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Another levitating flake of LK-99 superconductor from China. A third levitating LK-99 superconductor replication video has dropped from China https://t.co/mCewSbYD9X Caveat here is that they then measured the resistance and found it to have high resistivity, so more work needs to be done to get both levitation + zero resistance samples pic.twitter.com/Q6OTDjaReI - Floates0x (@floates0x) ... Read more

Under the guidance of Professor Chang Haixin, postdoctoral Wu Hao and doctoral student Yang Li of the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology they have successfully verified and synthesized the LK-99 crystal. It can be magnetically levitated for the first time and this is shown on a bilibili ... Read more

Sabine Hossenfelder predicted that the first superconducting replications will fail and then we will never hear of LK-99 and doped Larkanite superconductors again. The first replication failures is correct. However, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulation supporting LK-99 and the Shenyang national lab first principle paper suggesting using gold and silver to dope to make ... Read more

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulated this using heavy-duty compute power from the Department of Energy, and looked to see what would happen to the electronic structure' of this material, meaning, what are the available conduction pathways in the material. It turns out that there are conduction pathways for electrons that are in just the right ... Read more

China Arxiv - First-principles study on the electronic structure of Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O (x=0, 1) Junwen Lai,1, 2, , Jiangxu Li,1, Peitao Liu,1, Yan Sun,1, and Xing-Qiu Chen1 1Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 110016 Shenyang, China. 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science ... Read more

Arxiv - Semiconducting transport in Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O sintered from Pb2SO5 and Cu3P Li Liu, Ziang Meng, Xiaoning Wang, Hongyu Chen,Zhiyuan Duan, Xiaorong Zhou, Han Yan, Peixin Qin*, Zhiqi Liu* School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China The very recent claim on the discovery of ambient-pressure room-temperature superconductivity in modified lead-apatite has immediately ... Read more

The SEC told Coinbase you need to delist every asset other than bitcoin. We believe every asset other than bitcoin is a security. JUST IN - The SEC told Coinbase you need to delist every asset other than bitcoin." We believe every asset other than #bitcoin is a security." pic.twitter.com/wlG6J6qew1 - Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) July ... Read more

If reports that Argonne National Lab has completed synthesis of LK-99, proposed room temperature superconductor from South Korean researchers, are correct then characterization information should be released in 1-3 days. This would be consistent with the expectation that major labs are trying to replicate, falsify and investigate the LK-99 material. Quotes from the Journal Science ... Read more

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Tata Sons, the parent company of Tata Group, has announced it will build a new global battery gigafactory in the United Kingdom with a capacity to produce 40 GWh of battery cells annually. This will entail an investment of over four billion pounds. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is owned by Tata Motors, which is a ... Read more

SpaceX has had 52 launches in 2023 as of July 31. SpaceX will attempt up to 100 launches (may include Starship) in 2023. July 1, 2023 SpaceX launched the Euclid space telescope. Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine the redshift ... Read more

Llama 2 is a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. Meta fine-tuned LLMs, called Llama 2-Chat, are optimized for dialogue use cases. The models outperform open-source chat models on most benchmarks they tested, and based on their human evaluations for helpfulness and ... Read more

Here's an attempt at a summary in a form of a blogpost, AI's tend to ... lose detail but I've tried to work around this, cannot verify 100% since I don't speak Chinese Attempting to Reproduce the Room Temperature Superconductor This highly anticipated experiment has generated... - Alex Volkov - targum.video (@altryne) July 31, 2023 ... Read more

Reuters recently published a special report claiming that Tesla has rigged the algorithms in their vehicle software to display rosy range estimates on the dashboard readout and that Tesla has even organized a special team who is tasked with canceling range related service appointments. If a Tesla customer complains about range. Tesla does a remote ... Read more

There are at least a dozen publicly announced or rumored replication efforts. Iris Alexander claims to have replicated and seen some Meissner effect. There is a partial list of the known professional and amateur efforts at replicating the LK-99 superconductor experiments. It is partial because something this potentially huge and this simple will have hundreds ... Read more

Hyun-Tak Kim wrote a paper on diamagnetic shielding for high temperature superconductors in 2001. Hyun-Tak Kim is one of the six people who wrote the LK-99 room temperature superconductor paper. He is very familiar with diamagnetism. Hyun-Tak was brought in a few years ago when the Korean team knew they needed help to get it ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, was interviewed at the Brighter with Herbert Youtube channel on Robotaxi, Robotrucks, robofactories and roboEverything. Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is and will ... Read more

The Physics Institute has successfully produced a sample of the LK99 superconductor and replicated its magnetizing qualities. However, the Meissner effect, a key characteristic of superconductors, has yet to be observed. The issue seems to lie in the purity of the superconducting material, which is currently only a few percent. Despite this, the conversation implies ... Read more

Whether LK-99 is superconductor mainly hinges on it having zero resistivity and the work getting confirmed and replicated. This zero resistance was shown in data at a material science conference in Korea yesterday. Still awaiting confirmation and replication which is ongoing by many groups worldwide. pic.twitter.com/3dIaCE3kBT - FittingMechanics (@FittingMechani1) July 28, 2023

The Oppenheimer movie has brought up the question of whether two fission bombs were needed to end the war with Japan. This question requires understanding the situation in 1945. Germany did not surrender until after Berlin was taken. Germany was pushed back to near its own borders by Dec, 1944. Germany was mainly defending within ... Read more

South Korean researchers published papers suggesting they had discovered a room temperature superconductor. However, another paper with resistivity charts shows resistance that is like regular copper. A group in China is reported to have made the LK-99 material and is not getting superconductivity. However, it is early and we are waiting for published results for ... Read more

I think the new regular pressure room temperature superconducting work will prove to be the start of the field of quantum well superconductors. NOTE: The South Korean paper still needs to be replicated and confirmed. Extraordinary claims need a lot of verification and study. The work can be mistaken or wrong. Other researcher are within ... Read more

The ongoing AI revolution has continued to seep into several unique domains, with the travel industry being no exception. To this point, the dramatic rise of AI in recent months has impacted the sector to such a degree that it has not only made it more personalized and engaging but also helped streamline complicated booking/ticketing ... Read more

DARPA and NASA are advancing toward the goal of the world's first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine via DRACO, the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations. DARPA has finalized an agreement with Lockheed Martin for the company to begin work on the fabrication and design of the experimental NTR vehicle (X-NTRV) ... Read more

South Korea only had 18,988 births in May, 2023 which is the lowest births since the agency started compiling the data in 1981. This was a drop of over 5% from May 2022. The number of deaths in the country moved up 0.2 percent over the period to 28,958, resulting in a natural decrease in ... Read more

Unlike, superconductor research that has extreme temperatures or pressures, the recent LK-99 work by South Korea [Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Hyun-Tak Kim] has the levitation effect for classic superconductors shown. The YCBO superconductors needed extreme cooling to show this effect. NOTE: Levitation is possible with diamagnets. There is uncertainty if this is just a strong ... Read more

Testimony in congress states that the U.S. recovered non-human' biological materials. They also claim that about 95% of UFO sightings are NOT reported. United States Air Force (USAF) officer and former intelligence official David Grusch claimed that unnamed officials told him that the U.S. federal government maintains a highly secretive UFO recovery program and is ... Read more

The Federal Reserve raised interest rate by a quarter point today and signaled another hike is at least on the table in coming months amid a solid economy. The federal funds rate was changed from 5.25% to 5.5%. This is the highest level in 22 years.

An early application of practical room temperature superconductors would be to enable 2 month trips to Mars. Paihau-Robinson, an industry leader in high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet development, is undertaking a five-year research programme into the application of its proprietary magnet technology to applied-field magneto plasma dynamic (AF-MPD) thrusters-a type of electric space thruster. Applied-field magneto ... Read more

There have been reports that South Korean researchers have made a practical regular atmospheric pressure room temperature superconductor using basic lab equipment. This would mean superconducting wires and magnets that would not need special cooling. Depending upon your application you might still want to cool the system but you could use regular refrigerants. We had ... Read more

HONG KONG, HONG KONG, July 26th, 2023, Chainwire OKX, a leading crypto exchange by trading volume and Web3 technology company, has published its industry-best ninth consecutive monthly Proof of Reserves (PoR), showing a balance of USD$11.3 billion in BTC, ETH and USDT. OKX's PoR covers 22 commonly used digital assets and demonstrates that OKX has ... Read more

For the first time in the world, researchers (From Korea University, Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Hyun-Tak Kim) have succeeded in synthesizing a room-temperature superconductor (Tc>=400 K, 127C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Critical temperature (Tc), Zero-resistivity, Critical current (Ic), Critical magnetic field ... Read more

Very advanced civilizations could graduate from using regular stars for power and use black holes. Manufacturing of antimatter is hugely energy-inefficient, and antimatter is difficult to contain. The process of generating a Black hole from collapse is naturally efficient. It would require millions of times less energy than a comparable amount of antimatter or at ... Read more

As with many technologies, zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are easy to understand at a high level but hard to master on a fundamental one. It's a bit like knowing that 2 + 2 = 4 yet struggling to explain how you know it to be true. A cryptography degree is not required to talk ZKPs ... Read more

Las Vegas, Nevada, July 25th, 2023, Chainwire Xandeum, a trailblazing blockchain startup committed to accelerating humanity's transition to decentralized control, announces its highly anticipated launch on July 30, 2023, at 11:00 am PT. Leveraging the power of blockchain technology, Xandeum's mission is to empower collective self-determination by creating a scalable, blockchain-based storage layer for smart ... Read more

General Patton: I don't want any messages saying I'm holding my position.' We're not holding a goddamned thing. What is the best strategy for a hyper-advanced space civilization to guarantee its survival? A hyper-advanced space civilization will need to have mastered nuclear fusion, molecular nanotechnology, AI and genetic biotechnology and all physically possible science, technology ... Read more

Web3 and its decentralized protocols are creating more opportunities for budding moviemakers to transform their ideas from simple scripts to big-screen blockbusters. For decades, the moviemaking industry has been dominated by the biggest film studios, and anyone who wanted to produce a big picture film had little option but to try and convince the likes ... Read more

Cerebras Systems and G42, the UAE-based technology holding group, announced Condor Galaxy, a network of nine interconnected supercomputers, offering a new approach to AI compute that promises to significantly reduce AI model training time. The first AI supercomputer on this network, Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1), has 4 exaFLOPs and 54 million cores. Cerebras and G42 ... Read more

Willemstad, Curacao, July 24th, 2023, Chainwire Last year, the Fairspin platform launched two associated loyalty programs: Play To Earn and Hold To Earn. Within the first one, it is possible to receive TFS tokens as a rakeback; using the second one, it is possible to increase them thanks to the holding without any risks. Both ... Read more

CEO of Twitter Linda Yaccarino says X is the future state of unlimited interactivity - centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking - creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we're just beginning to imagine. X is the future state of unlimited interactivity ... Read more

The Great Depression was a global event in the 1930s. There are proposed definitions of economic depressions, which are * a decline in real GDP exceeding 10%, or * a recession lasting 2 or more years. A recession is defined as negative economic growth over two quarterly GDP measurements. This is 6 or more months ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, discussed my ideas about Tesla Robotaxi, Robotrucks, RoboFactories and RoboEverything with Randy Kirk. Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is will speed up this ... Read more

It is the year 2200 and the world has 250 million people. What has happened? Was there a total nuclear war and followed by a famine? Was there a terrible super-pandemic? How can the world have fallen from over 8.1 billion people in 2023 to 250 million. How can there be only 3% of the ... Read more

The new Tesla GigaBerlin production building will be 700*700 meters. This will be larger footprint than the current Tesla Berlin factory. It will be a multi-floor building and will likely end up with about 11 to 12 million square feet. This would make the new addition the single largest factory in the world. There is ... Read more

Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is will speed up this year and beyond. Robotaxi could require the system being 10 to 100 times safer than the ... Read more

DARPA has selected 11 organizations to begin work on the Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program. Selected teams are Applied Materials, Inc., Arizona State University, BRIDG, HRL Laboratories, Intel Federal, North Carolina State University, Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, PseudolithIC, Raytheon Technologies, and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging. Development of 3DHI technologies creates the ... Read more

The UK government wants a backdoor into end-to-end encryption communication applications, but Apple says they would rather remove iMessenger and Facetime from iPhones in the UK. Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. The UK ... Read more

Tesla reported that the 4680 batteries grew 80% in Q2 versus Q1. This was from one production line in Texas and the California test line. Tesla reported 10 million cells were made in Texas from the start of production to June. This was 0.86 GWh of cells. The growth of 4680 battery cells was mainly ... Read more

D-Wave Quantum Annealing systems are providing real business value to Mastercard and other companies. Steve Flinter of Mastercard presented a live demos of quantum-hybrid applications. The live demo showcased the technology's applicability and potential impact in the financial services industry, with an application for customer loyalty and rewards programs. Mastercard is able to use D-Wave ... Read more

The colliding planar shock (CPS) platform should deliver precise measurements of the characteristics of warm dense matter (WDM), a state of matter exhibiting properties of both solids and plasmas. This is a change where high energy physics experiments alone could provide accurate, clear-cut data without needing to rely so heavily on the predictions of models. ... Read more