Apple now has a valuation of over $800 billion. It is the most valuable publicly traded company. Google is at $649 billion. Microsoft is at $531 billion. Amazon is at $448 billion Facebook is at $434 billion. Berkshire Hathaway is at $408 billion as the largest non-tech company. Alibaba, the Chinese internet company, is the …
Huochebang, aka Truck Alliance, is a Unicorn private company which is valued at US$1 billion or more. They received another $156 million in funding in a round led by Baidu. At the end of 2016 they had received $115 million in funding. Dai Wenjian, Huochebang’s founder, told a Beijing forum last month the company has …
The Wall Street Journal reports that Elon Musk has revealed that he started a brain-computer interface company called Neuralink. The company has no public presence. It will creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain for mind computer interfaces. @elonmusk What abour neural lace? Announcement soon? — Revol Devoleb (@BelovedRevol) January 25, 2017 …
One of the main factors driving the OBOR (One Belt One Road) effort is the slowdown in China’s own economy. The Communist Party is striving to transition away from growth led by investment and exports to development led by domestic consumer demand and services, and to keep growth at more sustainable levels than in the …
China has a program of bonuses and funding to recruit top scientific talent 1. The “Thousand Talents Program” Scientists (1) Long Term Talents: The employee shall receive a personal funding package of 1 million RMB (US$144,000) from the nation’s central budget and 3 million RMB ((US$432,000) from CAS special talents funds. (2) Short Term Talents: …
The first Death Star had a diameter of between 140 and 160 kilometers. The second Death Star’s diameter ranged from 160 to 900 kilometers. There are two near term technologies which could be applied to making Death Star sized structures: 1. Space bubbles 2. Robotic spiderfab construction Giant Space Bubbles Bubbles on earth have been …
1. The US Navy is having difficulties with its latest aircraft carrier’s Electromagnetic Aircraft Launching System (EMALS) – the same system which the UK mooted fitting to its new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers. The US Department of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOTE) revealed yesterday, in its end-of-year report [PDF] for financial year 2016, that the EMALS …
The future “Summit” pre-exascale supercomputer that is being built out in late 2017 and early 2018 for the US Department of Energy for its Oak Ridge National Laboratory looks like a giant cluster of systems that might be used for training neural networks. And that is an extremely convenient development. More than once during the …
In 2011, Foxconn had announced a plan to replace 500,000 mainland Chinese workers with 1 million robots over the next 3-5 years. Foxconn is the company that builds Apple’s iPhone and iPad hardware and many of the android smartphones as well. Foxconn, has so far installed 40,000 production robots across China as it looks to …
DARPA is seeking to have each camera pixel where each pixel is a smart pixel with 1,000 integrated transistors, which provide each and every pixel with a tiny reprogrammable brain of its own. This could mean selecting between different thermal (infrared) emissions or different resolutions or frame rates, or even collecting 3-D LIDAR data for …
Tesla Motors second master plan is Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning Enable your car to make money for you when you aren’t using it Tesla plans …