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Biotech stocks have done well in 2020. Twist Biosciences share price started 2020 at $23 and now it is up over three times to $76.64. Aquabounty shares started $2.05 and have nearly doubled to $3.80. Dyadic International started at $5.36 and is at $7.14 per share now. Intellia shares started 2020 at $15.88 and are now at $23.94. Synthetic Biotechnology Startups Raised $3 billion in the First Half of 2020 Fifty-six synthetic biology companies raised a combined $3 billion in investment during the first half of 2020. Synbiobeta.com tracks the synthetic biology industry. SOURCES- Synbiobeta, google finance Written by Brian The post Best Synthetic Biology Stocks and Bio Startups first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Great powers has been a designation given to countries since the time of Napoleon for countries are have military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence. Italy as ranked as a great power in 2000. Italy seems like the weakest of the nations classified as great powers. Italy has a population of about 55 million and a nominal GDP of about $2 trillion. Italy spends about $26 billion each year on its military. Canada could pass Italy in nominal GDP around 2025. Canada spends about $22 billion per year on its military and this will be The post Great Power Nations of the 2050s first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

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Behind that putrefying flesh, there’s a lot of hidden depth to the zombie. As humanities scholar Jeffery Cohen puts it in his book Monster Theory: Reading Culture , “monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them.” In 1918, with the Spanish Flu ravaging the U.S., we turned our fears into… Read more...

A five-storey building in China has been relocated using an innovative system of robotic legs.

Happy Halloween! Clearly, this year’s festivities are going to be much, much different than other years, so instead of letting that depress you, I’d like us all to consider the terrible celebrations of spooky nights past. What was your most stressful Halloween experience? What happened? And most importantly, is it… Read more...

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From the creatives behind animated films Secret of the Kells and Song of the Sea , Wolfwalkers is on its way to a limited theatrical run and onto Apple TV . Read more...

McKinsey forecasts a biotech revolution will improve human health and transform agriculture and food, consumer products and services, and materials and energy production. Advances in biological sciences accelerated by developments in computing, data analytics, machine learning, AI, and biological engineering. They group innovations into four arenas: biomolecules, biosystems, biomachine interfaces, and biocomputing. Biomolecules are related to gene therapy and the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Biosystems is synthetic biology and the production of synthetic meat and fermentation of products like beer, cosmetics, or drugs. Biomachine interfaces are like Elon Musk’s Neuralink where computers and electronics are connected to biology. Biocomputing The post BioRevolution Could Reach Trillion Per Year in the 2030s first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Halloween is here and while you may enjoy this holiday, you might not be as into scary horror games as others. You aren’t alone! Horror games can be incredibly intense, even for those who love a good scary movie. But maybe you still want to enjoy some games on Halloween, just without jump scare-filled horror games. Read more...

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Sir Sean Connery, star of stage and screen and the legendary actor who catapulted Ian Fleming’s spyfi novel hero into a movie and pop cultural icon , has passed away. Read more...

The new meta-DNA self-assembly concept may totally transform the microscopic world of structural DNA nanotechnology. Decades ago a huge milestone in DNA technology was the invention of DNA origami, where a long single-stranded DNA is folded into designated shapes with the help of hundreds of short DNA staple strands. DNA nanotechnology had challenges assembling larger (micron to millimeter) sized DNA architectures. The new micron-size structures are on the order of the width of a human hair, which is 1,000 times larger than the original DNA nanostructures. In the future, more complicated circuits, molecular motors and nanodevices could be rationally designed The post Meta DNA Makes Revolutionizes DNA Nanotechnology By Scaling Up Size By 1000 to 1 Million Times first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Augmanity, a research company based in Rehovot, Israel, has synthesized molecular machines, made from nucleic acids, which are capable of digesting viral RNA and utilizing it to assemble additional copies of itself inside living cells. The machine’s body plan combines several parts that build upon the target RNA, assembling an immobile, DNA:RNA 4-way junction, which contains a single gene encoding a hammerhead ribozyme (HHR). Full assembly of the machine’s body from its parts enables the subsequent elongation of the gene and transcription of HHR molecules, followed by HHR-mediated digestion of the target molecule. This digestion converts the target to a The post Self-replicating Anti-viral Molecular Machines first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Roswell has deploying Molecular Electronics sensors on standard CMOS chip technology for a mass manufacturable and scalable platform. IMEC and Roswell have completed proof of concept work and are in the final development process. Commercial molecular biosensors will be available in 2021 for biosensing and DNA sequencing applications. Roswell will have rapid, low cost, mobile detection systems for diverse biomarkers. Enabling powerful, in-the-field pathogen detection, infectious disease monitoring, environmental monitoring, and identification of bio-specimens, species or individuals. They are on track to delivering the $100, 1-hour Genome for precision medicine. Simple, fast, low cost and with clinical-grade accuracy including phasing, The post Molecular Electronics for 10 TB per Day Reading or 400 Times 2020 Capability by 2024 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Canada 2021-2023 immigration plan has 50,000 more immigrants in each year over the prior plans. Canaada had only half of its immigration target during COVID in 2020. Canada new targets are : 401,000 immigrants in 2021 411,000 in 2022 421,000 in 2023. Canada’s plan is to grow its economy and its population through immigration. Nextbigfuture covered Canada’s old immigration targets at 4 million from 2021-2030. The new plan could see 4.5 million to 5 million immigrants into Canada from 2021-2030. Canada will end 2020 with a population of 38.2 million. Canada annually will welcome 0.9 percent of its population in The post Canada Boosts Immigration Targets to 1.2 Million Over Next Three Years first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

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What does conflict look like in a time of relative peace and stability in Star Wars ? So much of what we know about the saga is rooted in moments of battle: Jedi vs. Sith , Empire vs. Rebellion, Republic vs. Separatist. What could threaten the High Republic, an age of exploration with the Jedi at their apex ? The answer:… Read more...

Happy All Hallows Eve Eve! It’s a time when anything can happen—your dog might even turn into a cat. We’re celebrating this unholiest of days with a Friday gif party . But be warned: These ghosts and ghouls get into it. Read more...

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Season two of The Mandalorian began with an episode that was everything we expected and more. A few pieces of rumored casting were confirmed , some long-time questions were answered , and episode writer-director Jon Favreau gave fans a story straight from an old-school Hollywood Western with the biggest action set piece… Read more...

Years after revelations regarding Russian interference in 2016 started to come to light, the tiresome odes to “Soviet Russian tradecraft” ought to leave us wondering what’s changed. Read more...

When Ray Fisher came forward with allegations earlier this year saying Joss Whedon created a toxic, abusive work environment on the set of Justice League , within a month, Warner Bros. launched an internal investigation into the matter. The studio then claimed Fisher refused to cooperate. There’s now another chapter to… Read more...

Jordan Peele has no shortage of original horror ideas (see: Get Out and Us ), but he’s also great at identifying older properties that could benefit from a modern approach. While we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Nia DaCosta’s Candyman , it seems Peele’s just added another 1990s horror favorite to his do-over list. Read more...

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A lot is made, and rightly so, of the plight of retro video games once they succumb to the passage of time. But while we focus on preserving the games themselves, what happens to the instruction manuals that used to come with them? Read more...

Taiwan Semiconductor is realizing its major research projects. They will have volume production of their 3 nanometer chips in 2021 and will get beyond to 2 nanometers and toward 1 nanometer chips in 2023-2025. 2020-2026, Taiwan semiconductor is working specialty on SoC (system on a chip) technology (including new NVM, MEMS, RF, analog) and transistors for 8 – 10 year out horizon. Beyond the 2nm node, they are working on more advanced 3D transistors, new memory and low-R interconnect. For 3D IC advanced packaging, TSMC is developing innovations for energy-efficient sub-system integration and scaling to provide further augmentation to CMOS The post Taiwan Semiconductors 2 Nanometer Future and Beyond first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

In 2019 at the QCWare Q2B conference, Phillip Gerbert, Senior Partner and Managing Director at BCG, and Matt Langione, Project Leader at BCG presented their estimation of the business market for quantum computers over the next 20 years. This assumes that it will take 20 years to reach large scale error corrected quantum computers. BCG believes the business market for quantum solutions would be up to about $850 billion. Nextbigfuture notes that if Honeywell or other companies were able to more rapidly develop large scale error corrected quantum computers then the value of quantum solutions could be reached sooner. Honeywell The post 0 Billion Potential of Error Corrected Quantum Computers first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

After barely escaping the horrors of war in South Sudan, Rial ( Lovecraft Country ’s Wunmi Mosaku) and Bol (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) Majul have made it all the way to London and into their first home. But their apparent good fortune has a terrifying downside, as Remi Weekes’ chilling His House soon   reveals. Read more...

For the past few years , Ahoy Comics’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror series has given us Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg’s wonderfully gothic take on the world of...breakfast cereal mascots? You wouldn’t think it’d work, but hey, Count Chocula exists for a reason —and we’ve got a look at his latest comic tale. Read more...

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It should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that Miles Morales’ new video game will give him an unlockable suit based on his animated adventures on the silver screen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse . But even then, we’re still blown away by the lengths Insomniac Games has gone into replicating the look and… Read more...

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Pulse begins with an ancient sound: the screech of a dial-up internet connection . At the time of its release in 2001, however, that sound signified a new form of communication that had already begun to change the world. The movie takes a look at where that technology will take us , and forecasts nothing but doom. Read more...

I love reading, but I love telling people what to read almost as much. For five years, it was basically my job . And because reading the right book at the right time—to suit a mood, answer a question, or satisfy a craving—is definitely a hack, I want to keep doing it. If you’re looking for just the right book to read, … Read more...

Michael Giacchino talks swinging back into action for Spider-Man 3 's soundtrack. The Strange Talent of Luther Strode is getting a movie adaptation. Rami Malek teases the villainous complexity of his No Time to Die villain. Plus, a look at the Gremlins animated series , and what’s to come on the Walking Dead spinoffs.… Read more...

In 2021, the $500-million Aurora could become the first exascale supercomputer. Aurora should have twice the peak performance of the current supercomputer record holder which is the Fugaku at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. After Aurora, the DOE plans to bring online a $600-million machine named Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in TN in late 2021. A third supercomputer, El Capitan, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in CA, two years later. El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 1.5 exaflops (1.5 quintillion calculations per second) and an anticipated delivery in late 2022. The post Exascale Supercomputers from 2020-2023 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

The European supercomputer Leonardo, managed by Cineca, that will be installed at the end of 2021 in the new data center located in Bologna, will be based on Atos BullSequana XH2000 technology, and feature nearly 14,000 NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand. It will deliver 10 exaflops of FP16 AI performance. It will be based on Atos BullSequana XH2000 technology and use 14,000 next generation NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand. Capable of an aggregated HPL performance of 250 Pflops (250 trillion operations per second) and equipped with over 100 petabytes of state-of-the-art storage The post 2021 Ten Exaflop European Supercomputer in 2021 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

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Fear may be a path to the Dark Side but it’s not something most people associate with Star Wars . When you think Star Wars you think sweeping sci-fi adventure or maybe even laid back Western swagger . You rarely think of nail-biting dread or shocking jump scares. They’re in there though and this Halloween, we’ve gone… Read more...

Though the CW is currently fresh out of new cape content thanks to production delays caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the network is already gearing up to hit the ground running with 2021 premieres for more than a few of its superhero mainstays, some of whom are returning with all new looks . Read more...

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Paramount Pictures’ Spell — from director Mark Tonderai—is a film that sets out to exist in a number of emotional spaces while terrifying you with a story about how simultaneously horrific and freeing homecomings can be. While the film doesn’t quite accomplish all of its goals, it does manage—perhaps accidentally—to be… Read more...

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The upcoming presidential election will decide more than just the next American leader; it could also determine the fate of numerous endangered wildlife species that depend on unimpeded access to both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to survive. Read more...

Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions, described the science and technology of Honeywells Trapped Ion quantum computers at the Q2B 2019 (Quantum to Business) conference. Today, Honeywell revealed their roadmap to creating high capacity error corrected quantum computers. In an interview with Nextbigfuture, Tony indicated that they already have the H2 racetrack prototype functioning in the lab and that key enabling technology has had proof of concept experiments. SOURCES- Q2B, Honeywell Quantum Systems, Interview with Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Systems and Brian Neyenhuis, Commercial Operations Leader, Honeywell Quantum Solutions Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com The post Science of Honeywell Trapped Ion Quantum Computers first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

This week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery was a hard one on the crew—the joy of being reunited with Michael Burnham after she crashed into the 32nd century ahead of them, tempered with the stark realization of the future they find themselves in. It’s something that’s starting to hit home for the Disco crew, as this… Read more...

Truth Seekers , a new series whose co-creators and stars include noted nerds Simon Pegg and Nick Frost ( Shaun of the Dead ) , hits Amazon tomorrow. It would be a welcome arrival any time of year, but since it’s all about the paranormal (and the humans who’re obsessed with it), it’s the perfect binge for Halloween . Read more...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions. Honeywell has a 10 fully connected qubit system with a proven quantum volume of 128. This is the highest quantum performance for any publicly known quantum computer. In the Nextbigfuture interview, Tony described work and results in the lab which show that there is substance and technological results for the entire H1 to H5 roadmap. They have already built versions of the H2 racetrack device. Honeywell has experimentally proven the main technologies and capabilities needed for the H3, H4 and H5 devices. This work gives them confidence that their quantum roadmap The post Nextbigfuture Interviews Honeywell on Scaling Trapped Ion Quantum Computers first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Internet service providers will be vying for some of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund today , including Elon Musks’s SpaceX. Its Starlink satellite network allegedly has speeds of up to 100 Mbps now, so the company seems to be in a better position to convince the FCC it’s worth a piece of that $16 billion in… Read more...

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In Crunchyroll’s upcoming anime-inspired series Onyx Equinox , a young boy named Izel sets out with an unexpected group of friends on an adventure to save the world from the gods—who take pleasure in the idea of toying with humanity just for shits and giggles. As the chosen one, Izel has both fate and magic on his side… Read more...

US real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 33.1 percent in the third quarter of 2020 according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP decreased 31.4 percent. The GDP estimate released today is based on source data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency. The “second” estimate for the third quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on November 25, 2020. Current‑dollar GDP increased 38.0 percent, or $1.64 trillion, in the third quarter to a level of $21.16 trillion. The post US Third Quarter GDP Up Annualized 33.1 Percent first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

In 1991, the Star Wars universe changed forever. After a few years of quiet, the Expanded Universe exploded in scope and reach, kicking off with a series of novels from Timothy Zahn that brought us the story of what happened after Return of the Jedi . With it came the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn and 30 years later,… Read more...

Much like Lewis Carroll ’s fantastical heroine, the trio of slackers at the center of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Alice in Borderland are a group of people whose imaginations are almost too big to fit into their current realities , and so they delight in flights of fancy that pull them out of the humdrum of their… Read more...

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Y: The Last Man has had a long, long, long journey to a screen near you and now, finally, it’s actually happening. FX announced that the newly reimagined Y: The Last Man TV series has begun production in Toronto, and a few new cast members are along for the ride. Read more...

Our first look at Adam Mason and Michael Bay’s coronavirus movie Songbird is here. Vivica A. Fox is leading another remake of Night of the Living Dead . Plus, sneak peeks as Spider-Man 3 starts filming and the CW wants to make a Nancy Drew spinoff with a black, queer protagonist. Spoilers get! Read more...

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You may remember the Rejuvenique Facial Toning Mask from creepy infomercials in 1999 starring Linda Evans . “If you get the idea of what doing eight situps a second would do for your stomach, you have an idea what Rejuvenique would do for your face,” a smarmy salesman tells Evans, in response to why a person would want… Read more...

This week, Star Trek: Discovery reunited the disparate halves of its cast for an emotional chance to take stock of their unprecedented situation. The crew has arrived in the future and is headed to the ancestral home of the Federation—but as we so often learn when we return to our roots, they come to the stark… Read more...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to expand extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools for its next-generation 3 nm (N3) node process. TSMC was the first company to use ASML’s EUV lithography machines for high-volume production and now has at least three processes that use EUV for select layers. They use EUV lithography for its N7+, N6, and N5 nodes. TSMC’s 2nd generation 7 nm technology (N7+) uses EUV for up to four layers in order to reduce its use of multi-patterning techniques when building highly complex circuits. The 6 nm process (N6) is for customers to re-use IP designed for The post Taiwan Semiconductor Will Have Volume Production of 3 Nanometer Chips in 2022 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Anakin, Luke, and Rey Skywalker may be the respective stars of each Star Wars trilogy, but they all pale in comparison to Obi-Wan Kenobi . Read more...

The internet is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. While some people have access to high-speed fiber-optic cable running to their house or phones ready to connect to 5G , there are also swaths of broadband deserts where people can’t access internet at reliable speeds. Read more...

A new generation of heroes are rising—well before their time. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced Unicorn: Warriors Eternal , the latest animated series from Samurai Jack and Primal creator Genndy Tartakovsky, all about ancient heroes who’ve been reincarnated into the bodies of teenagers. Read more...

In 2023, IBM launches a new quantum computer known as Condor. This features 1,121 qubits – the first machine by IBM to break the 1,000 qubit milestone.

In the very first episode of Dino Stamatopoulos ’ Moral Orel , 11-year-old Orel Puppington resolves to bring the dead back to life by reading from the Necronomicon because of his sincere and naive belief that the deceased are “rejecting” Orel’s God’s greatest gift: life. Terrifying as it is when zombies start rising… Read more...

SpaceX Starlink is initially providing service to the northern United States and southern Canada. SpaceX states that by 2021 the company will provide service to the populated world. Customers receive internet from the satellites in space via a user dish terminal and Wi-Fi router device. SpaceX sent and email to some potential beta customer describing the 19-inch dish terminal with mounting tripod and router cost $499 Upfront cost and the installation process. Connection speeds are 50-150 mbps now and have 20-40 milliseconds of latency. By mid-2021, latency should be down to 16-19 milliseconds. SpaceX nicknamed the Starlink user terminals "Dishy The post SpaceX Starlink Targets Near Global Service by 2021 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

SpaceX is offering Starlink as a service to beta customers. An email was sent to some of the people who signed up for SpaceX Starlink notifications. The Starlink network has about 888 satellites in low Earth orbit out of over 4,000 SpaceX satellites in the first phase deployment. Expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mbps to 150Mbps and latency from 20ms to 40ms over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all. As we launch more satellites, install more ground stations, and improve our networking software, The post SpaceX Starlink Beta Customer Offer is 20-40 ms Latency and Up To 150 Mbps first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

The 1996 cult classic The Craft was a microcosm of peak ’90s pop prominence from its now-cyclical fashion to its roster of go-to young actors. By the time of the film’s release, three of the starring quartet—Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, and Neve Campbell—were already tending to their rather active careers. Campbell was… Read more...

Like so many other series in production, Amazon’s The Wheel of Time was brought to a halt by the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. At this point, it doesn’t seem at all likely it’ll launch in 2020 the way it was originally meant to. That being said, The Wheel of Time ’s team wants people to know that things are actually… Read more...

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As Halloween approaches, it is paramount that we all take a moment to remember—or discover— Tim Curry’s “Halloween Song” from The Worst Witch . Since HBO aired its extremely low-budget, TV movie adaptation of Jill Murphy’s children’s books in 1986, it has remained one of the most wonderful, terrible, bizarre videos of… Read more...

An isolated coral reef measuring 1,640 feet tall has been discovered off the coast of Australia. Known as a detached reef, the blade-like vertical structure could serve as habitat for a variety of undiscovered sea creatures. Read more...

They’re tiny, they’re toony, they’re all a little, well, Looney Tunes. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced Tiny Toons Looniversity , the latest ‘90s animated series revival from executive producer Steven Spielberg. Read more...

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making. Read more...