Declassified documents on White House discussions on North Korea policy show the plans and approach have remained the same. * They considered military action but decided against it (Dick Cheney was the one who said military action should not be used against North Korea.) * Tighten economic sanctions * Try to work with South Korea …
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, answered questions about the future of Artificial Intelligence and quantum computers and robots. Highlights from Schmidt – * The rise of China will be the big news for the rest of our lives… in an economic, cultural, structural sense. * China’s artificial intelligence machine-learning policy – behind right …
Spacenews has an interview with Spacex CEO Gwynne Shotwell. Here are the highlights. * Spacex will increase 2018 launches by 50% to up to 30 launches over 2017 and then go to 30-40 launches per year. Those will not include Spacex launches of their own internet satellite network. * the first Falcon 9 block 5 …
The Fourth Dr Who, Tom Baker, returns to film new footage to complete Shada, an episode that was abandoned due to a BBC strike. Baker last appeared as the Doctor in 1981, when the character regenerated and the role was taken over by Peter Davison. Seven hours of filming was in the can for an …
China may be considering sharing its J-20 fifth generation stealth fighter jet technologies with allies such as Pakistan. Sino-Indian ties following a stiff face-off since June on the Doklam Plateau, a border area claimed by both Beijing and New Delhi. Beijing may invest for a stake in Russia’s Su-57 program. The Russian stealth fighter program …
In March, 2017, Elon Musk made a bet guaranteeing the installation of 100+ MWH battery for Australia within 100 days of signing, or he would supply it for free. This would have cost Elon Musk over $50 million. The 129-megawatt-hour battery was being built by Musk for South Australia, which generates a substantial percentage of …
The majors ASEAN economies (Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand) had solid to great economic growth in 2017. October projection of world growth by the world bank increased from 3.2 percent in 2016 to 3.6 percent in 2017 and 3.7 percent in 2018—an upward revision of 0.1 percentage point for both 2017 and 2018 relative to April. Sameer Goal, Deutsche Bank, believes …
Deloitte and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched Project Ubin: to the put the Singapore dollar onto a Distributed Ledger (blockchain). The project started in 2016. MAS and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) announced on 5 October 2017 that the consortium which they are leading had successfully developed software prototypes of three …
Solid Opinion has improved the response time of their system. Once some reintegration work is done, Nextbigfuture will switch the comment system back. It was previously believed that WordPress comments would be better, but this has proven not to be the case. This was surprising since WordPress is such a popular system that the expectation …
There are many established and startup companies developing deep learning chips. Google and Wave Computing have working silicon and are conducting customer trials. * Wave Computing says its 3U deep learning server can train AlexNet in 40 minutes, three times faster than NVIDIA’s P100 DGX-1 server. * Wave Computing’s claim that its TPU is 1000 …
AI chip Startup Graphcore IPU systems are designed to lower the cost of accelerating AI applicationsA in cloud and enterprise datacenters to increase the performance of both training and inference by up to 100x compared to the fastest systems today. Graphcore systems excel at both training and inference. The highly parallel computational resources together with …