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Japan's JT-60SA tokamak nuclear fusion reactor has achieved first plasma which makes it the world's largest operating nuclear fusion reactor. The JT-60SA uses magnetic fields from superconducting coils to contain a blazingly hot cloud of ionized gas, or plasma, within a doughnut-shaped vacuum vessel, in hope of coaxing hydrogen nuclei to fuse and release energy. ... Read more

SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is only waiting for the EPA environmental review to be licensed for its second orbital test flight. NEWS: The FAA has completed its safety review portion of the SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy license evaluation. Now the environmental review needs to be completed. https://t.co/yQ3Zi15D0f - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) October 31, 2023

Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture has worked with Spaced Ventures to create the SpaceX: The Independent Investment Guide. It is designed to be a fairly exhaustive look into SpaceX's technology, products, services, and finances, based on deep research and publicly available information. This is primarily a factual snapshot of the business as it stands today. We don't ... Read more

Today, Elon Musk talked with Joe Rogan about a Beast Mode version of the Cybertruck. He said it would have a 0 to 60 mph time of less than 3 seconds. Eight months ago I predicted that there would be

The comma 3X is custom hardware designed to live in your car, and purpose built to run openpilot. The comma 3X has three beautiful HDR cameras, two cameras to watch the road and one night-vision camera to see inside the car. Besides cameras, the comma 3X has a suite of connectivity and sensors including cellular ... Read more

Elon Musk talked with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan shot an arrow at the door of the Cybertruck and made a small dent. The Tesla Cybertruck will have different weight but will be around 7000 lbs. Elon talks about the extinctionists who want all humans to die. Elon Musk is against the extreme environmentalists.

The F-35As have critical failures every 11 flight hours and airframe-only (excluding engines and systems) maintenance is 4.4 man-hours per flight hour. The US air force is trying to fly its F35s from 250-316 hours each year. This would mean 1100-1400 hours each year on airframe maintenance and more hours on engines and systems. Each ... Read more

The F117 stealth figher has a near perfect combat record. It was used extensively in the first gulf war, Kosovo and all of the US wars from 1990 to 2008. The sixty or so F117 were supposed to be retired after 2008. However, it appears they were not decommissioned and destroyed. The only F117 Nighthawk ... Read more

Tesla's profits has been squeezed as they have had to lower prices. BYD's third-quarter financial report revealed a significant downturn in free cash flow, plummeting by -$7.3 billion from a robust +$4.8 billion to a concerning -$2.6 billion. This drastic drop, disclosed by the company today, was primarily propelled by a staggering contraction in operating ... Read more

According to the IMF World Economic Outlook report, Japan's nominal GDP - that is, unadjusted for inflation - is expected to fall 0.2%, year-on-year, to $4.23 trillion in 2023, while Germany's is forecast to expand 8.4% to $4.42 trillion. The U.S., the world's largest economy, is expected to grow 5.8% to $26.94 trillion. China's economy, ... Read more

Space Startup Vast plans to launch the world's first commercial space station, called Haven-1. It is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit no earlier than August 2025, Haven-1 will initially act as an independent crewed space station prior to being connected as a module to a larger Vast space ... Read more

CATL is the world's largest battery maker and CATL battery factories are operating at 70% of capacity to produce about 200 GWH/year of batteries. Tesla needs 100 GWh/year of batteries to bring its second Megapack line in its Lathrop factory and two new Megapack factories in China up to full production. This would be 120 ... Read more

The F-35 first flew in 2006. It entered service with the U.S. Marine Corps in July 2015, the U.S. Air Force in August 2016, and the U.S. Navy in February 2019. The F-35 fleet is the second largest in the Air Force inventory, after the F-16. As of April 2022, the American military had purchased ... Read more

Endiatx PillBotTM and future Endiatx products will be true telemedicine. They will dramatically increase access to care while simultaneously lowering costs and increasing doctors' effectiveness. Problem Many of the 11,000 in the US and 800,000 globally who die from stomach cancer each year are diagnosed too late for doctors to save their lives. They don't ... Read more

Kevin Parkin, an accomplished physicist and visionary engineer, is the driving force behind Parkin Research, a cutting-edge space technology company that is relentlessly pioneering tomorrow's technologies to unlock the boundless potential of space exploration. Parkin has AI-based design tools that can provide detailed point optimized point designs based upon cost and other constraints. Directed energy ... Read more

Miniaturized FSO breakthrough unlocks high-speed wireless communication anywhere Researchers from Nanjing University (NJU) have developed a miniaturized FSO system that promises to revolutionize high-speed wireless communication. As reported in the Gold Open Access journal Advanced Photonics Nexus (APNexus), this remarkable system achieved an astonishing communication bandwidth of 9.16 gigabits per second (Gbps) over a 1-kilometer ... Read more

Molecular thermal motion has been studied but yet never been utilized as an energy source. In this work, researchers demonstrate that the energy of liquid molecular thermal motion can be converted into electrical energy by a novel harvesting device, the molecular thermal motion harvester (MTMH). The MTMH was made by using two ZnO-based nano-arrays and ... Read more

Russia's Air Force is getting wrecked in the Ukraine War. China's Air Force is mainly copies of the same Russian planes that are getting wrecked in the Ukraine. The US military has no interest in telling everyone how pathetic the Russian and Chinese Air Force is. Why? The US military wants to justify getting more ... Read more

It looks like the Israeli ground invasion has begun. Over 100 IDF Armored Vehicles, including a number of Caterpillar D9 Armored-Bulldozers, have reportedly entered the City of Jenin in the West Bank within the last hour. There are reports that the ground war has started in Gaza as well. HAPPENING NOW:It looks like the Israeli ... Read more

During and after World War 2, large areas of the world were conquered and successfully occupied for many years. However, conquering countries and territories has become very rare since 1970. Cambridge studies and other academic studies observe that territorial conquest declined sharply after 1945 and virtually subsided after 1975. However, using new and more comprehensive ... Read more

The Web3 educational platform provider Rise In, which partners with some of the biggest blockchains in the business, is expanding through the acquisition of ed-tech startup BlockBeam. The acquisition was announced as Rise In said it's seeking additional funding from the Open Campus Accelerator for Ed-Tech Founders. Through the acquisition, Rise In said it will ... Read more

There are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 32 countries plus Taiwan, with a combined capacity of about 390 GWe. In 2021 these provided 2653 TWh, about 10% of the world's electricity. About 60 power reactors are currently being constructed in 15 countries, notably China, India and Russia. There is 8-12 GW of new ... Read more

Today BP (British Petroleum) announced a deal in which BP pulse, BP's EV charging business, will acquire ultra-fast charging hardware units from Tesla for $100 million. The investment will facilitate the expansion of the bp pulse public network across the US, while also enabling support for EV fleet customers by deploying chargers at their private ... Read more

GM is canceling and delaying EV Factories and battery factories. GM was going to make several Ultium pouch battery factories with Korean battery maker LG Chem. The LG Chem factory will instead make 4680 cylindrical cell batteries which are the EV batteries used by Tesla. GM is delaying new electric SUV and trucks. GM is ... Read more

In the European Physical Journal Plus, Rafelski and two colleagues mathematically demonstrated that the existence of CUDOs (compact ultra dense objects) do not have dark matter, but are filled with unknown classes of chemical elements beyond the periodic table that are much denser than osmium. The mainstream view is that the density calculations for all ... Read more

Tesla Model 3 Highland deliveries have officially started in China today. Tesla Giga Shanghai is operating at full capacity, with a current Model 3 production rate of 1,200 units per day, most of which are exported to Europe. Model 3 Highland deliveries have officially started in China today. Every customer that gets this vehicle will ... Read more

A Navy Aircraft Carrier Strike Group is an operational formation composed of an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigate. The Air Force will be able to have less risk for the manned fighter planes while still have targets destroyed by large drone planes armed with ... Read more

The Aviationist site is claiming that there is a leaked photo of the secret backend of the B-21 Stealth Bomber. This had been kept secret to hide the design of the exhaust areas, which are made smoother to lower radar reflections. The B-21 Stealth bombers should have first test flights by the end of the ... Read more

In 2011, Nextbigfuture covered a peer reviewed paper that discussed the maximum wind power that could be taken before it acted like doubling atmospheric CO2. Basic circulation model indicates that increasing global wind power by 18-34 times from 1 Terawatt today will be like doubling atmospheric CO2. This would be counter to the stated goals ... Read more

SpaceX continues to grow the Starlink satellites in orbit with the deployment of another 23 satellites. NASA Spaceflight reports that SpaceX Starlink has over 5000 active satellites. Deployment of 23 @Starlink satellites confirmed - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 22, 2023 SpaceX Starlink has over 2.1 million customers globally. There are about 92,000 Starlink customers in Australia. ... Read more

As cryptocurrencies continue to grow as an emerging financial medium, blockchain businesses aim to provide an easy, accessible, and secure method of dealing with decentralized assets. Crypto wallets are now a common term to describe digital hot or cold storage accounts where users can keep their crypto and other digital assets safe. The crypto wallet ... Read more

Israel has delayed an expected invasion of Gaza for now so that the United States can rush missile defences to the region to protect U.S. troops there, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. and Israeli officials. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is a missile system that intercepts incoming ballistic missiles ... Read more

SpaceX loaded 10 million pounds of fuel for a successful flight rehearsal. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is read Starship and Super Heavy were loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant today in a flight-like rehearsal ahead of launch pic.twitter.com/VbBTdR5h9p - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 25, 2023 Vehicle is ready for the second test ... Read more

CATL's new Shenxing ultra-fast charging iron LFP battery (lower-cost lithium iron phosphate) will start mass production over the next two months and should have wide availability in Q1 of 2024. It is the world's first LFP battery to support 4C charging. C refers to the charging multiplier of the battery, and 4C means that the ... Read more

In May 2023, Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, displayed parts from a Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile, shot down by a Ukrainian air defence unit. U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles were used to thwart some or all of the attempted strikes. It happened 10 days after the military said it ... Read more

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Atom Computing announced it has created a 1,225-site atomic array, currently populated with 1,180 qubits, in its next-generation quantum computing platform. This is the first time a company has crossed the 1,000-qubit threshold for a universal gate-based system, planned for release next year. It marks an industry milestone toward fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of solving ... Read more

The DMV suspended cruise over accidents that indicate lack of safety and they are cited misrepresentation (aka lies) by the company about the level of safety. A Cruise's driverless cars struck a pedestrian in downtown San Francisco earlier this month. The incident involved a woman who was first hit by a human driver and then ... Read more

A 75 page report on retail crime and theft shows that the worse levels of retail crime and theft per person are in Pennsylvania, Washington and California. The economic impact of retail crime is profound. Retailers face increased costs for lost product, security, and labor, which lead to higher prices for consumers and ultimately, lower ... Read more

What happens if we slow down the wind around the world by a few percentage points? The Wind Energy industry wants everyone on the planet to find out. Global wind power passed 1 terawatt in 2022 and was 2160 terawatt hours. The global wind industry plans to more than quadruple this level of wind and ... Read more

The cryptocurrency industry is at a pivotal crossroads where the outcome of two events could dictate investor sentiment, at least in the United States, for years to come. On one hand, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, is defending himself against very serious and troubling allegations. On the other ... Read more

Capital One reports that US Stores lost an estimated $86.6 billion to retail theft in 2022 and projections indicate that in 2025, retail theft may cost stores over $115 billion. * Retailers lost as much as $94.5 billion in gross revenue to theft in 2021, up 4.07% year-over-year (YoY). * 58% of organized retail crime ... Read more

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sacks had a Twitter Space discuss how the continuing Russia, Ukraine war and the Hamas-Israel war could expand into larger wars and even something that looks a lot like World War 3.

Before Russia's war with Ukraine started about 2 years ago, Russia and Putin bragged about their new hypersonic missiles (Kinzhal) and its new SU-57 stealth fighter. The new weapons were supposed to be unstoppable. Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 21 October 2023. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of ... Read more

Researchers have modeled the dynamics of an equatorial explosion powered by a millisecond magnetar formed from the core collapse of a massive star. Magneto-centrifugally-driven, relativistic magnetar winds might be powerful enough to produce an ultra-relativistic blade (lamina") that successfully carves its way through the dense stellar interior of another star. They present high-resolution numerical special-relativistic ... Read more

The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on nuclear weapons testing. Wednesday's test used chemicals and radioisotopes to validate new predictive explosion models"\ that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing the Department of Energy. Russian lawmakers announced their ... Read more

NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston contracts for science and exploration missions to the South Pole of the moon in 2024. The commercial delivery is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and the Artemis program. IM-1 Mission The IM-1 mission launch is currently scheduled for a six-day period that opens November ... Read more

The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will help scientists search for water at the lunar South Pole, and will be the first in-situ resource utilization demonstration on the Moon. PRIME-1, which will be mounted to a lunar lander, is made up of two components - The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain ... Read more

NASA's Artemis lunar rover [called VIPER], the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, will explore the South Pole of the Moon in late 2024 on a 100-day mission. It will assess how much water is available and determine how we get and use the Moon's resources for future human space exploration. Above - An artist's concept ... Read more

State channels have emerged as one of the most important blockchain scaling technologies. They make it possible to reduce the data that's processed by the blockchain mainnet and can therefore facilitate much faster transaction speeds with instant finality. One of the major advantages of state channels is that they do not require any changes to ... Read more