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Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in dozens of age- related diseases, including Alzheimer's, retinal disease, liver dysfunction, immune senescence, and more. Mitrix Bio has pioneered a new way of addressing these diseases, using young bioreactor-grown mitochondria encased in vesicles, which they call Mitlets. Mitochondrial energy declines as we age, causing a wide array of chronic diseases. ... Read more

Here's a summary of the major problems associated with various Boeing aircraft models and projects, based on the information available up to August 2024: Boeing 737 MAX Crashes: Two fatal crashes (Lion Air Flight 610 in 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2019) led to the grounding of the entire fleet due to issues ... Read more

2024 World Robotics Conference in China has two human actors in front of some humanoid robots. This video from the 2024 World Robotics Conference in China is going viral Hate to break it to you: The front two robots' are human actors (just look at the hands) Seems like the point of the demo was ... Read more

The data from NASA's Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate that the amount of deep groundwater could cover the entire planet to a depth of between 1 and 2 kilometers, or about a mile. A cutout of the Martian interior beneath NASA's Insight lander. The top 5 kilometers of the crust appear to be ... Read more

The US Federal government is projected to spend about $6.5 trillion (23% of US GDP in 2024). The US government's Bureau of Economic Analysis as of Q3 2023 estimates $10.0 Trillion in annual total government expenditure and $27.6 trillion annual total GDP which is 36.2%. The OECD for 2021 shows general US government spending at ... Read more

Usain Bolt has the world record for the 100 meters at 9.58. He did not run his best race as he often would look around at the finish. If we combined his best 20 meter sections then Bolt could have run 9.52. This would take his best start, best finish etc... There many records set ... Read more

The two astronauts, Butch and Sunny, who launched on Boeing Starliner will now return on SpaceX Crew 9 in February 2025. The Boeing Starliner will leave uncrewed in early September. It will have a modified departure that will get away from the ISS faster than previous mission profiles. Boeing will try to figure out how ... Read more

AstroForge announced it has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Nova Threshold, including investments from 776, Initialized, Caladan, YC, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Jed McCaleb. The funding brought AstroForge's total capital to $55 million. AstroForge has several upcoming missions, including the development of its third mission, Vestri. Scheduled to launch in ... Read more

Fed Chair Jerome Powell declared, THE TIME HAS COME FOR POLICY TO ADJUST," which confirms that the Federal reserve will start cutting interest rates. The stock market is up on the news.

Cary, North Carolina, 22nd August 2024, CyberNewsWire

Here is a 2015 Stanford analysis of the impact of venture capital backed companies. The importance and contribution of companies that were started with venture capital has only increased. Venture capital backed companies are now well over half of the value of the SP500 stock index. Tax increases get passed along. The rich run the ... Read more

Two Upper stages of Rockets at the Blue Origin New Glenn Factory were damaged in the last few weeks. These incidents are only now being reported. The upper portion of one rocket crumpled into itself, in part due to worker error, while it was being moved to a storage hangar. It was moved from hot ... Read more

The Eric Schmidt Stanford talk keeps getting censored on Youtube. It is a very important talk with a lot of insights for the future of AI. People need to see the whole thing. Former Google CEO tells AI startups to steal content and hire lawyersEric Schmidt, Google's one-time CEO and executive chairman, gave a recent ... Read more

There are reports that Tesla FSD Supervised is enabling drivers scores to be increased from 90 to 100 which reduces the Tesla insurance premium by $70 per month. This nearly offsets the $99 per month Tesla insurance cost. For two years, I have predicted that Tesla FSD Supervised becoming safer than human and enabling increased ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 20th August 2024, CyberNewsWire

AI is not a single technology breakthrough, like a bat-wing stealth bomber. The race for AI supremacy is not like the space race to the moon. AI is not even comparable to a general-purpose technology like electricity. However, what Thomas Edison said of electricity encapsulates the AI future: It is a field of fields ... ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 19th August 2024, CyberNewsWire

Eric Schmidt's recent talk at Stanford University in 2024 covered a range of provocative topics: Google's AI Strategy: Schmidt criticized Google's focus on work-life balance, suggesting it hindered their competitiveness in AI against companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. He praised Elon Musk, startups and TSMC for their rigorous work environments. TSMC even makes physics PhDs ... Read more

Everyday Astronaut, Tim Dodd, got a tour from Blue Origin Executive Chariman Jeff Bezos of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket production facilities. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Interview Starts [Lobby] 05:20 - Recovering Saturn V Engines 08:35 - Tank Production 16:40 - Second Stage 23:50 - Aft Section 33:15 - Forward Section 42:08 - ... Read more

There have been reports that Nvidia was delaying its next-generation artificial intelligence chips by at least three months. Mass shipments may not take place until early 2025. There are other reports that to maximize the available CoWoS-L capacity, Nvidia is replacing B100 with B200A which is using CoWoS-S, thereby freeing up scarce CoWoS-L capacity for ... Read more

People say that X aka Twitter was a bad investment because advertising revenue is down from when Elon Musk purchased it at $44 billion. The losses are not that bad while advertising is down, Elon was able to drastically reduce costs and headcount. X also added subscription revenue. A major thing that people forget is ... Read more

DARPA is hosting a QBI (Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)) proposers day on Sept. 3, 2024, for quantum computing companies that believe they are on track to develop an industrial-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer in the near term. The goal of the hybrid in-person and virtual proposers day is to introduce the quantum computing research and development ... Read more

Nextbigfuture on substack now has weekly update on AI. It does deep dives on major developments in AI, AI startups, AI research and AI funding. 1. Google launches Gemini Live for advanced voice conversations 2. XAI launches Grok 2 3. Sakana AI makes a powerful AI Scientist 4. Cosine Genie launches a superior AI Software ... Read more

Cary, United States / North Carolina, 16th August 2024, CyberNewsWire

Archimedes Defense, a recognized leader in high-power solutions for government and defense applications, has partnered with Unplugged Performance and its specialized fleet division, UP.FIT, to develop STING. For those facing extreme threats, STING APC is the ultimate defense upgrade, offering enhanced IED/mine protection and upgraded bolt-on, bolt-off external offset steel and ceramic armor plating, meticulously ... Read more

The Boring Company is prioritizing an extension of the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop to go to the Vegas Airport. This will greatly increase the usage and revenue generation of the system. The Boring company Loop should be able to provide consistent 7-ten minute travel times to the airport from the strip. If there were ... Read more

Boring Company Prurfock 3 and the new Prufrock 4 tunneling machines can only tunnel about 11 hours per day. There are limitations are maintenance and how they have to stop tunneling to put in the concrete segments. The Boring Company likely has a program to rapidly develop and test new machines to reach the goal ... Read more

Hypersonic plane startup, Hermeus, plans to make a plane faster than the SR-71 blackbird spy plane. the SR-71 could reach mach 3.3 and fly at 85000 to 100,000 feet in altitude. Quarterhorse Mk 2 will fly with this precooler-F100 engine combination and be capable of hitting speeds greater than Mach 2.5. The entire Chimera engine, ... Read more

On Tuesday morning (Aug. 6), a Chinese Long March 6A rocket launched the first 18 satellites for the Qianfan (Thousand Sails") broadband network, which will eventually host up to 14,000 spacecraft. The rocket successfully delivered the satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), at an altitude of about 500 miles (800 kilometers) but then its upper ... Read more

Japanese startup Sakana AI claims they have built the world's first AI Scientist. One of the grand challenges of artificial general intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting scientific research and discovering new knowledge. This new work is a major advance toward that goal. While frontier models have already been used as aids to human ... Read more

NASA has found multiple quality problems with the Space Launch System Block 1B. However, Block 1B development efforts have encountered multiple issues including Boeing's ineffective quality management and inexperienced workforce, continued cost increases and schedule delays, and the delayed establishment of a cost and schedule baseline. Boeing is Unable to Perform Basic Tasks for Building ... Read more

The Figure 02 humanoid bot is an improved humanoid bot. Speech-to-speech reasoning: Figure 02 can have full conversations with humans. Onboard mics + speakers + custom AI models (partnered with OpenAI) = a robot you can actually talk to. The human-scale hands are equipped with 16 degrees of freedom and human-equivalent strength which enables a ... Read more

The decentralized artificial intelligence compute network startup HyperCycle is hoping to get some attention this week as it enters the spotlight at Ai4 2024, one of the hottest AI events on the calendar. HyperCycle is unusual compared to most other decentralized AI players in that its distributed network is not based on a blockchain. Rather, ... Read more

XAI is releasing Grok 2 in beta. This will be about equal to OpenAI GPT4 artificial intelligence models. Elon Musk has said XAI is assembled 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips for a total of 400 Exaflops of compute to train Grok 3 by the end of this year. Grok 3 will be at about the power ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 12th August 2024, CyberNewsWire

Grok at XAI will likely update to Grok 2 tomorrow. Elon posted that the Grok 2 beta release is soon. Elon Musk has previously stated that Grok 2 should beat GPT 4 on most metrics. However, there have been some improved versions from OpenAI and Anthropic. Grok 2 beta release soon pic.twitter.com/t6e9RcXPkl - Elon Musk ... Read more

SpaceX has shown a test firing of the new Raptor 3 engine. The new engine has removed so many parts that United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno thought it was incomplete. SpaceX President & COO Gwynne Shotwell joins broadband.io and Ready.net CEO Jase Wilson for a fireside chat at Mountain Connect 2024. Works pretty good ... Read more

In a groundbreaking development, scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have created the world's most powerful loop heat pipe (LHP), capable of transporting an astounding 10 kilowatts of heat without using any electricity. This innovation promises to revolutionize energy efficiency across multiple industries, from electric vehicles to data centers. Understanding Loop Heat Pipes Before delving ... Read more

Ukraine has taken a few hundred square kilometers of territory in Russia in the Kursk region. This is an escalation of the Ukraine Russia war. IF Ukraine can hold the territory then it would be possible for an exchange of territory to occur in a possible peace settlement. It does increase the probability that Russia ... Read more

The startup Hermeus is rapidly developing a hypersonic plane. They have begun testing their proprietary precooler technology with the Pratt & Whitney F100 engine. This video highlights some of our favorite camera angles from testing. What's a precooler and why are they testing it? The Hermeus precooler increases the maximum speed of the turbine engine ... Read more

High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) wires must be be better than copper wire on price-performance metrics before copper can be widely replaced. A HTS wire segment shows the energy density properties that are five to ten times better than commercial HTS wire. It will need to be scaled up to the hundreds of tons of production ... Read more

George Church spoke at Aubrey de Grey's conference to discuss using gene editing to provide radical life extension. George is hopeful that gene editing can be used to realize longevity escape velocity. Longevity escape velocity is where we add one year of life extension to people life in less than one year. If Longevity escape ... Read more

On July 17, 2024, two research teams reported that have re-detected the phosphine, and have tentatively found ammonia as well. Phospine and ammonia are produced by living microorganisms. It's not proof that living microbes are floating around in Venus' atmosphere. The findings presented at the national astronomy meeting in Hull on Wednesday bolster evidence for ... Read more

Hundreds of billions will be spent to scale AI data centers to Millions of Exaflops by 2029. The systems will be 3000 times more powerful than the largest AI training centers today. There will be huge challenges making massive data centers that will use many gigawatts of power. Here we review which Nvidia chips will ... Read more

NASA scientists have now discovered a single place on Mars with signs it once hosted all three of life's main ingredients: liquid water, energy, and organic molecules. On July 21, NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a strange rock partially buried in a dry riverbed. White streaks hinted water once flowed through the stone, and Perseverance detected ... Read more

NASA is worried that multiple small reaction control system thrusters could fail while the Starliner is near the space station and cause a disaster. There are combinations of Starliner thrusters failures would make it become uncontrollable and cause a collision with the space station. The thrusters are needed later in the flight back to Earth ... Read more

Nanonuclear is vertically integrated microreactor and advanced nuclear technology company that raised $20 million on July 18, 2024 in a stock offering and had raised $8 million in earlier funding. Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture interviewed the CEO James Walker. Mr. Walker is a Nuclear Physicist and was the project lead and manager for constructing the ... Read more

Ars Technica reports that there has been a lot of recent activity at NASA, Boeing, and SpaceX. This activity suggests that two ISS astronauts (Wilmore and Williams) could come home aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft rather than Starliner. Nextbigfuture believes that it is a needless risk to have the astronauts return on Boeing Starliner. Multiple ... Read more