I was told by email by Geordie Rose that the deal with Lockheed Martin concluded in November of 2010. A bet that I made back in 2006 was accurate. Bet 266 – “There will be a quantum computer with over 100 qubits of processing capability sold either as a hardware system or whose use is …
In a dramatic reversal, China’s State Council, or cabinet, announced Wednesday that it was suspending approval for all new nuclear power plants until the government could issue revised safety rules, in light of the unfolding crisis at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. I will bet that China will not cancel nuclear reactors. Also note …
Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa) – part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti) – said that out of about 100 residents evacuated from Futaba by buses, nine people were found to have been exposed. The pathway of their exposure is currently under investigation. Radiation levels have been monitored across the …
There will be a new conference called the Compass Summit which is an outgrowth of the Techonomy conference which I attended in August of 2010 Compass Summit will take place Oct. 24-26 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. Compass Summit is created by four of the original founders of Techonomy in an …
The US Department of Energy and the Obama administration of released a plan to get 1 million electric vehicles by 2015 I have proposed for lightweight (electric bikes and trike pod cars). It will be a cheaper and faster rollout. Cheaper since there would be less subsidy per vehicle. Also, besides subsidy carrots there would …
1 US Dollar is now 6.5560 chinese yuan. This is a new high for the yuan. It could mean that China is strengthening the yuan to dampen domestic inflation. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
New Scientist – Artificial intelligence has finally become trustworthy enough to watch over everything from nuclear bombs to premature babies. Given the choice between a flesh-and-blood doctor and an artificial intelligence system for diagnosing diseases, Pedro Domingos is willing to stake his life on AI. “I’d trust the machine more than I’d trust the doctor,” …
Canalys today published its final Q4 2010 global country-level smart phone market data, which revealed that Google’s Android has become the leading platform. Shipments of Android-based smart phones reached 32.9 million, while devices running Nokia’s Symbian platform trailed slightly at 31.0 million worldwide. But Nokia did retain its position as the leading global smart phone …
As many as 150 people have been killed in the unrest, Ibrahim al-Zafarani, head of the rescue and emergency committee at the Arab medical union. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with top military commanders as tens of thousands of protesters defied a curfew and gathered in central Cairo, chanting slogans against the prime minister and …
Arxiv – Extraction of timelike entanglement from the quantum vacuum Recently, it has been shown that the massless quantum vacuum state contains entanglement between timelike separated regions of spacetime, in addition to the entanglement between the spacelike separated regions usually considered. Here, we show that timelike entanglement can be extracted from the Minkowski vacuum and …
Researchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have demonstrated bio-inspired structures that self-assemble from simple building blocks: spheres. The helical “supermolecules” are made of tiny colloid balls instead of atoms or molecules. Similar methods could be used to make new materials with the functionality of complex colloidal molecules. The team will publish its …