Guangdong Hong Kong Macau economies to be tightly integrated and surpass Tokyo

China plans to turn the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau greater bay area into the world’s largest bay area in terms of GDP by 2030. This would mean surpassing Tokyo, New York and the San Francisco bay area economies. In 2016 combined regional GDP of the greater Guandong-Hong Kong and Macao bay area was 9.35 trillion yuan (US$1.38 …

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Spacex will delay their first unmanned Red Dragon Mars mission until 2020

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed today that SpaceX is now targeting the year 2020 for the Mars trip, a move that will allow the company to better focus on its other ambitious projects. Spacex will focus more heavily on their crew program and their Falcon Heavy program. Trips to Mars are best launched every 26 …

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World’s first 1,000-processor chip

A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors. The KiloCore was presented at the 2016 Symposium on VLSI …

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Solar power from hydrogen filled balloons could gather cloudless solar power and provide hydrogen fuel cell power at night

Electro-chemist Jean-François Guillemoles is developing solar energy from balloons that will float above the clouds for uninterrupted energy production during the day. The main problem with photovoltaic energy is that sunlight can be obscured by clouds, which makes electrical production intermittent and uncertain. But above the cloud cover, the sun shines all day, every day. …

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Accelerated wound healing by injectable microporous gel

Nature Materials – Accelerated wound healing by injectable microporous gel scaffolds assembled from annealed building blocks Injectable hydrogels can provide a scaffold for in situ tissue regrowth and regeneration, yet gel degradation before tissue reformation limits the gels’ ability to provide physical support. Here, we show that this shortcoming can be circumvented through an injectable, …

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Ukraine-Russia War spins up Cold War 2.0 and New tanks are back in national budgets

The German Parliament approved a proposal to develop a new generation of tanks. The program will be included in the medium-term planning of the German Ministry of Defense. The decision comes amid tensions from the “Ukrainian crisis” where the number of Leopard 2A6 tanks 225/7 that the Bundeswehr (German military) aims to maintain operational would …

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The other reusable rocket company Blue Origin says new BE-4 engine should be flying payload to orbit in 2019

Jeff Bezos says his vision is he wants to see millions of people living and working in space. Bezos’ private spaceflight company Blue Origin is currently working with the United Launch Alliance (ULA) to build a new liquid rocket engine called the BE-4. They plan to have rockets flying payloads with the new engine in …

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IBM investing $3 billion to create 7 nanometer and beyond technology over the next 5-10 years to Quantum Computing, Neurosynaptic Computing, Silicon Photonics, Graphene and more

IBM announced it is investing $3 billion over the next 5 years in two broad research and early stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and Big Data systems. These investments will push IBM’s semiconductor innovations from today’s breakthroughs into the advanced technology …

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NASA Test Bed for Growing Earth Life on Mars to be developed

A Mars Ecopoiesis Test Bed concept is proposed for development in a three-phase program concluding with a device for studying the survival of terrestrial life forms on the surface of Mars prior to abiological planetary engineering. Ecopoiesis is the concept of initiating life in a new place; more precisely, the creation of an ecosystem capable …

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Elon Musk says Flying Cars are easy and he will probably make some for the fun of it and 2 or 3 submarine cars

Elon Musk says making a flying car would be easy. “Maybe we’ll make a flying car, just for fun,” said Elon Musk during the interview with the Independent UK. “I’ve thought about it quite a lot, we could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how …

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India is at about the level of Africa and China is near the level of Latin America with Mexico based on per capita GDP

The World Bank 2011 purchasing power parity GDP numbers show that Africa has a similar economic profile to India and Latin America and Mexico are similar to China. In 2011, India had per capita GDP PPP of $4735 and exchange rate per capita GDP of $1533 and a population of 1.216 billion. In 2011, Africa …

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