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Northrop Grumman Corporation completed assembly of a full-size uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) prototype known as Manta Ray. A new class of UUV, it is an extra-large glider that will operate long-duration, long-range and payload-capable undersea missions without need for on-site human logistics. The Manta Ray can wait on the seabed to intercept nuclear submarines. DARPA's ... Read more

In the Q1 earnings call, Uber says Tesla FSD looks like a a great product and they also said startup Wayve looks good. Uber stated they want to partner with autonomous vehicle companies. Uber says they will provide demand for autonomous vehicles. Wayve is a startup that just received over $1 billion in funding from ... Read more

Humanoid robotics entrepreneur, Herbert Ong, gives a compilation of the top 7 humanoid robotics companies. He reviews the humanoid robots with video clips of the robots and his insights from talking the CEO and executives at those companies. He describes how they have different approaches to humanoid robots. We show what the bots can do ... Read more

Sam Altman tells everyone how survive in the age of artificial intelligence. You are about to enter the greatest golden age of human possibility..." To thrive in that world, the skills that matter most are: - Deep familiarity with the tools - Staying abreast of changes - Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where ... Read more

SpaceX had a successful static fire test and is ready for the fourth orbital flight of the Super Heavy Starship. Static fires for the third launch were about 2-3 weeks before the actual launch. Static fire of Flight 5 Starship's six Raptor engines pic.twitter.com/UiF5UG432F - SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 8, 2024

Elon Musk has posted that Tesla FSD 12.4 will start its rollout next week. Tesla FSD 12.4 has been almost completely retrained. The final touches are for comfort, as it sometimes accelerates or brakes too fast for most people's taste. 12.4 has almost completely retrained models. The final touches are for comfort, as it sometimes ... Read more

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 8th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Security Risk Advisors (SRA) announces the launch of their OT/XIoT Detection Selection Workshop, a complimentary offering designed to assist organizations in selecting the most suitable operational technology (OT) and Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) security tools for their unique environments. Led by seasoned OT/XIoT security consultants, the workshop provides ... Read more

Chinese officials told Musk that China welcomes Tesla to do some robotaxi tests in the country and hopes it to set a good example, the sources said, but authorities did not immediately approve its widespread use of FSD functions. Tesla will reveal its robotaxi and robotaxi plans on August 8, 2024. China is Tesla's second-largest ... Read more

Tesla FSD has enough compute and driving data for training so the limiting factor is how fast the system can be validated. Only about 1/10,000 of distance driven is useful for training. This means of the 1 billion miles per month that is gathered by Tesla from over 1 million cars using FSD, there is ... Read more

Humanoid robotics entrepreneur, Herbert Ong, has a Humanoid robotics company and is working with and spoken to almost all of the humanoid robotics companies. He reviews the humanoid robots with video clips of the robots and his insights from talking the CEO and executives at those companies. He describes how they have different approaches to ... Read more

Elon Musk discusses the future of humanity with Michael Milken, touching on topics such as birth rates, the most impactful factors shaping our future, and his vision of a multiplanetary species. Elon Musk was at the 27th annual Global Conference hosted by the Milken Institute, which was livestreamed from May 6 to 8, 2024. Watch ... Read more

The US Army has used lasers to take down hostile drones in the Middle East, Doug Bush, the Army's head of acquisitions. It's the first time the Defense Department has acknowledged that such weapons have been used in combat. The US is not the first country to use lasers in actual combat. Starting in 2020, ... Read more

San Francisco, United States, May 7th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Hunters, the pioneer in modern SOC platforms, today announced its full adoption of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), coupled with the launch of groundbreaking OCSF-native Search capability. This strategic advancement underscores Hunters' commitment to standardizing and enhancing cybersecurity operations through open, integrated data sharing frameworks. Uri ... Read more

Space based solar ecosystem map created by Erik Kulu. There is a huge new economically sustainable space industry and with a great vision to provide 24/7 abundant clean energy to Earth. Erik Kulu prepared this ecosystem map for his talk Space Solar Power - Updated Survey of Private Initiatives" at the International Conference on Energy ... Read more

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was scheduled to launch tonight to get certification. The mission was scrubbed for today. Atlas valve issue. The scrub was recommended after launch control teams detected anomalous behavior by the pressure regulation valve in the liquid oxygen tank of the Centaur upper stage of the ULA Atlas V launch vehicle. Engineers are ... Read more

The Israel Defense Force has announced the beginning of Offensive Ground Operations against the City of Rafah in Southern Gaza, with the Spokesman stating that IDF Troops are now Striking and Operating" against Hamas Targets in Eastern Rafah. The IDF is currently conducting targeted strikes against Hamas terror targets in eastern Rafah in southern Gaza. ... Read more

TeslaFSDTracker provides crowdsourced data about Tesla FSD. They are showing Tesla FSD 12.3.6 users reporting 399 miles between disengagements in City driving. This is over three times more distance than the best version of Tesla FSD 11.X. They are also showing 98% of drives having no critical disengagements versus 11.X having 91-94.5% of drives having ... Read more

Tesla showed new video of improved Optimus Teslabots and some are doing some useful work in factories. The hands have been improved and hands and AI are the keys to successful humanoid bots. Tesla Engineer Milan Kovac reports that Tesla has deployed a couple bots at one of the Tesla factories. SanctuaryAI and Tesla have ... Read more

Ex- Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and IMF Economists said the pre-1983 inflation formula would have record inflation in 2022 at 18%. The new paper by a group of economists from Harvard and the International Monetary Fund, headlined by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said that that rising interest rates were as much a part of ... Read more

There has been a lot of speculation about why Tesla cut the 500 person team for Tesla Supercharging infrastructure. Patrick Bet David, successful entrepreneur, podcaster and youtuber has posted the case that Elon Musk cut the Tesla Supercharging infrastructure team and slowed/paused Supercharging network buildout as a power move to get concessions and leverage over ... Read more

Building a base on the Moon and a city on Mars will require millions of spacesuits. The development of many new suit and the execution of the spacewalk will be important steps toward a scalable design for spacesuits on future long-duration missions as life becomes multiplanetary. This EVA suit evolve from the Intravehicular Activity (IVA) ... Read more

There are still flaws with Tesla FSD 12.3.X but if Tesla FSD 12.4 and FSD 12.5 fix lane selection problems, speed issues, all construction zones, flashing red lights and reverse then it could a over a month to find flaws. The reported data is from the TeslaFSDtracker.com. There is crowdsourced data that 12.3.6 can go ... Read more

Researchers closely tracked and computationally analyzed moon and asteroid sized objects beyond Neptune and determined that a ninth planet about five times bigger than the Earth is about 16 times further than Pluto. A planet matching Planet Nine's expected characteristics would still be relatively small, with a mass just five times that of Earth, and ... Read more

There were huge fears that Apple would have bad earnings and bad guidance. Apple is buying back a lot of shares. The company is boosting its buyback program by $110 billion. For context, Apple upped its authorization by $90 billion a year ago, and analysts were expecting a similar increase this time around. Apple being ... Read more

A second whistleblower connected to Boeing has suddenly died at the age of 45 after catching a sudden illness. Whistleblower Joshua Dean was known for being in good health and having a healthy lifestyle. Dean was one of the first whistleblowers to accuse Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems of cutting corners. He was fired in April ... Read more

Crowdsourced results show that Tesla FSD 12.3.6 should have the best disengagement results for any version prior version of FSD. FSD 12.3 had slightly better city driving results but usually the reported disengagement results improve from the first days. It would be a very solid result for 12.3.6 to get over 300 miles for city ... Read more

A deep discussion of FSD, Tesla in China, FSD competition. Warren and Brian talk Supercharging, FSD and Teslabot analysis that is unique, deep and sometimes mindblowing. There has been a lot of highly impactful news from Tesla about FSD improvements and they are in the process of being able to use and sell FSD in ... Read more

Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2nd, 2024, CyberNewsWire Early adoption by Fortune 100 companies worldwide, LayerX already secures more users than any other browser security solution and enables unmatched security, performance and experience LayerX, pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of ... Read more

South Korea plans a 120 Gigawatt space based solar project which would generate more power than the US nuclear industry's 95 gigawatt. Two Korean research institutes are designing a space solar power satellite project with the aim of providing approximately 1000 TWh of electricity to the Earth per year. The 95 gigawatts of nuclear in ... Read more

Sanctuary AI and Microsoft will work together to bolster AI research and development and Sanctuary AI will leverage Microsoft's Azure cloud resources for their AI workloads. SanctuaryAI is among the humandoid robotics companies that have partnered with Nvidia. Among the nine companies on stage with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had the SanctuaryAI bot at the ... Read more

Chinese automakers and suppliers have level-two-plus driver-assistance systems with LIDAR and other sensors. There are at least 10 chinese automakers and suppliers that have unveiled driver-assistance systems over the past two years that can navigate city streets and make turns at intersections. EV makers Xpeng, Li Auto, Xiaomi , Huawei are among the carmaker with ... Read more

I was on a youtube panel discussion with Herbert Ong, Jeff Lutz and Xander Sky. We were talking yesterday about the major Tesla deal with Baidu for FSD mapping and for the various China approvals that put Tesla on the brink of being fully authorized to sell FSD in China. Current Tesla stock analysts blend ... Read more

Meta has put Meta AI front and center in the search bars for Facebook and Instagram that have served as key tools to find content from particular friends or creators. This is what the All-in-Podcast guys called scorched Earth for AI. This means almost no one will pay the $20 per month or other subscriptions ... Read more

Last year, China approved 12 nuclear reactors for construction. China already had very large energy plans in order as the average wealth increases and to replace the 70% of energy from coal. However, there are two major new energy demands are emerging. There is the new need for energy for AI data centers. AI data ... Read more

Unit 2 of the Shin Hanul nuclear power plant in South Korea has entered commercial operation, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced. The unit is the second of two APR-1400 reactors at the site, with a further two planned. Georgia Power has announced the start of commercial operations at the second of the two ... Read more

Every Tesla FSD sale even with the price cuts is $8000 per car or $99 per month. The $99 per month is $1200 per year or $7200 for six years. Tesla has the highest profit per car of all car makers at $7000 per car. This is why Tesla FSD before robotaxi is a big ... Read more

Elon Musk's visit to China has resulted in approval in principle for FSD in China and a FSD mapping partnership with Baidu. Here's what you need to know: Tesla Inc. received in-principle approval to deploy driver-assistance system in China Tesla did manage to clear two of the most important hurdles: reaching a mapping ... Read more

The first ever Jetsuit races were held in Dubai about a month ago. Nextbigfuture has covered the Gravity Industry Jet suits for a few years. The jets and powerpack are attached to wearer with metal frames. They use five micro-gas turbines, two on each arm and one on the back. Their power is 1,050 bhp ... Read more

TSMC has to screw up to lose its lead in Semiconductors. Intel was in the lead for decades and then they screwed up badly and lost about 6+ years. Intel was about 2-4 years and now are trying to catch up from 4 years behind. TSMC Morris Chang is keeping it going. 30 minutes into ... Read more

TSMC introduced its System-on-Wafer (TSMC-SoWTM) technology, an innovative solution to bring revolutionary performance to the wafer level in addressing the future AI requirements for hyperscaler datacenters. At the TSMC 2024 North America Technology Symposium, they debuted the TSMC A16TM technology, featuring leading nanosheet transistors with innovative backside power rail solution for production in 2026, bringing ... Read more

Chuck Cook tests Tesla FSD 12.3.6 which has improved automatic parking assist. You can pick parking spots in front or behind you and the system will park the car. It can parallel park and parking perpendicular or at angles.The parking in FSD 12.3.6 is like a separate app that does not seem to be integrated ... Read more

LightSolver, creator of a new laser-based computing paradigm, announced a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system unleashes the power of 100 lasers to solve the toughest optimization problems, challenging the processing times of quantum and supercomputers. The LPU100's laser array represents 100 continuous variables, and can tackle problems with up to 120^100 combinations, ... Read more

Brian Wang and Randy Kirk recorded this discussion four days before the Q1 earnings call on Tuesday April 23. We predicted several aspects of the earnings call but also post earnings developments. This was recorded at the same time as the reaction video to the insightful BG2 Pod that Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley made. ... Read more

Tesla has launched Enhanced Autopilot subscriptions in China. It is unclear if this is actually what is called FSD (full self driving) in the USA. 699 yuan/month ($99 USD) 1,399 yuan for 3 months ($66 USD/month) NEWS: Tesla has launched Enhanced Autopilot subscriptions in China. 699 yuan/month ($99 USD) 1,399 yuan for ... Read more

1. SanctuaryaI unveiled the seventh generation of its general purpose robot Phoenix. The latest generation robot and its AI control system, CarbonTM, draw even closer to that of a person, with wide ranging improvements to both the hardware and AI software. The announcement comes less than 12 months after Sanctuary AI's sixth generation robot. The ... Read more

Nextbigfuture at substack has an in depth article on China's Molten Salt Nuclear energy projects. China is starting the operation of its 2 megawatt molten salt prototype reactor in 2024. They are progressively scaling up to 10 MW reactors, 100 MW and then a 168 MWe modular reactor around 2030. The full substack article is ... Read more

According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. pic.twitter.com/S6f17Rr6zy - Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) April 26, 2024 We have known that fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will ... Read more

San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 25th, 2024, CyberNewsWire The telecom company AeroNet Wireless announced the launch of its new 10Gbps speed Internet plan, marking an important landmark for the telecommunications sector in Puerto Rico. We have invested millions to expand and strengthen our network, demonstrating our commitment to launching Puerto Rico to the next level ... Read more

Billionaire investor and fund manager Ron Baron describes his ride in what seems to be the unreleased version of Tesla FSD. Waymo are $250,000 each. Ron was in California on Monday last week and was taken on a ride with the latest version of Tesla FSD. He says this is the moment for [supervised] autonomous ... Read more

SCTL has retracted the claimed full levitation video and the claim of full levitation. They say it was from the Lorentz force. A lone researcher on the team fooled himself and uploaded the video without checking with other members of the team. SCT lab : I apologize for causing confusion. The last video of sample ... Read more