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Elon Musk had a twitter space which talked about how great FSD 12 is. FSD 12 drove nearly flawlessly and it was a completely neural net version of the FSD software. (Full self driving). However, Elon Musk said things that were bullish for Nvidia and AI. * the world will be compute constrained for a ... Read more

Researchers at the University of Rochester have successfully transferred a longevity gene from naked mole rats to mice, resulting in improved health and an extension of the mouse's lifespan. Mole rats can live ten times longer than mice . Naked mole rats, known for their long lifespans and exceptional resistance to age-related diseases, have long ... Read more

The Chinese navy is reportedly testing the planet's most powerful coil gun which can accelerate a 124kg projectile in a firing test to a speed of 700km/h in less than 0.05 seconds. It was the heaviest known projectile to be used in a coil gun experiment. A normal torpedo move at 58 mph and have ... Read more

The US Air force has requested $5.8 billion to build 1000 to 2000 XQ-58A Valkyrie fighter jet companion drones over the next five years. They can cruise at 550 mph and fly at up to 45,000 feet altitude with a range of 3,000 nautical miles. The NY Times reported each Valkyrie will cost between $3 ... Read more

Launched over four years ago, Masterworks is well regarded as the first-ever fractional art investment platform, bringing together two concepts which have been around for a while: fractionalized investment, which splits high-ticket assets into a number of more affordable shares, and investing in blue-chip art as an asset class. While the combination of these two ... Read more

Derek Lowe writes part-time editorials for the Journal Science and he has commented on the LK99 developments. Derek's original hope was since the preparation of the material was relatively simple that replication of the material might be straightforward. This. . .has not been the case. Not anywhere even near the case. He then describes how ... Read more

According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the telescope's aperture diameter. To achieve higher resolutions, telescope systems with ever larger primary mirrors are therefore being designed, making them extremely expensive and technologically challenging ... Read more

A researcher makes the case that in cosmic scale terms, it is a very fast transition from having the start of intelligence and technology to becoming a Dyson sphere scale civilization. A Dyson Swarm or Dyson Sphere civilization would be one that uses all of the energy of a star to power its civilization. The ... Read more

Elon Musk livestreamed his drive with version 12 of FSD. It pulled over to the side and parked. It handled round about and new road work. There was one intervention in a 50 minute drive. The car was stopped at an intersection and then started to move when the left turn lane light turned green. ... Read more

Futurists Robin Hanson and Brian Wang talk about how the global population crisis can send the world into an innovation and economic dark age which could ruin all hope for other positive future scenarios. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. A shrinking and aging population can lead to ... Read more

UCSB Dr. Philip Lubin and his team have NASA, Breakthrough Starshot and other funding to develop laser power beaming to propel missions for eventual interstellar space goals and nearterm orbital and in solar system missions. They have been developing the hardware and the science. They have written over 2000 pages of research. They are now ... Read more

Dr. Norte describes the state of the art for Starchip Nanosails. The Starshot Breakthrough initiative has been funding a 4 by 4 meters sail that weighs one gram. This will be propelled by a 100 Gigawatt laser array to travel at 20% of lightspeed to Alpha Centauri. He has made 4.5 centimeter by 4.5 Centimeters ... Read more

Starship Super Heavy Booster 9's second static fire was a success. The water deluge system worked to protect the launch pad and launch tower. SpaceX appears to be weeks away from another Super Heavy Starship orbital launch attempt.

Jeffrey Gleason describes how to increase the space propulsion beaming range of an ion beam from 0.1 AU to 1000 AU by pinching the ion beam. He also describes getting 50 kilowatts per square meter of power by placing the beam generator at 0.05 AU (about the distance that the recent Parker Space Probe has ... Read more

Here is a video of the Indian rover on the south pole of the moon.

OTOY has created, BrigadeTM, a real-time rendering engine for video games and for its Star Trek videos and work for the Roddenberry Archive. They use path tracing to render images as opposed to rasterization like most other 3D game rendering engines. Path tracing is an extension of the ray tracing algorithm. It simulates many light ... Read more

Get ready for millions of Starlink dishes built and sold every month. SpaceX is completing a 521,000 square foot Starlink Ground equipment/dish factory. The factory has the area of three Costcos which average about 180,000 square feet. SpaceX is currently making 150,000 Starlink dishes each month. Starlink has over 4000 Starlink satellites in space and ... Read more

Indian researcher, VPS Awana, says that using Scanning Tunneling Microscopes, that samples of LK99 possibly room temperature superconducting material could have superconductivity measured. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy systems cost about $20,000 to $200,000. They are common and such systems are in India and at Universities and companies around the world. This will only work on LK99 ... Read more

Jason Calcanis discuss how all big companies, sovereign wealth funds are buying Nvidia AI chips. He thinks the AI infrastructure will solve all kinds of big problems. Nvidia is the Next Apple in Value and Profit Jason notes that 15 of the top 20 most valuable global companies are american. Nvidia almost certain to pass ... Read more

Clinical trials are being made more accessible than ever before thanks to an innovative healthcare blockchain data startup called Patientory, which is partnering with some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical giants to match patients to the most promising new medical treatments available. The HIPAA-compliant Patientory platform is working to democratize healthcare data access, empowering patients ... Read more

Masked men claiming to belong to the Wagner Group have warned the Kremlin to get ready for us" after the reported death of their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. There's a lot of talk right now about what the Wagner Group will do. We can tell you one thing, we are getting started, get ready for us," ... Read more

Elon Musk tweeted another picture of a Tesla Cybertruck but in the background was a hatchback version of the Tesla Model 3. We have previously discussed that various sources in China have reported that the new Model 3 will start 15% cheaper in China. They report pricing of 200000 yuan which is 15% less than ... Read more

The original LK99 room temperature superconducting company, Q-Centre, has information in their patent. They provide more detailed measurements, evidence and process description. They say the micron(s) thick thin film is nearly half superconductive material. In 2008, the LK99 korean researchers founded the Quantum Energy Research Centre ( ; also known as Q-Centre) with other researchers ... Read more

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 30, 2023, of $13.51 billion, up 101% from a year ago and up 88% from the previous quarter. This is great for the whole stock market. It is great for technology stocks. It is great the thesis that the AI boom is multi-year ... Read more

Super Heavy Booster 9 transported back to the orbital launch pad at Starbase for additional preflight testing. Super Heavy Booster 9 transported back to the orbital launch pad at Starbase for additional preflight testing pic.twitter.com/C30Gh5i9Cb - SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 23, 2023

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said. Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported that the private plane, which belonged to the 62-year-old, was shot down by air defenses. Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed ... Read more

Various readers have expressed concern about running out of charge if they drive an electric car. The Tesla driving screen will show percentage of charge of miles of charge remaining. The tip is to start thinking about getting recharged when the EV has about 30% of charge or less. This is similar to driving a ... Read more

In July, China reported GDP growth of 5.5 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2023. This was one percentage point faster than the first quarter. Total GDP reached RMB 59.3 trillion (approx. US$8.3 trillion). In the second quarter, GDP grew by 6.3 percent year-on-year, up from 4.5 percent year-on-year growth in the first quarter. ... Read more

ICRA Ratings reports India's economic growth will accelerate to 8.5% in the April-June period of the current fiscal from the 6.1% growth rate witnessed in the preceding January-March quarter. ICRA has projected the year-on-year (YoY) growth of the GDP to improve to 8.5% in Q1 FY2024 from 6.1% in Q4 FY2023, boosted by the supportive ... Read more

One hour into Angry Astronauts livestream there was a readout of a successful touchdown of the Indian lunar lander. It successfully landed at the moon's south pole. Congratulations to India which joins the USA, China and Soviet Union as countries that had successful unmanned lunar landing missions to the moon. The Chandrayaan programme (Indian Lunar ... Read more

The F22 has been operational for nearly 20 years, but the greatest fighter ever" has only ever shot down the chinese spy balloon. The F22 reputation is from technical specifications and wargame combat. It was made operational in 2005 and was used in combat against ISIS in 2014. It has a good top speed (mach ... Read more

The B21 next generation stealth bomber is only a few months behind schedule for a 2023 first test flight. This means we are about 4 to 16 weeks away from the first test flight. The prototype B21's have already had engines turned on and runway taxi tests performed. The white B-21 is using the latest ... Read more

Two months ago in June, 2023, Elon Musk said on a Twitter Space, that SpaceX had recently decided to switch to a hot-staging" approach where the Starship upper stage will ignite its engines while still attached to the Super Heavy booster. There will be a large payload-to-orbit advantage with hot-staging that is conservatively about a ... Read more

Tesla has had 750 KW chargers installed at Pepsi for months and is adding these and megawatt chargers to megacharging truck charging locations between California and Texas. Above is a pictures of one of the 750 KW chargers. Also in Las Vegas: Megacharger. Big chungo.@RateYourCharge @itskyleconner pic.twitter.com/WcW0nnKuoN - Erik Yde (@erikyde) August 7, 2023 Tesla ... Read more

SpaceX VP of Launch, Kiko Dontchev, describes the exponential success of SpaceX. SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk companies follow an algorithm to make things much faster and more efficient. 1. Make the requirements less dumb. Requirements are always bad. Check if requirements are needed and understand why they are needed. 2. Delete the part or ... Read more

Robin Hanson had a lot of tweets about the global fertility crisis. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. I will be talking with Robin Hanson this Friday and posting a video recording of the conversation. The current fertility situation:https://t.co/pvF6zZ86Ze pic.twitter.com/zwU61xoApZ - Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) August 21, 2023 World ... Read more

Analysis of the global top ten battery electric car model sales and their average selling price indicates that Tesla could doubles its Model 3 sales by cutting China prices from $32k to $27.7K. This matches Ark Invest analysis of battery electric addressable market and price sensitivity. The Tesla Model 3 is currently on track for ... Read more

Jet Zero won the US Air Force $235 million blended wing demonstrator contract. Jet Zero will build a full scale demonstrator by the first quarter of 2027. The prototype will be aimed at demonstrating at least a 30%-plus improvement in fuel efficiency compared to the Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing KC-46, and a 30% increase ... Read more

The original LK99 team reassures the world that LK99 superconductivity is real and was demonstrated. They will provide evidence and answers in the next published paper. They recommend other researchers need to have patience and try harder (and implied is to work with the original Korean team) because the others will also make it superconduct. ... Read more

There are many pictures and videos of multiple Tesla Cybertrucks on multiple Semi trailers. Autoevolution reports that many Tesla employees believe that Tesla will soon start employee deliveries of the Cybertruck. The buzz among Tesla staff is that Tesla will offer dual and three-motor variants of the electric pickup. Employee CT deliveries seem imminent. Word ... Read more

The US Army Research Lab has presented general vision for 2040 which features giving soldiers Iron Man like powered full body armor with strength enhancement capabilities and creating new lighter tanks. The US Army has been funding powered and unpowered exoskeletons to help soldiers lift loads and enhance performance. In 2022, 100 soldiers in the ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, talked to Herbert Ong about the problem with the Waymo and Cruise and robotaxi business model. They both have been losing about $2-3 billion per year for the past five years and were losing $1 billion per year before. Waymo started in 2009 and Cruise started in 2013. Waymo has probably has ... Read more

Jet Zero is developing a revolutionary blended wing air plane for commercial and military purposes. They have been awarded $235 million in US Air Force funding. It will halve fuel use and will make flying more spaceous and comfortable. The US DoD's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) funded a four year project to lead to the ... Read more

Roscosmos reported the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon on August 19 after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit. The unmanned robotic spacecraft was aiming to be the first ever to land on the south pole of the moon where there is a lot of water ice and precious elements. Roscosmos said The apparatus moved ... Read more

The Muon g-2 Collaboration has doubled the precision of their 2021 measurement of the muon's magnetic moment and it disagrees with the predictions based on the standard model of physics. Muons are similar to electrons, but 207 times more massive. They are also unstable: they are created in particle collisions and decay into their lighter ... Read more

Dr. Wu Kai, CATL Chief Scientist, presented at the CATL new product launch 2023 event (charge to the future in a flash) on August 16, 2023. CATL launched Shenxing, the world's first 4C superfast charging LFP battery, capable of delivering 400 km of driving range with a 10-minute charge as well as a range of ... Read more

Russia has reported an abnormal situation on its moon-bound Luna-25 spacecraft. Roscosmos, said on Saturday that the spacecraft ran into unspecified trouble while trying to enter a pre-landing orbit and that its specialists were analyzing the situation. During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred onboard the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to ... Read more

The California Department of Motor Vehicles today requested that Cruise cut in half its fleet of driverless cars in San Francisco after a crash with an emergency vehicle and traffic jams. GM Cruise will have no more than 50 driverless vehicles in operation during the day and 150 driverless vehicles in operation at night. DMV ... Read more

Professor Chen at the Beijing University of Science and Technology has a statistical theory of superconductors. It is an attempt at a unified theory of superconductors based on statistical material law. It is a statistical law that indicates a positive correlation between the overall energy band width for all interacting orbital energy range and the ... Read more

A US Coast Guard notice gives the first possible date window for the next SpaceX Starship orbital launch attempt. Page 4 out of 88 pages has a coast guard notice to mariners that starting August 31, 2023 there could be dangerous rocket operations. SpaceX has made or partially completed more than 30 Starship first stage ... Read more