Read more

At one hour and 2 minutes of the Senate Space subcommittee meeting, This year, we're going to attempt to fly 100 flights," Bill Gerstenmaier, the vice president of build and flight reliability at SpaceX, said on Wednesday (Oct. 18) during a hearing of the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Space and Science. As we look to ... Read more

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is a Halley-type periodic comet that was first discovered by Jean-Louis Pons on July 12, 1812 and then independently rediscovered by William Robert Brooks in 1883. It has an orbital period of about 71.3 years. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks will make its return in 2024 and it is expected to reach its maximum brightness (potentially ... Read more

Over all the decades of Star Wars shows, who are the most iconic characters and relevant toys? Google Trends confirms it is Vader, Yoda, Jedi and for a while Mandalorian. Five years ago I wrote how Disney was failing at the basics of Star Wars merchandising. They were making movies and shows with very little ... Read more

Twitter user Greggertruck has reported the Tesla Cybertruck Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) specifications. GVWR is the weight of vehicles, passengers and payload. The Tesla Cybertruck seems like it will be able to handle 1000 to 1500 lbs more payload than the Ford F150 and the Rivian R1T. The GM Hummer is about double the ... Read more

Federal Reserve reports that mean net worth of the average American household, even adjusting for inflation, was $1.06 million last year. Compared with 2019, that figure was up 23%. IF inflation is at the level of the last three years then the median White family will be millionaires within 20 years. House and stock appreciation ... Read more

Using gut microbiota transplants, an international team of researchers has shown memory impairments in humans with Alzheimer's can be passed on to young, healthy rats. This confirms that gut bacteria are involved in causing Alzheimers. Specific bacteria in the gut are directly linked to cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients. Gut microbiota actually play a causal ... Read more

The B-21 Stealth Bomber is an updated version of the 40 year old B-2 bomber. The B-2 stealth bomber architecture and choices have proven to be enduring. The two updated engines in the B-21 are about 50-60% more powerful than the four engines in the B-2. They are 27,000 lbs of thrust vs 17,300 lbs ... Read more

If you were to sit in a room with Tomas Gorny, you'd never guess that he, an unassuming Polish emigre, sits atop a multibillion-dollar tech company. Nor would you likely guess that the company exists solely because Gorny believes so strongly in the transformative power of communications and customer experience. Nevertheless, that's an accurate description ... Read more

NASA has a catalog of many large comets and some of them are nearly as large or larger than the Chicxulub impactor (Dinosaur killer). Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle takes 133 years to orbit the Sun once. Swift-Tuttle last reached perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) in 1992 and will return again in 2125. Swift-Tuttle is a large ... Read more

SpaceX is cleaning up the concrete debris from the inaugural Starship launch! Personnel from the Fish & Wildlife Service and Texas Parks have been spotted onsite, likely overseeing the process. Felix Schlang and John Cargile of What About It report this information and provide photos. Fish & Wildlife approval is main obstacle to SpaceX getting ... Read more

2023 has been a relatively good year for the benchmark S&P 500 and growth stock-fueled Nasdaq Composite. The S&P 500 is widely viewed as the best benchmark of Wall Street's health. It's a market cap-weighted index comprised of 500 generally profitable, time-tested companies, a few of which have multiple classes of shares. All told, the ... Read more

US Senator Ted Cruz is putting pressure on the FAA and the other regulatory agencies (Fish and Wildlife) for delaying the SpaceX Starship launches and tests. SpaceX has been ready for weeks with the next Starship and Super Heavy booster and they repaired and built a new launch pad and water deluge protection.

Tachyum is a startup that will make Prodigy processors will enable hyperscale data centers that have 25% of the cost (4X lower cost) and will saving each hyperscale customer billions of dollars per year. First-generation Prodigy data centres will offer 3.3 EF of FP64, three times the performance of existing supercomputers, and also deliver around ... Read more

An huge volcanic comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, has violently exploded for the second time in four months and it is heading towards the Earth. It will not hit the Earth but we could see it in the night sky around April 21, 2024. It has a solid nucleus, with an estimated diameter of 18.6 miles (30 kilometers), ... Read more