In order to understand and plan for the future, we need to know how much change will occur and when things will happen. Understanding the present and near future is informed by identifying and understanding what is already undergoing sustainable and rapid change. There also needs to be quantification wherever possible. Nextbigfuture is working on …
Nithya Thadani is the CEO of RAIN, a voice technology company that has just raised $3 million in a series A. Rain has been created voice solutions using the Alexa and Google Home APIs for the last five years for companies like Starbucks, BlackRock, Nestle, Nike, and MasterCard. RAIN is focused on going beyond the …
SpaceX is in talks with investors to raise another round of funding and seeks to double its valuation to as much as $92 billion. SpaceX is looking to close the deal in January 2021. SpaceX is building out its Starlink satellite network to provide worldwide broadband Internet from low-Earth orbit. They have launched 955 satellites. …
The best predictions of the solar energy cost and solar energy adoption have come from Ramez Naam. There have been hundreds of forecasts of the future costs of solar power and the projected share solar power would have in the future. Ramez has been an optimist around solar energy and solar energy development but actual …
Taiwan Tech News Site DigiTimes reports that Apple is working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), on self-driving chip technology. Apple and TSMC have reportedly established plans for a factory to produce Apple Car chips in the USA and are currently negotiating with upstream and downstream supplies in the automotive electronics supply chain. Digitimes also …
Above – Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels With people working from home more this year the opportunity for hackers to use mobile connectivity to gain access to personal and work systems has increased massively. The creativity that is involved is amazing and cybercriminals continue to develop new ways to attack our systems and steal …
China is integrating multiple cities into megacity regions. China has deployed regional integration plans in 2019. They are accelerating integration of the YRD (Yangtze River Delta – Shanghai area) region, Greater Bay Area (Around Hong Kong and Guangdong), or Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing-Tianjin) region, are seen as a solution to this problem. To integrate the YRD region, …
Boring Revolution indicates that the Boring Company Prufrock tunneling machine should start digging test tunnels in 2021. Boring Company had announced in Feb 2020 that they had built Prufrock. They have been working on getting the machine to achieve its performance goals. Prufrock is alive pic.twitter.com/VH2YDAw4rb — The Boring Company (@boringcompany) February 23, 2020 Boring …
Boring Tunnel is Elon Musk’ company that is working to revolutionize tunneling and public transportation. Boring Company has been building their system around the Las Vegas Convention Center and has approval to expand the system to the Vegas Strip, downtown and the airport. At the Vegas planning meeting, Boring Company engineers indicated that this would …
TSMC’s 5nm is in mass production. The 3nm will also be put into production in 2022. The more advanced 2nm process is also reported to have made significant progress. The 2nm process will start mass production around 2023 to 2024. TSMC thinks risk trial production yield in the second half of 2023 can reach 90%. …
The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI applications. They had 0.86 PetaFLOPS of performance on the single wafer system. The waferchip was built on a 16 nanomber FF process. …