Jeff Bezos was worth $116 billion yesterday and today Amazon stock is up 4.7%. Jeff Bezos is worth about $122 billion. Bezos is worth more than Bill Gates ($94.8 billion) and Elon Musk ($21.5 billion) combined. Amazon is worth $702 billion. Apple is worth $828 billion. Microsoft is worth $709 billion. Alphabet (Google) is worth …
China’s GDP growth rate in 2015 was probably overstated by “a couple of percentage points,” according to new data analysis by Bloomberg Economics. Some of the alternative growth metrics indicate higher GDP growth than what China has reported for some years. Many indicators suggest a wider variation in growth. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
Modifying surface codes can improve quantum error correction 400 percent. The instability of qubits – the building blocks of quantum computers – means they are susceptible to error. Physicists have found that tweaking error coding can open the door to huge efficiency gains. The hack increases the error correction threshold of up to 43.7% – …
In Shanghai, China, physicist Ruxin Li and colleagues are breaking records a pulse laser at the Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF). At the center is a single cylinder of titanium-doped sapphire about the width of a Frisbee. In 2016, it achieved an unprecedented 5.3 million billion watts, or petawatts (PW). The pulses are powerful …
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) already sells the most batteries to the biggest electric-vehicle makers in the biggest EV market: China. They plan to use money from a pending initial public offering backed by Goldman Sachs to provide batteries to EV makers in Europe and the USA. The company plans to raise 13.1 billion yuan (US$2 …
Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI) is a multi-year research in the field of Space Solar Power Initiative conducted by Caltech team in collaboration with Northrop Grumman (NG) Aerospace and Mission Systems division. SSPI approach: • Enabling technologies developed at Caltech • Ultra-light deployable space structures • High efficiency ultra-light photovoltaic (PV) • Phased Array and …
Nuscale Power has more than $700 million in government and private investment and they have a customer. A consortium of municipal utilities in six Western states hopes to out 12 of the fifty-megawatt reactors together in Idaho to create a 600-megawatt power plant for the bargain price — compared with other nuclear facilities — of …
A team of researchers at the Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MIPT, and elsewhere has found out how the regularity of polypropylene molecules and thermal treatment affect the mechanical properties of the end product. Their new insights make it possible to synthesize a material with predetermined properties, such as …
SpaceX performed a very high retrothrust landing into water. No droneship was used. Amazingly the rocket survived the water landing. SpaceX will try to tow it back to shore. This rocket was meant to test very high retrothrust landing in water so it didn’t hurt the droneship, but amazingly it has survived. We will try …
Each of the Boring Company flamethrowers costs $600. The 20,000 that have been sold raised $12 million. Flamethrowers sold out — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2018 All flamethrowers will ship with a complimentary boring fire extinguisher — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2018 Hacksmith on Youtube shows how you can build your own Boring …
Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals, including distant, untreated metastases, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The approach works for many different types of cancers, including those that arise spontaneously, the study …