Defense One Technology Editor Patrick Tucker has reported on August 2017 meetings between US Defense Secretary James Mattis and Google founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai. Over a half day of meetings, Google leaders described the company’s multi-year transition to cloud computing and how it was helping them develop into a powerhouse for research …
Ada Diamonds offers only laboratory-grown diamonds in our fine jewelry. Ada’s sustainably cultured diamonds have the exact same crystal structure, chemical composition, optical properties, and physical properties as mined diamond. Ada’s gemstones are graded on the exact same criteria as mined diamonds (the Four Cs), by the same independent gemological laboratories that grade Earth-extracted diamonds. …
Overseas movie box office is needed to provide profitably to almost all movies in 2018. Other than Black Panther, Fifty Shades Free and a Wrinkle in Time there are no other movies that would be profitable with only their domestic box office. Most movies have a budget of $50 million or more. In North America …
One of the stated aims of the Trump trade sanctions is to get China to respect US intellectual property protection. Many U.S. firms have been willing to transfer technology in return for access to China’s labor and consumer markets. US sanctions did hurt ZTE. Most companies are not as protective as SpaceX about innovation and …
Donald Trump slapped tariffs on at least $50 billion in Chinese imports. China has said that they will retaliate. China announced a 25 percent levy on U.S. pork imports — a heavy blow to Iowa, the top pork-producing state and a political battleground. China could hit airplanes, cars, technology and agriculture products. The US exports …
Singapores sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte is one of the largest public sovereign wealth fund in the world and manages over $398 billion. The fund is giving it equal attention to Chinese technology companies and to Silicon valley technology companies. GIC invested in Alibaba before its 2014 IPO — the stock has since almost tripled …
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group bought flying car company Terrafugia in 2017 and they are planning to bring commercially sell the first flying car in 2019, in the United States. Geely is also the parent company of Volvo. They will bring the roadable plane that they have been flying for several years to market. There are …
Foxconn Industrial Internet, a unit of the world’s biggest contract manufacturer whose products include Apple’s iPhones, was put on the fast track for securing the approval by China’s securities regulator to raise capital through an initial public offering. The unit of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry has been approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission …
Uber has been sending self-driving trucks on delivery runs across Arizona since November. . After testing its technology earlier in 2017, Uber began contracting with trucking companies to use its own autonomous Volvo big rigs to take overloads as they traverse the state, it disclosed. In Uber‘s current program, human truckers meet the self-driving truck …
96.5 percent of all of those trying to become YouTubers won’t make enough money off of advertising to crack the U.S. poverty line, according to research by Mathias Bärtl, a professor at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg. Breaking into the top 3 percent of most-viewed channels could bring in advertising revenue of about …
Customizable smallsats can cost as little as $11,000 these day. Planet Labs now operates more than 200 Earth-observing smallsats for governments, agricultural companies, investment firms and others. 6,200 smallsats are expected to be launch over the next two decades. This does not count possibly tens of thousands of small internet satellites. Most smallsat operators buy …