How Big Can a Black Hole Grow? The discovery of mega black holes within the last few years that prompted Andrew King of the University of Leicester, UK to look at the subject. The heaviest black holes we’ve now seen have a mass of up to 40 billion times that of our sun, which led …
Tesla Motors has chosen Nevada as the site for its proposed $5 billion “gigafactory” battery plant. Tesla has already excavated on the presumed site at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, roughly a four-hour drive from Tesla’s Fremont factory. Casinos — which need a lot of electricity — could be prime customers of Tesla’s energy storage …
Solve for X: People accelerating progress on technology moonshots. Natural gas would be far more useful if we could store it. Now we have to use high pressure or refrigeration. Metal organic frameworks can be used for storage and separation. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. …
Google has acquired artificial-intelligence company DeepMind Technologies Ltd. The tech website Recode reported that Google paid $400 million for the startup based in London. DeepMind describes itself as a “cutting edge artificial intelligence company. They combine the best techniques from machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms. The company was founded …
Planetary Resources Kickerstarter has over 10,000 backers and $896,000 raised with 16 days to go. 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 popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked …
There was a Salon article that talked about manned space flight ending just because the space shuttle was being retired. There is certainly a lot more that can be done with robotic exploration of space but the article is completely wrong to predict the end of manned space flight. In fact we are at the …
Here is the William Andregg interview by Sander Olson. Mr. Andregg is the CEO and founder of Halcyon Molecular. Along with his brother, Michael, William invented the core polymer placement technology which allows rapid and inexpensive sequencing of DNA. Mr. Andregg is confident that by 2015 complete human genomes will be sequenced for only $1,000. …