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Beginning of thousands of jobs losses to robotic trucks and cars and to...
Suncor Energy, Canada’s largest oil company, confirmed this week it has entered into a five-year agreement with Komatsu Ltd., the Japanese manufacturer of earthmoving and construction machines, to...
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Teamsters versus the AARP and the rest of society for Robotic cars
Suncor is getting self driving trucks for the Oilsands. By 2020, they plan to convert to robotic trucksKen Smith, president of Unifor Local 707A, which represents 3,300 Suncor employees. Smith said...
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Estimating the scope and cost of US involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria
President Obama will send up to 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq to step up the training of local forces as they battle the Islamic State. The move will bring the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq to...
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China could have started construction of the Type 055 missile cruiser and...
China's type 055 cruisers will have a length of 160-180 meters, a width of 21-23 meters, and displace between 12,000-14,000 tons. It could carry at least 112 to 128 vertical launch systems (VLS) cells...
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China building 42000 military drones over next eight years and many are...
China is advancing its development and employment of UAVs. Some estimates indicate China plans to produce upwards of 41,800 land- and seabased unmanned systems, worth about $10.5 billion, between 2014...
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Cold War 2.0 with talks to preposition tanks in Balkans and expand NATO with...
The Pentagon is considering positioning heavy weaponry and equipment in Baltic states and Eastern Europe to support training with regional allies, officials said Saturday, a move that could heighten...
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Jurassic World looks to have a bigger box office than Avengers 2
Nextbigfuture ran a survey asking if Star Wars 7 or Avengers 2 would have the larger global box office. Star Wars 7 was expected to have more box office by 73% of those surveyed.43% also thought...
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Tri Alpha Energy Enables Field Reversed Plasma lasts for 5 milliseconds...
Tri Alpha team has revealed how fast ions, edge biasing, and other improvements have enabled them to produce FRCs (Field Reverse Configuration plasmas) lasting 5 milliseconds, a more than 10-fold...
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Game Changers for submarine warfare : undersea sensor networks, 70 day UUVs...
Undersea research and development has been a distinct U.S. military advantage since the end of WWII, but commercial and scientific interest in offshore resources is prompting a rapid expansion and...
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Fourth tests of China's 7860 mph Wu14 Hypersonic vehicle
China had the fourth test of its Wu-14 hypersonic vehicle on June 7China was testing extreme maneuvers of the mach 10 (7860 mph) prototype.Unlike ballistic rockets that re-enter in a predictable path,...
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Developing a 5 watt nuclear D cell battery that lasts decades for cubesat...
The energy contained in 1 kg of Plutonium-238 is 160,000 times that of chemical sources, i.e. 1.6e06 MJ / kgAssuming a 25% conversion efficiency, a Radioisotope Power Source (RPS) would have 400,000 MJ...
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Spacex and Elon Musk building Hyperloop test track and hosting prototype pod...
Elon Musk and Spacex announced plans for building a test track in southern California and a competition for prototype pods.Several companies announced plans for pilot projects in California, Texas and...
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NASA will launch two interplanetary cubesats in 2016
When NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars - a stationary lander in 2016 - the flight will include two CubeSats. This will be the first time CubeSats have flown in deep space. If this...
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Disabling the genetic machinery that leads to old age could lead to much...
Scientists propose that age-related ailments provide the evolutionary benefit of shortening life span, which conserves resources for future generations. Scientists could greatly extend life expectancy...
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IBM calls Apache Spark the most important open source project in a decade as...
IBM announced a major commitment to Apache®Spark™, potentially the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data. At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed...
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Deep Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test and performs between bachelor...
Chinese researchers have built a deep learning machine that outperforms the average human ability to answer verbal reasoning questions for the first time.They took each word and looked for other words...
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USA and Russia are integrating more multi-use non-nuclear EMP weapons and...
Multi-use EMP weapons are being added as a standard military weapon by the USA and Russia.Russia has developed super-high-frequency gun capable of deactivating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and the...
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Modular Customized Missiles on Demand
Teams of European missile maker MBDA's young engineers and managers drawn from five European countries were challenged to come up with concepts and technologies that might be available in the 2035...
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Human Longevity towards mining millions of genomes and health records to...
HLI (Human Longevity Inc) is building the world’s largest human genome sequencing center in the world. Along with computing advances, DNA sequencing has seen an explosion of next generation...
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Long Term Unemployment
Long-term unemployment has remained a persistent problem post-Great Recession – a somewhat new issue for the U.S., as compared to Europe. Despite declining over the last 5 years, the share of the...
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