NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge. They had both exterior and interior designs. Team Zopherus from Rogers, Arkansas, was the first-place winner of Phase 3: Level 1 of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. The team’s design includes using a moving printer that deploys rovers to retrieve local materials. They had three …
NASA announced four astronauts who fly aboard the SpaceX crewed dragon. The astronauts for SpaceX mission are Bob Behnken, Col. Doug Hurley, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins. The crewed dragon will likely fly in 2019. Nine U.S. astronauts, eight NASA and one from Boeing, were assigned to the first test flights and operational missions for …
Exchange traded funds can be traded like stocks but they can track any index or type of financial assets. They can track commodities or a basket of stocks or bonds. There are several groups trying to create cryptocurrency ETFs. There is $5 trillion of money currently in ETFs. This is growing at 10 to 20% …
DARPA has selected research teams from academia and industry to explore the development of flexible architectures capable of using specialized hardware to solve specific computing problems more quickly and efficiently. As a part of the ERI Architectures research thrust area, the list of research teams selected for the Software Defined Hardware (SDH) program include Intel, …
DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program will speed up AI development. It will streamline the contracting procedures and funding mechanisms to achieve a start date within three months of an opportunity announcement. Researchers will then work to establish the feasibility of new AI concepts within 18 months of award. Through this nimble approach to exploring …
DARPA has revealed the research teams selected to drive two efforts to go beyond Moore’s law. DARPA’s $1.5 billion Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) wants to jumpstart innovation in the electronics industry. Three Dimensional Monolithic System-on-a-Chip (3DSoC) program has groups from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Skywater Technology Foundry …
In June, 2018, 117 of the 500 most powerful supercomputers included in the TOP500 are Lenovo installations. Nearly one out of every four systems (23.4 percent) on the prestigious list is a Lenovo solution. Most are built with 4 terabyte SD530 nodes that cost about $10,000 each. 1500 SD530 nodes make up a C$18,000 3 …
There was an anti-violence demonstration in Chicago which also called for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign. Chicago has had more total murders in 2016, 2017 and 2018 than the combined populations of Los Angeles and Chicago. This is despite having 4.6 times fewer people. There have been 304 murders in Chicago up until July 31, …
The CBO has analyzed what might happen to the budget deficit if key economic variables differed from those in the agency’s current economic forecast: The growth of productivity and, consequently, the growth of real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP); Labor force growth and, in turn, real economic growth; Interest rates; and Inflation. The White House …
It’s going to cost the mobile-phone companies, chipmakers, device manufacturers and software developers about $200 billion a year in research and capital spending to get 5G fully deployed. Next generation space-based satellites could entirely replace the ground-based fiber and cell towers as a lower cost and more maintainable infrastructure. There are some estimates that mass …
Every other Space Agency in the world knows that SpaceX has won with reusable rockets. All of the existing non-reusable rockets cannot compete. The Japanese, Chinese, Europeans and Russians know that SpaceX is going to take all of the commercial space launch. SpaceX already has over half of the commercial space launch. The US just …