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Humane has made the AI Pin. It seems to be trying to perform the functions of the Star Trek Next Generation comm badges and the Star Trek Discovery Tricomm badges. The humane AI Pin is trying to get to a Universal Translator function and various forms of voice and hand gesture activation. It is a ... Read more

The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is an American strategic bomber under development for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Northrop Grumman. As part of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program, it is to be a long-range, stealth intercontinental strategic bomber for the USAF, able to deliver conventional and thermonuclear weapons. The Air Force ... Read more

The new B-21 Stealth bomber has been photographed having its first test flights. The B-21 will have half of the payload of a B-2 bomber but it will have more range and will be much harder to detect. #BREAKINGB-21 RAIDER FIRST FLIGHT #RAIDER33 #B21Raider 11-10-23 pic.twitter.com/G8dr87bAa4 - Matt Hartman (@ShorealoneFilms) November 10, 2023 B-21 RAIDER ... Read more

Everyone knows about shrinkflation in the grocery store. Prices have risen about 20-80% over the last three years so product makers try to give you less for around the same price. This shrinkflation is even worse for nuclear power plants. It used to be $2 billion for a 1000 megawatts of nuclear power plant in ... Read more

A small modular nuclear reactor by NuScale is getting canceled because it would have produced 450 Megawatts and cost over $9 billion. The Vogtle Unit 3 and unit 4 are each 1,114 megawatt (MW) AP1000 nuclear reactors, and they will cost a combined $30 billion. The US was trying to shift to small modular nuclear ... Read more

Rotating detonation engine could be up to 25% more efficient than traditional jet engines. This could make airplanes and missile faster or with longer range. Smaller weapons could reach the same speeds and ranges as today's missiles. Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs) use detonation as the primary means of energy conversion, producing more useful available ... Read more

Prenuvo and other clinics are offering low-cost whole body MRI. This can be used to detect certain medical conditions at an early stage. Diagnostic MRI, while widely considered to be one of the most valuable imaging modalities, is often used quite late because it is slow and therefore expensive. Because of this slowness, screening using ... Read more

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) have made a new strategic partnership to accelerate the demonstration and commercialization of fusion energy. The partnership marks the UK's first formal international fusion collaboration since the recent launch of the GBP650 million (USD799 million) Fusion Futures Programme. ... Read more

Lockheed Martin was awarded $33.7 million from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) High Power program to mature high-power nuclear electric power and propulsion technologies and spacecraft design. The JETSON effort is now in the preliminary design review stage, with the option to go to critical ... Read more

Elon Musk indicates that the FSD computers that are in all Tesla cars can be used to run AI models. This will enable Tesla car owners to share in the revenue of a Virtual Cloud Compute (VCC). VCC will be like a compute version of the Powerwall Virtual Power Plant. Through the Emergency Load Reduction ... Read more

Kratos has provided a rendering of its Thanatos stealth drone. This is there most advanced design and is better than the XQ-58A Valkyrie drone. It will like be for the US Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft program (fighter and bomber wingman drone) or other advanced drone projects. The company has about $2 billion per year ... Read more

Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt confirmed reports that the self-driving robotaxi maker needs regular human intervention to help them make sense of the road, yet he is downplaying the severity. A New York Times story cited unnamed Cruise employees claimed the company's robotaxis required human help every 2.5 to five miles and had a support staff ... Read more

At minute 72 of the interview : Elon italks about the shortage of energy for AI compute in about 1 year. Elon wants the Teslabot to be able to pick up a needle and thread and then thread the needle by just looking and using its hands. He thinks this could be possible in about ... Read more

Elon Musk talked about launching every 2 days in 2024 instead of every three days now. Scott Walter and friends have looked at how VERY difficult it will be for SpaceX to achieve that launch rate. So how might they be able to do it? Here is the pace of turnarounds for 2023. The drones ... Read more

NuScale Power and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) announced that they are canceling the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP). The subscription rates by customers for the Carbon Free Power Project did not meet the threshold needed to continue. Prices for utilities per kWh had those customers drop out. The Carbon Free Power Project's was ... Read more

Jeff Greason proposes extending power beaming using the magnetic pinch phenomenon. The quasar 3C273 produces a plasma jet that is 100,000 light years long. This distance would span the Milky Way. It may be possible for humans to produce pinched relativistic electron jets over the much smaller distances needed to propel a spacecraft out of ... Read more

Polestar and Lucid Motors are Tesla EV competitors that are getting short of cash. Lucid Motors had about $4.9 billion in cash and investments at the end of the third quarter of 2023. At the end of the second quarter, Lucid had about $5.5 billion. Lucid raised $3 billion in a June 2023 stock offering ... Read more

Israel's military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing on Wednesday that Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza as thousands of residents have moved south. We saw 50,000 Gazans move from the northern Gaza Strip to the south. They are moving because they understand that Hamas has lost control in the ... Read more

Cruise has determined that an accident where a pedestrian was dragged by a Cruise Robotaxi could have recurred every 10 million - 100 million miles of driving on average prior to the software update. As Cruise software improves, it is likely they will file additional recalls to inform both NHTSA and the public of updates ... Read more

The D'Onghia magnetic shielding crew hat, or CREW HaT, is a system that uses electromagnetic coils to deflect cosmic radiation from astronauts. The system consists of: A ring of electrical coils positioned on arms roughly 5 meters from the spacecraft's main body A Halbach Torus, a circular array of magnets that creates a stronger field ... Read more

After about ten days of urban combat against an enemy that had more than 15 years to prepare its defenses, Israel has lost fewer soldiers than it did in the final act of the 2006 Second Lebanon War. This is as reported by the Times of Israel and other sources. Even more importantly, the IDF ... Read more

Elon says SpaceX launches every 3 days from the Cape in Florida now and will launch every 2 days in 2024. SpaceX launches every 3 days from the Cape in Florida, next year every 2 days https://t.co/EBlEz5G1h6 - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 8, 2023 There is no big increase in launch rate expected from China ... Read more

Falcon 9 launches 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida. SpaceX has now launched 80 times in 2023 and has delivered more than 1,000 metric tons to orbit Falcon 9 launches 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida. We've now launched 80 times in 2023, delivering more than 1,000 metric tons to orbit pic.twitter.com/fsrVKW8K9x - ... Read more

There were claims during the pandemic that natural immunity was not as strong as vaccinated COVID immunity. Those claims have been proven to be completely wrong by scientific studies. Natural immunity that comes from actual COVID infection is many times stronger then vaccinated immune response. Marty Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School ... Read more

The Pinkfong Company, best known for the maddeningly catchy Baby Shark" song, has announced a partnership with TinyTap. Animoca Brands subsidiary TinyTap specializes in edtech, using web3 technology to support fair revenue distribution for course creators and students. The partnership drawn up between the two early learning champions will draw upon each company's inherent expertise ... Read more

Youtuber Covert Cabal has updated his count of Russian Soviet era tanks in storage. He uses satellite images. Russia is now making about 200-250 new tanks each. They are losing about 1400 tanks each year in the Ukraine war. They have about 3500 tanks that are in suitable condition to be repaired and used in ... Read more

In December, 2022, Leidos ($13.7B annual revenue fortune 500 company) was awarded a $334 million contract to assist the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in developing an air-breathing hypersonic system. The Expendable Hypersonic Multi-mission ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and Strike program, better known as Mayhem, will span a 51-month period of performance. The ... Read more

We do not know what the US military has been using after the U2 Spy plane or the RQ4 Global Hawk drone. We know the Grumman RQ180 drone exists and think it looks like an unmanned drone version of the B2 bomber. Above is an artist view of what the Grumman RQ180 Stealth Drone might ... Read more

Bloomberg reportsSpaceX is on track to book revenues of about $9 billion in 2023 across its rocket launch and Starlink businesses, according to people familiar with the matter, with sales projected to rise to around $15 billion in 2024. SpaceX has completed a new factory to mass produce Starlink satellite dishes. Currently, SpaceX has been ... Read more

Researchers report that a material (hexagonal HP-BaCoO3) made under high-pressure (6 GPa, 1200 C) and was tested at ambient-pressure. The material (with a 2H crystal structure) has a short intrachain Co-Co distance of about 2.07 A. The magnetization investigation revealed robust diamagnetic behavior below approximately 130 K when the material was exposed to weak applied ... Read more

Aubrey de Grey reports on the large mouse study of combination antiaging treatments. The survival curves are definitely approaching the stage where we can draw tentative conclusions concerning average lifespan. What we won't be able to do for a good six months yet, probably more like nine months, is speculate even tentatively about maximum lifespan, ... Read more

Kraken Technology Group and L3Harris Technologies have created advanced integration of control systems within the K40 MANTA submarine drone prototype. The K40 will be able to hold 1000 kilogram payload and operate autonomously for ten days. This is a pivotal step in the technical evolution of Kraken's K40 MANTA platform, setting the foundation for the ... Read more

China's government is calling for the Rapid Development of Humanoid Robots. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a nine page guideline yesterday: Establish a humanoid robot innovation system, make breakthroughs in key technologies and ensure supply of core components, by 2025 Humanoid robots should become an important new engine of economic ... Read more

Tesla China VP Tao Lin's revealed the following: 1) Many of the improvements to the upgraded Model 3 come from the R&D Center in China. 2) For example, ventilation sheets, new interior materials, quietness and ambient light were developed by the Shanghai R&D Innovation Center. 3) Tesla established the Gigafactory Data Center to achieve localization ... Read more

The second flight test of a fully integrated Starship could launch as soon as mid-November, pending regulatory approval. This would be in about one week from today. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. As is the case with ... Read more

Recent car industry, battery industry and AI industry developments are setting up well for Tesla. UAW just added about $900 or more to the cost of competitors cars (ICE and EV). Battery prices are dropping globally. Ford has delayed $12 billion in EV and battery investment plans. Honda, GM and other traditional carmakers are all ... Read more

Tesla builds FSD hardware into all Tesla cars even for those who do not pay to use FSD. This means people can change their mind and sign up for FSD and get it activated. It also means the 144 Trillion operations per second AI will be available to run xAI Grok. There are 5 million ... Read more

Over the last eight years, IBM researcher Modha has been working on a new type of digital AI chip for neural inference, which he calls NorthPole. It's an extension of TrueNorth, the last brain-inspired chip that Modha worked on prior to 2014. In tests on the popular ResNet-50 image recognition and YOLOv4 object detection models, ... Read more

The Space Systems Command on Oct. 31 announced 21 launch missions have been assigned to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as part of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 contract the companies won in 2020. The U.S. Space Force awarded $2.5 billion in rocket contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance for 21 ... Read more

xAI's Grok system is designed to have a little humor in its responses. It will be released to X Premium plus users once it is out of early beta. xAI's Grok system is designed to have a little humor in its responses pic.twitter.com/WqXxlwI6ef - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023

xAI will release its first AI to a select group. In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists. This will likely be some large language model system like ChatGPT. In the Walter Isaacson book, Elon was quoted as saying one of the first goals of an xAI large language model would be ... Read more

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will produce their next gen platform ($25K EV) at Giga Berlin in addition to Texas and Mexico. #GigaBerlinBrandenburg@elonmusk announced today during his visit to GigaBerlin that a 25k Tesla will be built here. pic.twitter.com/EmdYXQAUOS - Gigafactory Berlin News (@Gf4Tesla) November 3, 2023

There are many articles and reports from Newsweek or other media sources that complain that the US military is behind China and Russia on hypersonic weapons. This is because Russia and China have rushed to deploy some hypersonic warheads boosted on regular rockets. China and Russia each have some hypersonic glide missiles. The warheads are ... Read more

David Willis claims that SpaceX is iterating on the design of the Lunar Human Landing system Starship with large solar panels. The solar panels would fold out and deploy from within the Starship. The moon has 1400 watts per square meter of solar power. Solar energy collection on the moon would be about 25% efficient. ... Read more

Nuclear fusion startup, Fuse, is trying to make a mass production version nuclear fusion system based upon the Sandia Z Machine. The Sandia Z-Machine is a pulsed-power facility and X-ray generator at Sandia National Laboratories. It's the world's most powerful electrical device and can create short pulses of electrical energy. The Z-Machine uses electricity to ... Read more

Elon Musk says there is a non-zero critical risk for advanced AI. A software package crashing on your laptop is not a critical risk. Elon deals with regulators for Space rockets and cars. There is a need for a referee for advanced AI. There are referees for sports games and there is a need for ... Read more

Apple had decent Q3 results relative to expectations. Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon had the best big tech results. APPLE EARNINGS JUST OUT $AAPL *APPLE 4Q REV. $89.50B, EST. $89.35B ( BEAT ) *APPLE 4Q EPS $1.46, EST. $1.39 ( BEAT ) pic.twitter.com/ppM6HTjqLH - GURGAVIN (@gurgavin) November 2, 2023 Q3 Revenue Growth, YoY % ... Read more

Reuters and Wall Street Journal are reporting that WeWork will file for bankruptcy next week. WeWork's shares were down 49.7% in early morning trading on Wednesday, bringing its market capitalization to just $61 million. That's a ludicrous drop considering this company raised more than $7.09 billion in equity capital while private. Three months ago, I ... Read more

The US companies with mainly French and British Partners dominate the market share of the global aircraft engine market: CFM International: 39% Pratt & Whitney: 35% GE Aviation: 14% Rolls-Royce: 12% This commercial aircraft engine domination supports the US domination of military jets. The high tech alloys and advanced enables the military jet engines to ... Read more