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January 31, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
Nextbigfuture had combined several sources to determine how much Russia, China and the United States spend on military hardware (tanks, planes, ships and research.) Nextbigfuture is working with Easel.ly to create infographics. * Russia announced their ten-year military hardware spending …
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January 31, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase are forming an independent company, “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” to “provide U.S. employees and their families with simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.” They say they’ll be “tackling the …
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January 31, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
Ready Player One is set in a near-future dystopian Earth, the population spends most of its time in an interconnected virtual space called the OASIS. When the founder of OASIS dies and bequeaths ownership of OASIS to the first person …
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January 30, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
There were two biotech buyouts this week. Celgene bought CAR-T player Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion and Sanofi buying blood disorder biotech Bioverativ for $11 billion. Kite Pharmaceuticals, CAR-T company, got acquired late in 2017 by Gilead for $12 billion. …
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January 30, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
China will be launching one of three pre-exaFlop supercomputers later this year. The new supercomputer will be 200 times faster and have 100 times more storage capacity than the Tianhe-1 supercomputer, China’s first petaflop supercomputer launched in 2010, Zhang said. …
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January 30, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications. “Most lightweight aluminum alloys are soft and have inherently low mechanical strength, which hinders more widespread industrial …
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January 30, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
Australian student Nathan Ruser noticed that trails from Strava users in certain countries made it possible to identify military bases and other facilities operated by countries, including the U.S., in locations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Syria. Strava released …
