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The mole rat lives about 37 years which is about five times longer than expected for an animal of its size and type. Researchers at the Queen Mary University of London have learned more about why the mole rat lives so long. The mole rat have fewer heart attacks. The mole rat adaptions to low ... Read more

Researchers estimate that the number of captured free-floating planets in the outer solar system with mass strictly greater than that of Mars is 1.2 and that the number of such planets with a strict cutoff at the mass of Mercury is 2.4. When they instead adopt logarithmic bins centered at the Mars mass and the ... Read more

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be sensitive to even lower-mass rogue planets since it will observe from space. It will have wide field of view and sharp vision which will allow us to study the objects it finds in more detail than we can do using only ground-based telescopes. In 2023, researchers estimate it ... Read more

Extreme Ultraviolet lithography for computer chips have been critical to letting us efficiently get better than 14 nanometer computer chips. Metalenses are 10,000 times thinner than regular lenses. Metalenses control light properties through nanometer-scale patterns or structures on lens surfaces. With the ability to reduce the thickness of conventional lenses by a factor of 10,000, ... Read more

Blackrock CEO Larry Fink pushes getting rid of 65 year old retirement age as part of Social Security Reform. The retirement funding problem is also related to depopulation. Social Security started in the US in 1935 and there werew 9 working age people for every one retired person. This is dropping to one working age ... Read more

A new 20 Tesla Superconducting magnet reduces the cost per watt of a fusion reactor by a factor of almost 40. MIT worked with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup with over $2 billion in funding. The funders of CFS include Temasek Holdings (Singpore), the U.S. Department of Energy, Tiger Global Management, Bill Gates, Google and ... Read more

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed what they believe is the first machine unlearning method applied to image-based generative AI. This method offers the ability to look under the hood and actively block and remove any violent images or copyrighted works without losing the rest of the information in the model. ... Read more

SpaceX has a full duration static fire of six Raptor engines. Flight 4 Starship is on track for another orbital launch in about 5 weeks. Full-duration static fire of all six Raptor engines on Flight 4 Starship pic.twitter.com/HzS4SeaoEV - SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 25, 2024

Tesla FSD is making huge progress on a weekly basis. Like all AI products like Open ChatGPT and the chess and Go AI programs this will continue. Those looking at the nearterm are looking at take rates or percentage of Tesla buyers who buy Tesla FSD. Those looking out are looking at Robotaxi but I ... Read more

Tesla released FSD 12.3 to its employees and 100,000 select drivers and yesterday announced it is going wide to all 400,000+ FSD US customers. Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, tweeted Super-impressive, Like a human driver it is. Amazed I am " Is it really human-like? What is the technology behind that makes it human-like. I ... Read more

Tesla FSD seems to be finally happening. Nextbigfuture has had the steady coverage that you see below. Here is the link to the FSD tagged articles. Six days ago, I reported the prediction of a wide release of Tesla FSD 12.3. IF Tesla 12.3.1 is as good as all the reports then it could be ... Read more

Dwarf planets Eris and Makemake (out by Pluto) have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. This ice can provide important insights into the origin and evolution of volatiles in the outer solar system. We probably need to send new probes to the Dwarf planets to conclusively determine if liquid oceans have microbial life. Because ... Read more

Elon has made it a mandatory requirement for all new North American buyers to get a FSD (full self driving) demo. This shows the confidence that Elon and Tesla have with the quality and safety of FSD 12.3.1.

The UN reports that Asia has a total population of 4.78 billion but the UN overestimates China's population by 16 million people. Asia is about 60% of global population. India and China make up about 60% of Asia's population. The UN Population division has forecasted far high populations and fertility for India and China than ... Read more

Canada's population will reach 41.0 million by the end of this week [about March 31, 2024]. Statistics Canada's real-time tracker has the population at 40.98 million. Poland's national statistics agency reports 37.7 million people. The UN numbers for Canada and Poland are off by 2-3 million for each country. The UN overestimates Poland and underestimates ... Read more

The performance of superconducting microwave circuits is strongly influenced by the material properties of the superconducting film and substrate. While progress has been made in understanding the importance of surface preparation and the effect of surface oxides, the complex effect of superconductor film structure on microwave losses is not yet fully understood. In this study, ... Read more

Nextbigfuture reader, Scott Baker, has gathered excellent information about the state of artificial womb development. Scott did this in response to my articles describing the massive global depopulation crisis. Scott has found videos and information about were tests over one year ago of biobags to help premature sheep. These are early forms of devices which ... Read more

Joe Rogan reviewed the video statement of the now dead Boeing Whistleblower. Thew whistleblower was continuing to testify and report on Boeing's corrupt quality process. He and a team had found 300 defects on a Boeing plane. His boss then went out with two inspectors and found only 50 defects. The whistleblower asked one of ... Read more

Low-protein diets promote health and longevity in diverse species. Restriction of the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine, and valine recapitulates many of these benefits in young C57BL/6J mice. Restriction of dietary isoleucine (IleR) is sufficient to promote metabolic health and is required for many benefits of a low-protein diet in C57BL/6J males. Here, we ... Read more

Nextbigfuture has tried to simplify the reason why global population decline is not something to be ignored. While the world was fine when we had 4 billion people in 1974, we will be deep into disaster if the world population declines to 4 billion in 2080-2120. Fertile women would drop to 5% of the population ... Read more

RocketStar, a US based startup, has successfully demonstrated an electric propulsion unit for spacecraft that uses nuclear fusion-enhanced pulsed plasma. During ground tests the process did create ionizing radiation and improved the base propulsion unit's thrust by 50%. FireStar Drive markedly improves performance, utilizing high-speed protons from ionized water vapor. When protons interact with boron ... Read more

Tesla indicated in August, 2023 they were activating 10,000 Nvidia H100 cluster and over 200 Petabytes of hot cache (NVMe) storage. This memory is used to train the FSD AI on the massive amount of video driving data. Elon Musk posted yesterday that Tesla FSD training is no longer compute constrained. Tesla has likely activated ... Read more

Here is an example of a better system for talking with humans and having a real memory. They are showing used in text chat mode but adding a voice system is just a matter of system cost. NOTE: I have seen the AIGO hyperfast language parsing and hyperfast knowledge graph in action in DEBUG mode. ... Read more

AI is quickly changing everything. Sam Altman , CEO of OpenAI and creator of ChatGPT, just told us what to expect with AI and AGI. Here we look at the most important things that Sam Altman says in his own words during his second two hour interview with Lex Fridman. Sam defines his goals for ... Read more

Get ready for major progress. Tesla FSD and Teslabot will accelerate. Tesla is no long AI compute constrained. Now we will see what unrestricted progress looks like. Yeah, 99% of people have no idea. And improvement will accelerate dramatically now that we are no longer AI training compute constrained. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 22, ... Read more

Millions of drones are being used in the Russian and Ukraine war. How is this changing the fighting? What will be the counter-measures? There are also millions of artillery shells being used. However, drones and artillery shells are expended every day. It is tens of thousands of each that are being used each day.

Many SpaceX Starship heat tiles fell off during the last orbital launch. The number of heat tiles that fell off were so high that one group of people have found some that washed up from the ocean after a storm. The heat tiles are light and fragile. SpaceX must determine improved ways to prevent the ... Read more

Hinrichs Zanegler, Tesla Semi advocate, predicts Tesla will produce and deliver between 500 and 1,000 semi's before the high-volume line begins ramping up. He has investigated the supply chain of the Tesla Semi. Tesla is mostly getting supplier parts for the Tesla Semi. Tesla makes the battery packs, plaid motors, invertors and some other mainly ... Read more

Last August, former Tesla AI engineer Tim Zaman posted on X that a Tesla AI cluster, built using 10,000 of Nvidia's H100 chips, was ready to go live. Musk said a post on X in January that while a Dojo supercomputer cost $500 million to build, Tesla will spend more than that on Nvidia hardware ... Read more

Tesla has started rolling out a new FSD software update which is version 2024.2.11. Tesla releases Tap to Park' in update 2024.2.11: Uses FSD Beta v12 Currently employee-only Public rollout expected soon Teslas have had Autopark capability for several years. However, autopark would only work on Tesla with ultrasonic sensors (USS). Tesla ... Read more

There is a difference a world population that is 4 billion and strongly growing versus 4 billion and shrinking. When I write about global population collapse there are many people who will say that they lived in a world with 4 billion people and it was fine. This like saying they were in an airplane ... Read more

The first human Neuralink patient controlling a computer and playing chess just by thinking. He is paralyzed.

Meta is working on adding latent space planning/search to large language model AI. 1H-GAP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02682) 2Diffusion World Model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03570) 3TAP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10291) 4LaMCTS (https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00708) 5LaP3 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10544) 6LaSynth (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00101) 7LaMOO (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03173) Rumored OpenAI Q* Is Optimization in Abstract Representation Space The innovation in Q* lies in its optimization process, conducted not within the space of possible text ... Read more

Here are the key points of a Lancet study on global fertility. Global Fertility rates will continue to collapse even if all countries adopt the current best pro-baby policies (childcare subsidies, extended parental leave, insurance coverage expansion for infertility treatment). Future fertility rates were would drop to a global TFR (total fertility rate) of 183 ... Read more

Optimus Teslabot is ready for field trials in multiple factories according a job posting. New Job Posting: To drive the deployment of robots for trial applications ... execute pilot applications of humanoid robots in various manufacturing environments ... cover multiple job sites and may require frequent travel. Optimus is ready for field trials in the ... Read more

Tesla is adding smart summon to the Tesla FSD. You will use an app and position an X on a map to tell the car where to drive by itself.

Caresoft is doing the first teardown analysis of the Tesla Cybertruck. The things they are looking at are: 1. The gigacastings also form supports for the front and rear seats. 2. All of the 48 volt wiring attachments are blue. 3. High voltage connections are orange 4. They are analyzing the steer by wire and ... Read more

Two weeks ago the Korean group presented new room temperature superconductivity research and this week the Chinese research group published new research on LK99 type superconductors. Are we at a breakthrough? What has been done in this new research? China has published new research on improved copper and sulfur codoped material with a stronger meissner ... Read more

Nvidia has increased compute power faster than Moore's law for the past 8 years. Nvidia plans to launch new chips every 6 months for several years. The pace of their innovation is increasing. The Nvidia Blackwell GPU is not just a chip it is an entire system weighing 1.5 tons. A 32000 GPU data center ... Read more

Stephen Wolfram's conclusions: 00:49 Won't AI Eventually Be Able to Do Everything? AI cannot solve science but it can contribute to speeding up science Science was transformed by math centuries ago. What can we expect AI to be able or unable to do for science? 5:01 The Hard Limit of Computational Irreducibility This constrains what ... Read more

SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell said We'll figure out what happened on both stages as well and get back to flight, hopefully in about six weeks, flight four hopefully, beginning part of May. SpaceX's President and COO Gwynne Shotwell gave the opening keynote at the Satellite 2024's opening session today. Shotwell also said 1. SpaceX's immediate ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.3 is getting very strong reviews as much better than version 11 and being a huge upgrade over version 12.2. It seems to be safer than FSD version 11 with many major improvements like smoother humanlike driving and the ability to perform U-turns. Teslascope indicates at least 3% of FSD drivers have it ... Read more

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX Starship will travel across the solar system and to the cloud of objects around us. The cloud of objects around us are either referring to the Kuiper Belt (35-80AU and possibly larger) and the Oort Comet Cloud (0.03 to 3.2 light-years). Nextbigfuture has covered recent research findings that the Kuiper ... Read more

Chinese researchers are making variations of LK99 room temperature superconductor materials with more sulfur and copper in the chemistry. They are publishing results with stronger magnetic indications of a Meissner effect. The chinese researchers have been online discussing their room temperature superconducting research and the challenges of the materials. Here are the issues discussed. * ... Read more

Chinese researchers have published a new non-peer reviewed paper on their sulfur copper doped led apatite room temperature superconductor. They have increased the Meissner effect signal. Supplemental material from the China researchers. This describes the precise work done show they did not make measurement errors. Background Context In mid-2023, the Original Korean researchers discovered the ... Read more

The NVIDIA Blackwell platform was announced today. It will run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than the H100. The Blackwell GPU architecture has six transformative technologies for accelerated computing, which will help unlock breakthroughs in data processing, engineering simulation, electronic design automation, computer-aided ... Read more

Nvidia has made a software, AI and hardware platform to make developing humanoid robots far faster and easier. They have software to help with the testing, learning and development.

Lex Fridman had another interview of Sam Altman of OpenAI. The highlights: Coding will go away. We will just talk to AI to describe what we want and AI will create it in code. Sam still will not talk about OpenAI Q-Star. Therefore, we know it is still real and big breakthrough. We just do ... Read more

x-Tesla AI lead, Andrej Karpathy gave a one hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models. The core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What they are, where they are headed, comparisons and analogies to present-day operating systems, and some of the security-related challenges of this new computing paradigm. Context: This video is ... Read more

SpaceX had the huge success on March 14, 2024 with the successful launch of Starship to orbit. The Super Heavy booster returned most of the way but lost control before a soft landing attempt. The Starship was lost after about 49 minutes when it tried to re-enter but burned up with some lost heat shield. ... Read more