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Taalas and Etched are two AI chip startups aiming to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware market. Etched is using ASIC chips. Taalas is using eASIC chips. They are both putting the logic into the hardware instead of using software on top of GPUs. There is the potential to get 100 to 1000 times ... Read more

In the first Mission Impossible movie there was the NOC List. The Non-Official Cover List was a list of covert operatives of the Impossible Missions Force, showing their codenames and their real names. The reason it was so important? The only reason spies and their network are safe is because the enemy does not know ... Read more

The Hacksmith created a system for tracking eye motion to target shoulder mounted lasers. This is the equivalent functionality as superman's heat vision. AdHawk and Wicked Lasers made the lasers. AdHawk Microsystems: https://www.adhawkmicrosystems.com/ Wicked Lasers: https://www.laseros.com/ Eye-tracking technology enables laser control @thehacksmith#Science #Technology pic.twitter.com/4tm5kYCNdq - TechnoSci Hub (@TechnoSciHub) September 20, 2024 This hacking to ... Read more

I asked various AIs to answer how was Skynet built. There is the clip of the scene in the Terminator 2 movie and some of the quotes. You can see how well today's AI did. The better real world processors are coming every few months. The Nvidia B200 will ship in volume in the next ... Read more

Information from the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear energy relays the Constellation Energy announcement of plans to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1. This shows the massive demand for electricity for AI data centers is reviving the nuclear energy industry. Constellation signs its largest-ever power purchase agreement with Microsoft, a deal that will ... Read more

The Mars Society explored the idea of using advanced robotics for Mars exploration, as evidenced by competitions like the Telerobotic Mars Expedition Design Competition. Elon Musk and Tesla and SpaceX teams have talked about adapting the Cybertruck for Mars. Elon has joked that the Cybertruck is the official truck of Mars. Robotically controlled Cybertrucks could ... Read more

Israel set up a company in 2022 just to sell pagers that would end up with Hezbollah and other enemies. There are some online indications of company history going back to 2019. They registered it in May, 2022 and got the license to make them from the real Taiwanese company Gold Apollo. Most of the ... Read more

The Institute for the Study of War reports that Hamas Brigade in Rafah and Khan Younis are now militarily ineffective and three other brigades are substantially degraded. This goes through actual statistics of Hamas military effectiveness in Rafah and Khan Younis and mentions the degradation in the other three brigades. This also reviews the US ... Read more

Linkedin is using your data to train its AI. Here is the link to opt-out. Opt out if you want to keep your data for yourself or force them to pay you. Many of the services that you use online are choosing to use your data for AI. It is prudent to opt-out and at ... Read more

Silver Spring, Maryland, 19th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

SpaceX Starship flight 5 is delayed for and FAA license but SpaceX had a successful static fire for Starship flight 6. Flight 5 is built and ready to fly. Flight 6 will be ready to fly before Flight 5 even gets approved by FAA! https://t.co/wh7z0zjqR6 - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 19, 2024 Elon Musk just ... Read more

The book aims to provide an in-depth look at how SpaceX, initially a shaky startup, transformed into the world's leading spaceflight company. It highlights the team's trials, tribulations, and triumphs in revolutionizing space travel through reusable rockets. Eric Berger describes crucial moments and stories from the SpaceX team. He talks about creation of the Falcon ... Read more

Tesla Semi Program Manager Dan Priestley gave a keynote address and Tesla Semi update at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover, Germany on Tuesday. The Pepsi drivers who use the new electric Tesla Semi say that do not want to go back to driving diesel trucks. Tesla has deployed megawatt charging that will charge the ... Read more

There has been Israeli air force attacks on buildings and missile launchers in Lebanon and operated by Hezbollah. An IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) division (10000 to 20000 soldiers) are being moved to the border and joins about 20,000-30,000 other troops. Israel has had two major operations the pager explosives and ICOM radio explosives. The Israel ... Read more

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points and they revealed the reserve members are currently leaning to another 50 by the end of 2024 and another 100 points in 2025. The US interest rates are a huge impact on the world economy and to technology companies.

The radiation dose for the 2.5 year round trip between Earth and Mars should give approximately a 1% lifetime increase of a fatal cancer. SpaceX Starship will totally change the situation on payload and travel times. The Starship will be refueled in Earth Orbit. All NASA missions to Mars have launched with multiple stages get ... Read more

Neuralink has proven its electronics to brain connection device and now has FDA approval for a Blindsight device. It would be a real life version of the Geordie Laforge's visor in Star Trek the Next Generation. The Neuralink Blindsight device will try to restore vision, particularly for individuals who have lost their sight or those ... Read more

Mercedes, BMW and Tesla are the leading car companies by profits per car with over 500,000 cars sold for the first 6 months of this year. This is for all kinds of cars. (Battery electric, Plug in hybrid, hybrid and combustion engine). Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche had very high profits per car but far lower ... Read more

Israel booby trapped about 5000 pagers used by Hezbollah. The update on the Pager explosions is there are 12 dead, 2800-4000 injured and 400 serious or critically wounded in Lebanon. There were also 19 dead and 150 wounded in Syria. The Syria casualties were Iranian Republican Guard. IOT - Internet of Targets This operation maps ... Read more

Multiple Hezbollah ICOM radios detonated across southern Lebanon and Beirut, causing significant damage and numerous injuries. Several explosions occurred during a funeral in Beirut, where Hezbollah officials were present. HEZBOLLAH ICOM RADIOS EXPLODE ACROSS LEBANON Multiple Hezbollah ICOM radios detonated across southern Lebanon and Beirut, causing significant damage and numerous injuries. Several explosions occurred ... Read more

Nassau County Police had previously reported explosives were found planted in a car at Trump's rally site in Long Island. The rally was planned to start at 7pm. Video shows thousands had already gathered. UPDATE - Nassau Police report that no explosives were found. FOOTAGE: Nassau County Police have found explosives planted in a car ... Read more

Austin, TX, 18th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

Cary, North Carolina, 18th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

J.P. Morgan predicts that Viasat, a competitor of Starlink, could lose up to $80 million of revenue per year due to @SpaceX's new deal with United Airlines to equip its entire fleet of over 1,000 airplanes with Starlink internet service. The feature comparison of Starlink vs Viasat for passenger aircraft service is: Bandwidth Speed Viasat: ... Read more

There are reports that hacking caused pagers to explode. Exploding devices could have left 1200+ (and 1500-2000) Hezbollah terrorists hospitalized and some in critical condition. While there are multiple reports. Confirmation is needed of many of the factors (fog of war). We don't really know if it happened and do not know any possible death ... Read more

The economics for AI chips has to work for Chip builders System builders Data center operators Application builders Paying customer (end users). The bigger large language models are at 400 Gigabytes or more and mixture of experts is at 1.8 terabytes. TechTechPotato interviews AyarLabs and makes the case that optical connections between chiplets is needed ... Read more

SpaceX launched and returned commercial astronauts in the first crewed Polar mission and that mission included a space walk. Three countries (US, Russia and China) have performed Spacewalks on their own with their own rocket own facilities. The European Space Agency has not launched crewed mission or missions to the ISS. Astronauts from 12 countries ... Read more

SpaceX satellites built for the US Space Development Agency demonstrated direct satellite to satellite laser communications in space using optical terminals compliant with military standards. U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) director Derek Tournear said Sept. 4. that two SpaceX-built satellites successfully exchanged data using optical communications terminals. The satellites, part of SDA's Tranche 0 experimental ... Read more

Boston, USA, 16th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

Barcelona is one of the most loved city break destinations in Europe. With its ingenious city design, there are many great neighbourhoods to stay in. Choosing the right area is important to get the most out of your stay, depending on what you're looking for. Gothic Quarter (Barri Gotic) The Gothic Quarter is what first ... Read more

United will add Starlink high speed internet to all of its passenger planes in 2025 and will offer free Wi-fi internet with streaming gaming to passengers. United will use high speed internet and entertainment as a competitive advantage. Starlink will make about $80-100 million per year providing this service. IF all other airlines need to ... Read more

OpenAI o1 is a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers-it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user. OpenAI o1 ranks in the 89th percentile on competitive programming questions (Codeforces), places among the top 500 students in the US ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, 13th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

Jim Fan is one of Nvidia's senior AI researchers. The shift could be about many orders of magnitude more compute and energy needed for inference that can handle the improved reasoning in the OpenAI Strawberry (QStar) approach. This could mean far more powerful and energy intensive chips needed to run inference. Nextbigfuture had previously analyzed ... Read more

Hermeus is breaking ground on a new engine and flight test facility HEAT will accelerate US hypersonic development, offering increased testing cadence for not only Hermeus, but the DoD and larger defense industrial base. Hermeus has selected Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida for its hypersonic engine test facility. Named HEAT (High Enthalpy Air-Breathing Test Facility), ... Read more

Polaris Dawn in polar orbit has the first successful commercial space walk. It is an altitude three times higher than the International Space Station. SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world." - Mission Commander @rookisaacman #PolarisDawn pic.twitter.com/F17Fq5ItQD - Polaris ... Read more

Silver Spring, United States, 12th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

Bloomberg reports OpenAI is in talks to raise a $6.5 billion round at over a $150 billion valuation. They are also talking to banks about a $5 billion credit line. The latest funding round, led by Thrive Capital, gives OpenAI a significantly higher valuation than its $86 billion appraisal earlier this year. Apple and Nvidia ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 12th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

Japan plans to spend about $761 million to build a Zettaflop supercomputer. It is called Fugaku Next. It will be built by Japanese companies RIKEN and Fujitsu, which were both involved in the construction of Fugaku. The AI training clusters with lots of GPUs can get to a peak of a Zettaflop but this is ... Read more

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope's ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered. The results, which are important for understanding the formation of the Solar System, were obtained through an international collaboration between the Subaru Telescope and ... Read more

Google Quantum AI has just proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing is possible. For the first time ever, a logical qubit meets all criteria, demonstrating that Quantum Error Correction is effective. Here is the link to the research paper. Many challenges remain. Although Google might in principle achieve low logical error rates ... Read more

The FAA and Fish and Wildlife are forcing SpaceX to undergo a redundant environmental review. There has been no changes since flight 4. There is no need for another environmental review. The 60+ day delay pushes it to November 10, 2024 or later. The US election is November 5, 2024. Elon Musk is now a ... Read more

A theory I have is that eventually stock markets and company value will inflate after a run of inflation. If prices double then eventually all inputs and outputs are repriced at double. In 1972, the price of an average car like the Chevy Vega or Pinto was about $2000. The Nasdaq was trading at about ... Read more

The Limiting Factor describes how battery design improvements, assymetric lamination and adding silicon doping can increase the energy density of Tesla 4680 batteries by about 20% over the next two years. Tesla is not competitive with the best high lithium nickel batteries in the world. If Panasonic and other competitors cannot implement the improvements at ... Read more

Canada added about 5 million people in 5 years and will pass 42 million people shortly. The pace of Canada's immigration and acceptance of new people is running at 1.4 to 1.5 million people each year for the past 2 years. The new people are not yet contributing fully to the economy. For 2025, Canada ... Read more

Palo Alto, USA/California, 11th September 2024, CyberNewsWire

More and more people are starting to decry the lack of progress from AI-driven companies that promised large numbers of drugs would come to market by now. And what they've produced is neither novel nor performing well in clinical trials. Major Failures The largest players in the space have seen several drug candidates shelved or ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy vehicles for Flight 5 have been ready to launch since the first week of August. The flight test will include our most ambitious objective yet: attempt to return the Super Heavy booster to the launch site and catch it in mid-air. SpaceX recently received a launch license date estimate ... Read more