The SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket should be the next mission launched in one week by SpaceX. The Block5 should have up to ten reuses of the first stage. Falcon 9 Block 5 static fire test complete ahead of next week’s launch of Bangladesh’s first geostationary communications satellite. Vehicle is healthy. Data review will …
Goldman Sachs is preparing a Bitcoin trading desk. Goldman has concluded that Bitcoin is not a fraud and does not have the characteristics of a currency. But a number of clients wanted to hold it as a valuable commodity, similar to gold, given the limited quantity of Bitcoin that can ever be “mined” in a …
The Japan Center for Economic Research released a medium-term economic forecast for Asia from 2018-2030. India, Vietnam and Philippines should have high economic growth through 2030. In the baseline scenario, Indonesia should reach global upper middle-income level (over $4000 per person) in 2019 and the Philippines in 2022 and Vietnam around 2029. India will not …
A study of Finnish adults found that hitting the sauna four times a week lowered stroke risk, echoing previous research that found heat therapy has positive effects on the cardiovascular system. Older adults who like to bask in the heat of a sauna may be less likely to suffer a stroke, a new study suggests. …
Alibaba’s 2018 first-quarter revenue grew 61 percent to 61.9 billion yuan ($9.73 billion) from a year earlier, beating analyst estimates of a 53 percent increase. The results mark two years of continuous quarterly revenue growth above 50 percent for Alibaba, even as new business investments in offline retail, cloud computing, and overseas expansion continue to …
Artist drawings for China’s JH-XX supersonic stealth bomber appeared on the May 2018’s Aerospace Knowledge magazine cover. Aerospace Knowledge is China’s leading aviation magazine. The supersonic stealth bomber appears to be following Russia’s TU-160 or the US B1-B bombers. Nextbigfuture expects that China will build both a subsonic H-20 long-range stealth bomber like the US …
Artist drawings for China’s JH-XX supersonic stealth bomber appeared on the May 2018’s Aerospace Knowledge magazine cover. Aerospace Knowledge is China’s leading aviation magazine. The supersonic stealth bomber appears to be following Russia’s TU-160 or the US B1-B bombers. Nextbigfuture expects that China will build both a subsonic H-20 long-range stealth bomber like the US …
China is developing the H20 long-range stealth bomber and one version could copy the US B2 bomber and another the Russian Tu-160. Above – H-20 impression from Artist Bai Wei. H-20 art put together information from Chinese research articles and info leaks to produce this speculative picture of the H-20 stealth bomber. Bai Wei China …
Shoppers are shifting multi-national brands to retail store brand products. For the first time in over a decade, shoppers in the U.S. actually made more trips to stores in 2016, taking an average of 109 trips per household. Despite this increase in trips, however, overall spending was flat, as 85% of those additional trips had …
Deloittes Global Powers of Retailing identifies the 250 largest retailers around the world based on publicly available data for FY2016 (fiscal years ended through June 2017), and analyzes their performance across geographies and product sectors. It also provides a global economic outlook and looks at the 50 fastest-growing retailers and new entrants to the Top …
Twitter advises all Twitter users to change their password. Twitter exposed all user passwords via a bug that stored passwords in plain text — without protecting them with any sort of encryption technology that would mask a Twitter user’s true password. A letter to all Twitter users posted by Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal Twitter advises: …