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Amazon’s Project Kuiper is asking the FCC to launch more than 4500 satellites. Amazon’s old plan was for 3236 satellites. If the new request is approved they will launch a total of 7774...

In real life when you need to transport something, you place it inside a container. It can then travel on a boat, on a train or even be pulled on the road by a truck, enabling it to get to its...

Elon Musk had a twitter poll to determine if he will sell 10% of Tesla. The poll was 58% for yes Elon should sell 10% of his Tesla shares. Elon has about 170 million shares of Tesla. This sale will...

BYD battery EV sales rose 176% to 41,232 units year over year and 13% from September, 2021. October PHEV sales increased from 7,126 units in 2020 to 38,771 in 2021. BYD has also sold over 1000...

A friend of mine, Angie Apperson, asked on Linkedin Who are on your list of most admired female leaders in tech? Here is my list of my five most admired female leaders in Technology and innovation....

The number of Chinese provinces with significant power shortages is down to two in mid-October instead of 18 at the start of the month. The number of coal power plants with dangerously low coal...

China is turning to increased nuclear power plans because of their coal and hydroelectric energy crisis. China has an energy crisis this year with droughts reducing hydro power by 30% and problems...

On the prediction site Metaculus, Robin Hanson and Matthew Barnett have a bet about whole brain emulation versus artificial general intelligence. The bet is that when US labor participation rate is...

There is a bet on the prediction site Metaculus, that asks will US labor force participation drop below 10%? The formulation of the argument for the question focuses on automation and a related...

Dr. Eli David and others have noted that UN food program gets over $8 billion per year to reduce world hunger. UN director said that $6B could save 42 million, not end world hunger. The UN director,...

By 2023, it’s estimated the worldwide global cloud computing market will be worth $623 billion. And IT analyst company Gartner predicts that 50% of all companies around the globe will adopt cloud...

SpaceX orbital launch table saves some launch mass by providing nitrogen, hot oxygen and hot methane to ignite the engines. I think connecting the outer engines to the fuel supplied for ignition will...

Worldometers reports the official Global total of nationally reported COVID deaths will pass 5 million this weekend. It is reported at 4.995 million today. Worldometers reports the US death total at...

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index reports that Elon Musk is worth over $300 billion. He is the first to break the $300 billion mark. Jeff Bezos is number two with $199 billion but Amazon dropped 4% in...

General Mark Milley provided the first confirmation of an intercontinental hypersonic weapons test by China this summer. The missile orbited the Earth and had a hypersonic stage that could change...

NASA has proposed using the Space Launch System until 2050. Over $30 billion has been spent on getting the Space Launch System to its first flight. This might happen next year. In 2019, the White...

The Boring Company is expanding the Vegas Loop to 29 miles and 51 stations. Boring Revolution finds the Boring system will be a money printer with an insane daily through-put of 495,000 persons and a...

Historically, computing technology typically hits significant milestones that influence the course of history in 10 – 15 year cycles. The mid-80s was the era of PCs, the Internet reshaped the...

Blue Origin and Sierra Space announced plans for Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbit. The station will open the next chapter of...

If anyone told you that document fraud is still one of the largest forms of fraud in this digital age, many would deny given the prevalence of digital credentials today. It is hard to fathom that the...

Iran and Venezuela have been kept out of the regular oil markets for years with US and European sanctions. Iran and Venezuela, each used to export a couple million barrels of oil per day or more if...

Looking at a list of pandemics COVID-19 is ranking at about the percent of global population loss (0.07-0.25%) at about the level of the 1957 flu (0.03-0.1%). World population is now over three times...

SpaceX shows off Boca Chica and the Super Heavy Starship in a video on twitter – Gateway to Mars. Gateway to Mars pic.twitter.com/cej13QdyJP — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 23, 2021

Keemut has a calculator to compare most gasoline car models against electric cars for the total cost of ownership over five years. They have an estimate of gasoline prices by state. The Tesla Model Y...

AAA reports that US average price for a gallon of gasoline rose six cents over the past week to hit $3.38. The pump price went up every day in the past 27 days and added approximately 20 cents to the...

Nanoracks, in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has formed a team to develop the first-ever free flying commercial space station. The space station, known as Starlab,...

Tesla has surged as high as $1038 today on the news of $4.2 billion deal with Hertz. Hertz is emerging from bankruptcy and will buy 100,000 Tesla Model 3 and Model Y over the next 14 months. Hertz is...

Being a Creator can help you earn income doing what you love. But there are big differences in what platforms offer creators. This guide helps match you with the best platform to accomplish your...

There was a Veteran Health Administration Study of 620,000 people that showed the decline in COVID Vaccine effectiveness from February 1 to Mid August, 2021. Overall vaccine protection was down to...

The Airbus Zephyr is the world’s leading solar-electric stratospheric Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), with a wingspan of 25 meters and it weighs less than 75kg. The first stratospheric UAS of its kind,...

Digital World Acquisition Corp., is the SPAC that is taking former President Trump’s planned social media platform public. Trump Media & Technology Group and Digital World Acquisition Corp....

Boeing’s program manager for commercial crew, John Vollmer, says Boeing is now targeting the first half of 2022 for the uncrewed test flight of Starliner. A crewed flight would occur in 2023 IF...

Tesla reported third-quarter financial results and increased profitability by 3% to 30.5% automotive gross margin and 28.8% auto margin without tax credits. Tesla will continue to grow the...

Apple announced its new Macbook Pro’s and they have increased the power and efficiency of the M1 chip and GPU. The M1 Max will have 70% more CPU performance and double the GPU performance over...

D-Wave Systems revealed their next-generation quantum computing platforms will include both annealing and gate-model quantum computers. This is a significant shift because they were the pioneers in...

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab has had a successful two-year mission using a new deep space atomic clock. Next-generation deep space atomic clocks will improve spacecraft navigation. The technology...

Germany failed to meet its 2020 clean energy target and will lose 12% of its clean energy if it shuts 8 GW of current nuclear power. Germany will miss its 2030 climate target of 65 percent less...

If Bill Gates kept all of his shares after the first day of the Microsoft IPO he would now be a trillionaire. This would even allow for several billion in charitable donations. Bill Gates had 49% of...

It is still a secret and a mystery who Zatoshi Nakamoto is, but this the public name for the person who created Bitcoin. Elon Musk is the richest person in the world has a net worth today of about...

Before the recent political and business campaign and censorship against Ivermectin was a Nobel Prize-winning wonder drug. It was being given to 200 million people per year in Africa to reduce River...

Khan Noonien Singh could not kill Captain Kirk and Jeff Bezos also failed. Captain Kirk, William Shatner, has safely returned from a trip to suborbit on a Blue Origin rocket. Congratulations to...

Tesla produced 56,006 cars in China in September and produced about 34,000 cars in Fremont in September. Tesla delivered 241,000 EV cars in the third quarter. Tesla makes EVs exclusively. Tesla made...

Tesla China production for September is 56,006 China-made cars. This increased 27% MoM versus August – Tesla’s wholesale sales of MIC Tesla in September were 56,006 units, up 27%...

JB Straubel was the CTO of Tesla and is now the CEO of Redwood Materials. Redwood Materials had $700 million of funding in July, 2021. In an interview below, JB says he was amazed that legacy...

Assessment of current policies by two researchers published in the journal Nature suggests that the world is on course for around 3 °C of warming above pre-industrial levels. The world is already at...

China recorded nearly 262 000 road traffic deaths in 2017, accounting for about 21% of global road traffic deaths according to GBD (Global Burden of Disease) data. The USA has been experiencing about...

Hi readers and commenters. The Nextbigfuture comment system has been broken for a couple of weeks. I have been trying to contact Openweb/ spot.im support but they have not replied. When I do finally...

Elon Musk spoke at Tesla Berlin and said that the Gigafactory will start producing cars in November or December of this year. At the annual meeting, Tesla said that Texas would start producing this...

In July 2021, ByteDance reached a valuation of $425 billion for new private equity investors, according to Chinese technology news portal 36Kr. 36Kr showed three listings of stakes for sale in...

China is indicating that raw coal production increased but it is not meeting the demand. From January to August, 2021, 2.6 billion tons of raw coal were produced, with a year-on-year increase of 4.4...