In Elon Musk’s video announcement of the Spacex BFR he indicated that it would be lower cost to launch than the Spacex Falcon 1. Above was the graphic which showed the Spacex BFR at lower cost than the Falcon 1. In 2005 Falcon 1 was advertised as costing $5.9 million ($7.3 million when adjusted for …
China is planning to invest tens of billions of dollars in the next few years to master artificial intelligence. A large part of Alibaba’s planned $15 billion per year in research and another $10 billion investment by 2020 in quantum computing center and other investments. Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, are many AI experts and building …
Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis presented an Abundance 360 webinar on Friday, October 13 on mind-boggling predictions and transformative (even “dangerous”) ideas. They discussed * Radical life extension * space * artificial intelligence * uplifting the developed world with internet and other tools Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …
Early Saturday morning Oct 07, 2017, Spike Aerospace successfully test flew the subsonic subscale SX-1.2 demonstrator aircraft for the first time. The jet is an early unmanned prototype of the company’s 18 passenger S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet. The SX-1.2 test flights proved that the aerodynamic design of the aircraft is valid and provided a tremendous …
Origami-inspired bots that can fold into a number of different shapes have been developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The miniature bots could have the potential to carry out different types of surgery – like patch wounds, remove objects and take samples. Researchers at MIT, the University …
Saudi Arabia ($45 billion) and Abu Dhabi (Mubadala, $15 billion) have invested a total of $60 billion of their oil generated funds info Softbank Masayoshi Son’s Vision Fund. Masayoshi has been selling the fund as investments that will take advantage of a technological Singularity. Singularity’s in astronomy and physics are black holes. There was a …
Masayoshi Son is raising a $100 billion Vision Fund and is rapidly investing in startups, doing deals with established companies and buying out larger companies. Masayohshi is already talking about a second Vision Fund. Could Masayoshi Son convince middle eastern, asian and other sovereign wealth funds totally several trillion to deploy larger amounts into his …
Pacific Rim Uprising is the sequel to the 2013 film ‘Pacific Rim’. Guillermo del Toro directed the first one. The movie was giant mechs (Jaegers) fighting giant alien monsters (Kaijus). Steven S. DeKnight who directs Marvel’s Netflix Daredevil and some shows from Smallville, Spartacus and Angel (Buffy spinoff). The sequel is set 7-10 years after …
Japan has successfully tapped into a deposit of mineral resources from a deep-water seabed off the coast of Okinawa, the economy ministry said, the largest such extraction of its type. It is the first time metals have been mined from the seabed in such quantities using ship-based extraction technology, according to the Economy, Trade and …
Here is a review of some perspectives on China’s future growth. China’s new economy is growing faster and becoming a larger part of the economy from 8% in 2014 to 12% this year and 15% in 2020. There could be structural and other economic reforms announced at a key October 18 meeting. China has accounted …
China showed off crude models of a planned robotic military ship the D3000. It would have a trimaran tumblehome hull, with armament that includes autocannons and anti-ship missiles, as well as launching tubes for small unmanned underwater vehicles, torpedoes, or mines. DARPA has built a 131-foot, 145 ton robotic Sea Hunter. It has a speed …