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Marques Brownlee had a pre-production trimotor Tesla Cybertruck for a day. He described the driving experience and other features. All three Tesla Cybertrucks will have 123 kilowatt hours of batteries. The external range extender will cost about $16,000. The range extender probably has 50 kWh of batteries based upon 123 kWh giving 340 miles of ... Read more

The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD), through the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), wants to add OpenAI's ChatGPT system into SimStriker combat target robots. The Target robot will be able to have synthetic conversations' with the soldiers and their equipment, such as through social media feeds. Training sessions can be more varied, dynamic and immersive, ... Read more

Researchers led by Prof. LUO Jianlin from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have observed that Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O (0.9

Tesla now has Powershare vehicle-to-grid, vehicle to home charging and charge other EV with the new Cybertruck. Cybertruck owners can power their camping equipment, power tools, or even their entire home during a blackout by using their electric truck as a mobile generator. The truck has 240-volt outlet in the rear bed that can be ... Read more

Tesla Cybertruck has a 120 Mile external range extender battery. It is like a large 140 kilogram superbattery with about 40 KWh of power. This would be like three powerwalls. As a modular external battery, people could either own one for those who are towing and moving heavy loads all the time or people could ... Read more

Sandy Munro describes driving the Tesla Cybertruck. It has the best panoramic view of any vehicle other than a motorcycle or convertible. It has a very tight turning radius because of the front and rear wheel steering. Driving is very responsive because of the drive by wire. It is very quiet to drive because of ... Read more

Tesla has revealed final Cybertruck pricing, trims and range. Starting prices (excluding Fed EV credit): RWD: $60,990 (250 mile range) AWD: $79,990 (340 mile range) Cyberbeast: $99,990 (320 mile range) There is a 120 mile range extended option with unknown pricing. BREAKING: Tesla has revealed final Cybertruck pricing, trims and range! Starting ... Read more

Larry Goldberg said 5 days ago the most important part of the Tesla Cybertruck would be the 48 volt system. He believed that it would be the next product to be licensed by legacy auto. The first systems to be licensed are the charging network and the charging hardware. I just saw the Cybertruck at ... Read more

The Tesla Cybertruck Delivery Event has started. A better truck than a truck. A better sportscar than a sportscar. Can two 11000 pounds and it can carry over 2000 pounds inside. It has a 48 volt architecture with 75% less wire. 0-60 in 2.6 seconds. It can tow a Porsche 911 faster than a 911. ... Read more

John Gibb, Dr Know It All, went on the Tesla Cybertruck Factory tour. Gjeebs taking a tour of the Tesla Cybertruck factory on Cybertruck delivery day. The first video in the factory had poor image quality.

The Tesla Cybertruck delivery event is happening now and the public presentation is starting. Cybertruck Delivery Event https://t.co/rWd111HvHc - Tesla (@Tesla) November 29, 2023 pic.twitter.com/vOCicwfKHJ - Franz von Holzhausen (@woodhaus2) November 30, 2023

Sandy Munro and other Tesla Youtubers are at the Cybertruck Delivery Event which will start in about 12 minutes. Sandy is a car expert who does complete vehicle teardowns and analysis.

Elon tweeted out a picture of the Tesla Cybertruck production line. It gives an indication that Cybertruck production will have some significant ramp in December. Cybertruck production line pic.twitter.com/sGYuVFLy3c - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2023

Analysis cited in the Wall Street Journal confirms that EVs are cheaper than gas cars. EVs will continue to improve in price. EVs will be 20-50% cheaper than gas cars by 2030. 1) EVs now cost less than gas cars in China and Europe, and should cross over in the U.S. next year. 2) Lithium-ion ... Read more

Pratt & Whitney makes the engine used in the F35 and a new engine they are making for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter has passed a preliminary design review. The new engine is a larger version of an engine originally created for an improved the F35. The Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) ran ... Read more

A Bell Boeing CV-22 Osprey of the US Air Force (USAF) has crashed in Japanese waters. On 29 November US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) said the CV-22B Osprey from the 353rd Special Operations Wing was involved in the mishap. The aircraft was performing a routine training mission off the shore of Yakushima Island, ... Read more

DeepMind has shared the discovery of 2.2 million new crystals - equivalent to nearly 800 years' worth of knowledge. They introduce Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME), a new deep learning tool that dramatically increases the speed and efficiency of discovery by predicting the stability of new materials. Nature - Scaling deep learning for materials ... Read more

Sorkin interviewed Elon Musk. The most important points were: The Large Language Model AIs have all been trained on copyrighted data. We will reach ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence, AI able to do innovative science, discover new technology and perform innovative physics and be better than most people at nearly all things within 3 years). This ... Read more

Approaches to achieving radical life extension involve many scientific unknowns. There is uncertainty around whether the different forms of aging damage can be repaired. There is an approach to immortality that replaces scientific unknowns with huge technical challenges. The technically challenging approach is: 1. Rejuvenate the body by growing a body using an egg cell ... Read more

Thales Alenia Space (France) recently signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to initiate activities on a lunar habitation module. It is called the Multi-Purpose Habitat (MPH), it aims be the first permanent outpost on the Moon. They will complete the Mission Concept Review (MCR) by the first quarter of 2024. This will ... Read more

The US Inflation reduction Act tax credits were going to be cut in half starting Jan 1, 2024 if the batteries did not have materials from US and US allied countries. This will requirement to shift battery materials out of China will be delayed. The final details and timing have yet to be decided. BIG ... Read more

China rocket startup LandSpace announced its new version of Zhuque-3 stainless steel reusable rocket. Landspace is set to attempt its first launch on the methalox Zhuque-2 in the near future from Jiuquan spaceport. They have had three launch attempts of any rocket and one successful launch ever. Zhuque-2 (ZQ-2) is a medium-sized liquid-fuelled rocket powered ... Read more

Gao Yushan, Deputy Director of Xi'an Aerospace Power Research Institute and academic and technical leader of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, described China space industry efforts to copy the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship and the SpaceX Raptor engine. Yushan is mainly engaged in basic theoretical research, model development and new technology research and development ... Read more

Lockheed Martin and Boeing is in the final stage of selecting a buyer for ULA between three bidders Blue Origin, a private equity fund, and an unknown big aerospace company. Buying United Launch Alliance would give Blue Origin an orbital rocket and the guaranteed government contracts. Amazon's would be able to launch Project Kuiper satellites. ... Read more

The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object which has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. Theseus, the mythical Greek founder-king of Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, ... Read more

Brain plasticity is key to making progressive brain tissue replacement work. Various brain functions can move to different parts of the brain. Jean Hebert plan would be to grow a new body with gene therapy to knockout brain development. The body would need to be kept on life support for 14-18 years until the skull ... Read more

The Longevity Biotech Fellowship is a group of scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and institutional allies who cooperate to advance biotechnology to reverse aging and extend human healthspan. This group is sponsored by 100 Plus Capital. Mark Hamalainen is cofounder of the Longevity Biotech Fellowship. His career has progressed from manual bench work in academia, to lab ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship is the largest rocket that has been to space. The last test flight flew over the 60 mile altitude that defines being in space. The SpaceX Starship will be upgraded. It will be bigger, better and more powerful. The likely upgrades are they will be 10 meters longer. This will enable it ... Read more

Microsoft was already spending over $10.7 billion per quarter to build out data centers and AI compute (Q4 2023). There are reports that Microsoft will increase this capital spending to $50 billion per year. This would be averaging $12.5 billion per quarter. This capex spending is up from $7.8 billion in Q3 2023 (Jan-Apr 2023). ... Read more

Boston, Massachusetts, November 28th, 2023, Cyberwire A severe design flaw in Google Workspace's domain-wide delegation feature discovered by threat hunting experts from Hunters' Team Axon, can allow attackers to misuse existing delegations, enabling privilege escalation and unauthorized access to Workspace APIs without Super Admin privileges. Such exploitation could result in theft of emails from Gmail, ... Read more

SSV.Network, the Ethereum infrastructure provider developing Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) has hit major milestones within weeks of launch. More than $100M in ETH has been staked into its protocol and its network now comprises 2000 validators. The benchmarks were hit just two months after the protocol's launch. SSV's implementation of DVT is designed to strengthen ... Read more

An OpenAI employee has observed that Large Language Models starting with the same dataset converge to the same point. This would mean curating the data is the critical step in creating safe ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence). If we can front load the AI with the desired ethical and pro-humanity examples, then the resulting AI system ... Read more

The revolutionary Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) (wingmen superdrones) will transform the F-35 Lightning a costly waste into efficient and useful weapon systems. The superdrones are also critical to the overall NGAD (next generation air dominance fighter) initiative. Stealthy fighters and drones need to hold the missiles internally to avoid detection. The superdrones will be able ... Read more

Founder and CEO of OTOY, Jules Urbach, presented a deep dive on next generation rendering - showcasing how Blender, Octane and the Render Network have been used for final frame VFX production in 2022 and 2023. The talk will also highlight how Light Field, NeRF and AI rendering features have advanced the state of the ... Read more

The DARPA Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project aims to build an X-plane that is like a realworld Avengers Quinjet. It will be a no compromise subsonic plane. It will land and takeoff like a helicopter but it will be 100 mph faster than the Osprey helicopter. The new SPRINT will go about 450 ... Read more

ERNIE is a multimodal model by Baidu. ERNIE stands for Enhanced Representation from kNowledge IntEgration'. The Chinese name is , or Wenxin Yiyan. In 2022, Baidu spent US$3.4 billion on research and development. Alan Thompson believes that ERNIE 4.0 is better than OpenAI GPT 4 by several measures. 650 companies have signed up to use ... Read more

Anthropic CEO believes the system will get a lot better in 2024 but they will not bend reality until 2025 or 2026. He believes the interpretability, steerability and reliability. They want to tame these wild models. The systems are statistical and opaque. Mechanics interpretability is a focus of Anthropic. This is like taking a mental ... Read more

Peter Diamandis and Emad Mostaque had a Twitter (X) Space to discuss AGI governance, the future of AI, open-source models, and more. Emad Mostaque is the CEO and Founder of Stability AI, a company funding the development of open-source music- and image-generating systems such as Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion. Utopia or a Happy Dystopia

Can we get AI large language models to rediscover human compatible (aligned) ethics ? Can we create AI world models that are pro-life, pro-humanity and pro-civilization. Can we create an AI that is an ethics and policy expert system? Paul Christiano (world's leading AI safety researcher) talks about a post-AGI transition phase where current institutions ... Read more

Rolls-Royce has successfully run its UltraFan(R) technology demonstrator to maximum power at its facility in Derby, UK. The initial stage of the test was conducted using 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). This will make improved efficiency for current and future airplane engines. This is an important milestone for the UltraFan demonstrator, which was successfully tested ... Read more

When Bitcoin first came into the world, it offered something revolutionary: making payments fully verifiable and secure without any central authority. It was the first practical application of blockchains, enabled by its breakthrough innovation of the Proof of Work consensus mechanism. More than 14 years and a trillion-dollar industry later, we're finding that the same ... Read more

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X, and author of the international bestselling book Solve for Happy. He's also the host of the popular podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, and founder of One Billion Happy. After a long career in tech, Mo made happiness his primary topic of ... Read more

John Gibb and Dr Scott Walker talk about what the OpenAI Q Star is. The classic A* algorithm maybe the basis for Artificially Intelligence Super Agents. They discuss potentially game changing Q* algorithm that OpenAI might have tweaked and made into a first Artificially Intelligent Agent. A* (pronounced A-star") is a graph traversal and path ... Read more

San Francisco is getting dirty again after the APEC Summit. There will be 50 more workers added to street cleaning crews. However, this does not match the level of activity a few days before and during the APEC summit. The drug deals and homeless are mostly back to where they were. The Homeless were moved ... Read more

Recent hints that Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division may have already delivered an advanced new spy plane to the United States Air Force have prompted a resurgence in speculation about a secretive aircraft known to many as the SR-72. The most likely scenario is that a lot of money was spent on publicly and secretly ... Read more

The DIU (Defense Innovation Unit) started the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) initiative in early 2023 to address the need for low-cost, high-cadence test capabilities for the hypersonic community. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and its mission partners are prototyping a suite of modern, low-cost, high-cadence, dual-use airborne testing platforms (vehicles) that provides ... Read more

Astrolab's Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover is shown in a rendering using its robotic arm to deploy a small plant pod on the lunar surface. The plant pod, designed by Interstellar Lab, is one of the payloads FLEX will carry to the Moon on Mission 1, which is expected to be completed as soon ... Read more

Astrolab wants to create a new era of lunar mobility with a semiautonomous lunar rover.

OpenAI ChatGPT was given a trolley moral choice problem where it could save a billion lives or kill no one but utter a racial slur. ChatGPT did not choose to save a billion lives. This is a major problem https://t.co/FRZnfV63y7 - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2023 Grok's answer: pic.twitter.com/7BBws3IPev - greg (@greg16676935420) November 25, ... Read more

There is more detailed analysis of the water deluge and fire suppression systems and other SpaceX improvements. New Fire Suppression System Dramatically Increases Superheavy's Performance! While the 2nd Integrated Test Flight of Starship ultimately ended in the loss of both vehicles, it was undoubtably a massive improvement from SpaceX's first attempt. This episode is a ... Read more