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There is now real world driving data on the Tesla Semi and other electric Semi trucks from the Runonless testing event. The World has a global fleet of about 30 million Semi trucks and about 3 million are purchased every year. 70% of the large and Semi trucks are bought and used in Asia. Nearly ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, will be talking with Warren Redlich and @Anything Tesla about the Next Great Power. China vs USA vs India. I will be making a case for ASEAN and Canada. We will discuss demographics, immigration-emigration and people, money and technology. I would say that China is already a Great Power. We will have ... Read more

University of Hawaii at Mnoa planetary scientist Shuai Li, led research that high energy electrons in Earth's plasma sheet (part of the magnetosphere) are contributing to weathering processes on the Moon's surface and the electrons may have aided the formation of water on the lunar surface. To my surprise, the remote sensing observations showed that ... Read more

Huawei's Kirin 9000S system-on-chip powers Huawei's new Mate 60 Pro smartphone reportedly is using 2nd generation 7nm-class fabrication process and stacking made by China-based SMIC. Huawei was known to have been stockpiling chips from its HiSilicon unit before TSMC cut ties to comply with US sanctions. TSMC started making 7 nanometer chips back in 2017. ... Read more

One of Tesla Semi trucks drove 1600 miles over two days. This required two different drivers on each day. Truck drivers in the US are limited to 10 hours of driving without a long break. Semi trucks need to operate long distances day after day. Tesla Semi outrange the competing electric Semi by three to ... Read more

Most people would say that it is impossible for Canada GDP at $2.2 trillion today to pass China's GDP which is $18.8 trillion. The last year Canada was ahead of China's GDP was in 1978. Canada's economy as 33% larger than China's in 1976. China had 930 million people in 1976 and Canada had 23 ... Read more

HuggingFace has rankings of the best large langauge models based upon the votes of over 70,000 users. OpenAIS GPT-4 is still number one and is followed by three versions of Anthropics Claude. Fifth is GPT3.5 Turbo and then the first Open Source model in the list Vicuna-33B. Seventh is Meta's LLAMA2 70b Chat. The HuggingfAce ... Read more

NASA's James Web found trace of dimythyl suflide (DMS) in th atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b and DMS is a biomarker of life. K2-18b's atmosphere consists of mainly hydrogen, along with small amounts of methane and carbon dioxide. On Earth, the DMS molecule is only associated with microbial life. We have to wait for the existence ... Read more

There has been official reporting that Tesla Semi is able drive over 420 miles on one charge with 80,000 pounds of total load (including the weight of the truck and trailer). This was a heavily disputed capability. The range was with driving speeds of 65 mph which has 15% less range than trucks driving at ... Read more

Morgan Stanley raised their target on Tesla on Sunday to $400 and this caused Tesla shares to surge about 10% on Monday. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, talked Herbert Ong about how I see FSD Income growth unfolding over the next few years. This is a follow up to my Monday breakdown of what the ... Read more

Reuters reports that Tesla has combined a series of innovations to make a technological breakthrough for single casting of the complex underbody of the car. Tesla already can gigacast the front and the rear of its cars. This would mean a further reduction in parts and complexity. This will enable faster and cheaper car production ... Read more

The FAA says that SpaceX could get license for second Starship orbital launch attempt in October. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is stacked and ready to go on the launch pad. SpaceX needs to secure the necessary regulatory approvals, including a launch license from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). We're working well with them ... Read more

The SpaceX Raptor engine already enables the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship to have more than double the thrust of the Saturn V. Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography talked about the SpaceX 1337 having critical breakthoughs beyond the SpaceX Raptor. Elon Musk and SpaceX are looking at extreme ideas like deleting the whole hot fuel gas ... Read more

Thousands of members of the United Auto Workers went on strike at three U.S. assembly plants of General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis, after the union and the automakers failed to reach a deal on a new labor contract Thursday night. The facilities are GM's midsize truck and full-size van plant in Wentzville, Missouri; Ford's ... Read more

Japan and South Korea and many other countries are experiencing national demographic crisis due to falling birth rates. In 2023, Japan's fertility rate was 1.367, which is far below the 2.1 children per woman needed for population stability. South Korea's fertility rate dropped to a record low of 0.7 in the second quarter of 2023. ... Read more

Ukraine was able to destroy a submarine and a navy landing ship in dry dock but under the protection of several Russian S-400 anti-missile systems. It is interesting for how they succeeded because it effects how we think about China's air defenses. Ukraine defeated the S-400 anti-missile batteries and radar. Russia has about three times ... Read more

Ukraine used ten UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles to destroy a Russian Kilo Submarine and a landing ship in a Sevastopol dry dock. They were on land in dry dock for repairs. Ukraine fired ten missiles and three got through. Ukraine had taken out a S-400 anti-missile battery in north western Crimea and occupied two ... Read more

Ron Baron is worth over $5 billion, manages about $45 billion in his stock funds and he and his funds are a top 20 owner in Tesla. He has picked multiple big winners in Tesla, SpaceX, Gartner, Arch and CoStar Group. As a big and early Tesla investor, Ron frequently talks personally with Elon Musk ... Read more

If Bill Gates had kept his 45% share of Microsoft from after the IPO then he would be worth $1 trillion and not $129 billion today. This would also need to factor in Bill Gates donating about $57 billion to charities. He almost completely missed the stock booms from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and Netflix. ... Read more

There are real world range tests for Tesla Semi, Freightliner eCascadia and other electric Semi trucks at the Run for Less event. Truck average driving speed is critical to the comparison of the real world ranges. People who lived through the 1970s and 1980s know that there was strict enforcement of 55 mph speed limits. ... Read more

The U.S. Air Force announced today the B-21 Raider has started engine runs as part of its ground test program at Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, California, facility. Engine testing is an essential milestone for the program as the world's first sixth-generation aircraft continues on the path to flight test. A first flight in the next few ... Read more

Walter Isaacson biography 94th chapter is about AI for humans. This describes the origin, purpose and some details about X.AI. Elon Musk was musing that he was certain he could make Twitter (now X) into the largest financial institution in the world. However, he wanted to spend his time on more meaningful things. One of ... Read more

The Run on Less Event is testing electric semi trucks with real world deliveries to test their range and payload performance. Tesla is getting up to double the range of many of the competing electric trucks. Freightliner is owned by Daimler and they are the largest semi truck company in the world. There are also ... Read more

The Run on Less - Electric DEPOT is an 18-month study and demonstration event that explores how trucking fleets can scale up from one or two electric trucks to 15 or more. The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) and RMI are hosting the event, which is scheduled for September 11-30. The event will ... Read more

Bill Gates bet billions against Tesla in a method called short selling. Short selling involves borrowing a security from a broker and selling it on the open market. Short selling adds liquidity to a market by increasing the volume of buying and selling above normal levels. This volume would not exist without short sellers. The ... Read more

Scientists are accelerating quantum simulations for the first time at supercomputing scale, thanks to NVIDIA cuQuantum with Xanadu's PennyLane. Shinjae Yoo is leading the computational scientist and machine learning group lead at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory where many researchers are running quantum computing simulations on a supercomputer for the first time, ... Read more

The United Auto Workers has lowered their pay increase demand to 36% from 40%. Ford, GM and Stellantis (Fiat-Chrysler) don't think much of the offer, according to people familiar with the offer. The Big Three US automakers have proposed about 10-15% over five years. If there is no agreement then a strike will start this ... Read more

Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others. Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk will be released tomorrow. Walter describes how Elon can visual the material science, manufacturing processes and even crash tests. Walter can give 500 examples of this special ability. ... Read more

There are some people observing that gasoline has 12700 watt hours per kilogram vs EV batteries with 160 to 450 watt hours per kilogram. Gasoline needs to have an engine and gas tank and other parts to make the vehicle do anything. The battery pack of an electric vehicle is most of the mass of ... Read more

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed K2-18 b whic an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth. It is showing the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide. Webb's discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that K2-18 b could be a Hycean exoplanet, one which has the potential to possess a hydrogen-rich atmosphere ... Read more

CATL of China is mass producing generation one sodium ion batteries starting next month. The first factory has about a 40 GWH per year capacity. China has 16 out of 20 globally planned or built sodium battery factories according to Benchmark Minerals. CATL's first-generation sodium battery generates 160-watt-hours per kilogram. This is 10% less energy ... Read more

A recent Morgan Stanley 66 page report on Tesla makes the case that Tesla AI, Dojo training computer and the FSD (full self driving system) can be as critical to Tesla share price as AWS (amazon web services cloud computing) was to Amazon. AWS has become 70% of the Amazon's profit (EBIT). This means the ... Read more

Businesses want a 100% complete AI systems that can be trained directly with just data. This is what OpenAI was able to do with ChatGPT and large language models. This is what Tesla has been able to achieve with version 12 of FSD (Full self driving). The Tesla FSD v12 was demonstrated for nearly one ... Read more

Morgan Stanley raised their target on Tesla to $400. Details of Morgan Stanley's 66-page upgrade report for Tesla to now overweight" with a Price Target of $400 (from $250): - Catalyst: Dojo, V12 of FSD and next AI day (early 2024) - Dojo (purpose-built super computer to train FSD) can add up to $500bn of ... Read more

Computational theorists believe that the LK99 structure is promising and have discovered ways to improve LK99's structure. The researchers think it is essential to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between the LK-99 structure and properties, which could further open up new avenues for even high-temperature superconductivity (HTS). LK-99 was reported to have Tc ... Read more

There is the possibility of a UAW (United Auto Workers) strike starting this Friday. If the strike lasted ten days it would cause $5.6 billion in losses to US GDP and would send Michigan into a recession. A strike could also help non-union carmakers like Tesla and foreign car makers. Shawn Fain, the combative president ... Read more

Elon Musk tweeted out his congratulatins to SpaceX for completing and documented the 57 items required by the FAA for Flight 2 of Starship. He said taht 6 of the 63 items refer to later flights. Congrats to SpaceX for completing & documented the 57 items required by the FAA for Flight 2 of Starship! ... Read more

There are many people who have the opinion about interstellar travel being impossible. They are looking at our current immature economy and immature space capability. They then extrapolate about some one off interstellar mission. We need to look at how humanity broke out of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea with a fleet of exploration ships. ... Read more

Being able to use antiferromagnets will make computer memory that is more energy efficient and smaller, faster with less corruption issues. Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a new way of reading data in antiferromagnets. There were no practical methods to read data from antiferromagnets. Computer memory traditionally comprises silicon ... Read more

Lam Research Corporation is a $17 billion wafer-fabrication equipment maker. They are simulating and designing next generation computer memory. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which involves the steps that create the active components of semiconductor devices and their wiring. They expect the semiconductor industry to evolve from 2D to 3D DRAM ... Read more

The SLS is the world's most powerful rocket and will enable NASA to return humans to the moon. NASA requested $11.2 billion in the fiscal year 2024 president's budget request to fund the program through fiscal year 2028, in addition to the $11.8 billion spent developing the initial capability. NASA) does not plan to measure ... Read more

John Gibb (aka Dr Know it All) predicted the in 2020 Cybertruck like design elements of the Tesla Next Generation car. Yesterday, the Elon Musk Biography by Walter Isaacson revealed that the Tesla executive and engineering teams have designed a cybertruck like robotaxi and next generation vehicle. John Gibb went to a first principles design ... Read more

Axios has a copy of a section of the Walter Isaacson biography of Elon Musk, which covers how the development and design of Robotaxi and next generation car. Elon was for a couple of years adamant about going to the robotaxi only and not wanting a cheap next generation car. Franz von Holzhausen and his ... Read more

Walter Isaacson explains how in the early stages of Russia's war with Ukraine, Russia knocked out a lot of communications and internet access. Elon and SpaceX have provided 20,000 Starlink terminals which were vital for sustaining Ukraine's economy and critical communication in the company. Lauren Dreyer, SpaceX's director of Starlink operations, began sending Musk updates ... Read more

Similar Web tracks the traffic of internet websites and for August, 2023 they recorded that Nextbigfuture.com had more traffic than MIT Technology Review. Thanks to all my existing and new readers for all of the past and future support. Nextbigfuture was in the top 40,000 of all websites globally, top 20,000 of all websites in ... Read more

The FAA has closed the investigation into the problems with the last SpaceX Super Heavy Starship orbital test launch attempt on April 20, 2023. the FAA cites multiple root causes of the April 20, 2023, mishap and 63 corrective actions SpaceX must take to prevent mishap reoccurrence. The corrective actions include: * redesigns of vehicle ... Read more

Copenhagen Atomics has raised over 25 million euros and has developed full scale reactor hardware for molten salt thorium nuclear reactors. Almost a decade ago Copenhagen Atomics was founded based on a dream dream of a world powered by scaleable and green energy more affordable than coal; a thorium molten salt breeder reactor. They are ... Read more

Hyun Tak Kim and other members of the original korean LK99 room temperature superconducting team should have an American Institute of Physics Materials journal paper published in about 3 to 5 weeks. They submitted a version and have been asked to make revisions. The key information that I would like to see is verified or ... Read more

People compare the count of how many F-35s have been built versus how many China J-20 stealth have been built. There is a comparison of the annual production rate. However, a very important comparison is how many of them are fully available, fully usable and fully capable are they to perform their needed roles?

An Israeli team have made the first complete embryo model that mimics all the key structures that emerge in the early embryo. Instead of a sperm and egg, the starting material was naive stem cells which were reprogrammed to gain the potential to become any type of tissue in the body. Chemicals were then used ... Read more