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New evidence changes best estimate of the start of life on Earth and time when the earth will become uninhabitable due to changes in the Sun. Previously, scientists believed that life (simple single cell) started 700 million years after the earth cooled and oceans formed. New evidence has pushed this start date to 200 million ... Read more

Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI, has left OpenAI. Miles was at OpenAI for 6 years and 3 months advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness. Nextbigfuture covers what Miles thinks is needed for AGI readiness. I agree the world needs to be able to capture more value from rapidly ... Read more

Israel is hitting various military targets and an Iranian oil field. This appears to be a proportional response to the prior Iran missile attack. Breaking: Violent explosions in Iran First pictures of Israel's attack has begun and at this stage it is attacking several locations in Tehran with missiles, the second largest oil field in ... Read more

Boeing is trying to sell the Starliner spacecraft and the ISS support operations that the company performs. Boeing will keep overseeing the Space Launch System. NASA still gives about $3-4 billion per year for Space Launch System. Boeing as part of ULA launched 7 spacecraft while SpaceX launched 525 in the first quarter of 2024. ... Read more

Tesla beat analysts estimates by 18% on earnings for Q3. However, it was achieved with repeatable cost improvement in the cars and in the batteries. Tesla announced that everything that optimists and shareholders have been waiting for is happening. Profits and growth is back and the future of cars, energy, robotaxi and Teslabot look great ... Read more

The future of Space with a fully reusable SpaceX Starship means everything about space will become huge. Our dreams for space were unfulfilled for decades. We could only put tiny satellites into space and costs were at the weight in gold or silver. The shocking SpaceX Starship tower catch means the a rocket with double ... Read more

There were claims of a Rossi e-cat device providing extra range for an electric car. Here is how the test could have been faked. The creator and claimant for the e-cat devices has a history of likely fraud. Two electric vehicles, Renault Twizy 80, were driven and one had an 80 kilogram box that supposedly ... Read more

New Linear-complexity Multiplication (L-Mul) algorithm claims it can reduce energy costs by 95% for element-wise tensor multiplications and 80% for dot products in large language models. It maintains or even improving precision compared to 8-bit floating point operations. By replacing complex floating-point multiplication with integer addition Solution in this Paper - Approximates floating-point multiplication using ... Read more

Developers can now direct Claude to use computers the way people do-by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking, and typing text. Claude can use other tools as well. Introducing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. We're also introducing a new capability in beta: computer use. Developers can ... Read more

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From 2011-2016, Andrea claimed to generate up to a megawatt of power from an cold fusion based energy catalyzer. This ended with a lawsuit from a partner and no commercialized devices. Rossi is now back. Rossi is now promoting an energy device which he claims powers an electric car. On July 30, 2011, Editor Steven ... Read more

CHINA approved 11 nuclear reactors across five sites in August for a cost of $40 billion. They will take about 5 years to build. China has approved 10 new reactors in each of the last two years. China has 56 reactors currently in operation, with a combined capacity that equates to around 5 per cent ... Read more

Nuclear fusion startup, Fuse, is trying to make a mass production version nuclear fusion system based upon the Sandia Z Machine. This is magnetized target fusion using Marx generators. They leverage the Z pinch for their pulsed power approach. They are making a 1-Terawatt TITAN machine and plan to build Z STAR which aims to ... Read more

Construction activity will start this month on a 7 Petwatt laser research facility located on Colorado State University's Foothills Campus. It shluld be operational mid-2026. CSU, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences program and a strategic $150 million public-private partnership with industry leader Marvel Fusion that launched in 2023. The ATLAS Facility will be a unique cluster ... Read more

Donations from Didier Coeurnelle enable next phase of LEVF (Longevity escape velocity foundation) Robust Mouse Rejuvenation research program. The initial donation of 200,000 (approximately $220,000) will be increased by a further 200,000 donations to LEVF during the month of October 2024 will be doubled. Donate to LEVF in the next 10 days to boost antiaging ... Read more

Jensen Huang the CEO of Nvidia described how xAI built a 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU AI cluster in 19 days. Other customers need a year (365 days or about 20 times as long) to install the same size AI cluster. Jensen called the xAI achievement superhuman. The customers of Nvidia GPUs have to work with ... Read more

Elon Musk said the SpaceX starship achieved a precise, soft landing in the ocean, paving the way for return to launch site and being caught by the tower arms, like the booster. Full and rapid reusability improves the cost of access to orbit and beyond by over 10,000%. The cost per kilogram to space will ... Read more

Sandy Munro is a car expert whose company has taken apart thousands of cars to analyze how to improve the manufacturing and design. Sandy was super-impressed by the Tesla robotaxi, robovan and teslabots. He thinks the robovan will dominate and grow the limousine market. The All-in-podcast guys think the robovan will open up new markets ... Read more

xAI completed its 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI data center before Meta and OpenAI despite the Meta and OpenAI getting chips delivered first. xAi completed the main chip installation and build in 19 days and the overall project in 122 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this scale of build can take a year for many ... Read more

SpaceX has applied to the FCC to make changes to Starlink to increase communication speed from 200-300 Mbps to about 1 gigabit per second or more. SpaceX will get the Starship flying and will launch new Starlink satellites that are about three times bigger than the Starlink version 2 mini. SpaceX wants to lower the ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows exactly how long it takes most companies to build an AI data center using Nvidia GPUs. He describes how his Nvidia team worked with xAI and Elon Musk to build a complete AI Data Center with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in 19 days. Elon Musk has said it took 122 ... Read more

Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries are ramping up to serious scale and could offer a 20% boost in energy density over LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) batteries. LMFP operates at a higher voltage than LFP, its theoretical energy density can reach up to 230 Wh/kg, which is 15% to 20% greater than that of LFP ... Read more

A paper by Chinese researchers, Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage", described how D-Wave's machines can optimize problem-solving in ways that made it possible to decode tiny version of a military grade public key cryptography. Wang Chao from Shanghai University, used a D-Wave machine to attack Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) structured ... Read more

Google has a corporate agreement to buy energy (starting with 7 small nuclear reactors) from Kairos Power. Kairos Power FHR (KP-FHR) is a novel advanced reactor technology that leverages TRISO fuel in pebble form combined with a low-pressure fluoride salt coolant. The technology uses an efficient and flexible steam cycle to convert heat from fission ... Read more

Many people believe that Tesla robotaxi will not happen for years. However, the CEO of Uber Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber would love to partner with Tesla on the Robotaxi platform. NEWS: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says competing with Elon Musk is 'no easy matter' - and would love to partner with @Tesla to get Robotaxis ... Read more

Nvidia says that machine learning and agents will take over computer programming. Jensen says distributed AI inference will have to work in order to meet the demand for inference. AI inference will reflect upon getting the answer 10,000 times. Chain of reasoning and reflection and other intensification of compute for the answers. This will make ... Read more

Much like artificial intelligence, Big Data is becoming an increasing threat as much as it is an opportunity. The more data we gather, the more analysis that can be performed. And the more accurate and sensitive that data, the more validity those findings will have. Unfortunately, this also directly increases what's at stake in the ... Read more

Vast Space, the aerospace startup founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, plans to replace the International Space Station. Haven-2 would serve as a specialized lab in low-Earth orbit, where visitors can conduct microgravity research. The Vast Haven-1 space station is targeting August 2025. They will start with four cylindrical modules that can dock to ... Read more

The most important things about the booster catch and the simulated Starship catches is that the accuracy of positioning is in the centimeters or less. They will be able to repeat. The burnthroughs on the heat shield around one of the fins was minor. This is a new age. Now saving boosters and 33 Raptor ... Read more

SpaceX has ablative heat shield underneath the 18,000+ heat shield tiles. SpaceX Starship is going through peak heating and looks good and undamaged for the orbital re-entry and return. Now about ten minutes from the landing burn and the simulated tower catch and then a soft landing into the Indian Ocean. Starship has slowed to ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship launched and was caught. This is a new age for space with the booster catch. Fully resuable starship booser. If there is no incident with the orbital starship which should have no reentry damage with a massively improved heat shield then flight 6 should be in weeks and flight 7 could reuse ... Read more

SpaceX is preparing for what could be a launch and catch of the booster tomorrow. Ryan Hansen has an excellent video with renderings of all mechanisms and processes that will be used on the Mechazilla launch tower. A successful catch will mean recovery of the 33 engines in the booster and the entire super heavy ... Read more

The FAA has given SpaceX Starship the license to fly flight 5 and flight 6. The FAA has granted SpaceX the license to launch Starship 5 as early as tomorrow from Boca Chica, Texas. This approval, ahead of schedule, confirms all safety, environmental, and licensing requirements have been met. SpaceX's Mechazilla" launch tower will attempt ... Read more

Tesla robovan fits 20 people in it. It will get the cost down to 5 to 10 cents per mile. The Teslabots will mingle with the crowd and serve drinks.

Tesla has started the Robotaxi we robot event. There are twenty Tesla cybercabs at the Robotaxi Event. There are thirty other autonomous Model 3 and Y at the event. The cybercabs have no steering wheel.

Demis Hassabis (CEO of Deep Mind) and John M. Jumper have useed artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. David Baker has learned how to master life's building blocks and create entirely new proteins. The potential of their discoveries is enormous. They have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... Read more

There have been reports of more problems getting gas at gas stations in hurricane impacted areas. While Tesla superchargers continued to function. Gas price tracking service GasBuddy reported that as of 2:43 pm ET Wednesday afternoon, 24.3% of gas stations statewide - or nearly one in four - were without fuel, a dramatic spike from ... Read more

Riverlane has released its groundbreaking three-year roadmap for its Quantum Error Correction Stack, Deltaflow, starting in 2024 and culminating in a system where quantum computers can run one million (Mega) error-free Quantum Operations (QuOps) by 2026. In August, 2024, Riverlane announced that it had raised $75 million in Series C funding to deliver its groundbreaking ... Read more

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have proposed a new type of memory, in which optical data is transferred from a rare earth element embedded within a solid material to a nearby quantum defect. Their analysis of how such ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink turned on satellite service to cell phones in Florida in preparation for Hurricane #Milton hitting soon. 17% of North Carolina and parts of Georgia and Tennessee do not have phone service because of Hurricane Helene. Florida will be hit tonight by Hurricane Milton. People with @TMobile can now text in Florida, and all ... Read more

Radian Aerospace has $31 million of funding to develop a single stage to orbit spaceplane. It will use a 3000 meter long sled to get it up to launch speed. It will deliver 2.27 tons to anywhere on Earth in under one hour. It can land on a regular runway. The Spaceplane will be about ... Read more

A reader has performed more detailed measurements of the Tesla Shanghai Megapack factory. He has dimensions of 450 meters by 180 meters (1476 feet X 590 feet). This would be 870,800 square feet versus the 440,000 square feet of the Lathrop California megapack factory. This means almost exactly double. The Tesla Shanghai megapack factory will ... Read more

Starship's fifth flight test could launch as soon as October 13, pending regulatory approval. IF everything is going well from the launch and return then they will try to land on the mechazilla launch tower. Thousands of distinct vehicle and pad criteria must be met prior to a return and catch attempt of the Super ... Read more

Bloomberg reports that Dish Network bond holders are blocking the DirecTV acquisition of Dish Network. DirecTV wants to buy Dish Network for $1 and the assumption of $9.75 billion in debt. Direct TV wants a partial write down of the debt. They want a $1.6 billion reduction. Dish needs consent from its bondholders to exchange ... Read more

Iran claimed to have destroyed twenty Israeli F-35 fighter jets in a missile attack. Iran's ballistic missiles have warheads in the range of 800-1600 pounds of explosive. Iran's missiles were mostly older and not accurate. They typical miss by 60 feet to hundreds of feet. Israel has hardened shelters for their planes which require direct ... Read more

Tesla is rolling out FSD 12.5.6 (full self driving) which includes new changes including end to end on highway, earlier and more natural lane changes, updated driver profiles and auto set speed has been changed to Max Speed. Our HW4 Model Y is currently downloading FSD 12.5.6! This includes a slew of new changes ... Read more

A trillion dollars is the type of money that actually affects global events. When you think about a full 16 trillion dollars, that is a number that is difficult to comprehend, even at a global level. And yet, according to a well formed analysis on tokenization, this is what the tokenization of RWAs (real world ... Read more

San Francisco, CA, 8th October 2024, CyberNewsWire