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Helicity Space, a commercial space company developing in-space propulsion and power technology based on fusion power, announced an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin. This latest raise from Lockheed Martin Ventures comes on the heels of a $5 million seed round of Helicity Space funding from investors including Airbus ... Read more

Tesla FSD videos where the FSD system drove over a small curb to avoid a truck and over dirt where there was construction on the regular road. The Tesla FSD system has intelligent collision avoidance. Tesla Autopilot lead, Ashok Elluswamy, says that Whether some surface is drivable or not is all contextual. We typically don't ... Read more

Tesla FSD is improving rapidly with FSD 12.3.X going to all Tesla buyers in the North America. FSD 12.4 should be out this month and it is reported to be substantially better. There were reports two weeks ago from some Tesla engineers who believed that FSD would reach robotaxi level by July 2024. There was ... Read more

Portland, Oregon, April 4th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Center Identity, a pioneering cybersecurity company, is excited to unveil its patented secret location authentication, reshaping how businesses manage workforce digital identity. This proprietary technology enables users to authenticate their identity using a secret location selected on a map. The benefits of this novel approach to digital identity management ... Read more

Tehran and its Lebanon-based proxy blame Israel for attack in Damascus that killed Quds force leaders. The airstrike in Syria killed Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who led the Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon and Syria until 2016. It also killed Zahedi's deputy, Gen. Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi, and five other ... Read more

Silver Spring, United States / Maryland, April 3rd, 2024, CyberNewsWire The Leading Company for Securing Access Between Workloads Recognized for the Aembit Workload IAM Platform Aembit, the Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) Company, has been named one of the Top 10 Finalists for the RSA ConferenceTM 2024 Innovation Sandbox contest for its platform that ... Read more

Vinod Khosla starts with a 30,000 foot view of this critical point in history, and how it differs from previous technological phase changes. With his 40-year history sponsoring technological disruption, he will discuss the origins of change and innovation, and lay out his predictions for how AI will upend every sector of GDP, and how ... Read more

In the first quarter, Tesla produced over 433,000 vehicles and delivered approximately 387,000 vehicles. They deployed 4,053 MWh of energy storage products in Q1, the highest quarterly deployment yet. The delivery numbers were bad for Tesla in Q1. There were fires in Berlin from ecoterrorists and delays in the supply chain because of Persian Gulf ... Read more

Washington, DC, United States, April 2nd, 2024, CyberNewsWire Authentic8, provider of the leading OSINT research platform Silo for Research, today launched their Silo Shield Program to enhance online security for high-risk communities. Also today, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched a webpage listing free tools and services to strengthen defenses of high-risk ... Read more

7 Days ago 20% of the North America Tesla customer base had 12.X FSD and now about half have the free FSD 12.X trial. If this pace is continued then it would be another two more weeks before everyone gets the free trial. Ashok is the director of Autopilot Software at Tesla. If he's saying ... Read more

Tesla FSD Tracker crowdsources data on the Tesla FSD driver experiences. They are now recording 448 Miles between critical disengagements for Tesla FSD 12.3 Supervised. This is over three times better than the best results for any Tesla FSD v11.X and it is over four times better than any Tesla FSD v10.X. The rate of ... Read more

Los Angeles, United States, April 2nd, 2024, Cyberwire Today, Congressman Eric Swalwell, CA-14, announced that he has partnered with Wolfsbane.ai to help prevent his 2024 election campaign content from being used to create AI clones and deepfakes. Wolfsbane.ai will use its patent-pending technology to encode Rep. Swalwell's campaign videos and audio with a countermeasure that ... Read more

The all-treatments group is still taking roughly twice as long as the all-controls group (starting from 19 months old, when the experiment began) to get down to a given survival percentage in males. The all treatments female mice are lasting 50% longer than controls. It'll still be a few months before we can start to ... Read more

BYD sold 300,114 passenger BEVs in the first quarter of 2024, up 13.4 percent year-on-year but down 42.99 percent from the fourth quarter last year. Tesla is expected to announce 405,000 to 430,000 sales deliveries for the first quarter of 2024. Tesla was likely ahead of BED for the March, 2024 monthly sales. BYD sold ... Read more

Tesla had 17.6% gross profit margins in Q4 2024 which was about $252 million per percent of gross margin. Tesla has released FSD 12.3.3 Supervised to all North American Tesla owners. If they were buy or subscribe to Tesla FSD and we converted monthly subscriptions were equalized to a purchase (starting an average 5 year ... Read more

Elon Musk has targeted an orbital launch cost of $10/kg for Starship, with propellant costs accounting for roughly one-third. Orbital launch cost would be about four times more than the cost of point to point on Earth rocket delivery costs. Point to point rocket delivery would only need the Starship upper stage. There are only ... Read more

Investigation of the zero resistance and temperature-dependent superconductivity phase transition in Pb-Cu-P-S-O compound by Huk Geol Kim, Dae Cheol Jeong and Hyun-Tak Kim. Hyun-Tak Kim is one of the lead researchers for the LK99 team. This new paper presents a specific critical temperature for PCPOSOS, demonstrating consistency with the original authors' data. In this study, ... Read more

Longtime Tesla FSD tester, Chuck Cook, provided a video of his first drives Tesla FSD 3.3 Supervised. He had no interventions. The one drive he had would have been good enough to have been a backseat robotaxi ride. However, Chuck is not ready to sit in the back seat with Tesla FSD as he knows ... Read more

If Tesla achieves fully operational FSD with robotaxi capability (before robotaxi regulatory approval) will be like dragons in Game of Thrones. Other carmakers will have no choice but to license it. This will be one of several huge catalysts for Tesla valuation (not financial advice.) Here are the developments that should positively impact Tesla valuation. ... Read more

Tesla has had its third FSD update in one week. The latest update is Tesla FSD 12.3.3. The previous versions were FSD 12.3.2 and 12.3.2.1. Those were reported to be better than FSD 12.3.1. FSD 12.3.1 had crowdsourced data that it was getting 384 miles before a critical disengagement. This would be about 3 times ... Read more

Motional, a global leader in driverless technology, and Hyundai Motor Group launched IONIQ 5-based robotaxi Motional's next-generation robotaxi. They added LIDAR and other sensors to all-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5. The IONIQ 5 robotaxi is an SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicle that can safely operate without a driver. It's a zero tailpipe-emissions robotaxi and represents the ... Read more

Elon says Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. Grok 2 is in training now. Should be available on next week. Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. In training now. https://t.co/s7rVxvK8mZ - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2024 Here are the specs for Claude 3 from Anthropic and GPT4 ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.3.2 is now releasing wide in the US and Canada. Elon Musk tweeted: V12.4 is another big jump in capabilities. Our constraint in training compute is much improved. Three significant improvements to FSD will roll out roughly every two weeks. Should be really shining bright by late April or early May. In this ... Read more

Japanese researchers have used a single-mode microwave generator to produce their metal plasmas. This creates more controlled and highly focused microwaves. Hot gases composed of metal ions and electrons, called plasmas, are widely used in many manufacturing processes, chemical synthesis, and metal extraction from ores and welding. A collaborative research group from Tohoku University and ... Read more

Nvidia and other AI related companies have had a surge in profits and share prices. Are we in an AI Bubble or the early stages of the AI transformation? My video has a broader perspective on this. Below is a start at looking at the current details. There is additional information from the Stanford AI ... Read more

BitNet is paving the way for a new era of 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a 1-bit LLM variant, namely BitNet b1.58, in which every single parameter (or weight) of the LLM is ternary {-1, 0, 1}. It matches the full-precision (i.e., FP16 or BF16) Transformer LLM with the same ... Read more

Tesla will start its inevitable reign as the top selling electric truck in the world starting this week. Joe Tegtmeyer, Gigatexas watcher, reports that Tesla is now making 900-1000 per week. The figure of 1000 per week (aka 4100 per month) is enough to outsell both the Ford F-150 Lightning and the Rivian R1T. The ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, March 28th, 2024, Cyberwire GoPlus Labs, the leading Web3 security infrastructure provider, has unveiled a groundbreaking report that highlights the growing, widespread use and potential of Web3 user security data to aid in risk management. The findings of the report reveal a clear and growing demand for more advanced security tools that can ... Read more

Ford is cutting two thirds of the 2,100 workers at its Rouge electric Vehicle Center next week. Ford will cut 1,400 of those workers in various ways. 700 will move to the Michigan Assembly Plant and the other 700 being given the option of accepting a reassignment somewhere in Southeast Michigan or taking the $50,000 ... Read more

Joe Tegtmeyer performs drone flyovers of the Tesla Gigatexas factory and he reports that Tesla Cybertruck production is nearing 900-1000 per week. This is after launching deliveries five months ago in November, 2023. Tesla will likely outproduce and outsell both the Ford F150 Lightning and the combined Rivian SUV and Rivian Truck starting in April ... Read more

Diamond CMOS needs symmetrical doping control like we have for semiconductor silicon and diamond n-MOS is needed. The n-channel diamond MOSFETs are demonstrated. This work will enable the development of energy-efficient and high-reliability CMOS integrated circuits for high-power electronics, integrated spintronics, and extreme sensors under harsh environments. Currently, p-channel diamond MOSFETs have been extensively developed ... Read more

The mole rat lives about 37 years which is about five times longer than expected for an animal of its size and type. Researchers at the Queen Mary University of London have learned more about why the mole rat lives so long. The mole rat have fewer heart attacks. The mole rat adaptions to low ... Read more

Researchers estimate that the number of captured free-floating planets in the outer solar system with mass strictly greater than that of Mars is 1.2 and that the number of such planets with a strict cutoff at the mass of Mercury is 2.4. When they instead adopt logarithmic bins centered at the Mars mass and the ... Read more

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be sensitive to even lower-mass rogue planets since it will observe from space. It will have wide field of view and sharp vision which will allow us to study the objects it finds in more detail than we can do using only ground-based telescopes. In 2023, researchers estimate it ... Read more

Extreme Ultraviolet lithography for computer chips have been critical to letting us efficiently get better than 14 nanometer computer chips. Metalenses are 10,000 times thinner than regular lenses. Metalenses control light properties through nanometer-scale patterns or structures on lens surfaces. With the ability to reduce the thickness of conventional lenses by a factor of 10,000, ... Read more

Blackrock CEO Larry Fink pushes getting rid of 65 year old retirement age as part of Social Security Reform. The retirement funding problem is also related to depopulation. Social Security started in the US in 1935 and there werew 9 working age people for every one retired person. This is dropping to one working age ... Read more

A new 20 Tesla Superconducting magnet reduces the cost per watt of a fusion reactor by a factor of almost 40. MIT worked with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup with over $2 billion in funding. The funders of CFS include Temasek Holdings (Singpore), the U.S. Department of Energy, Tiger Global Management, Bill Gates, Google and ... Read more

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed what they believe is the first machine unlearning method applied to image-based generative AI. This method offers the ability to look under the hood and actively block and remove any violent images or copyrighted works without losing the rest of the information in the model. ... Read more

SpaceX has a full duration static fire of six Raptor engines. Flight 4 Starship is on track for another orbital launch in about 5 weeks. Full-duration static fire of all six Raptor engines on Flight 4 Starship pic.twitter.com/HzS4SeaoEV - SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 25, 2024

Tesla FSD is making huge progress on a weekly basis. Like all AI products like Open ChatGPT and the chess and Go AI programs this will continue. Those looking at the nearterm are looking at take rates or percentage of Tesla buyers who buy Tesla FSD. Those looking out are looking at Robotaxi but I ... Read more

Tesla released FSD 12.3 to its employees and 100,000 select drivers and yesterday announced it is going wide to all 400,000+ FSD US customers. Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, tweeted Super-impressive, Like a human driver it is. Amazed I am " Is it really human-like? What is the technology behind that makes it human-like. I ... Read more

Tesla FSD seems to be finally happening. Nextbigfuture has had the steady coverage that you see below. Here is the link to the FSD tagged articles. Six days ago, I reported the prediction of a wide release of Tesla FSD 12.3. IF Tesla 12.3.1 is as good as all the reports then it could be ... Read more

Dwarf planets Eris and Makemake (out by Pluto) have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. This ice can provide important insights into the origin and evolution of volatiles in the outer solar system. We probably need to send new probes to the Dwarf planets to conclusively determine if liquid oceans have microbial life. Because ... Read more

Elon has made it a mandatory requirement for all new North American buyers to get a FSD (full self driving) demo. This shows the confidence that Elon and Tesla have with the quality and safety of FSD 12.3.1.

The UN reports that Asia has a total population of 4.78 billion but the UN overestimates China's population by 16 million people. Asia is about 60% of global population. India and China make up about 60% of Asia's population. The UN Population division has forecasted far high populations and fertility for India and China than ... Read more

Canada's population will reach 41.0 million by the end of this week [about March 31, 2024]. Statistics Canada's real-time tracker has the population at 40.98 million. Poland's national statistics agency reports 37.7 million people. The UN numbers for Canada and Poland are off by 2-3 million for each country. The UN overestimates Poland and underestimates ... Read more

The performance of superconducting microwave circuits is strongly influenced by the material properties of the superconducting film and substrate. While progress has been made in understanding the importance of surface preparation and the effect of surface oxides, the complex effect of superconductor film structure on microwave losses is not yet fully understood. In this study, ... Read more

Nextbigfuture reader, Scott Baker, has gathered excellent information about the state of artificial womb development. Scott did this in response to my articles describing the massive global depopulation crisis. Scott has found videos and information about were tests over one year ago of biobags to help premature sheep. These are early forms of devices which ... Read more

Joe Rogan reviewed the video statement of the now dead Boeing Whistleblower. Thew whistleblower was continuing to testify and report on Boeing's corrupt quality process. He and a team had found 300 defects on a Boeing plane. His boss then went out with two inspectors and found only 50 defects. The whistleblower asked one of ... Read more

Low-protein diets promote health and longevity in diverse species. Restriction of the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine, and valine recapitulates many of these benefits in young C57BL/6J mice. Restriction of dietary isoleucine (IleR) is sufficient to promote metabolic health and is required for many benefits of a low-protein diet in C57BL/6J males. Here, we ... Read more