Mayo Clinic anti-aging researcher James Kirkland published about a drug combination that can slow and reverse senescent cells in mice. A leukemia drug dasatinib and the dietary supplement quercetin reduced senescent cells’ numbers, tamped down the inflammation they cause, and reduced the level of disability that comes with age-related diseases. The drugs delayed age-related diseases. …
AU Coin is excited to announce the release of the TAU Exchange, scheduled for October 18, 2018. This comes at an opportune time for TAU, as the new Proof-of-Transaction (PoT) coin has begun to see an overwhelming amount of interest from the public, with almost 32,000 accounts created, as of of the time of writing …
DARPA seeks to achieve high levels of brain-system communications without surgery, in its new program, Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3). DARPA intends the four-year N3 effort to conclude with a demonstration of a bidirectional system being used in a defense-relevant task that could include human-machine interactions with unmanned aerial vehicles, active cyber defense systems, or other …
China economy on a GDP purchasing power parity basis became the largest in 2013 and it is now 25% larger than the USA. China’s economy will be 30% larger in 2019 and 50% larger in 2023. China’s GDP statistics do not show recessions but the transparent Shanghai stock exchange showed a hard crash in 2015 …
Romit Shah, Nomura Analyst, believes that Tesla will have sustainable profitability. Tesla is near profitability or at profitability with the increased third quarter car production. Romit feels that Tesla has a lot more improvement when they start leasing model 3s. Most people prefer to lease cars. They have not started shipping the model 2 overseas …
France said on Tuesday there was no doubt Iran’s intelligence ministry was behind a June plot to attack an exiled opposition group’s rally outside Paris and it seized assets belonging to Tehran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals. The hardening of relations between Paris and Tehran could have far-reaching consequences for Iran as President Hassan …
The Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop is hosting a special Symposium to discuss Catalyzing major human space activities by 2030. What are the next levels for space activities? 1000 or more times the flight and material in space New and vastly larger and more profitable business Industrialization and use of space resources Nextbigfuture would say that …
Kai-Fu Lee heads up a $2 billion AI and technology-focused venture fund (Sinovation) and used to lead Microsoft Research in Asia and Google China. He has written a book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order. He believes that China’s entrepreneurs are using AI to solve real-world problems just like entrepreneurs in …
This October the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop is hosting a special Symposium at the Y-12 New Hope Center in Oak Ridge TN that will promote safe, fast, and affordable human development of our solar system – the first real steps to becoming an interstellar civilization. Leaders from NASA, DOE ARPA-E, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the …
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sees the U.S. economy generating highly optimistic expectations. The jobless rate is at 3.9% and inflation is around the Fed’s goal of 2%. Historically, low unemployment has fueled inflation and sometimes has forced the Fed into hiking interest rates rapidly. Many forecasters are predicting that these favorable conditions are likely …
Peter Swan, president of International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), was quoted as saying that an Earth Based Space elevator could cost close to $10 billion to build and could reduce the cost of putting things into orbit from roughly $3,500 per pound today to as little as $25 per pound. There is some carbon nanotube …