English’s Reign as the “Global Language” Might End, Says Expert

Because of technology, not demographics:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/translation-tech-english-language

Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger's Cats

Quantum mechanics is just plain weird:

https://www.livescience.com/64610-schrodingers-laser-cat.html

From Parkour to Surgery, Here Are the Top 10 Recent Advancements in Robotics

It's worth watching the videos:

https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/29/from-parkour-to-surgery-here-are-the-top-10-recent-advancements-in-robotics/

Advancing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech: Why Solar Energy Needs Your Electric Car

Or a home battery:

https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/27/advancing-vehicle-to-grid-tech-why-solar-energy-needs-your-electric-car/#sm.0001p9abvhotbf0jwc02kzluw8213

How Microrobots Will Fix Our Roads and Save Us Billions

https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/25/how-microrobots-will-fix-our-roads-and-save-us-billions/

Boeing’s pilotless vehicle flies for first time

Battery technology really needs to improve by an order of magnitude:

https://www.axios.com/boeing-pilotless-vehicle-flies-first-time-f5e18206-0750-4822-bbbe-48c7dd1a0702.html

CRISPR Just Got More Powerful With an “On” Switch

CRISPR just gets more and more interesting:

https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/23/crispr-just-got-more-powerful-with-an-on-switch/

The Top Biotech and Medicine Advances to Expect in 2019

Some cool stuff here:

https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/22/the-top-biotech-and-medicine-advances-to-expect-in-2019/

San Diego Has Vast Solar Parking Lot Potential

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/18/san-diego-has-vast-solar-parking-lot-potential/

The speed of light is torturously slow, and these 3 simple animations by a scientist at NASA prove it

Cool way to give you some perspective:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-fast-speed-light-travels-earth-moon-mars-nasa-2019-1

Big Brother Nation: The Case for Ubiquitous, Open-Sourced Surveillance in Smart Cities

This is similar to what David Brin proposed in The Transparent Society:

https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/13/big-brother-nation-the-case-for-ubiquitous-open-sourced-surveillance-in-smart-cities/#sm.0001p9abvhotbf0jwc02kzluw8213

Delivery robot prototype

The future creeps in, step by step:

https://twitter.com/sokane1/status/1083436778353127426

Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel

Ah, so the potential is there!

https://theconversation.com/rotating-black-holes-may-serve-as-gentle-portals-for-hyperspace-travel-107062

Watch Video of Hyundai’s Walking Car Concept in Action

Now this is what I would call a true "robot car" (watch the videos):

https://futurism.com/the-byte/walking-car-hyundai-video

Our universe has antimatter partner on the other side of the Big Bang, say physicists

https://physicsworld.com/a/our-universe-has-antimatter-partner-on-the-other-side-of-the-big-bang-say-physicists/

Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%

This is a game-changing way to feed the world:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190103142306.htm

How kugelblitz black holes could power future spacecraft

Cool concept:

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/making-a-kugelblitz-black-hole

Rolls Royce Is Building the World’s Fastest Electric Airplane

If we can just increase the energy density of batteries....

https://futurism.com/the-byte/electric-airplane-rolls-royce-accel

Expert: “I’m 100 Percent Confident” Fusion Power Will Be Practical

Well, at least it is within our lifetimes:

https://futurism.com/fusion-power-practical

AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How

https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/01/ai-will-create-millions-more-jobs-than-it-will-destroy-heres-how/

The problem I have with this claim is that in each case where automation increases jobs, the automation frees up humans to do what automation can't. But what happens when A.I. becomes vastly smarter than humans in EVERY way? As I see it, any job increases would just go to more A.I.