NASA’s hypersonic Rotating Detonation Engine passes first crucial tests
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Futurist Keynote, Australia: The Future of Rail 2070 with RISSB
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is and will continue to change how we travel whether it’s by road, rail, sea, or space … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Scientists used cellular agriculture to create a giant Woolly mammoth meatball
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Hydrogen eating bacteria make electricity from air in new energy breakthrough
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Airspeeder unveils its first crewed eVTOL racer as it eyes a future flying car series
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Meta’s AI became an expert in Diplomacy and human gamers weren’t the wiser
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Slowly but surely AI is mastering increasingly complex simulations and games, boosting its potential. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has mastered...
ChatGPT is almost acing the hardest USMLE medical exams in the USA
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New Laser on a Chip tech brings holographic smartphones closer to sci-fact
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Old oil wells are finding new life as Hydrogen fuel sources thanks to these bacteria
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Once oil wells are tapped out they’re capped, but now they’re getting a new lease of life after bacteria injected into them turn them into green hydrogen fuel sources. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Mini brains grown from human neurons have learned how to play Pong
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are complex organisms, but our bodies are made up of all manner of equally complex parts which continue to surprise us. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Researchers replace blood tests with a 5 second pulse of light to detect Malaria
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From AI lawyers to AI judges courts are embracing tech for better and worse
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Quantum hard drives could help create quantum telescopes hundreds of kilometers wide
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New technologies are unlocking the secrets of the universe in new ways, and we are just getting started with what’s possible. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Researchers have replaced concrete aggregate with rubber in world first
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Diamond based quantum computers paired with supercomputers for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are some workloads supercomputers are better at, and there are other workloads, like optimisation problems, that quantum computers are great at – now researchers have the best of both worlds. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Engineers have a new problem, stopping climate change from destroying roads
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As extreme weather events, flooding, sea level rise, and climate change intensify our world’s infrastructure is going to get increasingly crippled if we don’t change how and where we build it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Australia’s ANZ Bank becomes the world’s first bank to mint its own crypto Stablecoins
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Money is changing. Alot. And this is both giving governments new opportunities and freaking them all out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Australia and...
Australia’s central bank is sceptical on a digital currency, but signals that could change
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Countries are creating their own digital currencies to replace their traditional ones, but some are still unsure … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As...
Neumann Space successfully turns space junk into space fuel for satellites
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Silicon based quantum computing surpasses 99 percent accuracy for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most quantum computers are big but not accurate, the holy grail for the industry are systems that are both. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
