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SpaceX is upgrading Starship's heat shield with new tiles that are twice as strong as the previous version used during the flight 4 test. SpaceX is adingd an ablative secondary structure behind the tiles to provide an extra layer of protection in case a tile becomes damaged or detached. The work on removing the old ... Read more

The Tesla votes were successful. Elon's 2018 CEO compensation package was re-affirmed. Tesla has voted to move from Delaware to Texas. Tesla's Optimus robots are currently in action at their Fremont Factory. These robots handle cells and place them in shipping containers. Elon Musk anticipates having over a thousand Optimus robots operational at Tesla ... Read more

China is working on a sixth-generation manned fighter, or next-generation manned fighter. It is considered to be an established program of record that is under active development and expected to emerge in some form during this decade. The Diplomat calls it the J-XD. Various demonstrator test beds (potentially subscale) have been flown, and a more ... Read more

Steve Jobs (Apple) and Commodore computers started the Personal computer revolution in 1976. The world changed from multi-million dollar mainframe computers to a world of sub-thousand dollar personal computers. By 1980, there were over a million personal computers. The world could change radically in the next few years. We currently live in a world where ... Read more

Fundamentals of Photo Enhancement In photo enhancement, we focus on three critical aspects: composition, lighting, and color theory. Each plays a pivotal role in transforming an ordinary image into an extraordinary masterpiece. Understanding Composition We consider composition the framework of our photographic story. It dictates how elements are arranged within the frame. To master this, ... Read more

2024 Tesla accomplishments highlights two Optimus bots have started working in the factory. The list of 2024 Tesla achievements: - FSD Supervised using end-to-end neural networks rolls out to customers who have purchased or are subscribed to FSD in the US & Canada - Upgraded Model 3 deliveries start in North America - Hit 600k ... Read more

Tesla head of AI describes the past decade of AI at Tesla. Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy clarified that this was his personal note that I decided to write to explain Elon's importance to Tesla. While the timing is partly in light of the shareholder vote, I truly believe everything I wrote. @elonmusk has been the key ... Read more

Fraser Cain, Marcus House and Scott Manley reviewed the fourth orbital flight of SpaceX Starship and discussed the future of Starship. The Starship launch was a huge success but there is still much more to be done. SpaceX is adding another ablative heat shield layer underneath the tiles and the heat shield tiles will be ... Read more

Warren Redlich is a long time Tesla uber bull but he has fears that Elon Musk will leave Tesla if the 2018 CEO compensation package is not re-approved. The 2018 pay package was approved by over 70% of shareholders in 2018 and then all terms were met where the $2B+ volue of the award increased ... Read more

There is massive growth in the utility-scale US solar market . It is driving record solar deployment figures as the segment added nearly 10 GW of new capacity in Q1. Florida and Texas saw strong utility-scale growth and led all states for new solar capacity in Q1. Total U.S. solar capacity is expected to double ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 10th June 2024, CyberNewsWire

We have Ships and Super Heavy boosters built and either ready to launch or in testing for the next several flights with more coming off of the production line as SpaceX's Starfactory continues to grow," Jessie Anderson, SpaceX's Falcon Structures Manufacturing Engineering Manager, said during SpaceX's livestream of the Starship flight test Thursday. The latest ... Read more

According to Zhu Xichan's, a professor at the School of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University, observation, the current capabilities of domestic [chinese] assisted intelligent driving systems are basically equivalent to FSD V11. However, the outside world has also questioned before that China's road conditions are more complicated than those in the United States. Will Tesla ... Read more

Tesla FSD entry into China seems assured according to China Newsweek. Tesla has the data center servers installed for domestic data collection and usage. Tesla is operating and testing FSD v12 in China. The entry of Tesla FSD into China will enable massive deals with China's robotaxi companies and Tesla. China robotaxi will be authorized ... Read more

Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. This will look even more amazing with the tower catch next time. I have been predicting with 99.9% confidence for over 3 months that SpaceX would catch the booster with the tower this year. The launch tower arms are only a bit smaller ... Read more

Elon says the next SpaceX Starship flight will likely attempt a Mechazilla launch tower catch of the booster. If successful this would mean saving 33 of the 39 engines for a Starship Superheavy. This would mean getting to the reusability level of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. There will be no FAA delay to ... Read more

The fourth orbital SpaceX Starship has launched. We will now see if it safely re-enter. The booster had a good return and a soft landing burn. It is looking far better getting through re-entry. It nearly burned through a flap. It still is making it through despite the flap problem. They are still getting telemetry ... Read more

Tesla's 4680 cell ramp speed continues to improve, which will be faster, as they continue to work on more improvements. If Tesla 4680 battery production triples again over the next 6 months that would be enough batteries for 70,000 Cybertrucks in the second half of 2024. If Tesla 4680 battery production quadruples over the next ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.4.1 releases today to Tesla employees. Elon Musk says if that goes well, then it will be released to a limited number of external customers this weekend. There are a massive number of changes to this build. It should arguably be called v13, but we're sticking to 12 Two other versions are ... Read more

There was a good manned launch of two astronauts on the Boeing Starliner. The Starliner had a lot of delays and problems and was over budget. However, it is great that they have had a successful manned launch of two astronauts.

Linus Tech tips looks at the size, weight and power of the LARGEST GPUs we have ever seen. Then B200 e size of a Server Rack. They also look at Network switches. The server rack has 18 blades of 72 B200 chips.

Two years ago, Nextbigfuture highlighted Maia Biotechnology, which might have the most promising treatment for all cancers. They poison cells that express the telomerase enzyme which indicates cancerous activity. The drug treatment is called Thio. 90% of cancers express telomerase enzyme. Brian Wang interviewed Antiaging expert Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey told Nextbigfuture that his favorite ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink achieved a new internal median latency record of 28ms on June 1, 2024. It will get to below 20 millisecond latency. SpaceX has sent a request to the FCC to allow operation at about 350 kilometer instead of 530 kilometers. The closer operation will reduce the latency by 1.3 milliseconds. Starlink just achieved ... Read more

NVIDIA ACE-a suite of technologies bringing digital humans to life with generative AI-is now generally available for developers. Packaged as NVIDIA NIMs, these inference microservices enable developers to deliver high-quality natural language understanding, speech synthesis, and facial animation for gaming, customer service, healthcare, and more. NVIDIA is also introducing ACE PC NIM microservices for deployment ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, 4th June 2024, Chainwire

SpaceX is less than 48 hours from a scheduled Starship orbital launch attempt. The FAA has granted the license for the launch. Thursday, June 6 for Starship's fourth flight test. A 120-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT. Targeting Thursday, June 6 for Starship's fourth flight test. A 120-minute launch window opens at 7:00 ... Read more

Jim Fan, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Lead of AI Agents Initiative, gave a keynote at the GenAI Summit 2024 where he talked about the latest AI at Nvidia. He describes the new world of virtual agents, humanoid bots and ultra-fast simulation and training. There were three AI eras before the new AI era ... Read more

Will Tesla's first trillion dollars in robotaxi revenue come from China first? Tesla could get into 800 cities with a million robotaxi in China by 2026 but ridesharing only charges 60 cents per mile in China versus $2-3 in the USA. Which will matter more to Tesla for FSD and Robotaxi? China or the USA? ... Read more

In 2018, Yusaku Maezawa announced dearMoon, the world's first civilian circumlunar voyage aboard SpaceX's space vehicle, Starship. The plan had included artists from around the world who would participate in the project to share the invaluable experience in space with the rest of the world. Arrangements were made with SpaceX to target the launch by ... Read more

Tesla first trillion dollars in robotaxi revenue will come from China first. Most of the first 800 cities and most of the first million robotaxis. Tesla is unveiling the Robotax on August 8, 2024 and Ark Invest has projected the robotaxi business will be worth ten trillion dollars per year. China is has already moved ... Read more

Groq said that they will start operating an AI inference cluster with large business in 30 days. Groq made a presentation at the GenAI summit 2024 in San Francisco. They are processing 30,000 inference input inference tokens and will put together about 1500 chips into an inference data center that will process 25 million inference ... Read more

Understanding the scale of the massive AI data centers being built and the competition to create the dominant AI in 2025.

Prague, Czech Republic, 29th May 2024, CyberNewsWire

The B-21's internal operations are extremely advanced compared to the B-2. The B-21 is smaller and more stealthy than the B-2, with a longer range. The first B-21s are not prototypes but rather test aircraft that the Air Force will convert to operational configuration after the completion of tests. The B-2 bombers are about thirty ... Read more

Brian Wang speaks with humanoid bot and AI expert Dr John Gibb about the surprises in a future where teslabots do everything in factories. RethinkX projects a 20 year disruption of the global labor market by humanoid robots. RethinkX projects there will be about one billion humanoid robots by 2045-2055. However, this skips over the ... Read more

Cary, United States, 28th May 2024, CyberNewsWire

XAI has raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round with participation from key investors including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, amongst others. Elon Musk owns over half of xAI and xAI will be valued at about $24 ... Read more

Using low-bandgap III-V materials such as InAsSb in nanostructured arrays to limit potential loss mechanisms, a 25x improvement in mass specific power and ten thousands times decrease in volume from a MMRTG is an early estimate, with higher performance possible depending on operating conditions. TRC technology will allow a proliferation of small versatile spacecraft with ... Read more

Larger telescopes are better because we can see better and capture more light, so NASA is developing liquid based space telescopes that would let us build 50 meter telescopes for the cost of 10 meter telescopes. The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority astrophysics targets, including Earth-like exoplanets, first ... Read more

The moon has one-sixth the gravity of the earth so magnetic levitation can use 35 times less power to do the same work. NASA will leverage this to make thin sheets that can rolled out to make lunar railway systems. They will provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient payload transport on the Moon. A durable, long-life ... Read more

A breakthrough pulsed plasma rocket is getting NASA phase 2 innovative concepts funding. It will have 15 times the efficiency of chemical rockets and with high levels of thrust at the level of a medium sized chemical rocket. Howe Industries is currently developing a propulsion system that may generate up to 100,000 Newtons of thrust ... Read more

May 22, Nvidia Jensen Huang says Tesla is far ahead in self-driving cars and on May 15, Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving vehicle department, said in an interview that Baidu is considering potential collaboration opportunities with Tesla for the latter's upcoming Robotaxi service. Nvidia is supply self driving car companies and robotaxi ... Read more

ChatRTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content-docs, notes, images, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. It all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or ... Read more

SpaceX will try to launch on June 5, 2024 if they get FAA approval. Elon and SpaceX are communicating the June 5th date as if the FAA is close to giving the launch license. Here is what has been learned and fixed after the third flight. Super Heavy Booster: Second successful ascent. Initiated ... Read more

Elon Musk says SpaceX has no need for additional capital and will be buying back shares. This must mean that the over 3 million Starlink customers that they have now and likely 5 million by the end of the year make SpaceX consistently profitable. SpaceX is adding about 1500 Starlink gen 2 mini satellites for ... Read more

The B-21 Stealth bomber has been having flight tests for a few months. U.S. Air Force's B-21 Raider stealth bombers are now conducting test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California. The first B-21 flew for the first time November, 2023. Six pre-production B-21 have been built. The Air Force currently expects the B-21 ... Read more

Copper-substituted lead apatite, aka LK-99, was claimed to be room-temperature superconductor, but due to the complicated components and structures, the reproduction is still controversial. Chinese researchers have some replication of the Korean work and have extended with better procedures and research. They have updated a prior paper with new synthesis (instructions about how to make ... Read more

Teslabots are humanoid robots that Tesla has started using in factories this year and will start selling in large numbers next year. Replacing human labor is a $30 trillion opportunity. But If Teslabots can speed up AI progress that could be an even bigger unlimited opportunity. We could be two generations faster to AGI and ... Read more