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Spacex Falcon 9 Block 5 targets 24 hour turnaround, no refurbishment reuse and relaunch a dozen times

Posted in Business on 30th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

The Falcon 9 Block 5 is expected to be far more reusable than the Block 3. Shotwell said a Block 5 booster could relaunch 'a dozen or so times.'

Baidu and China Life set up US$1 billion AI fund

Posted in Business on 30th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

China Life and Baidu (China Search engine company) will set up a US$1 billion investment fund in Artificial Intelligence and Fintech.

Musk startup 'to spend 00m' linking human brains to computers

Posted in Business on 29th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

Filing shows Neuralink company has raised almost $27m so far from 12 investors - but Musk denies it is seeking outside backers.

Next gen satellites will count people 40 times a day at desired spots anywhere on earth

Posted in Science on 29th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

DigitalGlobe will launch the WorldView Legion constellation of satellites from 2020 to 2021.

Icy molecules hold 25,000 gigabytes in a space the size of a quarter

Posted in Science on 28th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

A major breakthrough in the field of molecular data storage proving that high volumes of data can effectively be stored in individual molecules.