Small melted prices of the IM1 interstellar meteor have been found and measured. The tiny pieces have levels beryllium (Be), lanthanum (La) and uranium (U), dubbed “BeLaU” that are hundreds of times above solar-system rocks. Can we determine whether IM1 was natural or technologic … | Continue reading
An article in Nature, says making conclusive statements about LK-99’s properties is difficult, because the material is finicky and samples contain varying impurities but then goes on to make conclusive statements that LK-99 claims were wrong. In their preprint, the Korean authors … | Continue reading
Changing the world with science and technology is very hard. Persistence is needed. An Indian researcher has succeeded in replicating the levitation of an LK99 sample on his third major attempt. Others want to quit right away and dismiss what could be or could lead to the biggest … | Continue reading
A Peking University group did get some levitation in an Lk99 replication attempt. Their sample is not a superconductor. They describe the semi-levitation is the result of magnetic torque. Guo et. al synthesized #LK99 with the published methodology and matched the material composi … | Continue reading
Researchers at Korea University of Energy and Technology confirmed that the crystal structure of a sample of ‘LK-99’, proposed room temperature superconductor, is the same as the crystal structure presented in the original papers by Sukbae Lee, Jihoon Kim et al. The College of En … | Continue reading
In Tesla Earnings call, Elon Musk mentioned that Neuralink will be able to drive artificial arms and legs for amputees. He equated this to the $6 million man. It is also Star Trek Borg, which have the motto Resistance is Futile. Elon has the most entertaining earnings calls. Elon … | Continue reading
A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, has reported the successful implementation of a 400,000 pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) that they say will pave the way for the development of extremely light-sensitiv … | Continue reading
The Metaverse continues to be a hot topic amongst major stakeholders in the global financial market scene and the tech industry. But despite the hype and interest by major players in Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the Fashion industry, the metaverse has its fair share of critics … | Continue reading
Rolls-Royce is working on a Micro-Reactor program to develop nuclear energy technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon. The UK Space Agency provided £2.9 million of new funding for the project which will deliver an initial demonstration of a … | Continue reading
Angry Astronaut provided more technical information about the development and plans of the Pulsar Fusion Rocket. Pulsar has their own operational chemical rockets and plasma drives. The 11 year old, UK company, Pulsar has been mainly focused on fusion research. Pulsar started dev … | Continue reading
The Suzuki Base Spacia 2023 has a fold-down rear seat and a hard table luggage compartment cover that asks as an in-car desk. The car sells for less than US$10,000 in Japan. It is a very clever way of getting a very good office setup in an affordable car. This is showing that wit … | Continue reading
World BEV market share was 11% in May and is average 10% in 2023. Global light vehicle sales are forecast to increase by 6.2% y/y to 86.0 million units in 2023. World BEV sales should be about 11 million in 2023. This would be up from 7.2 million in 2022. The world should have 1 … | Continue reading
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, signed a launch agreement with Lockheed Martin to support a technology demonstration mission that will launch aboard Firefly’s Alpha vehicle. Firefly’s Alpha rocket provides affordable and responsive launch serv … | Continue reading
In June 2023, Firefly Aerospace acquired Spaceflight Inc. to strengthen Firefly’s on-orbit solutions and service the entire lifecycle of customers’ satellites and spacecraft. The acquisition further supports Firefly’s robust portfolio of low-cost space transportation services, in … | Continue reading
Telstra has signed an agreement to become the first telco in the world to use Starlink low-earth-orbit Satellites for voice-only services while at the same time offering Starlink Broadband to regional and remote Australia. In areas where copper lines for phones are degraded, out … | Continue reading
BYD sold 128,196 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in June 2023, up 84.34 percent from 69,544 units in the same month last year and up 7.18 percent from 119,603 units in May. This is updating a comparison of BYD and Tesla from May 2023. BYD sold 616,000 BEVs in the first half of 2 … | Continue reading
Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt have funded inflection.ai, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman, with $1.3 billion and a valuation of $4 billion. They claim to have the world’s best AI hardware setup. They will build … | Continue reading
SpaceX Starship had a static fire test of its six engines. Ship 25 completes a six-engine static fire test at Starbase in Texas pic.twitter.com/wCCrh0RRNA — SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 27, 2023 Starship Grazer provides actual pictures (not renderings) of the central water cooled plate … | Continue reading
Elon Musk has said that Tesla will move FSD (Full Self Driving) out of beta with Version 12. Version 12 won’t be beta — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023 They are actually much more than point releases, but the team is reserving 11.420 for the big one — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Ju … | Continue reading
James Cameron knew that the submarine was lost on Monday. He said communications and location transponder was lost at the same time on descent. James Cameron went three times deeper than the Titanic wreck in his own submarine that went to the bottom of the Marianas trench. The su … | Continue reading
For years, Alphabet’s Waymo, Tesla and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles will be here soon. However, we are currently short of the promised robotaxi capabilities. Here is a summary of the current situation. Tesla Full self-driving beta for city streets to roughly 4 … | Continue reading
There are various Youtubers who make weekly videos attacking SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk. They are able to make a few thousand dollars a month making these attack videos. One of these people is someone who calls himself the “Common Sense Skeptic”. He claims that SpaceX Starlink w … | Continue reading
There is some debate on how many people could fit inside SpaceX Starships that are converted into Space Stations. We can get a better maximum estimate by looking at the Apollo mission and German and American submarines. Apollo’s Command Module had a diameter of 12.8 feet (3.9 met … | Continue reading
Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22nd, 2023, Cyberwire The industry’s first-ever directory of virtual Chief Information Security Officer service providers has gone live today at www.thevcisodirectory.com. This extensive list of virtual CISO (vCISO) providers, collated by Cynomi, means that … | Continue reading
NASA and SpaceX are partnering to build Space stations using SpaceX Starship. NASA and SpaceX have not revealed or developed plans for their Starship based space stations. Cuzza Futurism has some designs for space stations built using standard and redesigned SpaceX Starships and … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $100 million in funding to support clean energy technologies by providing a path to market for promising technologies. Developing and deploying innovative energy technologies is key to delivering a clean energy future and achiev … | Continue reading
SpaceX will finish the water cooled steel plate and complete reconstruction and construction of other launch structures. SpaceX will be ready and approved for another Starship orbital launch attempt in 6-8 weeks. 6 to 8 weeks — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 13, 2023 | Continue reading
Friedberg on the Allinpodcast discusses how the Large Language Model AI are extending statistical inference to improving prediction. LLM have been able to apply what was being done in other domains and industries to language. Humans interact with language, so this is a very impor … | Continue reading
China has started drilling a 6.2 mile (10,000-meter) superdeep borehole into the Earth’s crust. The drilling in May, 2023 in China’s large oil-bearing basin – the Tarim Basin of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China has been exploring the deep Earth for many y … | Continue reading
Tesla is planning to produce 375,000 Cybertrucks per year and have release candidates by late August, according to communications they sent to suppliers. The Street was estimating 90000 Cybertrucks for 2024. @ElectrekCo 375k #cybertruck a year for $TSLA would be an enormous num … | Continue reading
GM, like Ford, will begin installing a charging port used by Tesla, known as NACS, instead of the current industry-standard CCS, in its EVs starting in 2025. Under the deal, GM vehicles will be able to access 12,000 of Tesla’s fast chargers using an adapter and the Detroit automa … | Continue reading
Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that is their answer to Meta Oculus. Apple Vision Pro can transform any space into a personal movie theater with a screen that feels 100 feet wide and an advanced Spatial Audio system. Users can watch movies … | Continue reading
On November 18, 1978, cult-leader Jim Jones ordered members of his commune to commit suicide by drink poisoned kool-aid. Some were forced to drink it and some (such as small children) drank it unknowingly. Roughly 918 people died. The world is infected with mind viruses of overpo … | Continue reading
In China, Tesla has applied for regulatory clearance to expand Giga Shanghai powertrain production capacity to 1.75 million (from 1.25 million), and to begin producing for the first time pouch-type battery cells (20,000-amp-hours of cells). There was a public notice in the Shangh … | Continue reading
SpaceX is certifying its Falcon 9 booster for 20 reuses. Several SpaceX Falcon 9 Boosters have been reused dozens of times each and one has been used 15 times. SpaceX plans to launch up to 100 missions in 2023, which is nearly double what it launched in 2022. Reusability will ena … | Continue reading
Revolutionary imaging technique using of thousands of antibodies for a detailed view inside of bodies. A research team has turned the bodies of dead mice into vivid 3D maps of anatomy, with tissues, nerves, and vessels highlighted in color. The technique, which renders the corpse … | Continue reading
The 20th century is largely characterized as the American Century where population more than tripled from 76 million in 1900 to 282 million in 2000. It was also where America achieved economic, political and technological dominance. Canada could have an impressive Canadian centur … | Continue reading
Google’s CEO has announced that Google will be an AI first company. They are adding generative AI to all of their products including search, maps, gmail and workspace. Google announces Palm-2 and improved BARD as a new GPT-4 competitors. BARD can handle over 20 programming langua … | Continue reading
SpaceX Raptor 2 engines were achieving 230 tf (510,000 lbf) of thrust consistently by February 2022. SpaceX is tuning engine parameters and design to achieve at least 250 tf (550,000 lbf). Elon Musk indicated that the engine production cost was approximately half that of the Rapt … | Continue reading
Dubai, UAE, May 2nd, 2023, Chainwire Zeebu has launched the world’s first loyalty utility token catering to the Telecom Carrier Industry. Telecom Carriers work alongside large telecom operators to provide global connectivity. Zeebu is positioning itself as a leader by bringing a … | Continue reading
Here are more pictures showing the power of the SpaceX Starship. The world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed pic.twitter.com/oYnZON31mm — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 25, 2023 pic.twitter.com/bIRxZafD6A — RTF (@RTFnfa) April 25, 2023 Starship liftoff in slow motion pic.twit … | Continue reading
In the Kherson region, Ukrainians have increased their bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River to the point where many Russian sources started raising the alarm. Ukrainians established control over the proximate island with a lot of places for docking. Ukrainians are p … | Continue reading
The first-ever browser security survey of CISOs’ security practices reveals CISOs struggles, displeasure with current security solutions and cloud concerns While the massive shift to SaaS apps has begun more than a decade ago, CISOs are still struggling to address the security de … | Continue reading
AI is accelerating computer hardware improvement and software improvement. This was the core of the case for the Technological Singularity. AI is also accelerating the improvement speed of science. AI technology that enables the faster improvement of AI. ChatGPT, CoPilot and othe … | Continue reading
The lithium-air battery has the highest projected energy density of any battery technology being considered for the next generation of batteries beyond lithium-ion. The Argonne Lab team’s lithium-air design is the first lithium-air battery that has achieved a four-electron reacti … | Continue reading
Purdue researchers have demonstrated that low concentration ether-based electrolyte can successfully endure the long-term high voltage (4.3 V) operation of practical LMB (lithium Metal Battery) under industry viable configurations, when using the highly nonpolar dipropyl ether as … | Continue reading
CALB, a Chinese battery manufacturer China Aviation Lithium Battery, claims its “U-type” battery structure offers higher energy density and faster charging speeds than regular cylindrical cells like the Tesla 4680. CALB has a 4% global market share for batteries in 2022. This pla … | Continue reading
Stanford Researchers have used Generative AI to simulate believable human behavior in a simulated world. Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate conversations; they rememb … | Continue reading