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Tesla FSD 13.2 can reverse, park and unpark itself. This means far more complete no intervention drives. It does three point turns. The Tesla fleet can talk to each other. FSD improvements over the last ~60 days: FSD v13 with ~5-6x improvement in miles between necessary interventions Unpark, Park, and Reverse in FSD ... Read more

Trump says he wants the Ukraine war and the Israel war over before he takes office. Vlodymr Zelensky said he is willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time. The Ukrainian president said his country could give up land temporarily in exchange for a Nato umbrella' over the territory ... Read more

The Space Entanglement and Annealing Quantum Experiment (SEAQUE) on the space station tests two technologies that could advance the field of quantum communications. The first technology is a novel method to transmit quantum data. This method could make way for a scalable quantum information network and provide the foundation of quantum cloud computing, a technology ... Read more

Brian Wang had an interview with Tesla Youtuber Herbert Ong. Herbert interviews dozens of experts about Tesla robotaxi and full self driving every month and publishes about 60 videos a month on Tesla. Brian gave two major insights about robotaxi and Tesla full self driving that literally left Herbert speechless. One is xAI will help ... Read more

Renault is selling its 36% share of Nissan and without a new major investor Nissan will go bankrupt in 12-14 months. At its news conference, Nissan's Chief Monozukuri Officer (Head of Manufacturing) Hideyuki Sakamoto described major cost cutting moves. Nissan's current plan is to reduce the operational maximum capacity of these 25 production lines by ... Read more

Cebu, Philippines, 27th November 2024, CyberNewsWire

The SpaceX Starship 33 will be the first block 2 design. Block 2 will have more payload mass capacity. It will have a lower launch cost than the block 1 design. SpaceX Starship 33 should fly around January 11, 2025. There are approvals for up to 25 launches of SpaceX Starship in 2025. SLS: ... Read more

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers. The project envisions a swarm of dozens of self-propelled, cellphone-size robots looking for signs of life on ocean worlds. SWIM is funded by NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program under the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA ... Read more

Rep. Kiley has introduced legislation to make the Office of Commercial Space Transportation report directly to the Secretary of Transportation. This comes after Rep. Kiley questioned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Whitaker before the Aviation Subcommittee with respect to the FAA's decisions with SpaceX launches in September. The bill streamlines the oversight process by ... Read more

Firefly Aerospace successfully completed environmental testing on Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander ahead of its first mission to the Moon supporting NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly is now preparing to ship the lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in mid-December for launch on Following launch and vehicle separation, Blue Ghost will begin its ... Read more

Eric Berger expects NASA and the public support for the SpaceX Mars city will surge with the first unmanned landings on Mars. Erc X rendered an Earth Orbit SpaceX Refueling depot. Elon has talked about sending a fleet of five Starships to Mars in October-December 2026. Refueling and orbital propellant transfer is key to this ... Read more

Eric Berger is the Ars Technica, senior space editor and author of Reentry, a book about the behind the scenes SpaceX development of Falcon 9. Berger's primary focus is on NASA and private aerospace companies. He authored Liftoff, which was published by William Morrow and Company and released in March 2021. The book chronicles the ... Read more

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket. NASA asked if their EDL (entry, descent, and landing) engineers could watch and study SpaceX's data, and SpaceX agreed. Beginning in 2014, NASA and SpaceX worked together for three years. ... Read more

Centrifugal Magnetic Mirrors could enable commercial nuclear fusion reactors on Earth and are also promising for next level propulsion in space. There is funded near term work for both goals. An early Centrifugal Magnetic Mirror propulsion concept could achieve 1 to 10 newtons of thrust with 10,000 to 30000 ISP. This would be propulsion that ... Read more

There has been huge progress on laser pushed sails. Laser pushed sails appear to be a path to sending probes up to 20% of the speed of light when we can make 1 gram sails that are one to two meters on a side. There is still work needed to make the sail area about ... Read more

Elon Musk has said that SpaceX will send five unmanned Starships to Mars in 2026. The launch window is about October 2024 to January 2025. The 1000 tons of payload will include thousands of Teslabots and dozens of cybertrucks. What will this mean for Tesla, SpaceX and the future. What will the Teslabots build on ... Read more

Smart money is selling Uber and buying Tesla for the bet that 2025 will be the year of Tesla robotaxi. Brad Gerstner sold over $1 billion of Uber in his Altimeter Capital fund and bought Tesla in the last weeks. Altimeter reported over $1 billion in Uber as of September 30, 2024 in their 13F ... Read more

OTOY has recreated scenes recapturing 2001 a Space Odyssey. They are doing next level rendering.

A great Kirk, Spock and Saavik Star Trek fan film. It is made by OTOY.

Altimeter Capital ($20 Billion Venture Capital company) thinks Tesla FSD 13 has caught up to Waymo, one critical disengagement every 15000 miles and will reach one critical disengagement every 100,000 miles in Q1 2025. Altimeter Capital has sold all of its Uber holdings to buy Tesla. Brad Gerstner explained the sale of Uber by the ... Read more

Super Venture Capitalists Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner analyze the future of AI. The rate of improvement of large language models is slowing for pre-training. However, it is still improving and AI intelligence is improving with post-training and test time training. OpenAI and Microsoft announced a major AI advancement for 2025, featuring models with infinite ... Read more

HeyGen offers some the best and easiest to use AI video cloning. You can upload a picture and it will create animations of the person in the picture. There are many other systems for cloning voices from audio clips. Vasa-1 is an unreleased Microsoft AI for near realtime mimicking of voices and video faces from ... Read more

MIAMI, Florida, 21st November 2024, CyberNewsWire

The FAA has indicated that it will grant SpaceX permission have 25 Starship launches in South Texas in 2025 versus the current limit of five launches. SpaceX will be allowed to continue increasing the size and power of the Super Heavy booster stage and Starship upper stage. The approvals for SpaceX and Tesla seem to ... Read more

Elon Musk is confident of unmanned SpaceX Starships going to Mars in the 2026 launch window. The Starships will bring Teslabots and Cybertrucks to Mars as part of the payload. SpaceX will need to bring systems to make methane fuel and liquid oxygen out of the Mars atmosphere. It would be ideal to have the ... Read more

Aligning the quantum property known as spin for fusion fuels could make it easier to generate electricity economically. Above - An artist's interpretation of spin-aligned atoms during the process of fusion. (Illustration credit: Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department) A different mix of fuels with enhanced properties could overcome some of the major barriers to ... Read more

Plasmonic structures exhibit a wide range of physical characteristics, which are benefited by the localized and intensified light-matter interaction. There have been many recent advancements with ultrafast plasmonics. Ultrafast plasmonic properties are exploited in numerous applications, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, sensors, and optical feedback in lasers. In addition to these applications, the ultrafast ... Read more

OORT, a pioneer decentralized cloud computing platform for AI applications, today reported that its customized AI solution (OORT AI) has significantly improved Githon Technology's customer service standards. The integration of OORT AI has seen Githon Technology (formerly Lenovo Image) cut its customer support cost by 40% while also increasing the customer satisfaction rate to 95%. ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 20th November 2024, CyberNewsWire

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 20th November 2024, CyberNewsWire

Quantum Circuits recently raised $60 million in a new funding round and they have just announced a new unique superconducting hardware system drives more efficiency with error-detecting dual-rail qubits. They have new software, simulator, and cloud service for full-stack enterprise solution that corrects first, then will be able to scale. Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced highly ... Read more

SpaceX Starship survived the soft landing. A great simulated tower landing.

The sixth SpaceX Starship flight will be in a few minutes. The rocket and starship are almost fully fueled and we are about five minutes from launch. This should have another booster catch landing and an orbital Starship engine relight. The engine relight will set the stage for orbital flights in the next missions. SpaceX ... Read more

SpaceX Starship will have its sixth launch tomorrow. This will hopefully be the second successful catch of the booster. SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell describes how SpaceX Starship will be even more valuable than Starlink. Starlink could capture 30% of the global communication industry. SpaceX Starship can take over long range global air cargo and generate ... Read more

There is a new type of EUV lithography using only four reflective mirrors overturns conventional technology and will contribute to advanced semiconductors at 7nm and below. Professor Tsumoru Shintake of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that surpasses the standard in semiconductor manufacturing. EUV lithography based ... Read more

Ohysicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison produced a tokamak plasma that is stable at 10 times the [old] Greenwald limit. The findings may have implications for tokamak fusion reactors, though the researchers caution that their plasma is not directly comparable to that in a fusion reactor. Nearly 40 years ago, Martin Greenwald identified a density ... Read more

New experiments by swiss researchers have show that industrial-relevant temperatures of 1,050C can be generated from solar concentrators. Solar power for industrial heat would be able to decarbonize power as much as converting electricity generation to stop using fossil fuel. Current solar converters are expensive and inefficient when generating temperatures above 1,000C for industrial processes. ... Read more

MIT researchers achieved 61.9% on ARC tasks by updating model parameters during inference. Is this key to AGI? We might reach the 85% AGI doorstep by scaling and integrating it with COT (Chain of thought) next year. Test-time training (TTT) for large language models typically requires additional compute resources during inference compared to standard inference. ... Read more

Elon posted that Tesla FSD (full self driving) V13.X will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between intervention. Cool. V13 will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between interventions. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2024

Unnamed OpenAI researchers told The Information that Orion (aka GPT 5), the next OpenAI full-fledged model release, is showing a smaller performance jump than the one seen between GPT-3 and GPT-4 in recent years. On certain tasks, the Orion model is not reliably better than its predecessor according to unnamed OpenAI researchers. eX-OpenAI co-founder Ilya ... Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been named to head a department of government efficiency. Elon Musk has said at least $2 trillions per year could be removed from the $6.5 trillion annual federal government budget. The US budget in 1998 was $1.65 trillion. the 1998 budget inflation-adjusted to 2024 value is $3.2 trillion. = ... Read more

The top goal for Nvidia Jensen Huang is to have AI designing the chips that run AI. AI assisted chip design of the H100 and H200 Hopper AI chips. Jensen wants to use AI to explore combinatorially the entire chip design. He wants AI assisted cross modular codesign. They would optimize all of the thousands ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang describes the AI revolution as going beyond computer tools to AI skills. They are already revolutionizing the data center with compute accelerating GPUs. The $2 million AI GPU racks have far denser compute than regular CPU powered servers. The cables connecting the old larger racks cost more than the new denser ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 6 plans to launch in 6 days on November 18, 2024. They will be performing a similar flight to flight 5 but have made changes to the heat shield and other systems. The booster should return for a catch but if anything is going wrong it will be aborted. The upper stage ... Read more

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new method that could extend the lifespan of aqueous zinc-ion batteries by several orders of magnitude. Instead of lasting just a few thousand cycles, they could now endure several hundred thousand charge and discharge cycles. The main innovation is a special protective layer for ... Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel, 11th November 2024, CyberNewsWire

Tesla shares have surged and the companies value is over $1 trillion. I have a video where I discuss why there will be follow through. (not financial advice). There is a strong chance of $450 in the next 90 days. $1000 in the second half of 2025. And a 10X to $3000 by 2027. Elon ... Read more

SpaceX will create Marslink as a first step towards greater than petabit per second communication between Earth and Mars. Marslink aims to establish a high-speed data relay system-capable of transmitting 4 Mbps or more-across 1.5 astronomical units, the distance between Earth and Mars. The system will use multiple satellites in Mars orbit and leverage Starlink's ... Read more

There is a bull market in stacks after the election. This will likely last for 2-4 months. Tesla has ha a strong runup of 32% ($79) in five days. Tesla should have a strong fourth quarter with more earnings from cars, energy and FSD. There are more improvements with 4680 batteries which lowers costs for ... Read more

SpaceX has massively accelerated the development of space. Predicting the speed of space development requires predicting the financial future of SpaceX. This is because if trillions of dollars of profits each year can be used to increase space development then this will be far more than $2 billion/year of the NASA budget that is actually ... Read more