State-of-the-art stealth technology may be less effective against increasingly modern, next-generation air defenses. Newer technologies for air defenses allow them to detect on multiple frequency bands, network to one another through faster processing speeds and track approaching aircraft at further and further distances. Russia and China are already working on new networked air defenses coupled …
Beijing plans to spend around US$14 billion to build a new airport. It will be completed in 2018. The new airport will have four runways in its first phase and would handle nearly as many passengers as the existing Beijing Capital Airport. The plans have provisions for three additional runways as needed. As many as …
As continued progress of Moore’s Law approaches the next two semiconductor technology nodes, 11 nanometers and 7 nanometers, new metrology instruments — a kind of fine-scaled ruler — is needed to succeed. Since these rulers need to be as much as 10 times more fine than the semiconductors they are measuring the current rulers could …
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, on approach to dwarf planet Ceres, has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of this mysterious world. At a resolution of 8.5 miles (14 kilometers) per pixel, the pictures represent the sharpest images to date of Ceres. After the spacecraft arrives and enters into orbit around the dwarf planet, it will study …
The likely near term situation for when China will pass the exchange rate adjusted GDP for the USA and the collective GDP of Europe is becoming clearer based upon statistical method changes and more clearly apparent currency and GDP projections for the five years. Last month Nextbigfuture had forecast that China would pass Europe on …
The Syfy show Ascension has the premise of a Project Orion generation ship launched in 1963. A 600 person cruise ship size vehicle would not be able to advance the state of the art in computer hardware. All the monitors would remain cathode ray tube. They would not have the means to fabricate a new …
All Chinese couples will be allowed to have a second child in two years, said a researcher who advises the government on birth control policies. “We will fully relax the policy” in two years after an experiment allowing some couples to have a second baby, Cai Fang, a vice director of the Chinese Academy of …
Three weeks ago we covered some predictions for the 2014 Winter Olympics medal count. The Olympics are done The distribution of events did make it tougher to extrapolate as Russia did far better in the last half of the games. Russia outperformed. Russia picked up 2 to 5 extra medals (or at least higher medals) …
2014 will be the first year that global defence budgets will grow overall since 2009, according to the IHS Jane’s Annual Defence Budgets Review from IHS Inc the leading global source of information and analytics. Total global defence spending in 2014 will be USD1.547 trillion up from USD 1.538 trillion in 2013 – 0.6% increase …
There was an internet rumor of two Star Trek TV shows with plots related to future police shows. These rumors are not credible to me. J.J. Abrams has said CBS Is ‘Not Interested’ in a new Star Trek TV series. Sparked by the success of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series, Abrams wasn’t optimistic about Star …
Samsung’s currently has a 85-inch Ultra HD display is priced at $40,000, while LG has a 84-inch Ultra HD display priced at $17,000. LG Electronics and Samsung have each announced new 105-inch Ultra HD TV displays. Both call their new displays the first and largest curved Ultra HD TVs so far. Each of the LCD …