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Cary, North Carolina, 27th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

In May, Nextbigfuture projected that Starlink could reach 3.5 to 5 million customers at the end of 2024 and SpaceX has revealed they are passing 4 million customers this week. 5 million customers is possible for Starlink. 1 million were added from late May to the end of September. Starlink has increased its rate of ... Read more

OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board. CEO Sam Altman and likely many employees will get equity. The reports are Sam will get 7% of the company which is valued at $150 billion. 7% would be ... Read more

SpaceX colonization of Mars will involve trillions in costs. How can Mars become a money maker? Europe colonized the United States but the United States economy grew to be significant. From 1700 to 1774, the output of the thirteen colonies increased 12-fold, giving the colonies an economy about 30% the size of Britain's at the ... Read more

There is a re-examination of space tethers and skyhooks to find near terms use cases. Harsimony at Greaterwrong.com provides the analysis of value for tethers when we have a lot of space launches and space activity. A tether that spins at 1.74 km/s is ideal for some boosting to the moon. The fuel cost per ... Read more

Craig Nordeen (Air Force Research Lab, Pratt & Whitney) gives a lesson from three years ago on detonation engines. He describes the history and how they work and why they are more efficient. The work at Hermeus and Venus Aerospace could leverage detonation engines to achieve efficient flight in the Mach 5-10 range. Venus Aerospace ... Read more

The Tesla October 10 Robotaxi day banner says WE, ROBOT. This seems to imply no driver robotaxi demos and Teslabot demos. Elon says this will be one for the history books. This will be one for the history books pic.twitter.com/qQ0HZyGMZE - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2024 Tesla has hypermapped the Warner Brother's studio lot. ... Read more

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company Bob McGrew, OpenAI's chief research officer and Barret Zoph, VP of post training have also left. Murati's departure comes almost a year after a boardroom coup shook the AI startup and temporarily ousted CEO Sam Altman, leaving Murati as its temporary leader. In her six-year tenure, she ... Read more

Bill Gates is worth 8 times less today than if he had kept his 45% stake in Microsoft from after the IPO in 1986. Bill Gates has $163 billion in net worth. If Bill Gates did not sell shares during the IPO he would have had 49% of Microsoft. Bill Gates has been selling his ... Read more

Microsoft and the companies making AI data centers will be great customers for nuclear energy. Barrons reports that Microsoft is paying double the price for the Three Mile island nuclear electricity as the going commercial rates. This is about $130 per megawatt hour. An 835 megawatt reactor at 92% capacity factor would generate about 6.6 ... Read more

A deep discussion of the developments with AI and the upcoming 2025 Tesla Dojo 2 and 2026 Dojo 3 chips. But AI needs compute and data. Won't AI reach a limit as we use up human created data? What if you can use mass production of space telescopes to monitor the whole galaxy down to ... Read more

Tesla has release FSD 12.5.4 which is able to track driver attention even with sun glasses. Tesla FSD is able drive through complex parking lots. Your Tesla can now drive itself through complex parking lots to find you https://t.co/ATqMCnntcQ - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 23, 2024 First run with FSD V12.5.2.1 on a Hybrid setting ... Read more

Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. Major delays mean crewed missions will be postponed another two years to the next launch window. It is only possible to travel from Earth to Mars ... Read more

After months with FSD 12, I've gone past the wow, this is magic" phase. The analyst in me scrutinizes every disengagement and edge case. But today, I just had one of those tears in my eyes" moments. On a mini road trip, FSD 12.5.2.1 flawlessly handled the winding roads that have always been my worst ... Read more

There is a AI Infrastructure Summit in San Francisco, Union Square on Friday, September 27, 2024. It will bring together AI Developers, Tech Luminaries, AI Enterprises, AI Builders and Industry giants. This is convergence of the ecosystem at the AI INFRA SUMMIT. It is headlined by industry giants AMD and Supermicro, this groundbreaking summit unites ... Read more

Trump talks about working with SpaceX and Elon Musk to reach Mars before Jan 2029. There are two launch windows in late 2026 and in late 2028. It is possible to launch outside of launch windows by going with far less payload and far more fuel. SpaceX Starship with refueling in orbit would be able ... Read more

Boeing has been constantly losing money for the last five years with a combined $25 billion in losses. Everything about Boeing has been shockingly bad for over five years. All of their commercial and military plane models have big problems. All of their space vehicles and rockets have big problems. Will Boeing turnaround over the ... Read more

Boom Supersonic has completed its supersonic passenger plane factory, is flying a supersonic demonstrator plane and will have a new upgraded engine core by late 2025. They have over a total of over $700 million in funding. They are targeting 2030 for operation of a Mach 1.7 supersonic passenger jet. Current plan is only fly ... Read more

Venus Aerospace is developing a 12 passenger Mach 9 hypersonic aircraft (Stargazer) that will connect any destination in the world in under an hour. The aircraft will use a rotating detonation rocket engine when flying at 170,000 but will use conventional engines for take-off and landing. The company has raised $39 millopn in funding from ... Read more

The Boom XB-1 Baby Boom is a one-third-scale trijet supersonic demonstrator designed by Boom Technology as part of development of the Boom Overture supersonic transport airliner. It is powered by three General Electric J85s, it is planned to maintain Mach 2.2, with over 1,000 nautical miles. The XB-1 took its first flight on March 22, ... Read more

Taalas and Etched are two AI chip startups aiming to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware market. Etched is using ASIC chips. Taalas is using eASIC chips. They are both putting the logic into the hardware instead of using software on top of GPUs. There is the potential to get 100 to 1000 times ... Read more

In the first Mission Impossible movie there was the NOC List. The Non-Official Cover List was a list of covert operatives of the Impossible Missions Force, showing their codenames and their real names. The reason it was so important? The only reason spies and their network are safe is because the enemy does not know ... Read more

The Hacksmith created a system for tracking eye motion to target shoulder mounted lasers. This is the equivalent functionality as superman's heat vision. AdHawk and Wicked Lasers made the lasers. AdHawk Microsystems: https://www.adhawkmicrosystems.com/ Wicked Lasers: https://www.laseros.com/ Eye-tracking technology enables laser control @thehacksmith#Science #Technology pic.twitter.com/4tm5kYCNdq - TechnoSci Hub (@TechnoSciHub) September 20, 2024 This hacking to ... Read more

I asked various AIs to answer how was Skynet built. There is the clip of the scene in the Terminator 2 movie and some of the quotes. You can see how well today's AI did. The better real world processors are coming every few months. The Nvidia B200 will ship in volume in the next ... Read more

Information from the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear energy relays the Constellation Energy announcement of plans to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1. This shows the massive demand for electricity for AI data centers is reviving the nuclear energy industry. Constellation signs its largest-ever power purchase agreement with Microsoft, a deal that will ... Read more

The Mars Society explored the idea of using advanced robotics for Mars exploration, as evidenced by competitions like the Telerobotic Mars Expedition Design Competition. Elon Musk and Tesla and SpaceX teams have talked about adapting the Cybertruck for Mars. Elon has joked that the Cybertruck is the official truck of Mars. Robotically controlled Cybertrucks could ... Read more

Israel set up a company in 2022 just to sell pagers that would end up with Hezbollah and other enemies. There are some online indications of company history going back to 2019. They registered it in May, 2022 and got the license to make them from the real Taiwanese company Gold Apollo. Most of the ... Read more

The Institute for the Study of War reports that Hamas Brigade in Rafah and Khan Younis are now militarily ineffective and three other brigades are substantially degraded. This goes through actual statistics of Hamas military effectiveness in Rafah and Khan Younis and mentions the degradation in the other three brigades. This also reviews the US ... Read more

Linkedin is using your data to train its AI. Here is the link to opt-out. Opt out if you want to keep your data for yourself or force them to pay you. Many of the services that you use online are choosing to use your data for AI. It is prudent to opt-out and at ... Read more

Silver Spring, Maryland, 19th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

SpaceX Starship flight 5 is delayed for and FAA license but SpaceX had a successful static fire for Starship flight 6. Flight 5 is built and ready to fly. Flight 6 will be ready to fly before Flight 5 even gets approved by FAA! https://t.co/wh7z0zjqR6 - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 19, 2024 Elon Musk just ... Read more

The book aims to provide an in-depth look at how SpaceX, initially a shaky startup, transformed into the world's leading spaceflight company. It highlights the team's trials, tribulations, and triumphs in revolutionizing space travel through reusable rockets. Eric Berger describes crucial moments and stories from the SpaceX team. He talks about creation of the Falcon ... Read more

Tesla Semi Program Manager Dan Priestley gave a keynote address and Tesla Semi update at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover, Germany on Tuesday. The Pepsi drivers who use the new electric Tesla Semi say that do not want to go back to driving diesel trucks. Tesla has deployed megawatt charging that will charge the ... Read more

There has been Israeli air force attacks on buildings and missile launchers in Lebanon and operated by Hezbollah. An IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) division (10000 to 20000 soldiers) are being moved to the border and joins about 20,000-30,000 other troops. Israel has had two major operations the pager explosives and ICOM radio explosives. The Israel ... Read more

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points and they revealed the reserve members are currently leaning to another 50 by the end of 2024 and another 100 points in 2025. The US interest rates are a huge impact on the world economy and to technology companies.

The radiation dose for the 2.5 year round trip between Earth and Mars should give approximately a 1% lifetime increase of a fatal cancer. SpaceX Starship will totally change the situation on payload and travel times. The Starship will be refueled in Earth Orbit. All NASA missions to Mars have launched with multiple stages get ... Read more

Neuralink has proven its electronics to brain connection device and now has FDA approval for a Blindsight device. It would be a real life version of the Geordie Laforge's visor in Star Trek the Next Generation. The Neuralink Blindsight device will try to restore vision, particularly for individuals who have lost their sight or those ... Read more

Mercedes, BMW and Tesla are the leading car companies by profits per car with over 500,000 cars sold for the first 6 months of this year. This is for all kinds of cars. (Battery electric, Plug in hybrid, hybrid and combustion engine). Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche had very high profits per car but far lower ... Read more

Israel booby trapped about 5000 pagers used by Hezbollah. The update on the Pager explosions is there are 12 dead, 2800-4000 injured and 400 serious or critically wounded in Lebanon. There were also 19 dead and 150 wounded in Syria. The Syria casualties were Iranian Republican Guard. IOT - Internet of Targets This operation maps ... Read more

Multiple Hezbollah ICOM radios detonated across southern Lebanon and Beirut, causing significant damage and numerous injuries. Several explosions occurred during a funeral in Beirut, where Hezbollah officials were present. HEZBOLLAH ICOM RADIOS EXPLODE ACROSS LEBANON Multiple Hezbollah ICOM radios detonated across southern Lebanon and Beirut, causing significant damage and numerous injuries. Several explosions occurred ... Read more

Nassau County Police had previously reported explosives were found planted in a car at Trump's rally site in Long Island. The rally was planned to start at 7pm. Video shows thousands had already gathered. UPDATE - Nassau Police report that no explosives were found. FOOTAGE: Nassau County Police have found explosives planted in a car ... Read more

Austin, TX, 18th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

Cary, North Carolina, 18th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

J.P. Morgan predicts that Viasat, a competitor of Starlink, could lose up to $80 million of revenue per year due to @SpaceX's new deal with United Airlines to equip its entire fleet of over 1,000 airplanes with Starlink internet service. The feature comparison of Starlink vs Viasat for passenger aircraft service is: Bandwidth Speed Viasat: ... Read more

There are reports that hacking caused pagers to explode. Exploding devices could have left 1200+ (and 1500-2000) Hezbollah terrorists hospitalized and some in critical condition. While there are multiple reports. Confirmation is needed of many of the factors (fog of war). We don't really know if it happened and do not know any possible death ... Read more

The economics for AI chips has to work for Chip builders System builders Data center operators Application builders Paying customer (end users). The bigger large language models are at 400 Gigabytes or more and mixture of experts is at 1.8 terabytes. TechTechPotato interviews AyarLabs and makes the case that optical connections between chiplets is needed ... Read more

SpaceX launched and returned commercial astronauts in the first crewed Polar mission and that mission included a space walk. Three countries (US, Russia and China) have performed Spacewalks on their own with their own rocket own facilities. The European Space Agency has not launched crewed mission or missions to the ISS. Astronauts from 12 countries ... Read more

SpaceX satellites built for the US Space Development Agency demonstrated direct satellite to satellite laser communications in space using optical terminals compliant with military standards. U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) director Derek Tournear said Sept. 4. that two SpaceX-built satellites successfully exchanged data using optical communications terminals. The satellites, part of SDA's Tranche 0 experimental ... Read more

Boston, USA, 16th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

Barcelona is one of the most loved city break destinations in Europe. With its ingenious city design, there are many great neighbourhoods to stay in. Choosing the right area is important to get the most out of your stay, depending on what you're looking for. Gothic Quarter (Barri Gotic) The Gothic Quarter is what first ... Read more