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I answered a question on Quora about why is nuclear power generating more power than solar energy ? Nuclear generates over 2500 TWh and solar is at 500 TWh and heading to 900 TWh globally in 2022. Current bids for new nuclear power plants in China fell below $2000/kW in 2016. China’s Hualong reactor’s estimated per GW construction cost of US$2.5 billion. China has 43 GW of reactors and will be completing 11 more reactors for about 13 GW of power. 40GW of reactors generated 285 TWh of power in 2018. China built those for about $90–110 billion. A GW

Every year, networks get ready for the fall season with a “hot” list of new television shows. Usually, the final lineups are culled from a slough of pilot episodes, spec scripts, and at least one person’s crushed hopes and dreams. Here are some of the weirdest ones we’ve spotted this year—along with whether you can… Read more...

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. Where’s the good stuff? io9 is here to help. Read more...

Evan Amos’ Wikipedia-famous game console photography makes for a stunning coffee table book , and it’s down to an all-time low price on Amazon right now . Featuring 300 pages of full color photography spanning the entire history of video games, it also gives you a rare look inside some iconic consoles. Today’s $17 price… Read more...

Detective Pikachu is already a pretty weird movie—it’s a noir film for kids starring outlandish creatures, one of which wears an incredibly adorable deerstalker hat. But it takes an even weirder turn for its climactic third act. A turn that required VFX studio MCP to explore not only the games for inspiration, but… Read more...

It was a tragic day when, after being dropped on the floor, my original Game Boy was left with a bunch of dead lines on its screen. But it lived a good life, and has the scars, knicks, and scratches to prove it. However, it wasn’t quite as abused as this Game Boy that YouTube’s Odd Tinkering purchased and managed to … Read more...

Even though Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is opening while not 100 percent complete, everywhere you look there’s something to see, something to explore, or something to do. And the best thing about Galaxy’s Edge is really the land itself. You walk in, and you instantly feel like you’ve left Disneyland in Anaheim,… Read more...

D&D is officially cool now, so gather some friends, clear off a table, and get started with this rulebook gift set , now down to $85, within $1 of an all-time low. Read more...

Remember when it was common for big-budget action films to be marketed with the help of strategically-produced songs and music videos that featured footage from the movie itself? Dark Phoenix remembers . Read more...

Elon Musk says adding two to four Raptor Engines to the Starship will let it go sub-orbital for 6000 miles at mach 20. This would mean trips like San Francisco to Shanghai or New York to Berlin. Many world cities are within 6000 miles of each other.

Joe Hill’s surreal and dreamlike NOS4A2 needed a Tim Burton sensibility, but it gets a Joel Schumacher one in the drab and lifeless AMC adaptation. It’s a story that includes a killer car, magical covered bridge, and a mythical place called Christmasland, but no one behind this show could figure out the right tone,… Read more...

SpaceX is on track for a first untethered hop of the Starhopper on Monday. #SpaceX crews hard at work today, making sure everything is good. with #StarHopper for the historic first hop on Monday, testing the swivel function on the tracking(pointing toward StarHopper) progress on #StarShip , and I think they are attempting to build a sort of V.A.B. pic.twitter.com/09G5o0tm5w — Austin Barnard🚀 (@austinbarnard45) May 31, 2019

The pricing has been announced for Tesla's from the Shanghai Gigafactory and online reservations have been opened.

Arya Stark: The girl who lived. Read more...

A few weeks ago, the internet was shook by news that Robert Pattinson was the new Batman, replacing Ben Affleck under the comic book cowl. And then...maybe he wasn’t just yet? Maybe it was X-Men ’s Nicholas Hoult? Who could say. Now, we have an update, and the update is...“maybe?” Read more...

An Apple iPad Pro , a Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks gifts set , and a few refurb Nintendo 2DS models lead off Friday’s best deals. Read more...

When Matthew Vaughn gave the X-Men movie saga a shakeup with the prequel First Class , he had a grand plan to usher in a new trilogy of young X-heroes. Then Kingsman blew up, and he chose to guide Eggsy and his friends over Charles Xaviers’ merry mutants. But what could’ve been? Something that sounds a lot more… Read more...

Life can be stressful and full of toil. To ease your tortured mind, we present to you some stunning photographs of clouds on Mars, recently taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Read more...

King Ghidorah hunts Millie Bobbie Brown in a new Godzilla: King of the Monsters clip. Creepshow adds some familiar faces to its cast. The Chucky TV show gets an update. Plus, a new vague tease for Godzilla’s scrap with Kong, and what’s to come on iZombie . To me, my spoilers! Read more...

The problem with keyboards is that the keys are all already assigned to something. Letters? Numbers? Lame. Razer’s Orbweaver , on the other hand, includes 30 mechanical, RGB-backlit keys that can be whatever you want them to be. Ostensibly, it’s designed for gamers who want to create complicated in-game macros to get a… Read more...

Two brothers who never knew their father set off on a quest through a magical world in Onward . Read more...

That’s the thing about time travel shenanigans—everything that happened before will happen again, and whatnot. But at least this time around there’s a few intriguing additions to the German drama Dark ’s spooky middle chapter. Read more...

Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, has adjusted the yield curve inversion for quantitative easing and quantitative tightening. He believes that it predicts a recession. When long-term rates are lower than short-term rates, the yield curve is “inverted,” and this has been a very accurate recession predictor in the past. An inverted yield

If you are an accredited investor and have an interest in investing in the companies involved in Nextbigfuture style technology then contact me at blwang at gmail dot com. In the United States, to be considered an accredited investor, you need a net worth of at least $1,000,000, not including your home, or have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married). Brian Wang at Nextbigfuture has been covering disruptive technology and interviewing people at many of the companies that are creating some of the highest potential technology. There are now

Most Americans weren’t online back in 1995, let alone getting most of their news from online sources. But the late fantasy author Terry Pratchett knew what was coming. And a newly unearthed GQ interview from 1995, with Bill Gates no less, reveals that Pratchett really could see the future. Read more...

There’s a certain patience required for studying sticky tape. Sure, sometimes experiments require peeling, but other times, researchers must simply sit around and wait for the adhesive to fail. These experiments are bringing scientists closer to something that doesn’t yet exist: a unified theory of tape. Read more...

The miraculous births of Daenerys’ dragons changed Game of Thrones ’ balance of power and brought true magic back to the lands of Westeros and beyond. With the trio of mythical creatures by her side, Daenerys was all but certain that she would be able to claim the Iron Throne and revolutionize the Seven Kingdoms. And… Read more...

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Season seven of The Venture Bros. wrapped up in October, but fans of the cult favorite show—who’re accustomed to many, many months between seasons —will find the Blu-ray and DVD, out June 4, worth the wait. All 10 episodes have commentary from creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick , plus there’ll be deleted and… Read more...

Guests who are fortunate enough to visit Disney’s brand new theme park experience, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge , will get to fly the Millennium Falcon on a daring mission. And, if they make a return visit sometime down the road , that mission may be different. Read more...

China is seeking technological self-sufficiency and even superiority in key industries. It has concentrated military spending on advanced technologies. Its Belt and Road Initiative proposes a trillion-dollar investment program to project China’s influence across the world. What is China’s grand design, and how should the United States respond to it? China has ripped out the old developing world economy and creating a technological economy. The Belt and Road is offering that technological transformation to other countries in exchange for joining China’s economic bloc. China’s debt is owed to itself and the funds were used to build out its infrastructure. China

In 2018, half of all sentient life disappeared with Thanos’ snap of the fingers in Avengers: Infinity War . Five years passed. Read more...

Have you had your eye on some Cuisinart cast iron cookware recently? Maybe you’re looking to spruce up your own collection at home, or you have a friend’s wedding to attend soon. Wedding registries are often full of high-quality cast iron cookware. Today only, you can check out some of these items off your list. You… Read more...

At this point, you’d think Michael Dougherty would be jaded. He’s just directed the latest Godzilla movie, King of the Monsters . But there he was last month in Toho Studios , and like the rest of the assembled press, in awe of the original 1954 storyboards laid out of the table. He pulled out his phone and snapped some… Read more...

The story of how Carol Danvers became Captain Marvel is stamped into comic book history. But when comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick came into the picture, she had her own spin—one that tapped into Carol’s feminist identity and made her the source of her own power. Marvel may not have been big on her idea at the… Read more...

Pokémon come in all shapes and sizes . Some are cute little sheep, some are giant bugs. Some are gods. Some are ghosts. Some are...your keys? They can get weird. Weird enough that one of the VFX teams behind the movie found themselves asking questions they thought they’d never have to ask themselves. Read more...

78% (830,000 tonnes) of the 2018 U.S. plastic waste exports were sent to countries with waste “mismanagement rates” greater than 5%. Mismanagement means the plastic was probably dumped in a river. The actual mismanagement rates in China, India and Vietnam are 78-85%. Mismanaged “recycled” plastic probably ended up in the ocean. Plastic waste has been exported and counted as “recycled” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the waste and recycling industry for decades. Just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean. Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow;

The money you spend on this Marmot Women’s Trestles Elite 30 Sleeping Bag won’t keep you up at night. Through June 2, you can crawl into this comfy cocoon of a sleeping bag for just $70 —that’s half off its usual price—using promo code KINJA50 . With an external pocket, HL-ElixR insulation, and a fold-down second zipper… Read more...

July marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission which successfully landed two astronauts on the moon, and Lego is one of countless companies hoping to cash in on the accomplishment with a new 1,087-piece set that recreates the Lunar Lander with an impressive amount of detailing. But I’m a little disappointed… Read more...

When it comes to Disney’s upcoming Lion King movie, most of us have lots of questions. Things like, is it a shot-for-shot remake? Is it live-action? Animation? Will the animals be talking and/or singing? And perhaps most importantly: Why attempt this in the first place? Read more...

Looks like you can skip George R.R. Martin’s A Dream of Spring now, as the ending may have been spoiled by HBO’s Game of Thrones. Read more...

An Anker electric lawn tools sale, Monopoly for Millennials , and a discounted Instant Pot lead off Thursday’s best deals. Read more...

Thra has never looked so good. Read more...

Disney has officially joined Netflix in questioning its future in Georgia should the state’s recent anti-abortion law take effect in 2020, as more actors like Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner announce their intention to boycott. While the studio didn’t go so far as to condemn the law, like Netflix, Disney CEO Bob Iger… Read more...

Physicists have confirmed predictions of Stephen Hawking’s namesake theory of black holes using a black hole they constructed in their lab, according to a new paper. Read more...

Anker’s SoundCore Spirit X headphones are the sportiest member of the SoundBuds family, and are designed with active users in mind. Their ear wings ensure they stay put while you exercise, and an internal hydrophobic coating means your sweat won’t fry them. Hell, you could even swim with them. Their best spec though? … Read more...

Another familiar face is confirmed to return for The Suicide Squad . Charlize Theron boards another comic book adaptation. James Cameron drops some hints about another returning character in Terminator: Dark Fate . David Harbour teases some heavy times ahead on Stranger Things . Plus, new Agents of SHIELD threats.… Read more...

When Disney purchased Lucasfilm and rebooted the expanded universe continuity that had sustained Star Wars for decades, we got a whole new universe of Star Wars comics at Marvel. It’s one that, for nearly four years, has delivered some excellent stories . But this week, for one week only , we got to take a step back to… Read more...

Acclaimed comics writer Tom King is having a bit of a moment lately, between the rapid-fire announcements that he’d be leaving DC’s mainline Batman book a bit earlier than planned , and that he’d be part of a brand-new book for the publisher, Batman/Catwoman . And now we’ve got yet another spicy bit of King-related… Read more...

HELLO SUMMER!!! I hope everyone had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend filled with fun in the sun … mostly because if you had some fun in the sun, this column is going to be relevant to your interests, for today we shall talk about the laundry products that will help to keep your swimsuits looking great all summer long. Read more...

An international team of astronomers is reporting the discovery of a Neptune-like planet located some 920 light-years from Earth. Dubbed the “Forbidden Planet” by the researchers, this celestial object is locked in a freakishly close orbit with it host star in a configuration rarely seen. Read more...

If you missed out on the nostalgic, excellent What We Left Behind— the crowdfunded Deep Space Nine  documentary examining the legacy of Star Trek ’s darkest chapter—when it screened in cinemas earlier this month , good news! You won’t have to wait long to see it...if you’re in the U.S. and Canada. Read more...

In most mainstream superhero fiction, the United States of America has superheroes. Lots of them. When France, England, China, and other countries also have their own metahumans, things can get…tense. Over the decades, many comics projects have explored what it might look like for powerful nations and superpowered… Read more...

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Running to the pet store to pick up food every time you run out is never convenient. That’s why Chewy is such a life saver. And don’t get me started on prescription diets like Royal Canin or Science Diet, which are expensive to restock too. Right now, you can get $15 off your order of $49 or more at Chewy , so long as… Read more...

Final Fantasy XIV ’s upcoming expansion Shadowbringers looks to be a dark tale full of dimension-hopping and cosmic threats. The expansion releases June 28 in early access for those who pre-order, and July 2 for everyone else. It adds two new classes and revamps nearly every old class as well. I had a chance to play… Read more...

After years of languishing in development hell, a live-action series based on Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time novels   is finally coming to the small screen courtesy of Amazon Studios and showrunner Rafe Judkins ( Agents of SHIELD ). But according to Brandon Sanderson , who finished the final three books in the series… Read more...

David had a dad. He was probably a mutant...or a Targaryen prince who was killed by melted gold. The latest teaser for FX’s Legion formally introduces us to Charles Xavier, played by Game of Thrones’ Harry Lloyd , and dives further into the “wrongs” David is trying to fix from his past. Read more...