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SpaceX is reported to have a Starshield internet service contract with the US military. A congressmen has requested activation of the service over Taiwan from SpaceX. SpaceX and Elon Musk will provide an update by March 8, 2024 on the status of activation and operations. SpaceX says it is in full compliance with all of ... Read more

Alan Thompson is an AI expert who is closely tracking progress to AGI. His definition is: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a machine capable of understanding the world as well as-or better than-any human, in practically every field, including the ability to interact with the world via physical embodiment. And the short version: AGI is ... Read more

The next Bitcoin halving is April 19, 2024. This is driving Bitcoin towards $70-100k. About every four years or every 210,000 blocks added to the blockchain, bitcoin miners' rewards for contributing will be cut in half. IF the reward for mining a block was 40 bitcoins, after its first halving it will be 20, and ... Read more

Tesla to unveil next-gen Roadster in late 2024. It's a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX. Deliveries aim to start in 2025. 0-60mph time is expected to be about 1 second. The best street legal 0-60 MPH is with cars in the 1.6 to 1.8 second range now. Special drag race cars can get 0-60 mpg ... Read more

Bloomberg reports that the Apple electric Car project has been cancelled after a decade and many billions of dollars spent. Many of the Apple staff will shift to working on generative AI. There were about 2000 people working on the Apple electric car project. In 2018, there were around 5,000 employees working on the project. ... Read more

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object think larger asteroid belt beyond Neptune. This larger belt includes Pluto and its moon and they are far ... Read more

Los Alamos national lab made an artificial intelligence framework called Blackout Diffusion generates images from a completely empty picture. The machine-learning algorithm, unlike other generative diffusion models, does not require initiating a random seed to get started. The results are comparable to DALL-E or Midjourney, but require fewer computational resources than these models. Diffusion models ... Read more

Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and paving the way for enhanced cybersecurity measures. Using their approach, the team set a new world record in classifying malware families. Artificial intelligence methods developed for cyber-defense ... Read more

Chrome Kiwi and Youtube What About It? (Felix Schlang) show how SpaceX will add a water protection system to the top of the launch stand to protect it from being damaged during launch. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship with improved engines will have three times the power of the Saturn V. SpaceX wants to eventually ... Read more

The All in Podcast had a discussion and debate about the AI decade. They compare the current AI infrastructure boom with the internet boom. The current situation is less of a bubble because Nvidia is not getting that large a multiple off its real earnings. They are certain that the current build out phase will ... Read more

SpaceX plans to launch 144 times in 2024 and has already launched 18 times in less than two months. The space shuttle had 133 successful flights from 1981 to 2011. SpaceX plans to launch at least 9 Starship flights in 2024. SpaceX Starship could get close to matching the Saturn V launches. SpaceX Falcon Heavy ... Read more

SpaceX launched 24 version 2 mini satellites yesterday. Sunday's launch was the 18th of the year for SpaceX. They aim to launch 144 orbital missions and 9 Starship launches in 2024. In Q3 of 2023, SpaceX would launch 22 Starlink v2 mini satellites in each falcon 9 launch. They increased to 23 per launch in ... Read more

UBTECH's humanoid robot Walker S was introduced into the assembly line of electric car maker NIO's advanced vehicle manufacturing center, as an intern" assisting in the car production. Walker S is the first bipedal humanoid robot to complete a specific workstation's tasks on a mobile EV production line. UBTECH humanoid robot will also be placed ... Read more

A post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space. Starlink has over 5000 satellites in orbit. SpaceX will launch 2000-3000 Starlink v2 mini direct to cell capable satellites in 2024 on about 120 launches. On January 2, 2024, SpaceX launched to orbit their first six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell ... Read more

Brea, California, February 26th, 2024, Cyberwire The current large surge in cyber threats has left many organizations grappling for security so ThreatHunter.ai is taking decisive action. Recognizing the critical juncture at which the digital world stands, ThreatHunter.ai is now offering their cutting-edge cybersecurity services free of charge to all organizations for 30 days, irrespective of ... Read more

Kim Kardashian, JZ and Beyonce and many other celebrities now have Tesla Cybertrucks. They are going out to be seen with their Cybertrucks. There is also video of thieves failing to break into the Tesla Cybertruck. Thief throws brick at Cybertruck to break in, brick hits his face and doesn't break the window pic.twitter.com/qbGTQDhJsz - ... Read more

There have been many major flaws found with OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini large language models. They generate information that is far from the unbiased truth. The new image and video generation system have trouble with truth but they also have trouble with the physical world. They do not have an internal model of the ... Read more

TSMC's (Taiwan Semiconductor) 2.5D advanced packaging CoWoS (Chip on wafer and wafer on substrate) technology is currently the primary technology used for AI chips. The production capacity of CoWoS packaging technology is a major bottleneck in AI chip output and will stay as a problem for AI chip supply in 2024. Nvidia H100 (AI chips) ... Read more

High NA EUV is the next step in smaller transistors. Like NXE systems, it uses EUV light to print tiny features on silicon wafers. And by turning the NA knob, we deliver even better resolution: The new platform, known as EXE, offers chipmakers a CD (critical dimension) of 8 nm. That means they can print ... Read more

Terra Quantum is working with leading steel manufacturer POSCO Holdings (top Asian Steel company) to deploy quantum AI for optimizing steel production, specifically focusing on POSCO's advanced blast furnaces. They will demonstrate the potential of Quantum Neural Networks to enhance efficiency, targeting tangible outcomes such as reduced emissions and energy consumption. Terra Quantum researchers were ... Read more

Japan's space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet's two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of Phobos and bring it to Earth. This will be a major dedicated mission to Phobos and Deimos. MMX is scheduled to ... Read more

Humanioid Robot company, FigureAU, has received $675 million in funding from a group of investors, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI and Microsoft. They are not only powerful investors but strong partners for the development and rollout of humanoid robots. I, Brian Wang, described the massive investments coming into humanoid bot from all of the Big Tech ... Read more

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander is tipped over on its side. It captured a wide field of view image of Schomberger crater on the Moon approximately 125 miles (200 km) uprange from the intended landing site, at approximately about 6 miles (10 km) altitude. Despite being on it side, the equipment is functioning. The recent ... Read more

An upgraded version of X.AI Grok will be released in a couple of weeks. XAI is in talks with Midjourney for AI generated images and videos. "The release of Grok 1.5 is hopefully only a few weeks away. It will come with a button 'Grok Analysis' that can sum up the whole thread & replies. ... Read more

Beijing researchers made a pseudo-CMOS architecture for sub-picowatt logic computing that uses self-biased molybdenum disulfide transistors. As transistors are scaled to smaller dimensions, their static power increases. Combining two-dimensional (2D) channel materials with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic architectures could be an effective solution to this issue because of the excellent field-effect properties of 2D materials. ... Read more

Getting census data and links to census data from the ChatGPT and other large language models is revealing. ChatGPT is censoring census data. Partial list of countries that censor census data. There are countries that avoid creating any census data. Countries that have not had a census since 1990 include: Lebanon (1932) Afghanistan (1979) Eritrea ... Read more

launch-licensing process. They're looking at a pretty aggressive launch schedule this year," he said. They're looking at, I believe, at least nine launches this year. That's a lot of launches. If you're doing modifications and doing them one by one, that's a lot of work. We've been talking to SpaceX constantly around the clock, coming ... Read more

Intuitive Machines will have a livestream of the IM-1 lunar landing time has hit and there has been a communication issue. They are rebooting the ground transmitter. 3:33 PST Signs of life. Tracking a return signal. Successful Landing confirmed at about 3:35 PST Flight controllers chose to exercise an additional orbit before starting the IM-1 ... Read more

NASA Ames have shown that a simplified manufacturing and construction process is very powerful. More capable mass produced humanoid robots will be even more transformative. The NASA construction system has a mass of 10 kilograms per cubic meter. Water has a mass of 1000 kilograms per cubic meter. Lightweight and modular construction will create structures ... Read more

Kevin Clarke was among the 165 passengers aboard the Boeing 757-200 on the flight Monday from San Francisco to Boston when the right wing appeared to start shredding. The United flight from San Francisco to Boston had to be diverted to Denver after it was discovered mid-air a portion of the wing was damaged. The ... Read more

Intuitive Machines IM-1, Odysseus, completed its scheduled 408-second main engine lunar orbit insertion burn and is currently in a 92 km circular lunar orbit. Initial data indicates the 800 m/s burn was completed within 2 m/s accuracy. After traveling over 1,000,000 km, Odysseus is now closer to the Moon than the end-to-end distance driving across ... Read more

EpiSci will use AI software to leverage infrared satellite data from the Space Development Agency (SDA) future constellation of hundreds of satellites. The satellites will have overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) sensors. The startup EpiSci has expertise in signal processing technology using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) techniques to provide warfighters a competitive advantage. A ... Read more

Ukraine reports that six of Russia's most modern fighters were shotdown over three days. The Russia-Ukraine war is an intense war of attrition, where both sides are losing a lot of equipment and personnel. Nextbigfuture has previously reported on the Russian and Ukrainian air force losses. Russia has now lost about 88 modern fighter planes. ... Read more

NASA wants four volunteers second of three planned ground-based missions called CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) is scheduled to kick off in spring 2025. Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person volunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat, called the Mars ... Read more

Elon Musk is currently expecting Starship to have its next orbital launch attempt in mid-March 2024. There are reports of several possible new SpaceX launch facilities. There could be a new SLC-50 or SLC-49 instead of or including the SLC-37 facility. The US Department of the Air Force is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) ... Read more

Israel in the Gaza War has had a total number of air strikes that is 39% of the number of airstrikes that the US Air Force performed in the 1991 Gulf War. The Israel Air Force has carried out strikes against more than 31,000 targets belonging to Hamas and other terror groups since the war ... Read more

Youtuber Whole Mars has uploaded new video of drives using Tesla FSD V12.2.1.

Autoline describes the problem of Peak Auto. New car sales have hit their peak in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Despite strong population growth in the U.S., new car sales are the same as they were a quarter of a century ago. Here's why. US overall car sales have dropped from 2000 to today despite ... Read more

There are some claims that surface to air missiles can shoot down SpaceX Starships when the US military starts using them in a few years for cargo missions. The people who make these claims have not looked at the specifications of surface to air missiles. A SpaceX Starship will be much harder to shootdown than ... Read more

Ukraine and Russia have both lost a lot of their Navy in the war. Ukraine claims to have destroyed nearly a third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet less than two years. 25 vessels have been destroyed, and 15 more are under repair. There is some dispute to this number and lower estimates are about ... Read more

Some fraud impersonated me [Hyun-tak Kim] to withdraw it [LK99 Room Temperature Superconductor] talk at the APS conference on March 4, 2024. I [Hyun-tak Kim] already informed APS Everything will be back to normal. The [LK99 room temperature superconductor] abstract is back at the March 4, 2024 APS (American Physical Society) Collaboration: College of William ... Read more

In 2016, SoftBank bought Arm for about $32 billion and sold 25% of the business to the Vision Fund for $8 billion in 2016. In August 2023, SoftBank acquired the 25% stake in Arm from the Vision Fund for around $16 billion, valuing Arm at over $64 billion. After the September 14, 2023, public offering, ... Read more

The US military will need to build hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers by 2030. The US military is planning to get to thousands of SpaceX flights per year and this will mean that the US military will need hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers. SpaceX, the US Air Force and the US Space Force discussions about ... Read more

CernBasher is a financial advisor who had detailed financial and operational analysis of FSD, Robotaxi and humanoid robot. Cern is the co-founder and investment officer of Brilliant advice. What he shares on X and Youtube is not financial advice. Cern talks with Teslafix about the significant impact FSD technology may have on Tesla's financial future ... Read more

The field of web3 non-custodial wallets just gained a new contender from an old face. SWIFT is the product of Trust Wallet, one of the longest established and most popular crypto wallets. It's now unveiled the beta of its new product: SWIFT. The user-friendly wallet, which is incorporated into the Trust app, makes use of ... Read more

Elon Musk said that the Tesla FSD Version 12.X will go into wide release in a few weeks. Just working out the bugs. Should go to wide release in a few weeks. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 16, 2024 Fisherman's Wharf to SFO in the Rain with 0 Interventions Required on Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta ... Read more

The original South Korean researchers of the LK99 room temperature and room pressure superconductor appears to have a withdrawn abstract. This could mean the presentation is withdrawn. The abstract of Hyuntak Kim APS march meeting has been withdrawn. But we don't know yet if this means "meeting withdrawal" or not. pic.twitter.com/rjhZX3AP6I - sejong (@gimjiun79102152) February ... Read more

Tesla has been able to generate realistic video with real world physics using AI for over a year. Dr Know It All, John Gibb, had theorized this a year ago. Elon Musk confirmed this to be the case. OpenAI Sora is much more visually impressive but FSD 12 is in many ways more amazing especially ... Read more