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In an interview with Bill Gates, Sam Altman says he is super-excited for AI applied to robotics. Sam Altman - We have to go do this thing. This is now an UNSTOPPABLE technological course. The value is too great." Tens of billions of dollars are going into the effort to dominate technology and transform the ... Read more

Tesla Optimus cannot yet fold laundry autonomously, but certainly will be able to do this fully autonomously and in an arbitrary environment soon. Optimus folds a shirt pic.twitter.com/3F5o3jVLq1 - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 15, 2024 Important note: Optimus cannot yet do this autonomously, but certainly will be able to do this fully autonomously and in ... Read more

Falcon 9 delivered 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida which completed their 300th successful launch! Falcon 9 delivers 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida - completing our 300th successful launch! pic.twitter.com/uXQR5us7VV - SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 15, 2024

One of the biggest draws of the early crypto days was the feeling that a new, modern gold rush had been discovered. In 1848, miners traveled from all parts of the world to San Francisco after having sold everything to make the trip. They bought a pickaxe, a handful of basic supplies, and set off ... Read more

There was the battle control OpenAI. It was a fight about control of OpenAI, its board, and its direction. Now Elon wants to get more voting control of Tesla. He wants to go from 15% to 25% in order to be comfortable making Tesla the leader in AI and Robotics. I believe this is more ... Read more

In an interview with Bill Gates, Sam Altman says he is super-excited for AI applied to robotics. Sam Altman - We have to go do this thing. This is now an unstoppable technological course. The value is too great." Tens of billions of dollars are going into the effort to dominate technology and transform the ... Read more

We can calculate the travel times for the SpaceX Starship to reach Mars. It is relatively easy to get 90 day trips each way with SpaceX Starship. This is faster than the usual 180-270 one-way travel times. This can be faster because we will have a lot more fuel to enable more direct routes to ... Read more

People believe that exotic new propulsion systems are needed to reduce the one way trip times from Earth to Mars from 180-270 days down to 45 days each way. The slower mission times are for chemical rockets where we barely get out of Earth orbit with a small rocket engine. SpaceX Starship can refuel after ... Read more

After a series of small earthquakes starting around 03:00 Sunday morning, an eruption began in the Reykjanes peninsula just before 08:00 just north of the town of Grindavik. By that point all the people residing in the town, numbering about 200 in about 80 homes, had been evacuated. The erupting fissure was soon estimated to ... Read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took over on February 4, 2014, when Microsoft's stock price closed at $36.35. It is now worth $388 per share. This is a 10X. Apple was worth about $24 in 2014 and is now about $186. This was a 7-8 times gain. Tim Cook became CEO of Apple in August 2011. ... Read more

Paraterraforming (or World House Design) is a subset of Terraforming where we build huge structures which may cover a large fraction of a world's surface. A key advantage is that it is usually much faster than terraforming but it can enable larger habitable areas than just making capsules or buildings. LAVA architects and others have ... Read more

XPeng showed off an updated eVTOL flying car which is multiple helicopter like propellers that fold out of the back. During a press event held live at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, XPeng AeroHT shared significant updates on the progress of its flying car" technology. First, the Land Aircraft Carrier in the featured image above ... Read more

Wedbush Analyst Dan Ives believes the new technology bull market has begun. He thinks that AI technology spend will go from 1% of IT budgets to 8-10% in 2024. Dan was surprised by the number of executives and CEOs at the CES (Consumer Electronic Show) who were looking to acquire technology and companies. Dan believes ... Read more

Eventually, all that will matter to Tesla and others is changing civilization with Teslabot. All that will matter is the race to improve and use AGI and humanoid bot. This will be the driving purpose and generator of value for civilization and human economy. In chess - A forced move is one that a player ... Read more

Brian Wang and Randy Kirk have another video weekly review of the big stories in science, this episode takes a deep dive into the AI compute and the ramifications of the huge increases in compute that will be required. There is also more news out on the LK99 room temperature super conductor, and that is ... Read more

SpaceX Starship is about 120 meters tall or 65 times taller than the average person. The upper stage is as tall as the statue portion of the Statue of Liberty. The Human scale of the Starship is pic.twitter.com/BJ82Aqs3MW - Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) January 10, 2024

The Team Project Solutions for Construction of a Lunar Base" was the product of 9 intense weeks of collaboration during the Space Studies Program 2021 - Strasbourg, at the International Space University. I had written about their concept to lay a SpaceX Starship flat on the moon to start a moonbase. I did not know ... Read more

NVIDIA Vice President of Robotics and Edge Computing Deepu Talla detailed how NVIDIA and its partners are bringing generative AI and robotics together. They have a growing roster of partners - including Boston Dynamics, Collaborative Robotics, Covariant, Sanctuary AI, Unitree Robotics and others - embracing GPU-accelerated large language models to bring unprecedented levels of intelligence ... Read more

Highlights of Elon Musk SpaceX Plans for 2024 and Beyond: They have already increased the communication bandwidth of Starlink v2 mini to 188 Gbps. There will be 150 launches of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in 2024 Increase the speed and cadence of Starship launches. Deploy Version 3 Starlink satellites via Starship in 2024. Start ... Read more

The USA intelligence agencies determined that China had uncovered major corruption in it military. Xi Jinping purged many Generals and top military leaders. It was found out that there was water instead of fuel in missiles and the lids of missile silos are not reliable. This could be just the tip of the iceberg of ... Read more

2024 and every year going forward will have more and better AI. This intelligence explosion is attracting funding and resources exponentially and it revenue will go exponential. AI expert, Dr Alan Thompson, expects OpenAI to release GPT 4.5 in days and it will exceed human experts in most intelligence tests. A survey of thousands of ... Read more

NASA's rolled out the new X-59 Quesst supersonic aircraft live from Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. Quesst is NASA's mission to demonstrate how the X-59 can fly supersonic without generating loud sonic booms, and then survey what people hear when it flies overhead. Reaction to the quieter sonic thumps will be shared ... Read more

Smart home robots and smart home hubs are striving to be the center of the smart home. LG wants to create the Zero Labor home using these devices. The new robot devices from LG, Samsung and many others add mobility, environmental awareness, cameras and sensors. They will have superior AI that will leverage large language ... Read more

BlackFly is Pivotal's eVTOL aircraft and at CES Pivotal revealed the fourth generation aircraft, Helix. It is now available to all eligible customers. Helix is basically a flying car. It is electric. Over twelve years in the making, the Helix is Pivotal's first aircraft to be produced at scale, created to bring the wonder of ... Read more

Prototypes, slideware and vaporware is easy. LG showed a cool prototype self driving concept car at CES 2024. There was also new AI marketing buzzwords and AI promises. The concept car has swiveling seats so that passengers can look at any direction. There were also great LG screens to immerse passengers with video. Real AI ... Read more

Joe Tegtmeyer described the Telsla 4680 battery chemistry upgrade. At the end of 2023, the 4680 battery chemical composition ratios in Cathode material was NMC 811 (80% Nickel, 10% Lithium, 10% Cobalt). However, Tesla is finishing the process of transitioning over to NMC 955 now that we are in 2024. They are also trialing asymmetric ... Read more

An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the door plug failed. The Boeing 737-MAX 9 had 174 passengers and six crew members aboard. *Airplane door blown in the air!!* The plane's door blew off at an altitude of 16,000 feet. Due to this incident, the crew made an emergency landing. ... Read more

Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, said securing an updated Federal Aviation Administration launch license was the key factor driving the schedule for the third Starship test flight. The third flight should be sometime in February 2024. From a hardware readiness perspective, we are targeting to be ready in January," ... Read more

Here is a verified transcription of the Seokbae Lee, leader of the original korean LK99 teams talk from three days ago. I would also like to thank Yonsei University and Director Lee Hak-bae of QILI (Quantum Industry Convergence Leading Institute) for making this announcement possible today. Uh.. the details of our participation in this, uh.. ... Read more

Main combat operations in the north of the Gaza Strip have come to an end, with the focus shifting to central and southern Gaza. In central Gaza, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) has advanced and encircled the Al Bureij camp. They have also advanced south along the Salah Al Deen road. The IDF has continued ... Read more

The US and Britain began launching strikes Thursday against Houthis-linked targets in Yemen - just days after the Iran-backed rebels carried out their largest attack to date on shipping vessels in the Red Sea. The Houthis had targeted 27 commercial ships to date. The most recent (on Tuesday) Houthis attack used 18 drones and three ... Read more

Researchers at Delft University of Technology, led by assistant professor Richard Norte, have unveiled a remarkable new material with potential to impact the world of material science: amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC). Beyond its exceptional strength, this material demonstrates mechanical properties crucial for vibration isolation on a microchip. Amorphous silicon carbide is therefore particularly suitable for ... Read more

I made 193 correct resolved public predictions in a row on Metaculus. Everything that I predicted and resolved over the last 78 days was correct. A prediction could have been made over the last year or longer but the answer was determined so that the prediction became true or false. This compare to the Metaculus ... Read more

A NASA NIAC phase 1 grant has been given to Geoffrey Landis to develop innovative concepts for a sample return from the surface of Venus. The project description is vague. At 450C and 92 atmosphere pressure, the surface of Venus is the most hostile environment to explore in the solar system. This project will pioneer ... Read more

One crucial area to enable trips to Mars is the long-duration storage of cryogenic propellants in various space environments. Relevant propellants include liquid Hydrogen (LH2) for high specific impulse Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) which can be deployed in strategic locations in advance of a mission. Such LH2 storage tanks could be used to refill a ... Read more

Here is a summary from a korean who attended the Seokbae Lee superconductor talk. I attended the vision declaration ceremony of the Quantum Industry Convergence Leading Group held today at the main building of Yonsei University Daewoo Hall and summarized the contents. Reason for holding the vision declaration ceremony - LK99 has become such ... Read more

Seokbae Lee, CEO of Quantum Energy Research Institute, who claims to have created the room temperature and pressure superconductor LK-99', said, The material developed is a superconductor." Representative Lee said this while attending the Quantum Industry Convergence Leaders (QILI) vision declaration ceremony held at Yonsei University in Seoul on the 9th. This is the first ... Read more

There is a Korean news video of the recent LK99 talk by Sukbae Lee. There seems be video of more the LK99 experiments. Automated Translation of the Korean Transcript: There are errors in the Korean language transcript and more errors in the automated translation. 0:01 Senate superconductor LK 99 0:04 Quantum energy claimed to have ... Read more

Sukbae Lee is one of the original lead researchers of the LK99 room temperature and room pressure superconductor. There is now a video of his complete talk. He is speaking his native korean. At the bottom of this article, I took the korean language transcript and autotranslated it all to english. There are likely many ... Read more

There is a proposal to use the SpaceX lunar starship as a rapidly deployable moonbase. It could be completed 180 days after the SpaceX lunar Starship lands on the moon. The payload area of the Starship is about 1000 cubic meters. This proposal would tip over the lunar Starship and cut it open to use ... Read more

Dark Energy is inferred based upon distance and other measurements which could have 10% errors. Measurements of the distance to extragalactic sources allow us to infer the major energy constituents of our Universe. Two decades ago such measurements revealed that most of the energy in the Universe is in `dark energy' - a discovery that ... Read more

Sukbae Lee had a presentation yesterday of the progress made by the original LK99 team towards room temperature and room pressure team superconductors. As mentioned yesterday, they have a video detecting zero (superconducting low levels) of electrical resistance. Sukbae also said: There are still instabilities and other issues to be worked through. This means it ... Read more

Commercial heat pump makers have developed next generation cold climate heat pumps. Next-generation cold-climate heat pumps-a key clean energy technology that can potentially save households $500 a year or more on their utility bills while also slashing harmful carbon emissions. The DOE Challenge specifies that prototypes deliver 100% heating capacity without the use of auxiliary ... Read more

Microsoft Quantum team used AI to identify around 500,000 stable materials in the space of a few days. New battery material came out of a collaboration using Microsoft's Azure Quantum Elements to winnow 32 million potential inorganic materials to 18 promising candidates that could be used in battery development in just 80 hours. This work ... Read more

QuEra Computing, the quantum computing trailblazer, today announced a bold strategic roadmap for a series of error-corrected quantum computers, starting in 2024 and culminating in a system with 100 logical error-corrected qubits. This announcement marks the ushering in of a new era in quantum computing and caps off a banner year for QuEra, which included ... Read more

There are more reports of greatly improved rides from the Tesla FSD 12.X. There are reports that Tesla will start a public rollout beyond employees by the end of January, 2024. Tesla FSD is rolling out in China now. Tesla FSD was almost non-existent in China up until 2024. A highly respected (and critical) OG ... Read more

Here are the highlights of Sukbae Lee's (L in LK99, room temperature superconductor) private superconductor update. The class of room temperature and room pressure superconductors is real. He and other researchers have formed a corporation and the success of the company and its patents is the priority. IBM is the first company to start discussions. ... Read more

Elon will give a Tesla company talk after the 10K. The talk will probably be the first week of February. The most impactful things for the future of will be the AI (Dojo, FSD, Robotaxi and Teslabot ramps). However, there is too much uncertainty for this to get an accurate prediction. Also, forecasting these items ... Read more

Elon Musk will provide a 2024 Starship Update on January 11. He will conduct a SpaceX company talk including a Starship update next Thursday. There could be Starship IFT-2's post-flight analysis, plans for IFT-3 and beyond, and updates on Starship HLS milestones. There will also probably be Starlink targets. Source pic.twitter.com/8WvUJdW8lp - Toby Li (@tobyliiiiiiiiii) ... Read more

Three days ago an Alaska Airlines operated Boeing 737 Max 9 lost a door plug as seen in the photo. A three foot by six foot opening was left where the door plug was. The flight was three miles (14850 feet) off the ground so the decompression and other issues were not catastrophic. The pressure ... Read more