China’s ruling Communist Party has proposed removing a limit of two consecutive terms for the country’s president, the official news agency said Sunday, appearing to lay the groundwork for party leader Xi Jinping to rule as president beyond 2023. Xi became leader in 2012 as head of a reduced seven-member committee on which he had …
Elon Musk tweets that the Starlink constellation of thousands of gigabit per second internet satellites will help get internet to the last billion and areas in the developed world with bad internet service. Two demo SpaceX internet satellites were launched this week. Today’s Falcon launch carries 2 SpaceX test satellites for global broadband. If successful, …
A research team at Chalmers University of Technology is now among the first in the world to submit results indicating that they have actually succeeded in manufacturing a topological superconductor. In solid state materials Majorana fermions only appear to occur in what are known as topological superconductors – a new type of superconductor that is …
A Northwestern research team has developed a novel device called a “memtransistor,” which operates much like a neuron by performing both memory and information processing. With combined characteristics of a memristor and transistor, the memtransistor also encompasses multiple terminals that operate more similarly to a neural network. The memtransistor builds upon work published in 2015, …
Researchers have determined a method to identify characteristic statistical signatures across unmeasurable probability distributions. Instead of a complete “fingerprint,” they were able to distill the information from data sets which were reduced to make them usable. Using that information, they were able to discriminate various particle types and distinctive features of optical arrangements. The team …
Just 24 hours after gently landing in the ocean, SpaceX recovery technicians have successfully recovered one half of an intact Falcon payload fairing for the first time ever. Next month it seems certain there will be a successful recovery of fairings using the specially-designed net should be a simple matter of tweaking recovery hardware and …
D-Wave Systems is involved in a grant-funded UK project to improve logistics and planning operations using quantum computing algorithms. The work will focus on an area known as AI/Hierarchical Task Network planning techniques, used to optimize resource management and operations for a wide range of industries including law enforcement, telecommunications, and transportation. In 2018, the …
D-Wave Systems, the leader in quantum computing systems and software, announced that it has met the key conditions to lock in new funding of $20 million. In April 2017, D-Wave closed on the first $30 million tranche of convertible notes and received a conditional commitment from Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) for an …
Nextbigfuture had a database corruption after the hosting service had a datacenter outage. The last two articles on Spinlaunch and China’s crispr gene therapy against cancer had to be recreated. This may not have restored some comments on those articles. We apologize for the inconvenience. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
SpinLaunch is raising $30 million to use large centrifuges to power catapult to launch payloads into space. They use large centrifuges to store energy and will then rapidly transfer that momentum into a catapult to send a payload to space at up to 4,800 kilometers per hour (3,000 mph). If successful, the acceleration architecture is …
China has at least eight CRISPR gene therapy clinical trials to treat various forms of cancer. CRISPR is being tested as a treatment for cancers of the lung, bladder, cervix and prostate. Clinicaltrials.gov lists all of the clinical trials in the world. Only one CRISPR cancer study has been approved in the United States, and …