Disney is failing at Star Wars in stories, lack of coolness and merchandising. * I will discuss the unorganized boycott and issues a segment of fans have with Star Wars. * Freaking Disney has forgotten to merchandise Star Wars movies and destroyed the cool aspects of it. UPDATE NEW POST: Google Trends shows that what …
EOS is perhaps the best performing and most-trending cryptocurrency in the market right now. In the year-to-date period, EOS’ market performance has shown gains of 41% even though the general cryptocurrency market is down 45% in terms of market cap. If you play around cryptocurrency or blockchain circles, you’ve most likely heard about EOS and …
The German cabinet has agreed to grant compensation of up to EUR1 billion (USD1.17 billion) to the utilities forced to shut down their nuclear power plants by the Energiewende, or energy transition, that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan in March 2011. …
Zubrin has detailed creating a moon base within 4 years using a few SpaceX Falcon Heavy missions. 10 kilometer power beaming is a key to creating lunar fuel. Once we have lunar fuel production, we can use Falcon 9 to launch missions. He wants to use a lunar vehicle with 6 kilometer per second which …
Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the European Space Agency to create a settlement on the moon. Even if Blue Origin can’t strike public-private partnerships, Bezos will do what needs to be done to make it so, he said here at the International Space Development Conference …
Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service that enables online businesses of all sizes to enjoy enterprise-grade website security, performance and availability. Incapsula includes a best-of-breed web application firewall, comprehensive DDoS protection, a global content delivery network, and an application level load balancer, which are available as standalone services or as an integrated solution. Incapsula …
US General Milley tries to make the case that China matches the US military budget because US salaries are so much higher than China’s. China is catching up to US military technology. The US military budget is bloated because of massive increase in procurement prices for each plane, submarine and other equipment. It is also …
The New York Times proposes that the Star Wars movies are coming out too frequently which is why Solo a Star Wars story had relatively poor box office. This is not the reason. There has been a tipping point where previously fans were willing to look at massively flawed movies as a half-full glass. Now …
Nextbigfuture covered the C2 Montreal conference this past May 23-25, 2018. My overall impression is that C2 Montreal is a useful and informative conference with unique entertainment woven into the experience. They had a solid set of speakers for Artificial Intelligence and some blockchain. There was also marketing talks and AR/VR demonstrations. They had some …
Solo: A Star Wars Story fell well short of box office expectations with a $101 million 4 day opening. Disney entered the weekend projecting a performance anywhere from $130-150 million for the four-day weekend and earlier had talked about double Black Panther pre-sales. Star Wars the Last Jedi made $1.3 billion worldwide but was widely …
AI in Blockchain at C2 Montreal Blockchain and AI are among the most promising technologies and will surely disrupt just about every industry. Combined, they can become powerful drivers for any organization. In this workshop, participants will gain an understanding of blockchain, AI, and how these two technologies intersect. Expert: Vincent Gauthier, Co-founder Technology and …