DARPA investigates robots and other tech to build tunnels faster and safer

MIT presents new approach that improves resolution of self driving car sensors by a thousand fold

Engineered Stem Cells repaired spinal cords in 5 out of 12 Rats

AI, Automation, Digital Finance, Blockchain could boost global GDP growth by over 2% per year

Tesla announces plans to add hundreds of all electric service vans

Paper-based supercapacitor set to power up wearable devices

Rice University adds a bit of asphalt to speed lithium metal battery charging by 20 times - "What is equally remarkable is that we can bring them from zero charge to full charge in five minutes, rather than the typical two hours or more needed with other batteries."

China dominates generation 3+ nuclear reactors

FCC Proposed 10 Mbps wireless download speed is Nigeria’s download speed

FCC wants to lower high speed internet definition and standards

Caltech engineers developed a new camera that manipulates incoming light to capture image

New way of processing steel produces higher quality and thinner sheets

5G trials done outdoors to prepare for deployment in early 2020

George Church indicates reversal of aging will be a reality within ten years

Deepmind AI targets Starcraft

Amazon will launch app that matches truck drivers to shippers

China says tests of Propellentless EMDrive on Tiangong 2 space station were successful

Cannae will try to prove propellentless propulsion in space in 2017 and has ambitious space probe designs with 33 years of constant acceleration to reach 3% of lightspeed

Harvard researchers created solid metallic hydrogen in the lab

Nvidia Xavier chip 20 trillion operations per second of deep learning performance and uses 20 watts which means 50 chips would be a petaOP at a kilowatt

Nuclear Energy Startups want to make nuclear energy radically less expensive like Spacex has made orbital launch cheaper

New NASA Emdrive paper shows force of 1.2 millinewtons per kilowatt

Intel will deliver 100X increase in deep learning training - Intel will test the first AI-specific hardware, code-named “Lake Crest,” in the first half of 2017.

Modular Exoskeleton reduces muscle force need for hard labor by 2.5 times, workplace version available now and medical version in early 2018

Harvard researchers created solid metallic hydrogen in the lab and studied it - This is already huge but could be fantastic if properties are as predicted

Accelerating Universe Expansion evidence is much weaker 20 years later with analysis of over ten times the number of Type Ia supernovae

China plans to build high speed rail 340 feet below The Great Wall

US Army will begin 50 Kilowatt laser testing in 2017 and then advance to 100 kilowatt tests and deployments through 2021

Time crystals - objects whose structure would repeat periodically, as with an ordinary crystal, but in time rather than in space - may exist after all.

Boeing testing blended wing plane for potential new super-efficient subsonic plane within 10 years

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