Disney officially owns X-men and the Fantastic Four. The New Mutants and Dark Phoenix movies are basically canceled. Disney will make more money with the various X-men characters in the Marvel comics movie universe. Grace Randolph has a good grasp of the business side of entertainment. Many other YouTubers are hoping for the best stories …
Current solar cells are able to convert into electricity around 20% of the energy received from the Sun, but a new technique has the potential to convert around 60% of it by funneling the energy more efficiently. UK researchers can now ‘funnel’ electrical charge onto a chip. Using the atomically thin semiconductor hafnium disulphide (HfS2), …
The US currently cannot match the number of submarines of all its potential enemies. China has 68 to 73 and will likely build to 80-90 submarines. This “submarine gap” is being used as a justification to spend tens of billions of dollar for more US submarines. During the cold war, the US had about 130 …
China might station up to 10,000 marines, navy seamen and other personnel in its African base at Djibouti. China is expanding their marine forces from 20,000 up to 100,000. The US has 186,000 marines and about 40,000 reserves. A few other Asian countries are in the range of 20,000 to 30,000 marines. China is mainly …
US second quarter grew at 4.1% but GDP failed to meet some of forecasters’ loftiest targets. Above are the components of Q2 GDP growth Real GDP 4.1 percent in the second quarter and the first quarter was adjusted to 2.2%. If growth continues at 3.0 percent the next two quarters, then real GDP growth will …
Yukon Huang points out that China had far faster growth without innovation. China had less patents and fewer innovative services. Patents and research are nice things and they can be good. China got a lot of its technology through theft. All the high growth Asian countries copied technology from foreign countries and were successful in …
Accion Systems uses electrospray ion drive propulsion. The thrust-producing ions are supplied from their ionic liquid propellant — a safe, non-toxic liquid salt. This novel source of ions allows us to avoid the use of large ionization chambers, pressurized tanks, bulky valves, and external cathodes. Technology is built around a thruster “chip” architecture. Each chip …
According to senior figures in the Australian Government say the US is almost ready to bomb sites related to Iran’s nuclear program, in a move that would no doubt impact the wider region. The United States is reportedly prepared to bomb Iran’s nuclear capability as early as next month — and Australia will have a …
A cup of coffee in Venezuela costs 2 million Bolivars but the week before it was 1.4 million Bolivars. This means the prices are doubling every two weeks. 26 doublings in a year is 67 million which is 6.7 billion percent inflation. The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record where prices doubled …
In synthetic biology, the control of gene expression requires a multistep processing of biological signals. The key steps are sensing the environment, computing information and outputting products. To achieve such functions, the laborious, combinational networking of enzymes and substrate-genes is required, and to resolve problems, sophisticated design automation tools have been introduced. However, the complexity …
There have already been several quantum computer technologies that have scaled to 50-100 qubits. Gatemon superconducting qubits appear ready to scale to that level as well. Nature Nanotechnology – Superconducting gatemon qubit based on a proximitized two-dimensional electron gas Abstract – Superconducting gatemon qubits The coherent tunneling of Cooper pairs across Josephson junctions (JJs) generates …