Even when accounting for inflation, Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is on track to become the highest-grossing movie in the series — save for the first Star Wars, released in 1977. The blockbuster finished New Year’s Day with a domestic total of $686.4 million, besting the original North American runs of Star …
Knoema has put together the IMF, EIU, UN, OECD and other GDP projections for the top 20 world economies. Wikipedia has the IMF projections for nominal GDP and PPP GDP. From now to 2020, slower growth developed countries those countries like France and Germany with 1.3 to 1.9% annual real GDP growth will lose ground …
The Nano Membrane Toilet – a toilet which aims to treat human waste in the home without external energy or water – will join 35 other low carbon technology companies pitching to an audience of investors, buyers, industry specialists and support agencies on Thursday, 11th February 2016 at the Royal Institution in London. Jake Larsson, …
India notched up its billionth mobile phone subscriber in October, the country’s telecoms regulator said, underscoring the importance of its fast-growing mobile market, the world’s second largest after China. India’s e-commerce market is likely to touch $38-billion-mark in 2016, a 67 per cent jump over the $23 billion revenue it clocked last year, according to …
China is targeting at least 20 GW of new wind power installations and 15 GW of additional solar PV capacity in 2016 according to the National Energy Administration. China ended 2015 with about 120 GW of wind power, 43 GW of solar, and 320 GW of hydro power. In 2014, China’s wind power generation capacity …
Most people wish to live far longer than the average human lifespan so long as they stay healthy. A survey of 1500 respondents found that 74.4% wished to live to 120 or longer if health was guaranteed, but only 57.4% wished to live that long if it wasn’t. Recent advances in aging research and regenerative …
Germany plans to develop a new fighter jet to replace Tornado jets in the long term and it aims to hold initial talks with European partners in 2016 about what features they want in the aircraft. A draft document from the Defense Ministry on ‘military aviation strategy’ said it was still unclear whether the new …
Google announced plans to expand Google Fiber to LA and Chicago — the second- and third-largest US cities. Google also is planning to expand to San Jose, San Diego, Phoenix, Portland, Jacksonville and Tampa. Google Fiber starts with a connection that’s up to 1,000 megabits per second. Super fast downloads. Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
Elon Musk says the Falcon 9 that was just landed is back in the hangar at Cape Canaveral. No damage found, ready to fire again. Falcon 9 back in the hangar at Cape Canaveral. No damage found, ready to fire again. A photo posted by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Dec 31, 2015 at 4:18pm PST …
For decades, Paramount and CBS have tolerated and even encouraged fans of the Star Trek franchise to use their imagination at will, but on Tuesday they sued the crowdfunded Axanar production Axanar is a feature film, but will be broken down into four episodes following the four acts of the script. With an overall budget …
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and IBM have a new “self-assembly” methods that researchers aim to harness for making useful devices. Foreseeable applications include integrating lasers, sensors, wave guides and other optical components into so-called lab-on-a-chip devices now used for disease diagnosis, screening experimental materials and drugs, DNA forensics and …