Actor Bill Paxton, age 61, has died due to complications from surgery. Bill Paxton had important roles in several of the best movies Hudson in Aliens Morgan Earp in Tombstone (1993) Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995) the lead role in the 1996 hit Twister and Treasure hunter Brock Lovett in Titanic (1997) John Garrett …
The Nanode™ is a three-dimensional, nano-structured, porous electrode that will overcome the limitations of today’s batteries by storing as much as 50% more energy than existing technologies. This allows the batteries to last longer between charges while also charging faster. These achievements are due to both the material structure and the use of tin as …
Apple is nearing a $700 billion valuation. Google is at a $577 billion valuation The largest publicly traded companies are as follows 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 #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology …
The People’s Liberation Army’s Navy is growing fast but we should expect it to grow even faster. The UK Royal United Services Institute expects China to reach a 500 ship navy. The 500 warships will include aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, amphibious ships and a burgeoning frigate and destroyer force. Just in the past three weeks …
A new deal has the price of the F35A jet below $100 million for the first time Lockheed said in a statement that the increase in production this marks, “enables us to reduce costs by taking advantage of economies of scale and production efficiencies.” For those who haven’t been reading us regularly, the statement also …
The Breakthrough Starshot is an effort backed by US$100 million from Russian investor Yuri Milner to vastly accelerate research and development of an interstellar space probe. Leaders of the mission plan to start funding technology-development projects within months, with the aim of launching a fleet of tiny, laser-propelled probes in the next 20 years. The …
Five finalist teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE have been set, and they all have rocket launch contracts to go to the Moon in 2017. $30 million in prizes is on the line, including the $20 million grand prize for whoever gets there first (and completes the competition goals), and these teams are employing a …
The U.S. Navy is moving at warp speed to develop lasers with more lethality, precision and power sources as a way to destroy attacking missiles, drones aircraft and other threats. The USNavy plans to fire a 150-kw weapon off a test ship within a year, he said. “Then a year later, we’ll have that on …
Achieving the transformation to sustainable agriculture is a major challenge. Changes will need to be made in a way that does not jeopardize the capacity of the agriculture sectors crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry – to meet the world’s food needs. Global food demand in 2050 is projected to increase by at least 60 percent …
One of Ray Kurzweil’s predictions on the path to the Technological Singularity is that Artificial intelligence will be making art and music. Ray Kurzweil’s “2019” predictions which actually are 2011 to 2029 predictions that are on the Technological Singularity timeline are below. Using AI is one of the geekiest ways to make tunes, and has …
Eric talks about 7 big moonshots 1. Replacing beef with plants and synthetic food production Cows have a lot of methane. Synthetic food production 2. 3D printing and factory produced buildings. It takes 18 months or longer to build a house. Better built buildings and make them 100% recyclable 3. Virtual reality and Augmented Reality …