Indonesia wants China to build Indonesia into an Asian production base
Indonesian president Joko Widodo expressed on Monday his hope that China will build Indonesia into an Asian production base with ever increasing economic cooperation between the two countries.Widodo...
View ArticleUS Navy will field 100 kilowatt or stronger lasers and ten shot per minute...
The US Navy is pursuing a multi-pronged approach to fielding energy weapons by the end of the decade, with the hopes of upgrading its 30 kilowatt laser gun to 100 kw or more, and giving its...
View ArticleNuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket with supercharged air augmentation
The Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket - A Conceptual High-Performance Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion System by John BucknellA new propulsion concept called the Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket (NTTR) is proposed for...
View ArticleIARPA funding for improved Quantum Computer Qubits and Quantum error correction
IARPA is seeking innovative solutions for the Logical Qubits (LogiQ) Program. LogiQ intends to build a logical qubit from a number of imperfect physical qubits by combining high-fidelity multi-qubit...
View ArticleShanghai and Yangtze River Delta Megaregion
The Yangtze River Delta (YRD which includes Shanghai), one of the major engines of China's economic growth, has a level of urbanisation that sees it at the head of the national league. At present, a...
View ArticleSir Lanka is the first country to sign up for Google Loon
Sri Lanka is the first country to sign up for Google Loon."Hopefully in a few months every person and every device on the island will be covered by 3G (third generation," Deputy Economic Policy...
View ArticleAircraft carriers, submarines, tanks, lasers and Emdrive were the top posts...
The Nextbigfuture website is nearing 59 million pageviews and 150 million views on Google Plus.Some have in comments have asked about the topic selection of Nextbigfuture.The articles that have...
View ArticleInterview with John Bucknell about his Airbreathing nuclear thermal rocket...
The first article about John Bucknell's AIAA paper is here.The Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket - A Conceptual High-Performance Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion System by John BucknellA new propulsion concept...
View ArticleChina will build three large nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with...
China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier could be nuclear-powered, Chinese web media reported Thursday, quoting an internal document of the shipbuilder responsible for building the...
View ArticleScientist develops model for robots with bacterial brains
A Virginia Tech scientist used a mathematical model to demonstrate that bacteria can control the behavior of an inanimate device like a robot.“Basically we were trying to find out from the mathematical...
View ArticlePerovskite combined with quantum dots for superefficient LED lighting and...
University of Toronto researchers have combined two promising solar cell materials together for the first time, creating a new platform for LED technology.The team designed a way to embed strongly...
View ArticleIARPA crowd prediction moving to commercial spinoff and lessons on making...
You can pre-register for beta testing of a commercial crowd prediction spinoff of the IARPA Good Judgement project.The Good Judgment Project out-performed all other research teams in geopolitical...
View ArticleMundane Singularity Update part 1
I had looked at what will be the technologies and changes that can eventually lead to 1. Economic abundance2. Radical life extension3. Physical and Cognitive enhancement4. Blood Stream Robots5....
View ArticleChina building 40000 ton super large amphibious assault ship similar to USA...
To compete against the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo-class helicopter destroyers, China is planning to build a new class of amphibious assault ship with a displacement of 40,000 tons,...
View ArticleFacebook getting close to 10 gigabit per second internet delivered from solar...
Facebook successfully tested a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. That's ten times faster than any previous system, and it can accurately connect with a point the size of a...
View ArticleArgentina buying 18 Israeli Kfir Fighter Planes
Argentina is negotiating the purchase of a batch of Israel Aerospace Industries Kfir Block 60 fighters.The Block 60 is the latest upgraded version of the Kfir, which was used by the Israeli air force...
View Article“Smart Wine Bottle” using Printed Electronics to stop counterfeiting of...
Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm), a global leader in the development of printed electronics and smart systems, today announced a partnership with the G World Group (G World), a global...
View ArticleThinfilm has deal for 1.3 billion units of printed smart memory tags per year...
At the 8-11 minute portion of this video, there is discussion that Thinfilm Norway has had printed memory for a while. The memory only has 20 bits of memory in the square centimeter or so of space....
View ArticleRussia Yu-71, US Prompt Global Strike and China's Wu-14 Hypersonic missile...
Adm. Cecil D. Haney, Strategic Command’s (Stratcom) senior leader, said during remarks at a nuclear deterrence conference that despite arms control efforts, hypersonic weapons are among several...
View ArticleStar Trek Renegades a continuation of the Prime Universe with Walter Koenig...
Star Trek: Renegades, is a professionally produced pilot intended for presentation to CBS as a possible online series.This film was funded by the generous donations of fans from around the world. All...
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