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There was a good manned launch of two astronauts on the Boeing Starliner. The Starliner had a lot of delays and problems and was over budget. However, it is great that they have had a successful manned launch of two astronauts.

Linus Tech tips looks at the size, weight and power of the LARGEST GPUs we have ever seen. Then B200 e size of a Server Rack. They also look at Network switches. The server rack has 18 blades of 72 B200 chips.

Two years ago, Nextbigfuture highlighted Maia Biotechnology, which might have the most promising treatment for all cancers. They poison cells that express the telomerase enzyme which indicates cancerous activity. The drug treatment is called Thio. 90% of cancers express telomerase enzyme. Brian Wang interviewed Antiaging expert Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey told Nextbigfuture that his favorite ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink achieved a new internal median latency record of 28ms on June 1, 2024. It will get to below 20 millisecond latency. SpaceX has sent a request to the FCC to allow operation at about 350 kilometer instead of 530 kilometers. The closer operation will reduce the latency by 1.3 milliseconds. Starlink just achieved ... Read more

NVIDIA ACE-a suite of technologies bringing digital humans to life with generative AI-is now generally available for developers. Packaged as NVIDIA NIMs, these inference microservices enable developers to deliver high-quality natural language understanding, speech synthesis, and facial animation for gaming, customer service, healthcare, and more. NVIDIA is also introducing ACE PC NIM microservices for deployment ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, 4th June 2024, Chainwire

SpaceX is less than 48 hours from a scheduled Starship orbital launch attempt. The FAA has granted the license for the launch. Thursday, June 6 for Starship's fourth flight test. A 120-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT. Targeting Thursday, June 6 for Starship's fourth flight test. A 120-minute launch window opens at 7:00 ... Read more

Jim Fan, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Lead of AI Agents Initiative, gave a keynote at the GenAI Summit 2024 where he talked about the latest AI at Nvidia. He describes the new world of virtual agents, humanoid bots and ultra-fast simulation and training. There were three AI eras before the new AI era ... Read more

Will Tesla's first trillion dollars in robotaxi revenue come from China first? Tesla could get into 800 cities with a million robotaxi in China by 2026 but ridesharing only charges 60 cents per mile in China versus $2-3 in the USA. Which will matter more to Tesla for FSD and Robotaxi? China or the USA? ... Read more

In 2018, Yusaku Maezawa announced dearMoon, the world's first civilian circumlunar voyage aboard SpaceX's space vehicle, Starship. The plan had included artists from around the world who would participate in the project to share the invaluable experience in space with the rest of the world. Arrangements were made with SpaceX to target the launch by ... Read more

Tesla first trillion dollars in robotaxi revenue will come from China first. Most of the first 800 cities and most of the first million robotaxis. Tesla is unveiling the Robotax on August 8, 2024 and Ark Invest has projected the robotaxi business will be worth ten trillion dollars per year. China is has already moved ... Read more

Groq said that they will start operating an AI inference cluster with large business in 30 days. Groq made a presentation at the GenAI summit 2024 in San Francisco. They are processing 30,000 inference input inference tokens and will put together about 1500 chips into an inference data center that will process 25 million inference ... Read more

Understanding the scale of the massive AI data centers being built and the competition to create the dominant AI in 2025.

Prague, Czech Republic, 29th May 2024, CyberNewsWire

The B-21's internal operations are extremely advanced compared to the B-2. The B-21 is smaller and more stealthy than the B-2, with a longer range. The first B-21s are not prototypes but rather test aircraft that the Air Force will convert to operational configuration after the completion of tests. The B-2 bombers are about thirty ... Read more

Brian Wang speaks with humanoid bot and AI expert Dr John Gibb about the surprises in a future where teslabots do everything in factories. RethinkX projects a 20 year disruption of the global labor market by humanoid robots. RethinkX projects there will be about one billion humanoid robots by 2045-2055. However, this skips over the ... Read more

Cary, United States, 28th May 2024, CyberNewsWire

XAI has raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round with participation from key investors including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, amongst others. Elon Musk owns over half of xAI and xAI will be valued at about $24 ... Read more

Using low-bandgap III-V materials such as InAsSb in nanostructured arrays to limit potential loss mechanisms, a 25x improvement in mass specific power and ten thousands times decrease in volume from a MMRTG is an early estimate, with higher performance possible depending on operating conditions. TRC technology will allow a proliferation of small versatile spacecraft with ... Read more

Larger telescopes are better because we can see better and capture more light, so NASA is developing liquid based space telescopes that would let us build 50 meter telescopes for the cost of 10 meter telescopes. The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority astrophysics targets, including Earth-like exoplanets, first ... Read more

The moon has one-sixth the gravity of the earth so magnetic levitation can use 35 times less power to do the same work. NASA will leverage this to make thin sheets that can rolled out to make lunar railway systems. They will provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient payload transport on the Moon. A durable, long-life ... Read more

A breakthrough pulsed plasma rocket is getting NASA phase 2 innovative concepts funding. It will have 15 times the efficiency of chemical rockets and with high levels of thrust at the level of a medium sized chemical rocket. Howe Industries is currently developing a propulsion system that may generate up to 100,000 Newtons of thrust ... Read more

May 22, Nvidia Jensen Huang says Tesla is far ahead in self-driving cars and on May 15, Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving vehicle department, said in an interview that Baidu is considering potential collaboration opportunities with Tesla for the latter's upcoming Robotaxi service. Nvidia is supply self driving car companies and robotaxi ... Read more

ChatRTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content-docs, notes, images, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. It all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or ... Read more

SpaceX will try to launch on June 5, 2024 if they get FAA approval. Elon and SpaceX are communicating the June 5th date as if the FAA is close to giving the launch license. Here is what has been learned and fixed after the third flight. Super Heavy Booster: Second successful ascent. Initiated ... Read more

Elon Musk says SpaceX has no need for additional capital and will be buying back shares. This must mean that the over 3 million Starlink customers that they have now and likely 5 million by the end of the year make SpaceX consistently profitable. SpaceX is adding about 1500 Starlink gen 2 mini satellites for ... Read more

The B-21 Stealth bomber has been having flight tests for a few months. U.S. Air Force's B-21 Raider stealth bombers are now conducting test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California. The first B-21 flew for the first time November, 2023. Six pre-production B-21 have been built. The Air Force currently expects the B-21 ... Read more

Copper-substituted lead apatite, aka LK-99, was claimed to be room-temperature superconductor, but due to the complicated components and structures, the reproduction is still controversial. Chinese researchers have some replication of the Korean work and have extended with better procedures and research. They have updated a prior paper with new synthesis (instructions about how to make ... Read more

Teslabots are humanoid robots that Tesla has started using in factories this year and will start selling in large numbers next year. Replacing human labor is a $30 trillion opportunity. But If Teslabots can speed up AI progress that could be an even bigger unlimited opportunity. We could be two generations faster to AGI and ... Read more

Hermeus is a aviation startup that could be the Lockheed Skunkworks for this generation. They could develop a ultrafast mach 5+ hypersonic jet in record time. Later this year Hermeus is aiming to take their first subsonic flight and will fly at Mach 2.5 next year and then hypersonic before 2030. They built a ramjet ... Read more

Nvidia reports that according to their data Nvidia H200s are profitable for AI companies. $1 in H200 cost can generate $7 in revenue over 4 years serving Meta Llama 3. This means if an AI company buys a $40k H200, the AI company can make $280k in AI over 4 years. The Nvidia H200 has ... Read more

Nvidia had $6.12 EPS and revenue of $26 billion which beat ($5.59 estimate on EPS) on EPS and revenue. Revenue estimates were $24 billion. NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the first quarter ended April 30, 2023, of $7.19 billion, down 13% from a year ago and up 19% from the previous quarter. GAAP ... Read more

The pursuit of room-temperature superconductivity has long been a holy grail in the field of condensed matter physics because it could revolutionize all electricity based technologies and in particular make computers at least hundreds of times faster. In mid-2023, the Korean LK-99 (copper-substituted lead apatite) material provided a controversial possibility of a major breakthrough. Researchers ... Read more

Starlink is connecting more than 3M people with high-speed internet across nearly 100 countries, territories and many other markets. In February, 2024, Starlink was serving more than 2.3 million customers across the globe. In three months, SpaceX has added about 700,000 customers. SpaceX Starlink is tracking to about 3.5 to 5 million customers at the ... Read more

BrainBridge, the world's first concept for a head transplant system, which integrates advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to execute complete head and face transplantation procedures. This state-of-the-art system offers new hope to patients suffering from untreatable conditions such as stage-4 cancer, paralysis, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. View this post on Instagram A ... Read more

Boeing is still struggling with problems with the Starliner. After years and years of continued delays and problems can we ever be confident that Boeing Starliner is reliably safe for human flight? Major operational and safety problems keep surfacing after years of rework. After it was fully reworked twice and it still has physical and ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, May 22nd, 2024, CyberNewsWire AI SPERA, a leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) solutions, announced today that its proprietary search engine, Criminal IP, is now available on the AWS Marketplace. This integration ensures efficient software procurement and deployment, aligning seamlessly with customers' existing cloud architectures. After meeting specific technical and ... Read more

SpaceX has grown to 87% of the world's tonnage to orbit, a new high in the first quarter of 2024. The graph uses a magnifying projection to even see the other domestic launch providers. The five Chinese launchers combined lofted 13.6x less than SpaceX. Europe was zero. SpaceX might exceed 90% of all Earth payload ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.4 is now rolling out to employees with an all new attention monitoring system. The camera attention monitoring systems means Tesla has removed the steering wheel nag. The driver will not need to keep touching the steering wheel. The new FSD update is version 2024.9.5, which is likely based on the earlier 2024.8 ... Read more

Elon Musk says SpaceX Starship Flight 4 will be in about 2 weeks.The primary goal is getting through max reentry heating. It is worth noting that no one has ever succeeded in creating a fully reusable heat shield. Shuttle required over 6 months of rework. Starship Flight 4 in about 2 weeks. Primary goal is ... Read more

Thea Energy has new simpler, cheaper, faster approaches to nuclear fusion. They have many design and engineering innovations using Stellarators. THEA Energy fixes the main weakness of Stellarators, the complex and costly magnetic coils. They have taken one of the most promising and well studied nuclear fusion approaches and figured out how to make them ... Read more

CallasEV compared a Waymo against Tesla FSD version 12.3.6. Tesla FSD12.3.6 had no disengagements and completed the drive 2 minutes ahead of the Waymo because of superior route planning. The FSD ride and the Waymo rides were both smooth. Tesla FSD can operate across North America and is getting certified in Europe, China, Asia and ... Read more

The US Air Force plans to spend $28.5 Billion on the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter program from 2025 to 2029. This will be for the 6th generation fighter and the companion wingman drones. The development will ramp up with production starting around 2030. The NGAD will have next level stealth, vastly better engines ... Read more

Dyson spheres (aka Dyson Swarms) are hypothetical structures where civilizations build solar power satellite collection around a star. We currently generate about 50 megawatts from space based solar power out of a total of about 20 terawatts. The total solar energy that hits the earth is about 10,000 times more and the total energy from ... Read more

China's goverment wants to be a global leader in emerging technologies and has identified robotaxi's and autonomous driving as a key target. The top robotaxi and autonomous vehicle companies in China are: AutoX Baidu Apollo Didi Chuxing Pony.ai WeRide. Baidu Apollo seems to be a world leader with more rides given and miles driven than ... Read more

Here is the three page summary of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation of Waymo robotaxi. The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received reports of 22 incidents involving Waymo vehicles equipped with Waymo's 5th generation automated driving system (ADS) wherein the ADS-equipped vehicle was the sole vehicle operated during a collision or wherein ... Read more

On May 15, Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving vehicle department, said in an interview that Baidu is considering potential collaboration opportunities with Tesla for the latter's upcoming Robotaxi service. The decision will be based on Tesla's specific application models and the timing of their entry into the Chinese market. For those that ... Read more

Elon Musk said that Tesla FSD 12.4 goes to internal release this weekend and limited external beta next week. Roughly 5X to 10X improvement in miles per intervention vs 12.3. 12.5 will be out in late June. Will also see a major improvement in mpi and is single stack - no Yeah, seeing it everywhere. ... Read more

Boeing Starliner's CFT (crewed flight test) is delayed again. They are now targeting no earlier than May 21st which is a push by another 4 days. There is a helium leak in the spacecraft. Starliner will launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Florida's Space ... Read more