35 Year Satellite Time Lapse of Chinese and US Cities and Dubai

Google Earth Timelapse (https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/) lets you view all the locations on earth to see how they have changed over the last 35 years. The San Francisco Bay Area Las Vegas You can also look at glaciers. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. …

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Elon Ten Kilometer Vacuum Hyperloop Tunnel and 35 Kilometer Saudi Hyperloop Test Track

Elon Musk tweeted that a 10-kilometer hyperloop track with a full vacuum tunnel and a curve will be built. It will be built by The Boring Company with SpaceX. They currently have a 1.6 km (1 mi) track. Elon Musk indicates that they will have the 10-kilometer track by next year. Virgin Hyperloop One and …

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Dubai will use blockchain to streamline judicial processes with Court of the Blockchain

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts and Smart Dubai are making the first Court of the Blockchain. They will expand existing dispute resolution services and explore how to aid verification of court judgments for cross-border enforcement. The plan is to streamline the judicial process, removing document duplications, and driving greater efficiencies across the entire …

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Undaunted by speederbike crashes at Battle of Endor, Dubai Police will use Russian Hoverbikes

Dubai police have announced they will soon have officers buzzing around the skies on Star Wars-style electric hoverbikes capable of speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour. The Hoversurf Scorpion was unveiled at the Gitex Technology Week conference. The Russian-made craft can fly at a height of five metres and carry a police officer …

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Russia has test fired an ICBM with a hypersonic glider warhead

Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces has test fired a RS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile on October 25, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Russian military analysts believe that the launch was a test of a new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), the YU-71, also known as Project 4202, a warhead purportedly capable of penetrating any missile defense …

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Burj Al Meel Mile high Skyscraper will be the Skyscraper Built by the Bailout of Citigroup

Kingdom Holding Company plans to build the Mile High Tower (Burj Al Meel) in Jeddah. The Mile High Tower could reach a height of 1,600 meters (one mile), the total built up area is 170,000 sq.m. The tower is part of the Kingdom City, a community development including residential units, commercial space, office area, education …

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Quantum Computer Algorithms for Exponentially Speeding the Solution of Linear and Differential Equations

In a paper appearing today in Physical Review Letters, however, MIT researchers present a new algorithm that could exponential speed solutions of systems of linear equations — whose solution is crucial to image processing, video processing, signal processing, robot control, weather modeling, genetic analysis and population analysis, to name just a few applications. Researchers at …

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Proposed Free Standing Inflatable Tower to Reach 20 to 200 kilometers

7 meter proof of concept Inflatable pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower. Brendan Quine, Raj Seth and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada, wrote in Acta Astronautica (DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.02.018) “A free-standing space elevator structure: A practical alternative to the space tether”. If built from a …

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Blacklight Power Signs First Commercial Deal with Estacado Energy

BlackLight Power (BLP) Inc. today announced its first commercial license agreement with Estacado Energy Services, Inc. in New Mexico, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative, (Estacado). In a non-exclusive agreement, BLP has licensed Estacado to use the BlackLight Process and certain BLP energy technology for the production of thermal or electric power. Estacado …

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