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Ancient Mars Lake Could Have Supported Life
A NASA team reported 10 months ago that the first rock [nicknamed "John Klein"] Curiosity drilled at "Yellowknife Bay" on Mars yielded evidence that met the mission's goal of identifying a Martian...
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All electric cars could mean up to 50% US electric power generation
The US, Europe and Japan have been slow growing economies. With less than 2.5% GDP growth there is almost no new reactors other than replacing broken ones and shifting some power to where people are...
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Bitcoin ASIC mining profitability and applicability to other decryption
In April, 2013 there was a calculation of the estimated profit from being an ASIC bitcoin miner.ASIC devices is Avalon, who sell a machine capable of 85 gigahashes for 101.14 BTC (approx $11,000 – they...
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Limits to Growth Model used for 2052 forecast and takes global collapse off...
Note- Nextbigfuture does not believe that the Limits to Growth Models are correct. Improvements in technology can radically increase the capacity of the planet. There is a great deal of emphasis on...
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Mars One will work with Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology for a...
Mars One has secured lead suppliers for its first mission to Mars. The mission, slated a 2018 launch, will include a robotic lander and a communications satellite. Mars One has contracted Lockheed...
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Seeding Life on the Moons of the Outer Planets via Lithopanspermia from 1...
Material from the surface of a planet (like Earth or Mars) can be ejected into space by a large impact and could carry primitive life-forms with it. Researchers performed n-body simulations of such...
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China says $3.7 trillion is enough - Will Mostly Stop Buying dollars to...
The People’s Bank of China said the country does not benefit any more from increases in its foreign-currency holdings, adding to signs policy makers will rein in dollar purchases that limit the yuan’s...
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MIT Biosuit is a non-bulky spacesuit that is more like a diving wetsuit for...
The Biosuit is pressurized close to the skin--an advance made possible by tension lines on the suit (those are the Spiderman lines) that don't break when an astronaut bends their arms or knees. Active...
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1 million qubit quantum computers by 2025
Dwave Systems is doubling qubits every year. They are releasing every two years with four times the qubits.2013 512 qubits2015 2048 qubits2017 8192 qubits2019 64000 qubits2021 256000 qubits2023 1...
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US Crude Oil Production highest since 1988 at 8.075 million barrels per day...
US crude oil production is at 8.075 million barrels per day. Production is increasing significantly in North Dakota, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.If the 2013 pace of increase can be maintained then the...
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The Long Term Unemployed are Doomed
When companies are looking to hire people, they scan through the résumés they get in the mail and their first step is to throw out all the résumés of people who've been unemployed for a long time. This...
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Will Bitcoin be the Friendster of Cryptocurrency ?
In 2002, social networking hit really its stride with the launch of Friendster. Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees.com, refined it into a...
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Yellowstone Supervolcano is two and half times bigger than earlier estimates...
The supervolcano that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park in the US is far larger than was previously thought. A study shows that the magma chamber is about 2.5 times bigger than earlier estimates...
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Tom Cruise Movie showing a lot of soldiers using exoskeletons
The film boils down to your standard Earth vs. Alien monsters fare with a side order of time displacement and a double helping of a realistic-looking type of powered armor. The Edge of Tomorrow suit...
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The Slow Death of Snail mail - Canada will phase out door to door mail...
Canada will have urban home delivery of mail phased out over the next five years.Starting March 31, the cost of a stamp to mail a standard-size first-class letter will increase to 85 cents if bought in...
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Bad Choices, bad regulation, incompetence and corruption in San Francisco,...
Shuttle buses for technology companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter use 250 of the 2500 Muni bus stops in San Francisco. The Municipal Transportation Agency has proposed an 18-month test of a...
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Expensive Smartphones will disappear in a few years
Harvard professor talks about the prospects for the smartphone amid fierce innovation. As the technology matures, you get a disruption. It’s not a disruption of technology, though, but a disruption of...
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IEDs and Rocket Propelled Grenade means heavy exoskeletons make no sense
Military Exoskeleton's will be built in the future, but they are for special situations and not large scale combat.* for military special forces and police SWAT teams there is the case for high powered...
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Bloomberg Business week chart analysis ignores project costs when predicting...
A Bloomberg Business Week analysis of skyscrapers analyzes the number of skyscrapers of different heights and tries to extrapolate when a mile high skyscraper will be built.They look at the buildings...
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Letter of credit financing gives the illusion of exaggerated yuan globalization
The yuan has surpassed the euro to become the second most commonly used currency in global trade finance, after the US dollar. Yuan usage in trade finance grew to 8.66 per cent in October from 1.89 per...
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