China launches two new more accurate GPS satellites
China launched two BeiDou-3 GPS satellites into space via a single carrier rocket to support its global navigation and positioning network at 7:45 p.m. Sunday. The satellites were aboard a Long...
View ArticleAmazon and China Belt and Road delay profits and building logistics
Amazon has posted just a handful of profitable quarters in its two-decade history and now has a $550 billion valuation. “Bezos’ ability to paint an extraordinary vision (i.e., ‘Earth’s Biggest Store’)...
View ArticleBlockchain, logging with accurate GPS stamps to combat fake pictures and...
One of my oldest prediction is from 32 years ago. It was that fake images and video would be a big problem for news and society. I made a set of public predictions for the Honeywell Canada Futurist...
View ArticleHigh end smartphones later in 2018 should use Broadcom chip enables...
GPS World tested a development kit systems with the Broadcom® BCM47755 chip. The chip can use the regular L1 GPS frequency as well as the more accurate L5 GPS frequency. The recently released Samsung...
View ArticleAtomic Clock Will Help Navigation for Mars Missions
An atomic clock small enough to fly on a space mission but precise enough to give accurate directions could eliminate the need for 4-20 minute two-way communication delays for Mars missions. Future...
View ArticleSpaceX Starlink Can Provide Super GPS With a Software Modification
There is an arxiv paper “Fused Low-Earth-Orbit GNSS”, by Peter A. Iannucci and Todd E. Humphreys of the Radionavigation Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, that details how low-earth orbit...
View ArticleGPS Accuracy Improvements
China’s BeiDou global navigation system was completed in June 2020 provides positioning accuracy of 1.5 to two meters to anyone in the world. GPS World provides details. From March to June 2020, two...
View ArticleColdQuanta Atom Tech for Million Qubit Quantum Computers and Beyond
ColdQuanta cools atoms to a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero and uses lasers to arrange the atoms, hold them in place, run computations on them, and read out the results. Quantum...
View ArticleColdQuanta Atomic Clocks
Nextbigfuture interviewed Max Perez of ColdQuanta. Max Perez is the Vice President of Research and Security Solutions at ColdQuanta. ColdQuanta’s cold atom method is a transformational foundational...
View ArticleHigh-Performance Ultrafast Lasers That Fit on a Fingertip
New high-performance ultrafast lasers are being made on nanophotonic chips. The new work centers on miniaturizing mode-lock lasers — a unique laser that emits a train of ultrashort, coherent light...
View ArticleInfleqtion 1600 Qubit Array Today and Five Year Roadmap to Fault Tolerant...
Infleqtion announced the next phase of its quantum computing program: Sqorpius, the world’s largest qubit array, comprising 1600 qubits. This new initiative encompasses substantial investments in both...
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