China is set to become more proactive in efforts to ensure global security and make a positive contribution, with a target of achieving cross-strait unification before the People’s Republic of China marks the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2049. The ultimate goal in Xi’s strategy is to establish China as a developed country by …
The National Interest looked at the future defense market race between Russia and China from the aspect of improving equipment from China. China is developing competitive equipment in the form of J17 and J31 fighters and submarines and tanks. If the gear is not competitive or better than Russian gear than China will not be …
IBM Research today announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE), could result in the ability to place more than 20 billion tiny switches …
Martin Jetpack is the world’s first practical jetpack, with potential search and rescue, military, recreational and commercial applications, both manned and unmanned. Four agreements signed by Martin Aircraft at the Paris Airshow : 1. An agreement with Beijing Flying Man Science and Technology Ltd involves the parties working towards the future delivery of a Martin …
HLI (Human Longevity Inc) is building the world’s largest human genome sequencing center in the world. Along with computing advances, DNA sequencing has seen an explosion of next generation technologies that are enabling faster and better sequencing of human genomes. HLI has initially purchased two Illumina HiSeq X Ten Sequencing Systems (with the option for …
There have been proposals to have a new class of seabed operating military submarines. They operate undetected on the ocean floor where hills and rocks reflect sonar and magnetic detection. The average depth of the ocean is about 14,000 feet. The pressure on a submarine’s hull increases with depth, limiting the depth below the ocean …
IBM scientists today unveiled two critical advances towards the realization of a practical quantum computer. For the first time, they showed the ability to detect and measure both kinds of quantum errors simultaneously, as well as demonstrated a new, square quantum bit circuit design that is the only physical architecture that could successfully scale to …
Craig Venter gives a keynote talk at a DARPA event. He describes the work to get a highly precise set of genome sequences. Genomes have been sequenced using methods with more errors. Now they are going back to sequence with longer and more precise reads. He discusses various projects for artificial chromosomes and cells. He …
The military is likely to buy fewer fifth generation T-50 fighters, scaling back requirements to 12 after initially planning for 52, due to economic considerations, Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov has said. Russia will buy only 12 fighters initially and, after their operational testing and commissioning, will decide on how many more aircraft of this …
One of the world’s preëminent biomedical researchers is calling for a concerted effort by scientists to develop pills that would stay in the stomach or gut for weeks or months once swallowed, delivering one or more drugs continuously or over set intervals.+ Such “super pills” would greatly simplify the treatment of diseases such as malaria. …
For the first time, physicists have performed machine learning on a photonic quantum computer, demonstrating that quantum computers may be able to exponentially speed up the rate at which certain machine learning tasks are performed—in some cases, reducing the time from hundreds of thousands of years to mere seconds. The new method takes advantage of …