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NASA has switched to the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the first two pieces of the Gateway lunar outpost in 2024. This will be a $331 million contract and will use a modified version of the Falcon...

Elon Musk owns 22.4% of Tesla and 54% of SpaceX. SpaceX is now worth about $60 billion and Tesla is $783 billion. Elon is worth $205 billion from Tesla and SpaceX. Elon also owns most of the Boring...

Apple has partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to develop advanced micro OLED display technology. Micro OLED will be useful for augmented reality devices. The new displays will be...

This is an update on the projection that the US will reach 500,000 cumulative COVID deaths according to the Worldometer tracking. Worldometers reporting about 489,571 deaths on February 11, 2021....

The text of the GREEN act renewable energy bill was released. If it was passed in its current form it would subsidize Tesla for * 400,000 cars at $7000 per car * Battery energy storage at 30% of cost...

Ark Invest has 15 big ideas for 2021 and these are their main investment themes. Ark Invest now has funds with $50 billion in assets. 1. Deep Learning. From $2 trillion in market cap today to $30...

The SpaceX Starship SN10 has all three of its Raptor engines installed. The Starship SN11 is in the high bay and has had its nosecone installed. SN11 nosecone stacking in the high bay....

A new microscope uses a combination of hardware and software-based adaptive optics to reconstruct object image. Non-invasive microscopic techniques such as optical coherence microscopy and two-photon...

Using a silicon photonic chip platform, Volker J. Sorger and other researchers at the George Washington University and University of California, Los Angeles, have created an all optical...

The CEA-Leti-based team’s uses machine learning on RRAM to get 100,000 times less energy usage. They use randomness instead of trying to prevent it. This allows in-situ learning to be realized...

Tesla’s 10K filing reveals they have invested into bitcoin and have a position valued at about $1.5 billion. Bitcoin and Tesla are up today on the news. Tesla was up 2% to $870 per share....

The US currently records 474,915 deaths from COVID and the seven day average or daily deaths is over 3000 per day. This will likely update to about 476,000 deaths by the end of the day Feb 7, 2021....

Simple, microscopic robots, remotely driven by magnetic fields, can use capillary forces to manipulate objects floating at an oil-water interface. The micro-robots in the Penn team’s study are thin...

The reality of SpaceX mass production rockets is unfolding before our eyes. SpaceX Starships will cost over ten times less than current cargo planes, have over twice the range and will be thirty...

Elon Musk is taking some Twitter suggestions to light all three engines on the Starship landing. Two Starship prototypes (SN8 and SN9) have crashed on landing. By default, engine with least lever arm...

The United States will likely extend the May 1 deadline for pulling all its troops from Afghanistan. A bipartisan report to Congress said on Wednesday recommends making force cuts contingent on...

I, Brian Wang, was interviewed for the FutureX podcast. I discussed the Future of Food. Topics discussed: Is Hemp the new Soy? Hemp can be an important protein source. However, soy is important for...

Dr James Knight and Prof Thomas Nowotny from the University of Sussex’s School of Engineering and Informatics used the latest Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to give a single desktop PC the...

Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon and become Executive Chair of the Amazon Board in 2021 third quarter. Andy Jassy will become CEO. Bezos will focus on new products and early initiatives. As...

This is a link to the Reddit Wallstreetbets article that indicates it is Hedgefunds pushing silver and not Wallstreetbets. By buying silver/going long on silver, you would be directly putting money...

SpaceX SN9 Starship matched the SpaceX SN9 Starship flight and also matches the crash on the final attempt at landing. There still seems to be difficulty getting the header tank issues resolved. They...

FuelGems uses carbon-based nanoparticles as a fuel additive to make gasoline and diesel engines more efficient and cleaner-burning. Nextbigfuture interviewed FuelGems CEO Kirill Gichunts. Kirill was...

Elon Musk was interviewed about the future of humanity on Clubhouse. Here are some highlights: * Neuralink has a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull who can play video games using his mind...

Youtube Channel Boring Revolution has detailed tracking of all current and potential Boring Company projects. There were the small tunnels in Los Angeles and the expanding Las Vegas projects. The Las...

Exceed.AI is an intelligent AI assistant that engages your potential customers in conversations over email, chat, website and even SMS. It seamlessly integrates into your existing systems, whether...

Actress Mira Furlan played the role of Ambassador Delenn on the science fiction TV show Babylon 5. She died from complications from West Nile Virus at the age of 65. Babylon 5 ran from 1994-1999. 74...

Tesla will work with Samsung to develop a 5nm-class semiconductor for the HW4 version of the Tesla Full Self Driving Chip. Samsung is supplying 14nm chips to Tesla for the HW3 version of FSD. The...

SpaceX SN9 Starship is targeting a Monday launch. The SN9 and SN10 prototypes are both complete and are on launch pads. Elon Musk plans to drill for natural gas in Texas to supply methane for the...

Clinical trial data on two COVID-19 vaccines are less protective versus the South Africa coronavirus variant. Novavax reported midstage trial results on Thursday that showed its vaccine was 50%...

The Space Launch System (SLS) will not have a first flight until 2022 or later after it had an unsuccessful full engine hold down test. The SLS program was started in 2010 by President Obama and...

Tesla has the Plaid verson of Model S and X and they have Plaid Plus Model S as well. They have updated the interior with new design and new screens. Tesla missed on earnings. Tesla doubled its...

The two-dose regimen of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at the 100 µg dose is expected to be protective against emerging strains detected to date. Moderna will test an additional booster dose of its...

CATL is the largest lithium-ion battery supplier in the world and they plan to increase production by four times to 263 GWh in 2023. CATL Chairman Zeng Yuqun said global lithium battery market demand...

CBAK Energy Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAT), a lithium-ion battery manufacturer and electric energy solution provider, signed a three-year strategic agreement with Anhui Jianghuai Motors Group Co.,...

SpaceX says it plans to increase Starlink’s download speeds from ~100 Mbps currently to 10 Gbps in the future. SpaceX says it plans to increase Starlink's download speeds from ~100 Mbps...

Falcon 9 launches 143 spacecraft to orbit — the most ever deployed on a single mission — completing SpaceX’s first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission. Falcon 9 launches 143 spacecraft to...

The SN9 prototype of the SpaceX Starship should be flying today. The SN8 was successful except for its landing. Hopefully, the SN9 will complete everything including a safe landing. UPDATE: 3 minutes...

COVID variants could get around the human immune response. “Immune escape” could mean more people who have had COVID-19 could get reinfection and current vaccines may need an update. UK Variant...

How different can things get by 2100? Prediction site Metaculus attempts to ponder what a fundamental change to the human condition would be like. Nick Bostrom, philosopher and Founding Director of...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s Senior Director of Automotive. Nio and Nvidia had announced the use of the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for NIO’s new...

MOTS-c is one of several recently identified hormones known to mimic the effects of exercise. However, MOTS-c is unique because it is encoded in the small genome of mitochondria rather than the...

RethinkX proposes and predicts a 100% SWB (solar wind and battery for the USA) system by 2030 for less than $2 trillion. This would have an average cost of electricity nationwide of under 3 cents per...

It is very difficult to have full economic development without about 5000-kilowatt hours per capita for electricity. The UK has about per capita electricity generation for a developed nation at about...

In Mid-October, 2020 (when the US had 215000 COVID deaths), COVID had caused a reduction in US life expectancy at birth of 1.13 y to 77.48 y, lower than any year since 2003. There was a 0.87-y...

The Limiting Factor reports that Tesla will use Polycrystal cathodes with new coatings and dopants to enable cobalt-free batteries with greater energy density and more charge cycles. This will be...

The test-fire of the Space Launch system rocket two days ago should have lasted eight minutes but the engines shutdown after one minute. Eight minutes is the time to launch the rocket to orbit. A...

As a business or an individual, it is important that you keep up with technological advances and continue to follow leading practices. Part of staying on top of best practices is to make sure you are...

Prior categorizations of world development were not flexible to changing technology or changing geopolitics. The Second world of the first, second and third world referred to the countries under...

Zhenda Xie at Nanjing University has created cheap quantum encrypted communication between drones. Above – Quantum network and physical realization with mobile drone-based nodes. (a) A...

Tesla new 2021 Model 3 will only lose about 13-19% range in cold weather versus 40% range reduction in older models. This will help Tesla increase sales in Canada and Northern Europe. There is...