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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...

A thermoradiative devices (TRD) based power generator that harvests solar energy via concentrated solar irradiation during daytime and via thermal infrared emission towards the outer space at...

Tesla had 16% of its revenue from its non-car business in the third quarter of 2020. This might have increased to 20% in Q4 of 2020. Tesla should be proving the ramp of car production to about 4...

Ark Invest has started a new space focused investment ETF called ARKX. ARK Invest is famous for its ARK Innovation fund ARKK. Their largest holding has been Tesla and they have been the Tesla Bulls...

The LVCVA board approved $6.25 million to Boring to operate the mile-long convention center system from Feb. 1 through June 30, 2022. At no cost, authorized access to Boring to dig tunnels connecting...

NASA is now targeting Saturday, Jan. 16, for the final test in the Green Run testing series for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the agency’s Artemis I mission....

Orbital Assembly Corp. (OAC) is planning a virtual media event on Friday, January 29 from 1-2 pm PST / 4-5 pm EST. OAC was established in September 2019 as the world’s first large-scale space...

As we live out more and more of our lives online, the need for a comprehensive digital identity solution is becoming more pressing, and for several good reasons. First, and perhaps the most...

Tesla started 2021 at a price of $735 per share.The post Tesla Skeptics Three Conditions for Tesla to Double in 2021 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com.

China-based PV manufacturing industry has possibly over built new Solar PV Module technology for 2021. If global installs follows the 20% annual global growth of recent years then the world will...

Caroline Wang passed away peacefully yesterday at the age of 86. She was born October 4th, 1934 in Shanghai. She was married to Chung-lie Wang, who was a professor of Mathematics. They were my mother...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today’s lithium-ion batteries that...

NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. The NIO ET7 sedan will ship in China...

Tesla Daily is providing an update on Tesla. Rob discusses the fact that Benchmark funds need to buy Tesla. SP500 index funds acquired Tesla shares Dec 18, 2020. They got in at $695. Benchmark funds...

Tesla now has a $780 billion market capitalization. I wrote in August, 2020 that Tesla will overcome denial within 8 months to become a $1 trillion tech giant. Five months have passed. A surge to...

Tesla is trading at about $800 per share. Elon Musk is now worth about $187 billion. CNBC reported that Elon Musk is the richest in the world earlier this morning as Tesla traded at about $790 per...

Bloomberg Billionaires has the wealth of Jeff Bezos at $184 billion and Elon Musk at $181 billion. During intraday trading Tesla was 1-2% higher than the close. Elon Musk was richest during the day....

Bitcoin is trading over $35,000 and Ethereum is trading a bit over or bit under $1200. JPMorgan has said that Bitcoin could rally as high as $146,000 as it competes with gold as an alternative...

Saudi Arabia’s plan to cut one million barrels a day in February and March 2021. This was a unilateral move. Russia and other oil countries will increase their production. The US shale oil...

Tesla is moving up after hours. $748 and climbing. Morgan Stanley turned has gone very bullish on Tesla. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas raised the price target on Tesla to a ‘Street...

Guest Post by Philip Piletic In the earliest days of the internet, nobody thought much about the concept of privacy. After all, surfing the internet was a mostly anonymous exercise. Advertising was...

Bitcoin has been trading over $30,000 and Etherium is over $1000. Bitcoin is up 300% since late in 2020. Bitcoin gained the public support of more billionaires and mainstream investors. Paul Tudor...

There are two major events in the middle east today. Iran hijacked a South Korean ship and Saudi Arabia and Qatar have a new diplomatic deal that creates a unified Arab front against Iran. 1. Iran...

American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a program of NY CREATES gave $19 million in research program awards for advanced integrated photonics under The Defense...

Researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have demonstrated large, uniform tensile elastic straining of microfabricated diamond arrays through the nanomechanical approach. This has the...

In 2020, Tesla produced and delivered half a million vehicles. In addition, Model Y production in Shanghai has begun, with deliveries expected to begin shortly. The delivery count should be viewed as...

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX will try to catch the Super Heavy Booster with the launch tower arm. Large grid fins will take the load. This will save the cost of legs and enable the booster to be...

New research could increase desalination membrane efficiency by 30% to 40% resulting in more water filtered with less energy/A> — a potential cost-saving update to current desalination processes....

A brain-inspired computing architecture speeds up complex data processing by running its algorithms inside its memory, significantly saving time and energy. Above – Software and hardware...