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Researchers have built a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter. Titanium is as strong as steel but about twice as light. This new material is strong as steel but ten times lighter. The empty space of the pores, and the self-assembly process in which they’re made, make the porous metal akin to a natural material, such as wood. The work was by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Cambridge. Read more The post Porous Nickel is as Strong as Titanium and Five Times Lighter appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Human, Klingon, Vulcan. Whatever you are, wherever you are, on Star Trek: Discovery , you’ve probably got some really messed-up family stuff to work out. Read more...

David Sinclair is working on various anti-aging molecules. He was famous for discovering the anti-aging effect of resveratrol and sirtuins. In 2013, GlaxoSmithKline shut dow Sirtris about five years after spending $720 million to buy the company. His antiaging regimen is to activate pathways to improve the bodies defenses against aging. He is testing NMN on human subjects. He describes NMN is fuel for sirtuins. NMN is related to NR. NR increases the levels of NAD. Sirtuins need NAD to work. We lose NAD as we age. We have half of the NAD by the time we are 50. He The post Anti-Aging Researcher David Sinclair Takes Metformin, NMN, NAD for Longevity appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Today, if I told you that someone in 1950s New Mexico saw mysterious lights in the sky, we’d have the same thought: aliens . The infamous 1947 Roswell incident and its cultural saturation in the decades since has made sure of that. But, if you were living it, would you know? What would you believe? That mystery and… Read more...

I can believe a child with dark matter shrapnel in her head can create a deadly dreamscape and plot to murder adults. I can believe a man can run faster than the eye can see. I can believe that someone out there in the multiverse would really date Sherloque Wells. But The Flash just stretched believability by… Read more...

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Scientists working with the Curiosity rover used a piece of its navigation equipment—an accelerometer like the one in your cellphone—in order to make an important measurement about Mars’ mysterious geology. Read more...

Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, technologist, and entrepreneur. She co-founded Socos, where machine learning and cognitive neuroscience are combined to maximize students’ life outcomes. She sits on the boards of StartOut, The Palm Center, Emozia, Engender, and Genderis Inc., and is a Chief Science Advisor to Cornerstone Capital, Platypus Institute, Shiftgig, and Bayes Impact. Vivienne has developed a predictive model of diabetes to better manage the glucose levels of her diabetic son and systems to predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers. Vivienne defines artificial intelligence as an immensely powerful tool. AI is not the same old thing. AI is The post Defined, Complex Systems Will Get Automated by AI Which is 80% of Law and Finance Jobs appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Long after the rest of the universe has succumbed to heat death, Supernatural will still somehow be airing on the CW, because that, seemingly, is the show’s fate. Read more...

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Alita: Battle Angel is an ambitious project, one that’s been years in the making , but the end result falls short. It’s a middling sci-fi drama, fueled by clunky exposition and special effects that might look cool now but won’t hold up. The film’s only saving grace is the actual angel leading the way. Read more...

February may be the shortest month, but it’s jam-packed with new sci-fi and fantasy books—including titles from big names like Marlon James, Ken Liu, and io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders ! Plus: runaway space princesses, mythical monsters, post-apocalyptic survival stories, and tons more, including a few non-fiction… Read more...

You probably have a big-ass battery pack that can keep your phone charged for days, and that’s great! But you should also own one that can fit in your pocket, and this 5,000mAh model from RAVPower fits the bill. Read more...

If there’s one thing consistent in this world, it’s how companies are always finding new and creative ways to shove ads in your face. Hulu’s latest experiment involves a less abrasive strategy than the usual video ad break—it’s going to place static banner ads on the screen when you pause your video starting in the… Read more...

Powered by fifth-generation V-NAND, Samsung's new Universal Flash Storage offers 20x more storage than a 64GB internal memory and 10x the speed of a typical microSD card.

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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is not messing around with the voice cast for his upcoming Amazon animated series , Invincible . Are you ready for this? Read more...

The most magical place on Earth’s pocket of the galaxy far, far away would really, really like it if you did your reading before you visited. Read more...

The UE Boom 2 is the waterproof sequel for one of the best Bluetooth speakers of all time , and Woot’s marked down the Limited Edition version to $60 today , the best price we’ve ever seen (though it was briefly down to $64 new around Black Friday last year). Read more...

Antarctica is the font of bad news that just keeps on giving. Thwaites Glacier, among the most threatened hunks of ice on the continent, is in even more dire straits than previously reported. Its melt from above and below is being aided by newly discovered cavities below the ice, as chronicled in Science Advances on… Read more...

How do you make a disgusting, destructive, digital virus into a character, but still make it okay for a Disney film? It was a tough task, but eventually, the team behind Ralph Breaks the Internet created Double Dan. Read more...

One of the interesting things about Black Lightning ’s second season is the growing presence of new metahumans in Freeland whose abilities don’t seem to be dependent on them using the green light drug. Like Jefferson Pierce, these new metas’ powers come from within, which begs the question—where did they come from? Read more...

There were a lot of Sonos deals around the holidays, but if you missed out on those, their Super Bowl sale could be your last chance to save for quite some time. Read more...

The fossilized remains of an early reptile dating back some 250 million years have been uncovered in the unlikeliest of places: Antarctica. The discovery shows how wildlife recovered after the worst mass extinction in our planet’s history, and how Antarctica once hosted an ecosystem unlike any other. Read more...

A Norwegian distributor of CAT heavy machinery has converted a CAT excavator to electric power using 3.4 tons of batteries. This was 300 kWh of batteries. A Tesla 85 kWh battery pack weighs 1,200 lb (540 kg) and contains 7,104 lithium-ion battery cells in 16 modules wired in series. 340kWh of Tesla batteries would weigh 2.16 tons. Battery powered heavy machinery has a minor contribution to reducing air pollution. 2500 excavators have the air pollution of 60,000 cars. Electric heavy machinery will be useful for space missions and for underground tunnel and mining work. Underground the electric machines will not The post Electric Heavy Equipment is Good for Underground Cities and Space Colonies appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

There are a lot of amazing new movies coming in 2019 , but there’s also a long list of classic, iconic films that will be celebrating significant anniversaries this year. Read more...

Mr. Nancy is, without a doubt, one of the standout characters from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods . Played by Orlando Jones in the Starz series, which is entering its second season , Mr. Nancy (better known as the West African trickster god Anansi) is a complex and dynamic god whose story simply begged for its own saga.… Read more...

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As we reach ever further back for franchises to reboot and re-imagine for the modern age, Hollywood was bound to start diving deep into the realms of cult sci-fi. Now, it’s turning to a nearly 70-year-old British classic for inspiration. Read more...

Researchers used a grainy photograph of a toppled train combined with an eyewitness account to analyze the deadly earthquake that struck San Francisco over 110 years ago. Read more...

Tom Hanks has recorded his last lines for Toy Story 4 . Doctor Sleep and The Witches have been given release dates. Get a new look at Amazon’s take on Hanna . Plus, The Flash dredges up some turmoil for Sherloque, new Star Trek: Discovery pictures, and another clip from Alita: Battle Angel . Spoilers now! Read more...

Today’s Gold Box is discounting a number of Logitech peripherals for work and play, today only. Inside, you’ll find a lot of gaming and work mice, mechanical keyboards, headphones, speakers and a webcam. Read more...

If you haven’t seen Avengers: Infinity War and haven’t been on the internet or spoken to a single living being since the movie came out, be warned, there are spoilers ahead. For everyone else who’s seen the film and its catastrophic ending, Andy Bailey , the talented Laika animator behind the YouTube channel Andymation … Read more...

Elon Musk is projecting volume production of the Tesla Model 3 in China by the end of 2019. Elon Musk believes that they will reach a combined production of 10,000 Model 3 cars per week from the Fremont and China factories. Tesla did announced its second quarter of profitability in row. This would be a 500,000 model 3 cars per year. Elon Musk will unveil the pickup truck in the middle of 2019. Tesla stock is off slightly in after hours trading and is around $300 per share. The post Elon Musk is Targeting Volume Production China by the End of 2019 appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Following her impressive directorial debut with Westworld   episode “ The Riddle of the Sphinx ,” co-executive producer Lisa Joy is stepping behind a much bigger camera to direct her long-awaited science fiction film, Reminiscence— with Hugh Jackman as the film’s possible star. Read more...

The next Batman movie has its release date: June 25, 2021. Read more...

It’s been a while since we last heard from the Parker Solar Probe, the NASA spacecraft voted most likely to end up as a blistered chunk of molten metal. An update from the space agency suggests it’s now all systems go for the Sun-bound probe, which recently began its second of 24 planned stellar orbits. Read more...

It’s been 25 years since Stephen King’s 1978 novel The Stand was adapted into a live-action format. Since then Hollywood has continually been trying to do it again . Now, it’s finally happening. The CBS All Access streaming service has ordered the epic story of good and evil as a 10-episode limited series. Read more...

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Facebook had revenue and profitability problems up until 2016. They had raised many billions of dollars in funding and went public in 2012 with a valuation of about $100 billion. Facebook had many years of problems solving the problem of generating a lot of money from advertising. Facebook needed all the income and revenue that they could get. They targeted children playing video games to make unauthorized in-game purchases for many millions of dollars. from 2011-2015. This chart shows that net income was very low for a company with a $50-100 billion valuation up until about 2015. Facebook Net Income The post Facebook Tricked Kids and Parents for Video Game Purchases appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Comics, shows, and films about people blessed with incredible gifts almost invariably end up telling stories about how understanding the balance between power and responsibility is what keeps them human despite the overly-dramatic lives they lead. Shūichi Asō’s The Disastrous Life of Saiki K dabbles in that space… Read more...

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If you tried to turn on your Xbox One today only to be greeted with a borked boot up sequence and a series of black screens, you’re not the only one. Apparently, there’s an issue with Xbox Live that’s stopping some consoles from being able to start up normally. Read more...

SpaceX is building walls around its Starhopper construction area. Here are some pictures from BocaChicagal at the Nasa Space Forum, Austin Barnard and Maria Pointer via Cowboy Dan’s twitter. Solar power is also being added to the Boca Chica launch area. Currently it appears that the Starhopper and the launch site will most likely be ready in March. Appears SpX is gonna button up entire @SprungBuildings structure. Scaffolding only on Hopper's holes side. #SpaceX (📷 credit: NSF/BocaChicaGal) pic.twitter.com/I3MyfFIvGE — Cowboy Dan (@CowboyDanPaasch) January 30, 2019 Camp #StarHopper lost power same day & wind reasons Hopper's nosecone section went down. SpX The post SpaceX is Enclosing StarHopper Construction appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

In a scientific first, neuroengineers from Columbia University have developed a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognisable speech.

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.” Only time will tell if Shakespeare was truly writing about Enobarbus recounting Mark Anthony’s first meeting with Cleopatra, or the countenance of Sir Patrick Stewart , one of humanity’s most enduring structures. Read more...

At the box office, the King of Atlantis is ruling the waves . Well, DC ’s King of Atlantis is, specifically. Beneath the tides of Hollywood and back in the realm of comic books, however—and at DC’s rival Marvel—another King of Atlantis is undergoing a similar ascendance. Namor’s back, and he’s more intriguing than ever. Read more...

It’s...it’s beautiful. I’ve always kept my batteries loose and scattered across like three different drawers, but this organizer is surely better. It even has a built in battery tester to make it easier to know which batteries need to be recharged or recycled. At $16, it’s also never been cheaper. Read more...

Denisova cave in southern Siberia was home to Neanderthals and Denisovans for thousands of years, but questions remain about the timing of their stay. A pair of new studies traces the history of archaic human occupation at the site, showing who lived there and when—including a possible era during which the two… Read more...

The star-stuffed cast of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune continues to grow. A new report says Zendaya ( Spider-Man: Far From Home ) is in talks to join the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic work. Read more...

Following new allegations that Bryan Singer molested and raped a number of underage teen boys , Millennium Films CEO Avi Lerner came to the director’s defense with a bafflingly-bad public statement citing Bohemian Rhapsody ’s box office success as one of the reasons why Singer is still attached to the studio’s upcoming Red Sonja movie Read more...

The lowkey best part about the Apple Watch is that it’s incredibly easy to change bands, and you can get extras for very cheap, as long as you aren’t buying them in the Apple Store. This leather band comes in a ton of different colors (choose from the dropdown), and is available in both 42/44mm and 38/40mm sizes. Get… Read more...

I played all the way through Kingdom Hearts III . I played it extremely underleveled. I did this because I love a challenge and because I was in a hurry. I also did this for you: my struggle forced me to play the game well. That means, buddy, I got tips. Read more...

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is a visual novel. It’s not filled with colorful illustrations, but reading is certainly a visual experience, one that everybody imagines in their own way. Comic book creator P. Craig Russell has revealed his own vision for The Giver— and, in this interview and exclusive preview, he shares how… Read more...

Batman’s movie appearances of late have focused on the Dark Knight’s more physical side. He’s is, after all, both vengeance and the night, so we’re kinda just used to Batman stalking through shadows and beating the bat-bejesus out of people. But Matt Reeves’ long-percolating Batman film wants to bring Bruce back to… Read more...

Note: You might notice that today’s main post looks a little different. Now, you can find the best deals from today specifically at the top. The Flood, along with some other great deals you may have missed from earlier, are down below. Happy browsing! Read more...

Facebook has stealthily launched a service similar to Onavo Protect, its vampiric psuedo-VPN that claims to protect users’ privacy but actually collects and analyzes their data. This time it’s worse—Facebook is targeting teens to install a similar app via third-party beta testing services, in possible violation of… Read more...

“If you try hard enough, any popular line of toys can be turned into a successful cinematic franchise.” - Old Hollywood proverb. Read more...

Jordan Peele discusses how The Twilight Zone inspired Us . The Babadook ’s Jennifer Kent is working on something scary with Guillermo del Toro . Donna Troy could be getting a costume on Titans . Plush, what’s to come on The Flash and Supergirl , and Billy Eichner talks Lion King duets. To me, my spoilers! Read more...

Bluetooth speaker design has moved beyond basic rectangles of varying sizes of yesteryear: Anker’s new SoundCore speakers are as beautiful as they are functional, and two of them are on sale for the best prices we’ve seen today. Read more...