Infographic – US vs Russia vs China on military hardware procurement 2016 and 2025

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 plan which was flat spending through 2027. * Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is …

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Billionaires Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet are teaming with JP Morgan Chase to disrupt healthcare insurance

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 enormous challenges of healthcare and harnessing its full benefits.” While the initial focus will be …

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Ready Player One Trailers

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 to find a hidden treasure within OASIS by playing games and solving puzzles, a race …

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Antman and Wasp Trailer

The Marvel Ant-Man and the Wasp movie will be in theaters July 6th. Here it the trailer. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …

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What is hot in multi-billion dollar RNAi, Gene therapy and CAR-T biotech?

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. Both Juno and Kite had been billed as CAR-T platform play. CAR-T acquisitions provide near-term …

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China’s 240 petaflop supercomputer and 200+ petaflop US supercomputer will be competing in a few months

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. Above – Phytium FT2000/64 ARM chip that is expected to power the new 240 petaflop …

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Super-strong aluminum as strong as steel

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 application,” said Xinghang Zhang, a professor in Purdue University’s School of Materials Engineering. “However, high-strength, …

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Fit soldiers = Fitness Apps = Massive security leak

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 their global heatmap. 13 trillion GPS points from their users (turning off data sharing is …

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China gathering AI and quantum technology researchers as part of military applications push

China has gathered 120 researchers from around the military to work for its top research institute as part of a push to develop military applications for artificial intelligence and quantum technology. More than 95 percent of the new recruits enlisted into the academy hold PhD degrees and are highly specialized in certain fields, particularly artificial …

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Measuring space telescope distortion to one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom will enable earth sized exoplanet analysis

Babak Saif and Lee Feinberg at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have shown for the first time that they can dynamically detect subatomic- or picometer-sized distortions — changes that are far smaller than an atom — across a five-foot segmented telescope mirror and its support structure. Collaborating with Perry Greenfield at the …

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