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Intuitive Machines will have a livestream of the IM-1 lunar landing time has hit and there has been a communication issue. They are rebooting the ground transmitter. 3:33 PST Signs of life. Tracking a return signal. Successful Landing confirmed at about 3:35 PST Flight controllers chose to exercise an additional orbit before starting the IM-1 ... Read more

NASA Ames have shown that a simplified manufacturing and construction process is very powerful. More capable mass produced humanoid robots will be even more transformative. The NASA construction system has a mass of 10 kilograms per cubic meter. Water has a mass of 1000 kilograms per cubic meter. Lightweight and modular construction will create structures ... Read more

Kevin Clarke was among the 165 passengers aboard the Boeing 757-200 on the flight Monday from San Francisco to Boston when the right wing appeared to start shredding. The United flight from San Francisco to Boston had to be diverted to Denver after it was discovered mid-air a portion of the wing was damaged. The ... Read more

Intuitive Machines IM-1, Odysseus, completed its scheduled 408-second main engine lunar orbit insertion burn and is currently in a 92 km circular lunar orbit. Initial data indicates the 800 m/s burn was completed within 2 m/s accuracy. After traveling over 1,000,000 km, Odysseus is now closer to the Moon than the end-to-end distance driving across ... Read more

EpiSci will use AI software to leverage infrared satellite data from the Space Development Agency (SDA) future constellation of hundreds of satellites. The satellites will have overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) sensors. The startup EpiSci has expertise in signal processing technology using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) techniques to provide warfighters a competitive advantage. A ... Read more

Ukraine reports that six of Russia's most modern fighters were shotdown over three days. The Russia-Ukraine war is an intense war of attrition, where both sides are losing a lot of equipment and personnel. Nextbigfuture has previously reported on the Russian and Ukrainian air force losses. Russia has now lost about 88 modern fighter planes. ... Read more

NASA wants four volunteers second of three planned ground-based missions called CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) is scheduled to kick off in spring 2025. Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person volunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat, called the Mars ... Read more

Elon Musk is currently expecting Starship to have its next orbital launch attempt in mid-March 2024. There are reports of several possible new SpaceX launch facilities. There could be a new SLC-50 or SLC-49 instead of or including the SLC-37 facility. The US Department of the Air Force is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) ... Read more

Israel in the Gaza War has had a total number of air strikes that is 39% of the number of airstrikes that the US Air Force performed in the 1991 Gulf War. The Israel Air Force has carried out strikes against more than 31,000 targets belonging to Hamas and other terror groups since the war ... Read more

Youtuber Whole Mars has uploaded new video of drives using Tesla FSD V12.2.1.

Autoline describes the problem of Peak Auto. New car sales have hit their peak in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Despite strong population growth in the U.S., new car sales are the same as they were a quarter of a century ago. Here's why. US overall car sales have dropped from 2000 to today despite ... Read more

There are some claims that surface to air missiles can shoot down SpaceX Starships when the US military starts using them in a few years for cargo missions. The people who make these claims have not looked at the specifications of surface to air missiles. A SpaceX Starship will be much harder to shootdown than ... Read more

Ukraine and Russia have both lost a lot of their Navy in the war. Ukraine claims to have destroyed nearly a third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet less than two years. 25 vessels have been destroyed, and 15 more are under repair. There is some dispute to this number and lower estimates are about ... Read more

Some fraud impersonated me [Hyun-tak Kim] to withdraw it [LK99 Room Temperature Superconductor] talk at the APS conference on March 4, 2024. I [Hyun-tak Kim] already informed APS Everything will be back to normal. The [LK99 room temperature superconductor] abstract is back at the March 4, 2024 APS (American Physical Society) Collaboration: College of William ... Read more

In 2016, SoftBank bought Arm for about $32 billion and sold 25% of the business to the Vision Fund for $8 billion in 2016. In August 2023, SoftBank acquired the 25% stake in Arm from the Vision Fund for around $16 billion, valuing Arm at over $64 billion. After the September 14, 2023, public offering, ... Read more

The US military will need to build hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers by 2030. The US military is planning to get to thousands of SpaceX flights per year and this will mean that the US military will need hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers. SpaceX, the US Air Force and the US Space Force discussions about ... Read more

CernBasher is a financial advisor who had detailed financial and operational analysis of FSD, Robotaxi and humanoid robot. Cern is the co-founder and investment officer of Brilliant advice. What he shares on X and Youtube is not financial advice. Cern talks with Teslafix about the significant impact FSD technology may have on Tesla's financial future ... Read more

The field of web3 non-custodial wallets just gained a new contender from an old face. SWIFT is the product of Trust Wallet, one of the longest established and most popular crypto wallets. It's now unveiled the beta of its new product: SWIFT. The user-friendly wallet, which is incorporated into the Trust app, makes use of ... Read more

Elon Musk said that the Tesla FSD Version 12.X will go into wide release in a few weeks. Just working out the bugs. Should go to wide release in a few weeks. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 16, 2024 Fisherman's Wharf to SFO in the Rain with 0 Interventions Required on Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta ... Read more

The original South Korean researchers of the LK99 room temperature and room pressure superconductor appears to have a withdrawn abstract. This could mean the presentation is withdrawn. The abstract of Hyuntak Kim APS march meeting has been withdrawn. But we don't know yet if this means "meeting withdrawal" or not. pic.twitter.com/rjhZX3AP6I - sejong (@gimjiun79102152) February ... Read more

Tesla has been able to generate realistic video with real world physics using AI for over a year. Dr Know It All, John Gibb, had theorized this a year ago. Elon Musk confirmed this to be the case. OpenAI Sora is much more visually impressive but FSD 12 is in many ways more amazing especially ... Read more

OpenAI Sora is a revolutionary text-to-video AI model that is a significant advance for artificial intelligence and real-world applications. It is capable of generating up to one-minute-long videos from textual prompts, maintaining exceptional visual quality. Sora utilizes a diffusion model to evolve videos from static noise into coherent visual narratives, setting a new standard in ... Read more

Official data has reports Japan economy in 2023 was $4.2 trillion in 2023, while Germany's was $4.5 trillion. The U.S., the world's largest economy, is expected to grow 5.8% to $26.94 trillion. China's economy, the world's second-largest, is forecast to shrink 1.0% to $17.7 trillion. Germany tripled from the 1990s to today. The Japan and ... Read more

There is a large scale study using 1000 mice testing four major life extension therapies to see if there is an additive effect and how much additive effect there is. Preliminary data is show there can be longer lifespans with combined therapies. There have been different life extension therapies where each on there own can ... Read more

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has completed a critical assessment of its Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) offering with the U.S. Air Force, moving the program closer to completing its detailed design review. The team is now working towards ground testing of its NGAP prototype, referred to as XA103, which is expected to ... Read more

Panasonic and LG energy will each start making 4680 batteries in different factories for Tesla starting around August 2024. The LG Ochang plant should have a combined 35 gigawatt-hour battery production capacity by 2025. LG Energy Solution had planned to secure a 200 gigawatt-hour production capacity in North America, Europe and Asia combined by the ... Read more

OpenAI just announced their new Text-To-Video model called Sora. Look at these insane examples: * Space movie trailer featuring a man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet * Fluffy animated alien * dwarf in a zen garden inside a glass sphere BREAKING: OpenAI just announced their new Text-To-Video model called Sora. Look at ... Read more

February 15, 2024 - Nexo, the leading institution for digital assets, announced a partnership with Sift, the Leader in Digital Trust & Safety. By working with Sift, Nexo will be able to revolutionize its approach to fraud prevention, enhancing security measures and ensuring a safer, smoother, quicker, and more reliable experience for the company's over ... Read more

The US Air Force awarded contracts to five companies to design and build Collaborative Combat Aircraft that can fly autonomously alongside manned platforms, a spokesperson confirmed. The plan is to spend $5.8 billion over the next 5 years. In its fiscal 2024 budget request, the Air Force outlined plans to spend $5.8 billion on CCAs ... Read more

Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander had a good launch today on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The NASA payloads aboard the lander aim to help us learn more about terrain and communications near the lunar South Pole.

Apptronik has been around for 7 years. They are looking to make a $50,000 humanoid bot. There robot has hands and they have actuator development.

A new algorithm can further exploit the twin challenges of information loss and translation to mimic a quantum computer with far fewer resources than previously thought. It was previously though that quantum computers with 50-100 logical low error qubits would be able to surpass regular supercomputers. New algorithms are showing that regular computers could beat ... Read more

There are reports that China has a new superchip MT-3000 processor designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). The MT-3000 has general-purpose CPU cores, control cores, and matrix accelerator cores. NUDT's MT-3000 processor features a multi-zone structure that packs 16 general-purpose CPU cores with 96 control cores and 1,536 accelerator cores. The MT-3000 ... Read more

The White House's national security adviser said Wednesday that he had already scheduled a classified meeting with congressional leadership before a top House Republican requested that President Joe Biden declassify all information that relates to serious national security threat. An anti-satellite nuclear weapon would likely be something that would generate an electromagnetic pulse. In 2018, ... Read more

Intuitive Machines will launch the IM-1 mission Nova-C class lunar lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9. The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission will be the Company's first attempted lunar landing as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS") initiative, a key part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration efforts. The Intuitive Machines 1 (IM-1, TO2-IM) mission ... Read more

Elon Musk 13G filing dated Dec 31,2023 was about stock and option ownership prior to the 2018 pay package legal issues.. Lot of confusion about Elon's 13-G filing filed after the close. Bottom line: Elon still owns 13% (411M) of $TSLA shares - not 20.5% as shown in the filing. Just as he did in ... Read more

There was a fatal Tesla car accident by a Tesla employee. The driver had a blood alcohol level of 0.26, more than 3x the legal limit. The FSD software was never downloaded. FSD Beta could not have been activated because the software was never downloaded. NEWS: Rohan (a Tesla executive) also says yesterday's Washington Post ... Read more

Update on Elon's $56B pay package case. Tesla and Elon Musk will appeal the ruling. Before Elon and Tesla can appeal, the two sides will propose a final order for approval by Judge McCormick, which will include a petition for a legal fee. That legal fee, which will be paid by Tesla, is ... Read more

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks-extremely strong 3D structures made with a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer called StattechNN-40CF. Each block had fastening interfaces on every side that could be used to reversibly attach them to other blocks and form a strong truss ... Read more

In 2018, Nextbigfuture predicted that Canada would have 40 million people in 2023. Statistics Canada determined that Canada had 40 million people on June 16, 2023. I correctly made this prediction 6 years before it happened. The UN population actual" numbers are off by 5% for Canada. The UN predictions are off by 20% or ... Read more

Yesterday, Elon tweeted that the SpaceX Starship launch is in about 3 weeks. Starship were meant to fly and our next one launches in about 3 weeks, but I recommend waiting for a few more test flights before hopping on board @NICKIMINAJ - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2024

OpenAI GPT5 has likely started its final training run. An earlier smaller run of a test version of GPT5 gave Sam Altman one of his top 4 feelings of a leap in AI capability. GPT5 will likely include the ability to explain in plain english all of the inference steps and for about 10,000 validation ... Read more

Infleqtion announced the next phase of its quantum computing program: Sqorpius, the world's largest qubit array, comprising 1600 qubits. This new initiative encompasses substantial investments in both hardware and software and is dedicated to creating error-corrected logical qubits tailored for commercial applications. Alongside the announcement of Sqorpius, Infleqtion revealed significant milestones in gate fidelity, qubit ... Read more

In late 2023, NASA tested a new hybrid laser/radio antenna to downlink data from 20 million miles (32 million kilometers) away at a rate of 15.63 megabits per second - about 40 times faster than radio frequency communications at that distance. On Jan. 1, 2024, the antenna downlinked a team photograph that had been uploaded ... Read more

The era of Big Data and Big Compute is here. Per OpenAI, compute demand by deep learning has been doubling every three months for the last 8 years. Neuromorphic computing with deep neural networks is driving AI growth however it is heavily dependent on compact, non-volatile energy efficient memories with various attractive features to suit ... Read more

In 2023, BYD is expected to become one of the top three energy storage system integrators in China and may even compete for the top spot with CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive. In 2022, BYD was not even in the top ten in terms of domestic energy storage system shipments. In 2023, BYDs total capacity of vehicle ... Read more

The top ten EV battery makers in 2023 were again CATL, BYD from China and LG from South Korea.

Sanctuary's CTO Suzanne Gildert explains their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is human-like general intelligence. Suzanne Gildert is Chief Technology Officer and has been a prominent figure in AI robotics leading to her being often affectionately known as the Mother of ... Read more

Canada's realtime population count is about 3 weeks from reaching 41 million people. On June 16, 2023, Statistics Canada announced that Canada's population had reached 40 million people. Canada is adding over 100,000 per month with 868,000 added over less than eight months. This will each over 880,000 by Feb 16, 2024. 15% of the ... Read more

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a type of DRAM technology that offers a number of advantages: Lower voltages - HBM is designed to operate at lower voltages, which means it generates less heat. Higher capacity - HBM can store more data and process it at once than previous generations. Faster training times - HBM3 Gen2 ... Read more