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Economist World in 2014
The Economist magazine has released their World in 2014 annual special in print and online.The Economist has projections for over a dozen industries.The Economist has forecasts for dozens of...
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EIU projects world economy to 2018 and expects 80% of pre-financial crisis...
The Economist Intelligence Unit has forecasted the world economy and countries and regions out to 2018. The expectation is for world GDP growth to be about 3.6-4.0% per year. This is about 80% of the...
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In 2018 Japan will have one person over 65 for every two working age people...
Japan will desperately need technology (exoskeletons and life extension rejuvenation) to maintain vigor and independence for a vast amount of elderly people.The population of people over the age of 65...
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A modest amount of success in medical science could see a Japan with a median...
There are detailed population projection scenarios for Japan out to 2060.They made the “medium-mortality” assumption (84.19 years for men and 90.93 years for women in 2060) based on the statistics of...
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Massive online courses are succeeding with Professional training to solve...
Higher education is an enormous business in the United States--we spend approximately $400 billion annually on universities.Sebastian Thrun attracted a stunning number of students--1.6 million to date...
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Solid Energy touts lithium metal electrodes to safely boost lithium ion...
A new MIT spinoff company, SolidEnergy says it has materials that can increase the amount of energy that lithium-ion batteries store by 30 percent or more and lower costs enough to make electric...
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Solar panel cover provides 2 kilometers of driving for every hour in sunlight
A solar panel tonneau over the rear bed of VIA Motors' extended cab truck provides adds an additional 10 miles (16 km) every day to the vehicle's all-electric range. At the moment, VIA Motors is only...
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Factory sized ink jet printing mass production of lower cost OLED screens
Color-rich, energy-efficient, and flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays could soon be churned out more economically on giant inkjet printers. Mobile phone displays accounted for 71% of...
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Very Light Car and OLED solar could make a practical electric car with enough...
A heavy electric pickup truck gets an extra 2 kilometers per hour of sunlight from solar power. A car that is 2-3 times lighter could get 4 kilometers per hour of sunlight. Lower cost production could...
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Metamaterial route to high temperature superconductivity
Researchers say metamaterials may be formally linked to another area of physics: superconductivity. In particular, they say that superconductors may be a special form of metamaterial that steer...
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Planetary Resources explains how asteroid mining will open space for human...
All of the transportation needs in space –— from orbit raises to station keeping to Lunar landings or even expeditions to the outer planets –— are near infinitely more achievable when access is fueled...
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Russia unveils plan for 21 new nuclear reactors by 2030 and includes two...
The Russian government has approved a plan to build 21 new nuclear power generation units across nine power stations by 2030 as part of a regional and territorial energy planning scheme.via...
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Harvard Business Review says if you want to change the world then partner...
Harvard Business Review says if you want to change the world then partner with China. This is not because of bias in favor of China. It is a recognition that 6-8% GDP annual growth now and higher...
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NASA is unwilling to share the costs of a Mars Flyby so Dennis Tito must look...
Dennis Tito is trying to put together a Mars flyby mission. He would need to launch in late 2017 to take advantage of a rare alignment of the planets that would greatly shorten the trip, or maybe in...
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Construction underway of second Vogtle AP1000
Safety-related concrete has been poured for the basemat of the second AP1000 unit at the Vogtle plant in Georgia. The milestone means that four AP1000s are now officially under construction in the...
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Ten small propellors for electric vertical take off and landing personal...
Zee.Aero is working on a flying car concept that can take off and land vertically using a plethora of small electric motors turning four-bladed propellers. According to illustrations included with the...
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Two person electric 18 rotor helicopter is now flying
A two person electric volocopter has flown. The Volocopter has six arms extending from the central part of the rotor ring split into twelve more arms, with rotors placed at each juncture. The...
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Ex-800 Blade server uses hybrid memory cubes for super data performance with...
A single HMC (Hybrid Memory Cube) can produce an incredible data bandwidth of 160 GBytes/sec, thereby providing more than 15 times the performance of a state-of-the-art DDR3 memory module while...
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Carnegie Mellon computer uses visual learning by analyzing millions of images...
A computer program called the Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) is running 24 hours a day at Carnegie Mellon University, searching the Web for images, doing its best to understand them on its own and,...
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3-D printing multi-material objects in minutes instead of hours
New 3-D printing process speeds up fabrication of multiple-material objects.Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a faster 3D printing process and are now using it to...
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