Germany Has Passed Japan for Third Largest World Economy

Official data has reports Japan economy in 2023 was $4.2 trillion in 2023, while Germany’s was $4.5 trillion. The U.S., the world’s largest economy, is expected to grow 5.8% to $26.94 trillion. China’s economy, the world’s second-largest, is forecast to shrink 1.0% to $17.7 trillion. Germany tripled from the 1990s to today. The Japan and …

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US and UK Retaliate Striking Houthis in Yemen After Over 130 Attacks on US Military

The US and Britain began launching strikes Thursday against Houthis-linked targets in Yemen — just days after the Iran-backed rebels carried out their largest attack to date on shipping vessels in the Red Sea. The Houthis had targeted 27 commercial ships to date. The most recent (on Tuesday) Houthis attack used 18 drones and three …

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Breakthroughs for Hydrogen Powered Passenger Planes

Rolls-Royce has identified three technology challenges to enable hydrogen for use in aviation: fuel combustion, fuel delivery and fuel systems integration with an engine. All elements must be confirmed to operate safely. Rolls-Royce’s facility at Solihull, UK is started tests to prove aerospace cryogenic liquid hydrogen pump systems. These will address a key engineering challenge …

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Theoretical Faster Than Light Communication Using a Microscopic Warp Tube

Warp-drives are solutions of general relativity widely considered unphysical due to high negative energy requirements. Most research has focused on macroscopic solutions towards the goal of interstellar travel but faster than light communications is far more practical. The warping effect would only need to be large enough to send through particles or laser communication. The …

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SimStriker Combat Target Robot Will Add ChatGPT

The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD), through the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), wants to add OpenAI’s ChatGPT system into SimStriker combat target robots. The Target robot will be able to have synthetic conversations’ with the soldiers and their equipment, such as through social media feeds. Training sessions can be more varied, dynamic and immersive, …

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UK Launches Major Quantum Computing Strategies and Goals

The UK has announced five major quantum computing missions. The UK Quantum Computing Missions Mission 1 By 2035, there will be accessible, UK-based quantum computers capable of running 1 trillion operations and supporting applications that provide benefits well in excess of classical supercomputers across key sectors of the economy. Mission 2 By 2035, the UK …

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HP And Nvidia Will Supply the UK With a 21 Exaflop AI Supercomputer

Isambard-AI will be built using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, a next-generation platform architected to support unprecedented performance and scale, and consist of 5,448 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips which combine NVIDIA’s Arm-based Grace CPU with a Hopper-based GPU optimized for power efficiency and giant-scale AI, along with the latest HPE Slingshot 11 interconnect, and …

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Ukraine Used UK Cruise Missiles to Destroy Russian Kilo Submarine and Landing Ship in Dry Dock

Ukraine used ten UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles to destroy a Russian Kilo Submarine and a landing ship in a Sevastopol dry dock. They were on land in dry dock for repairs. Ukraine fired ten missiles and three got through. Ukraine had taken out a S-400 anti-missile battery in north western Crimea and occupied two …

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Pulsar Fusion Rocket to Move Astronauts 20 Times Faster Than Ever Before

Pulsar Fusion is creating fusion rocket able to move astronauts at 500,000 mph which is twenty times faster than the 24,791 mph speed of fastest a crewed rocket has ever flown. The company has raised over $133 million in funding across 19 funding rounds with 65 investors. Pulsar recently partnered with aerospace R&D company Princeton …

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Apple, WhatsApp and Signal Will Refuse UK Government Backdoor into Encrypted Messaging

The UK government wants a backdoor into end-to-end encryption communication applications, but Apple says they would rather remove iMessenger and Facetime from iPhones in the UK. Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. The UK …

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