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Elon Musk says that the FSD beta version is a big release that should be called version 13. Elon: FSD Beta 12.3 is such a big release it should arguably be called V13 https://t.co/0yXbdceefM - Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) March 12, 2024 AI expert James Douma expects the Tesla version 12.X all neural net system ... Read more

SpaceX Starship is stacked and ready for its third orbital test launch. The liquid oxygen release systems are fixed from the last launch. I, Brian Wang, believe that this launch will be successful and there will be launches every month starting from this month. The pace of launches will then increase to every week or ... Read more

PASQAL, a leader in neutral atoms quantum computing, is releasing a significant technology roadmap today. Key highlights will include: Scaling Up: Roadmap targets 10,000 qubits by 2026, progression towards fault-tolerant systems. Customer Focus: Devices already in the hands of end-users (100+ qubits), driving software development. Promising Research: Recent advances demonstrate potential for quantum error correction ... Read more

The US 7th Expeditionary Force of 1000 troops is building the floating logistics facility shown above a few hundred yards from Gaza. This is a special logistics unit that needs a security unit to protect them. There will be no US beach security Pentagon spokesman Major General Ryder. Partners" will on shore. The US will ... Read more

Youtuber JerryRigEverything tested the Tesla Cybertruck against different caliber bullets a.22, a .17, a few 9mm, and of course a 223 and .50 cal round. He also tested the towing range in cold weather pulling the maximum 11000 pound load. Scroll down for the results or watch the videos: The Cybertruck resisted .22 and 9mm ... Read more

Tesla has launched a program that will let people take early delivery of a Foundation Series Cybertruck if they were a $TSLA shareholder on Feb. 28, 2021 and owned at least 500 $TSLA shares on Feb. 29, 2024. Cybertruck reservation must have been made prior to March 1st, 2024. BREAKING: Tesla has launched a program ... Read more

NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 2 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, was contacted by the Nano Nuclear team for a correction that their initial nuclear fission reactors will be 1-2 ... Read more

A SpaceX Starlink paper on Latency shows a picture of the Starlink system with an SUV with a flat Starlink dish build into the car. There have been people taking flat satellite dishes and attaching them to their cars. The SpaceX Starlink picture suggests that SpaceX Starlink will make a flat dish that would be ... Read more

SCT Lab published a paper on how they make the Pb-Cu-P-S-O compound that has some pieces with potential room temperature superconductivity. The description of the process to make it is partial. How they get the powders is not described. They did not give mass ratios (cited intellectual property). The testing process for zero resistivity did ... Read more

Japan's overall population fell from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122 million today but Japan's working age population peaked in 1995. If we discount the economic bubble then the real estate collapse from the 1990s to today correlates with the working age population collapse. It is also the aging of the population. The median age ... Read more

The Doroni H1-X is a design for new two-passenger eVTOL that sets new standard for efficiency, sustainability, and versatility in air mobility. A full-scale system will have test flights by the end of this year, 2024. Doroni has $3.8 million in funding. The Doroni H1-X is an electric flying car that has an estimated cost ... Read more

Argonne National labs has a new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Johnson's team invented a layered oxide cathode tailored for sodium-ion batteries. This variation on the NMC cathode is a sodium nickel-manganese-iron (NMF) oxide with a layered structure for efficient insertion and extraction of sodium. The absence of cobalt in the cathode formula mitigates cost, ... Read more

There is a strange kind of logical error where people have a fear of climate change choose depopulation as one of the first solutions. Firstly what is the climate change problem? There are climate models on supercomputers that predict temperature increase of 2-8 degrees by 2100. They stop right there and do not question the ... Read more

A youtuber shows a day in life of a Japanese Elementary School with only 8 students and 11 teachers. The school has about 20 rooms and had over 400 students in previous generations but is now virtually empty. There are about 11 million akiya, or abandoned homes, in rural Japan. Here we see a nearly ... Read more

Kairos Power has successfully completed 1,000 hours of pumped salt operations with its non-nuclear Engineering Testing Unit (ETU) at the company's testing and manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, N.M. This achievement arrives on the heels of operators loading 12 metric tons of a molten fluoride salt coolant known as Flibe" into ETU, making it the largest ... Read more

Will AI surpass human intelligence to reach AGI (artificial general intelligence) ? I discuss the rapid advancements in AI, tackle whether you should fear it, and discuss its impact on our jobs and the world.

SpaceX second-generation satellites have performed even better than expected so SpaceX has sent a request to the FCC to allow operation at about 350 kilometer instead of 530 kilometers. This would be 68% of the height which would enable 68% latency. This would get latency from 28-35 milliseconds down to 15-20 milliseconds. In 2022, the ... Read more

A Boeing 777 lost a wheel taking off from San Francisco and a 737 had a landing gear failure this morning. This is the fourth incident United Airlines has had this week. A 757 suffering an engine failure on descent into SFO and Boeing 737-900 from United at Houston suffering an engine stall. This is ... Read more

Akira Toriyama, creator of the massively popular Dragonball anime, has died at the age of 68 from a blood clot in the brain. Dragonball had a global cultural impact like Star Trek. There were multiple series and movies that spanned decades.

Space startup Xplore Solar Sail spacecraft design would go seven times faster than the Voyager spacecraft to enable vastly improved exploration of the solar system. The initial design would be to get to 5AU/year speeds but we need to improve it to 40 AU/year speeds. The goal would be to reach 550-650 AU where the ... Read more

James Douma is an AI expert and he believes that Tesla FSD V12.X will achieve better than human driving with more data and compute to refine the system. It will need 1% or less interventions than FSD V11. If interventions have been at 1 every drive then 1% interventions would mean one intervention every 3 ... Read more

There was a APS presentation by Ulsan Korea University researchers. It is being reported that numerous comments on the Chinese website Zhihu imply that the University of Ulsan's data plot is so important that a certain superconductivity expert saw the decisive signal proving LK99's superconductivity in the graph's temperature rise curve near 200K. Nextbigfuture does ... Read more

Rivian CEO and Founder RJ Scaringe debuts the next generation of Rivian's vehicles: R2, R3 and R3X. Rivian is targeting delivery of the R2 in mid-2026. Rivian Automotive unveiled three new vehicles and announced over $2 billion in lower expenses by delaying construction on a plant in Georgia. The R2 is expected to start at ... Read more

NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 20 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. They plan to sell 1,000 microreactors on a yearly basis for a trillion-dollar industry. Nuclear currently supplies some 18% of US power needs off ... Read more

Yesterday, AI Expert James Douma predicted that Tesla FSD version 12 would be able to eliminate 99% of the human interventions experienced in FSD version 11. Technology analyst and investors Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner describe what they have learned about how Tesla gathers the data for FSD training. Tesla tracks all of the best ... Read more

This is a review of the arguments and evidence for and against LK99 type materials as room temperature superconductors. Case Against Cuprous Sulfide and Iron Contamination The claims against LK99 and LK99-variants materials as a superconductor is that cuprous sulfide has some transition temperatures that match up with some of the bulk LK99 readings. They ... Read more

San Francisco, United States / California, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Identity Data Management and Analytics Provider Radiant Logic Joins Okta and Ping Identity in Partnership with Badge to Enable Privacy-Preserving Authentication Badge Inc., the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without SecretsTM, today launched a new Partner Program and welcomed Identity Data Management and Analytics provider ... Read more

Paris, France, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Company Open Sources FHE Libraries to Build Privacy-Preserving Blockchain and AI Applications for the First Time. Investment secured to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to the fore, giving developers the ability to address data privacy challenges across blockchain and AI use cases. Zama, an open source cryptography company building ... Read more

Google Gemini is inferior to OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. GPT-4 was released over a year ago. Anthropic just released Claude 3. It is competitive with OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. There are some testers who are finding Claude has less hallucination and is better at increasing computer coding productivity. Here is the huggingface area ... Read more

Chinese wholesale passenger NEVs (New energy vehicles, battery and hybrid) in February were 441,000 units, down 11 percent from a year ago and down 37 percent from January, according to the CPCA (China Passenger Car Association). Cumulative wholesale sales of Chinese passenger NEVs so far this year totaled 1.123 million units, up 27 percent year-on-year. ... Read more

SpaceX has scheduled a live stream for March 14, 2024 for the third launch orbital test flight of the SpaceX Starship. They have changed the flight plan from previous orbital launches. They will try to make a controlled landing in the Indian Ocean. They will restart engines in orbit and open the payload bay doors. ... Read more

The Boring Company is deploying the PruFrock 3 tunneling machine at Tesla Gigatexas. The PruFrock 3 machine will be able to dig continuously. It will only need to stop to change out teeth and other parts as they wear out. The Boring Revolution youtube has analyzed the actual tunneling rates on actual real world projects ... Read more

SCT Corp is a different South Korean group from the original Korean team working on room temperature superconductors. Dae-Chel Jung is one of the researchers are SCT Corp. SCT Corp provided a video of one of their superconducting samples fully levitating. SCTL is short for Superconducting Technology Lab and SCT Corp is Superconductor Technology Corp. ... Read more

James Douma is an AI expert and he explains how Tesla FSD Version 12 is vastly better than Tesla FSD V11. Douma predicts that FSD version 12 will be able to have a 100X reduction in human interventions compared to version 11. This should be in the 3 month timeframe. Tesla FSD v12 has eliminated ... Read more

People talk about how Elon had a 2018 CEO pay package that resulted in $56 billion in value. However, what if he was paid double the cash but only if he was immediately required to buy call options. In 2018 and 2019, there were CEOs getting $125 million to $250 million in mostly cash. Elon ... Read more

With Grok, @xAI is attempting to create an AI that reasons from first principles, which is fundamental if you care about getting as close to the truth as possible. The acid test would be reaching a conclusion that is correct even if it is extremely unpopular, which means being right even when the training data ... Read more

Korean news agencies have coverage of the PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor. They show all of the videos and slides including ones with full levitation and flux pinning effects. I would point out that none of the research papers that claim to falsify the room temperature superconducting claims have been able to replicate partial levitation with ... Read more

Bellik Ozan talked to Ellie in Space about SpaceX Starship costs. Bellik makes the case that SpaceX could modify the Super Heavy Starship for the same reuse as the Falcon 9. Throw away the upper stage with three Raptor engines instead of one Merlin engine in the Falcon 9 second stage. This would enable SpaceX ... Read more

Here is a video of a PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor experiment. The video matches up with one of the slides from the APS Hyun-Tak Kim talk. Different Kinds of Magnetism and Levitation Diamagnetism is a property of matter, superconductivity is a state of matter. Diamagnetism describes how a material reacts when plunged into a magnetic ... Read more

There are some people who expected more from the PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor talk. They strangely expected the team to bring the sample and show it live. BUT that is not what the abstract of the talk said. The abstract said they would show two videos of levitation and two videos of magnets. This is ... Read more

This is the evidence shown at the APS meeting talk today. The team will need to get its peer reviewed paper published and the Chinese teams will need to show their patents and papers with more evidence. The original LK99 team have their sulfur variant and have shown some video evidence. A youtube video which ... Read more

Kim Hyun-tak (lead original south korean researcher) has a confident email to a colleague. We [Original Korean Superconducting Researchers] designate March 4, 2024 as The Day of Room Temperature Superconductor (TDRTS) and researchers celebrate the day with delicious food. This is because it is the day when room-temperature superconductivity, such as magnetic levitation and zero ... Read more

Unitree is a publicly traded robot company with about $5 billion in market value. They have sped up their humanoid robot to human jogging speed of 3.3 meters per second. This is about 7.5 miles per hour. It would not tire so it would take 50 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race with enough ... Read more

Russia has lost 13 fighter jets in 13 days but it is because they are flying 150 bombing runs everyday. Russians are flying more bombing sorties than ever before. Russian air force launched more than 150 sorties involving Su-34s, Su-35s and Sukhoi Su-25 attack jets. That's 10 more daily sorties than the Russian air force ... Read more

New guidelines from the CDC Friday bring Covid precautions in line with with those of other respiratory viruses like the flu. Here are the new CDC guidelines for respiratory viruses including COVID, flu and cold.

Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit AI research company and helped create its founding charter. OpenAI licensed GPT-3 and pre-AGI to Microsoft and gave Microsoft access to its critical internal weights of the AI model. OpenAI with GPT-4 has become for profit and has basically partnered with Microsoft. The Musk lawsuit is to force ... Read more

CNEVPost says CATL is in the process of developing and validating its M3P batteries with Tesla. Detailed analysis indicates that M3P brings better range that Iron LFP batteries for similar cost and 15% lower cost than nickel batteries. M3P batteries are CATL's batteries based on a new material system with higher energy density than lithium ... Read more

Electric motors are finally getting good enough in performance to capture efficiency gains from having a second turbine drive an adaptive cycle jet engine. This new jet engine will enable commercial flights anywhere in the world 3x faster than anything today for the same price. That's the win - Commercial flights anywhere in the world ... Read more

Pika Lipsync and T2 Remake are examples of the rapid progress in AI Video tools. We will get TV show and movie length generation of AI videos this year. I've said it before and I'll say it again. 2024 is the year AI video goes crazy. Lightricks just unveiled @LTXStudio, a platform that allows you ... Read more