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SpaceX second-generation satellites have performed even better than expected so SpaceX has sent a request to the FCC to allow operation at about 350 kilometer instead of 530 kilometers. This would be 68% of the height which would enable 68% latency. This would get latency from 28-35 milliseconds down to 15-20 milliseconds. In 2022, the ... Read more

A Boeing 777 lost a wheel taking off from San Francisco and a 737 had a landing gear failure this morning. This is the fourth incident United Airlines has had this week. A 757 suffering an engine failure on descent into SFO and Boeing 737-900 from United at Houston suffering an engine stall. This is ... Read more

Akira Toriyama, creator of the massively popular Dragonball anime, has died at the age of 68 from a blood clot in the brain. Dragonball had a global cultural impact like Star Trek. There were multiple series and movies that spanned decades.

Space startup Xplore Solar Sail spacecraft design would go seven times faster than the Voyager spacecraft to enable vastly improved exploration of the solar system. The initial design would be to get to 5AU/year speeds but we need to improve it to 40 AU/year speeds. The goal would be to reach 550-650 AU where the ... Read more

James Douma is an AI expert and he believes that Tesla FSD V12.X will achieve better than human driving with more data and compute to refine the system. It will need 1% or less interventions than FSD V11. If interventions have been at 1 every drive then 1% interventions would mean one intervention every 3 ... Read more

There was a APS presentation by Ulsan Korea University researchers. It is being reported that numerous comments on the Chinese website Zhihu imply that the University of Ulsan's data plot is so important that a certain superconductivity expert saw the decisive signal proving LK99's superconductivity in the graph's temperature rise curve near 200K. Nextbigfuture does ... Read more

Rivian CEO and Founder RJ Scaringe debuts the next generation of Rivian's vehicles: R2, R3 and R3X. Rivian is targeting delivery of the R2 in mid-2026. Rivian Automotive unveiled three new vehicles and announced over $2 billion in lower expenses by delaying construction on a plant in Georgia. The R2 is expected to start at ... Read more

NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 20 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. They plan to sell 1,000 microreactors on a yearly basis for a trillion-dollar industry. Nuclear currently supplies some 18% of US power needs off ... Read more

Yesterday, AI Expert James Douma predicted that Tesla FSD version 12 would be able to eliminate 99% of the human interventions experienced in FSD version 11. Technology analyst and investors Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner describe what they have learned about how Tesla gathers the data for FSD training. Tesla tracks all of the best ... Read more

This is a review of the arguments and evidence for and against LK99 type materials as room temperature superconductors. Case Against Cuprous Sulfide and Iron Contamination The claims against LK99 and LK99-variants materials as a superconductor is that cuprous sulfide has some transition temperatures that match up with some of the bulk LK99 readings. They ... Read more

San Francisco, United States / California, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Identity Data Management and Analytics Provider Radiant Logic Joins Okta and Ping Identity in Partnership with Badge to Enable Privacy-Preserving Authentication Badge Inc., the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without SecretsTM, today launched a new Partner Program and welcomed Identity Data Management and Analytics provider ... Read more

Paris, France, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Company Open Sources FHE Libraries to Build Privacy-Preserving Blockchain and AI Applications for the First Time. Investment secured to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to the fore, giving developers the ability to address data privacy challenges across blockchain and AI use cases. Zama, an open source cryptography company building ... Read more

Google Gemini is inferior to OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. GPT-4 was released over a year ago. Anthropic just released Claude 3. It is competitive with OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. There are some testers who are finding Claude has less hallucination and is better at increasing computer coding productivity. Here is the huggingface area ... Read more

Chinese wholesale passenger NEVs (New energy vehicles, battery and hybrid) in February were 441,000 units, down 11 percent from a year ago and down 37 percent from January, according to the CPCA (China Passenger Car Association). Cumulative wholesale sales of Chinese passenger NEVs so far this year totaled 1.123 million units, up 27 percent year-on-year. ... Read more

SpaceX has scheduled a live stream for March 14, 2024 for the third launch orbital test flight of the SpaceX Starship. They have changed the flight plan from previous orbital launches. They will try to make a controlled landing in the Indian Ocean. They will restart engines in orbit and open the payload bay doors. ... Read more

The Boring Company is deploying the PruFrock 3 tunneling machine at Tesla Gigatexas. The PruFrock 3 machine will be able to dig continuously. It will only need to stop to change out teeth and other parts as they wear out. The Boring Revolution youtube has analyzed the actual tunneling rates on actual real world projects ... Read more

SCT Corp is a different South Korean group from the original Korean team working on room temperature superconductors. Dae-Chel Jung is one of the researchers are SCT Corp. SCT Corp provided a video of one of their superconducting samples fully levitating. SCTL is short for Superconducting Technology Lab and SCT Corp is Superconductor Technology Corp. ... Read more

James Douma is an AI expert and he explains how Tesla FSD Version 12 is vastly better than Tesla FSD V11. Douma predicts that FSD version 12 will be able to have a 100X reduction in human interventions compared to version 11. This should be in the 3 month timeframe. Tesla FSD v12 has eliminated ... Read more

People talk about how Elon had a 2018 CEO pay package that resulted in $56 billion in value. However, what if he was paid double the cash but only if he was immediately required to buy call options. In 2018 and 2019, there were CEOs getting $125 million to $250 million in mostly cash. Elon ... Read more

With Grok, @xAI is attempting to create an AI that reasons from first principles, which is fundamental if you care about getting as close to the truth as possible. The acid test would be reaching a conclusion that is correct even if it is extremely unpopular, which means being right even when the training data ... Read more

Korean news agencies have coverage of the PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor. They show all of the videos and slides including ones with full levitation and flux pinning effects. I would point out that none of the research papers that claim to falsify the room temperature superconducting claims have been able to replicate partial levitation with ... Read more

Bellik Ozan talked to Ellie in Space about SpaceX Starship costs. Bellik makes the case that SpaceX could modify the Super Heavy Starship for the same reuse as the Falcon 9. Throw away the upper stage with three Raptor engines instead of one Merlin engine in the Falcon 9 second stage. This would enable SpaceX ... Read more

Here is a video of a PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor experiment. The video matches up with one of the slides from the APS Hyun-Tak Kim talk. Different Kinds of Magnetism and Levitation Diamagnetism is a property of matter, superconductivity is a state of matter. Diamagnetism describes how a material reacts when plunged into a magnetic ... Read more

There are some people who expected more from the PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor talk. They strangely expected the team to bring the sample and show it live. BUT that is not what the abstract of the talk said. The abstract said they would show two videos of levitation and two videos of magnets. This is ... Read more

This is the evidence shown at the APS meeting talk today. The team will need to get its peer reviewed paper published and the Chinese teams will need to show their patents and papers with more evidence. The original LK99 team have their sulfur variant and have shown some video evidence. A youtube video which ... Read more

Kim Hyun-tak (lead original south korean researcher) has a confident email to a colleague. We [Original Korean Superconducting Researchers] designate March 4, 2024 as The Day of Room Temperature Superconductor (TDRTS) and researchers celebrate the day with delicious food. This is because it is the day when room-temperature superconductivity, such as magnetic levitation and zero ... Read more

Unitree is a publicly traded robot company with about $5 billion in market value. They have sped up their humanoid robot to human jogging speed of 3.3 meters per second. This is about 7.5 miles per hour. It would not tire so it would take 50 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race with enough ... Read more

Russia has lost 13 fighter jets in 13 days but it is because they are flying 150 bombing runs everyday. Russians are flying more bombing sorties than ever before. Russian air force launched more than 150 sorties involving Su-34s, Su-35s and Sukhoi Su-25 attack jets. That's 10 more daily sorties than the Russian air force ... Read more

New guidelines from the CDC Friday bring Covid precautions in line with with those of other respiratory viruses like the flu. Here are the new CDC guidelines for respiratory viruses including COVID, flu and cold.

Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit AI research company and helped create its founding charter. OpenAI licensed GPT-3 and pre-AGI to Microsoft and gave Microsoft access to its critical internal weights of the AI model. OpenAI with GPT-4 has become for profit and has basically partnered with Microsoft. The Musk lawsuit is to force ... Read more

CNEVPost says CATL is in the process of developing and validating its M3P batteries with Tesla. Detailed analysis indicates that M3P brings better range that Iron LFP batteries for similar cost and 15% lower cost than nickel batteries. M3P batteries are CATL's batteries based on a new material system with higher energy density than lithium ... Read more

Electric motors are finally getting good enough in performance to capture efficiency gains from having a second turbine drive an adaptive cycle jet engine. This new jet engine will enable commercial flights anywhere in the world 3x faster than anything today for the same price. That's the win - Commercial flights anywhere in the world ... Read more

Pika Lipsync and T2 Remake are examples of the rapid progress in AI Video tools. We will get TV show and movie length generation of AI videos this year. I've said it before and I'll say it again. 2024 is the year AI video goes crazy. Lightricks just unveiled @LTXStudio, a platform that allows you ... Read more

SpaceX is reported to have a Starshield internet service contract with the US military. A congressmen has requested activation of the service over Taiwan from SpaceX. SpaceX and Elon Musk will provide an update by March 8, 2024 on the status of activation and operations. SpaceX says it is in full compliance with all of ... Read more

Alan Thompson is an AI expert who is closely tracking progress to AGI. His definition is: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a machine capable of understanding the world as well as-or better than-any human, in practically every field, including the ability to interact with the world via physical embodiment. And the short version: AGI is ... Read more

The next Bitcoin halving is April 19, 2024. This is driving Bitcoin towards $70-100k. About every four years or every 210,000 blocks added to the blockchain, bitcoin miners' rewards for contributing will be cut in half. IF the reward for mining a block was 40 bitcoins, after its first halving it will be 20, and ... Read more

Tesla to unveil next-gen Roadster in late 2024. It's a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX. Deliveries aim to start in 2025. 0-60mph time is expected to be about 1 second. The best street legal 0-60 MPH is with cars in the 1.6 to 1.8 second range now. Special drag race cars can get 0-60 mpg ... Read more

Bloomberg reports that the Apple electric Car project has been cancelled after a decade and many billions of dollars spent. Many of the Apple staff will shift to working on generative AI. There were about 2000 people working on the Apple electric car project. In 2018, there were around 5,000 employees working on the project. ... Read more

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object think larger asteroid belt beyond Neptune. This larger belt includes Pluto and its moon and they are far ... Read more

Los Alamos national lab made an artificial intelligence framework called Blackout Diffusion generates images from a completely empty picture. The machine-learning algorithm, unlike other generative diffusion models, does not require initiating a random seed to get started. The results are comparable to DALL-E or Midjourney, but require fewer computational resources than these models. Diffusion models ... Read more

Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and paving the way for enhanced cybersecurity measures. Using their approach, the team set a new world record in classifying malware families. Artificial intelligence methods developed for cyber-defense ... Read more

Chrome Kiwi and Youtube What About It? (Felix Schlang) show how SpaceX will add a water protection system to the top of the launch stand to protect it from being damaged during launch. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship with improved engines will have three times the power of the Saturn V. SpaceX wants to eventually ... Read more

The All in Podcast had a discussion and debate about the AI decade. They compare the current AI infrastructure boom with the internet boom. The current situation is less of a bubble because Nvidia is not getting that large a multiple off its real earnings. They are certain that the current build out phase will ... Read more

SpaceX plans to launch 144 times in 2024 and has already launched 18 times in less than two months. The space shuttle had 133 successful flights from 1981 to 2011. SpaceX plans to launch at least 9 Starship flights in 2024. SpaceX Starship could get close to matching the Saturn V launches. SpaceX Falcon Heavy ... Read more

SpaceX launched 24 version 2 mini satellites yesterday. Sunday's launch was the 18th of the year for SpaceX. They aim to launch 144 orbital missions and 9 Starship launches in 2024. In Q3 of 2023, SpaceX would launch 22 Starlink v2 mini satellites in each falcon 9 launch. They increased to 23 per launch in ... Read more

UBTECH's humanoid robot Walker S was introduced into the assembly line of electric car maker NIO's advanced vehicle manufacturing center, as an intern" assisting in the car production. Walker S is the first bipedal humanoid robot to complete a specific workstation's tasks on a mobile EV production line. UBTECH humanoid robot will also be placed ... Read more

A post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space. Starlink has over 5000 satellites in orbit. SpaceX will launch 2000-3000 Starlink v2 mini direct to cell capable satellites in 2024 on about 120 launches. On January 2, 2024, SpaceX launched to orbit their first six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell ... Read more