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On Sunday (Aug. 31 2025), 28 Starlink satellites (Group 10-14) lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch marked the 23rd flight of the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage (Booster 1077). Once again, it was successfully recovered. With this mission, the ... Read more

On august 7, 2025, Firefly Aerospace, a market leading space and defense technology company, began publicly trading with an initial public offering of 19,296,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $45.00 per share. They raised almost $900 million from the IPO. It traded up initially but is back to the ... Read more

Several notable AI models were released or updated during this week. Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (codename: Nano Banana): This is a state-of-the-art image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind, specializing in consistent character maintenance across images, multi-turn editing, and intuitive visual creation. It's integrated into the Gemini app and available as a preview ... Read more

AI (Chatgpt and Grok) were asked for near term TESLA share price catalysts and gave a list below. It was a reasonable list. However, they missed important catalysts. Q3 earnings report in October and market reactions to updates on autonomous robo-taxi progress and margins. Broader rollout and monetization of Full Self-Driving (FSD). Expansion into emerging ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 1st September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Tesla's 4% decline on Friday, August 29, 2025 while the broader market was only slightly down was due to technical patterns: Tesla hsa been forming a wedge, struggling to break through resistance at 350-360. Tesla-specific positives: New Model YL (three-row SUV) and Performance variant (0-60 in under 3 seconds, improved range). No major negatives noted, ... Read more

As of 2025, Europe's Muslim population is estimated at around 46 million, or about 6% of the continent's total population of roughly 745 million. This is up from 4.9% in 2016, driven by migration (about 50-60% of growth) and higher fertility rates (40-50%). Most Muslim migrants come from the Middle East and North Africa (e.g., ... Read more

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) detected significant nickel vapor but almost no iron in the interstellar 3I/Atlas comet. Having nickel without iron is not a chemical signature found in known natural comets and is more consistent with industrial alloy refining processes. Nickel Without Iron and Carbon Dioxide Without water Astronomers using the VLT observed emission ... Read more

Jujtusu Kaisen is the the peak of Shonen anime (superhero animated action). Season 3 will release Jan 2026. It is the best superhero show. It has the best pacing, characters, powers and innovative power interactions. Season 1 is on Netflix and season 2 is on Crunch roll streaming. The manga has completed and there about ... Read more

In 2025, large-scale U.S. utility solar costs range from $0.95 to $1.23 per watt (DC) for a new, single-axis tracking system, with the final cost depending heavily on project size, location, and specific equipment. For a 1 MW (megawatt) utility-scale solar farm, the approximate cost is $980,000, not including land acquisition. The total cost per ... Read more

U.S. solar is weighed down by soft costs and policy inefficiencies: fragmented permitting, slow approvals, duplicative inspections, and high fees. Customer acquisition remains bloated by opaque pricing, long sales cycles, and high-commission models. Hardware is more expensive due to tariffs and policies that favor costly technologies. Together, these inefficiencies add more than $2/W - keeping ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 10 proved that Starship can fly to orbit and deliver payload. This makes Starship lower than even partially reusable Falcon 9 for cost to space. But that is just the start. Flight 10 shows the mass deployment of Starlink version 3 satellites will start happening in months. It also means that regular ... Read more

SpaceX released new high resolution photos and video of the SpaceX Starship 10 soft landing in the Indian Ocean. The images were taken by the floating camera created by the company, Marksetbot. View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX's recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally ... Read more

Drug seizure data suggests that 2025 has about half the level of trafficking in 2024. Drug over deaths are declining but there is only data up to March 2025. Drug trafficking levels are at the lowest levels in three years. If this correlates to lower trafficking deaths then the next four months should be at ... Read more

NASA is working on photophoretic levitation to uase light-induced heating to create a force that lifts and propels specially designed structures in rarefied atmospheres, such as Earth's mesosphere (approximately 50-80 km altitude). This involves metamaterial plates or 3D hollow geometries (e.g., cones, spheres, or rocket shapes) with porous sidewalls that act as Knudsen pumps: light ... Read more

Google Sergey Brin funded LTA (Lighter then Air Ships) and they completed a 400 foot (124 meter) long Pathfinder 1. Pathfinder 1 is a subscale prototype of the airship LTA Pathfinder 3, currently under development at another WWII-era hangar in Akron, Ohio. LTA will eventually submit for certification by the FAA. The Pathfinder 3 will ... Read more

Tesla is expanded the Austin Robotaxi service area and is now doubling the number of robotaxi service vehicles in the area. They will soon be providing service to the Austin Airport. The map of the service area is 170 square miles. Tesla FSD 14 will be out next month and it should be 2-3 times ... Read more

Aubrey de Grey describes his plan to get combinations of promising aging damage-repair approaches. Aging is accumulated molecular and cellular damage from metabolism, leading to pathology. He emphasizes that we already know enough to pursue preventative maintenance on the body, which is like maintaining a car for longevity. He highlights progress in startups addressing all ... Read more

SpaceX is investing $280 million for the expansion of its semiconductor research-and-development (R&D) and advanced packaging facility in Bastrop, about 33 miles southeast of Austin. The company received its fifth Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant, totaling $17.3 million, from the State of Texas to help fund the expansion. SpaceX has expanded Bastrop by adding 1 ... Read more

SpaceX Starship V3 will be 30 meters taller with a proposed height of 150 meters. SpaceX should upgrade to Starship version 3 by November, 2025 from the recently flow version 2. It will be about 7500 tons. It is projected that Starship V3 could have a payload capacity of over 200 tons to low Earth ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 28th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

SpaceX Starlink has 7 million customers. They added 1 million since June 2025. This is on pace to about 9-10 million by the end of 2025. The increasing speed of adding 1 million customers would reach End of 2025: approximately 9.6 million Middle of 2026: approximately 15.2 million End of 2026: approximately 24.3 million 2026 ... Read more

NVIDIA shares fell ~4-5% in after-hours trading erasing some pre-earnings gains despite the overall beat. This reaction stems from a mix of high market expectations, subtle misses, and broader concerns. Slight Miss on Key Segment: Data Center revenue ($41.1B) came in just below estimates (~$41.2-41.3B), which is the core driver of NVIDIA's growth. At NVIDIA's ... Read more

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet's known satellite family to 29. The detection was made during a Webb observation Feb. 2, 2025. The newly discovered moon is estimated to be just six miles (10 kilometers) in ... Read more

China (via SCMP - South China Morning Post) is developing a carrier plane that will launch shorter range hypersonic drones. The planes would likely be subsonic but would launch the drones that will eventually be able to go over mach 5. China is looking at scissor wing technology (which the US examined in the 1970s) ... Read more

3I/ATLAS is just the third-ever interstellar object confirmed to be from outside the solar system and which we have telescopes to observe in detail 3I/Atlas is by far the largest and it if known to come from the core of Milky Way so it is the oldest comet ever found. The other two interstellar intruders ... Read more

Now that there has been a successful Flight 10 of Starship. There will be the start of using version 3 Starship in flight 12. Fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will test as much as they can in the single Starship launches as previously discussed by NASA. ... Read more

SpaceX had a very successful Flight 10 of Starship. They will have one more flight of the Version 2 Starship and booster. They had a successful engine relight and soft landing of Starship in flight 10. They wanted to prove engine relights of Starship before going to real orbit. They went sub-orbital so that STasrhip ... Read more

SpaceX Starship test launch 10 was successful on Tuesday. This launch is transformational for SpaceX. Dummy Version 3 Starlink satellites were successfully deployed. They can start launching real Starlink version 3 satellites with the next launch in September or October. All other rockets just deploy payload and lose the rockets. Starship deploying payload and expending ... Read more

SpaceX scrubbed the Starship 10 launch attempt on Sunday for a liquid oxygen leak and Monday for weather. They will try again today in about 1 minutes. Weather was green as of 1 minutes. Range is green too. There has been a good launch. There was an engine out in the booster in the middle ... Read more

The DARPA Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away. Over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred. ... Read more

Transitioning to mass production of ^2Si-based spin qubit chips involves leveraging existing semiconductor infrastructure (e.g., CMOS fabs from Intel or TSMC) while addressing isotope-specific challenges. Mass production at consumer electronics levels would require capacities in the hundreds of kg to tons annually of enriched Silicon 28. Production needs to be scaled up by at least ... Read more

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon-based quantum processors to make future quantum computers more affordable, scalable, and sustainable. SemiQon has achieved new milestones in addressing the core challenges with scalability of quantum computers. Using its ultra-low-power cryogenic CMOS, SemiQon has now been able ... Read more

Silver Spring, USA / Maryland, 26th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages diffraction to cancel out normal photonic pressure components, allowing thrust to align along the ribbon's length when oriented at a tilt to incoming sunlight. ... Read more

Starshade-based methods, both for in-space observatories like the Habitable Worlds Observer or ground-based observatories, have the potential to increase our observational capability without launching ever increasing telescope apertures. Construction of these starshades with the necessary low mass, stability, precision, launch volume, and size (>100m for some missions) remains a challenge, since loading can be significant ... Read more

Official SpaceX Starship ten launch was scrubbed for weather on Monday. UPDATE : 23 Minutes from the Tuesday launch attempt. Elon Musk says anyone can come and visit the rocket. There is a public highway that is very close. You cannot come close during a launch but at other times. SpaceX will be building the ... Read more

SpaceX Starship test launch 10 was delayed from yesterday to today. They had an liquid oxygen leak that could not be repaired in the 60 minute launch window. The new launch attempt is about 4 hours from now. This launch could be transformational for SpaceX. If they can deploy dummy Version 3 Starlink satellites, then ... Read more

NASA proposes to pioneer a radically new approach to mitigating radiation-induced cell damage in astronauts by transplanting new undamaged mitochondria (critical radiation-sensitive cell organelles) isolated from each individual pre-exposure. Replacing mitochondria could fix radiation damage and it can fix aging damage. This would help against cardiovascular disease and Alzheimers. There are early voluntary trials of ... Read more

Newark, United States, 25th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Dover, DE, United States, 25th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Musk announced that xAI's Colossus 2 will be the world's first gigawatt-plus AI training supercomputer and this will be used to start training XAI Grok 5 next month (September 2025). Elon says Colossus 2 has a non-trivial chance of achieving AGI. He says xAI is close to having all the pieces in place for AGI. ... Read more

Nick Bostrom discussing his new book *Deep Utopia* (2024), which builds on his earlier work *Superintelligence* (2014). He explores a post-singularity future where superintelligence solves humanity's major challenges like disease, scarcity, and mortality. Bostrom outlines optimistic scenarios, potential pitfalls, and broader philosophical implications. The discussion covers AI alignment, governance, moral considerations for digital minds, cosmic ... Read more

XAI Grok 1 launched in November 2023 using rented Oracle GPUs, but xAI shifted to in-house builds due to compute shortages. Colossus 1 in Memphis: Built in a former Electrolux factory, it reached 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in 122 days (May 3 to September 2, 2024). It expanded to 230,000 GPUs (including H200s and GB200s) ... Read more

SpaceX Starship 10 was scrubbed on Sunday. UPDATE: The new launch is for Monday and should launch in about 4 hours. SpaceX is standing down from today's tenth flight of Starship to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems. The launch window for Booster 16 and Ship 37 opens at 6:30PM CT local ... Read more

SpaceX Starship 10 should launch today and they will try again to deploy dummy versions of Starlink Version 3 satellites. This could open up 5 times better cost to orbit even if the booster and the upper stage get lost after each payload is deployed. UPDATE: Live launch coverage will start in about two hours ... Read more

NASA NIAC has funded studying the development of a constellation of spacecraft powered by the Helicity Drive, a compact and scalable fusion propulsion system. In April 2, 2024 - Helicity Space had an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin. This was after a $5 million seed round of Helicity ... Read more

NASA NIAC is developing X-ray imaging in crucial wavelengths that will be a million times better for observing key aspects of a super massive black hole. We still know very little about giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). After 30 years of study, we don't know precisely how these objects produce their power. This requires observations ... Read more

The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) projecst that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 20252035 period. This will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 ... Read more

As of August 2025, no truck maker or startup has deployed autonomous platooning of semi trucks where the following trucks operate without any human drivers at any location. Platooning will have no drivers in the trucks following a lead truck. Drivers in a convoy will share the driving of the lead truck. This can increase ... Read more