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Elon Musk has said that Tesla will move FSD (Full Self Driving) out of beta with Version 12. Version 12 won't be beta - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023 They are actually much more than point releases, but the team is reserving 11.420 for the big one - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023 ... Read more

NASA is working with seven U.S. companies on next generation Space Station designs. ThinkOrbital, Vast and Sierra Space/Blue Origin have interesting designs. NASA is also talking to SpaceX and Northrop Grumman and Voyager/Nanoracks. Think Orbital will use a CanadaArm to assemble hexagonal and pentagram pieces that will be stacked during launch. They will be assembled ... Read more

DeepMind's Gemini is a large language model that works with text and is similar to GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. Deepmin CEO Demi Hassabis says his team will combine LLM with AlphaGO reinforcement learning. Gemini will still take months to complete and hundreds of millions of dollars. Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, said in April that creating ... Read more

Finish startup Steady Energy aims to build a nuclear district heating plant using a planned LDR-50 small modular reactor (SMR) by 2030. The company was spun out from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - has raised EUR2.0 million (USD2.2 million) in seed funding led by VTT, Yes VC and Lifeline Ventures. The LDR-50 ... Read more

Philadelphia, United States, June 27th, 2023, Chainwire TinyTap, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands and the leading edtech platform for user-generated educational games, and Open Campus brings the power of gamified learning and blockchain together at Booth #210 in the ISTE Live 23 Conference from 26-28 June 2023 in Philadelphia, PA. TinyTap leverages blockchain technology to ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, June 27th, 2023, Chainwire OKX, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading Web3 technology company, today launched its new Nitro Spreads' feature on its institutional Liquid Marketplace, an OTC, futures spreads and options liquidity network, allowing traders to make complex basis trades with simple one-click execution. Basis trading is a ... Read more

Tony S and other in the Ringwatchers Discord have three new possibilities for vents for the hot staging of SpaceX Starship. Elon Musk described continuous thrust of several booster engines while the upper stage Starship separates and also engages its engines. This change could enable a 10% increase in payload to orbit. This would be ... Read more

Tesla is still selling more pure electric cars (BEV) than its rival BYD. BYD had more hybrid and battery electric car unit sales. However, fewer pure BEV sales. May, 2023, BYD plug-in car sales results: BEVs: 119,603 (up 124% year-over-year) PHEVs: 119,489 (up 96% year-over-year) Total: 239,092 (up 109% year-over-year) BYD plug-in sales Jan-May 2023 ... Read more

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is developing the next set of innovative technologies to enable human and robotic space missions. The NASA Strategic Technology Framework guides how STMD makes investments categorized into four themes: Go, Land, Live and Explore. Each includes specific strategic outcomes that span 18 technology capability areas. Dr. Julie Kleinhenz, NASA's ... Read more

James Cameron knew that the submarine was lost on Monday. He said communications and location transponder was lost at the same time on descent. James Cameron went three times deeper than the Titanic wreck in his own submarine that went to the bottom of the Marianas trench. The submarine community wrote to the company to ... Read more

For years, Alphabet's Waymo, Tesla and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles will be here soon. However, we are currently short of the promised robotaxi capabilities. Here is a summary of the current situation. Tesla Full self-driving beta for city streets to roughly 400,000 customers in North America. FSD is bought by about 10% of ... Read more

Dover, USA, June 26th, 2023, Chainwire MetaBlaze, a pioneering Web 3 Gaming, and AI Company, is building momentum as they approach its upcoming Q3 launch. Between strategic partnerships with household Crypto Gaming brands, a sold-out presale, and a never-before-seen AI-Integrated NFT collection, the MetaBlaze ecosystem is primed for its next evolution stage. MetaBlaze Reaches $4M ... Read more

Mars Direct 3 offers a modular approach to solving the many challenges for a SpaceX Starship Mars mission. This includes the development of a new Mars lander -based on SpaceX's Starship vehicle- to serve as the crewed ship, while keeping the Starship as a cargo ship, though a Starship-only approach is also considered. Mars Direct ... Read more

Harvard professor Avi Leob team of two dozen researchers and support staff spent two weeks and 1.5 million dollars on bringing a tenth of a millionth of the debris mass from the IM1 interstellar meteor to the deck of their ship. They plan to analyze this material thoroughly in the coming weeks and publish the ... Read more

Elon Musk told Ashlee Vance 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. Musk said, describing the switch to hot staging. There's a meaningful payload-to-orbit advantage with hot-staging that is conservatively ... Read more

Prigozhin and Wagner have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin's grip on power. This is being reported by Reuters. The fighters of the Wagner private army run by former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin were already ... Read more

Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, appears to have moved fast and taken Rostov - southern military command. He knows where the Russian military leadership is. He has sent his forces into Moscow. Wagner and Prigozhin could win if enough of the Russian army flips or stays neutral. Wagner would then just need to take out FSB ... Read more

Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to have launched an armed rebellion on June 23 to force a leadership change within the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) which is unlikely to succeed. Prigozhin amplified a video from a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel on June 23 which reportedly shows the aftermath of a missile strike on a ... Read more

There are reports of fighting between Wagner group mercenaries and regular Russian army. There are reports that Putin is in hiding. Russia's FSB security service accused Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin of calling for an armed rebellion" when he vowed retaliation after claiming Moscow's military killed a huge amount" of his mercenaries in a strike ... Read more

BA Rehl and presumably Youtuber Common Sense Skeptic make the following claims: 1. Starlink won't be profitable and will fail. It needs to be in a higher orbit. 2. Starship won't become operational and won't complete Artemis 3. 3. CyberTruck will not exceed 50k units/year, 250k total. 4. Tesla facing bankruptcy by 2027. Youtuber Common ... Read more

SpaceX has been recovering and reflying fairings. Two fairing cost about $6 million each. Reusing them ten times brings the amortized cost to $600k for the two fairings flown on each launch. I think the SpaceX statement might mean that the total number of reused fairings is ten. Just like when they say they have ... Read more

On Sunday, the U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost. While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the incident commander to assist with the ongoing search and ... Read more

There are several companies working to develop solutions for space debris and some are working on refueling, recovering and reusing satellites. Outpost is working to make satellites re-usable. They plan to build in a heatshield (shown above) that would enable a satellite to return to earth. After re-entry, they want to deploy a high altitude ... Read more

There are various Youtubers who make weekly videos attacking SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk. They are able to make a few thousand dollars a month making these attack videos. One of these people is someone who calls himself the Common Sense Skeptic". He claims that SpaceX Starlink will not live up to its promises. Incorrect ... Read more

There is some debate on how many people could fit inside SpaceX Starships that are converted into Space Stations. We can get a better maximum estimate by looking at the Apollo mission and German and American submarines. Apollo's Command Module had a diameter of 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) and a height of 11.4 feet (3.47 ... Read more

Hurun is a maker of wealth reports and list with a British founder. Hurun Report is run by former Forbes rich list researcher Rupert Hoogewerf, publishes its own count every April, two months after Forbes. Founded in 1999, Hurun Report is a private company that produces lists and research. Hurun report claims China tops the ... Read more

The US Coast Guard told a press conference there was a catastrophic implosion" on the lost submarine. Rear admiral Mauger confirmed that parts of the Titan were found approximately 1600ft from the bow of the Titanic wreck. He says he cannot confirm whether the five bodies can be recovered, saying it is an incredibly unforgiving ... Read more

BBC and CNN report that the debris is the external part of the lost submarine. OceanGate Expeditions (owners of the Lost Submarine) said it believes the five passengers on board the missing Titanic wreckage-bound submersible have died. The Horizon Arctic's ROV (remotely operated vehicle) found debris on the sea floor near the Titanic wreck. Debris ... Read more

Joe Rogan says Zuckerberg went undercover with a covid mask and fake name and won a Blue belt competition. Others are not as impressed. Mark Zuckerberg could soon fight Elon Musk.

Avi Loeb is looking for objects that have crashed into the Earth which based upon their speed and angle indicate they originated from outside the solar system. We have been unsuccessfully using SETI to detect communications from alien technological civilizations. However, we know that humanity has over 2 billion tons of garage every year and ... Read more

There is a new report from the US Coast Guard looking for the lost OceanGate Titan submarine. The Titan submarine is a 21 foot long tourist submarine that can go down 13,000 feet to the wreck of the Titanic. BREAKING UPDATE: BBC and CNN report that the debris is the external part of the lost ... Read more

Robotaxis on public streets are causing dozens of problems each month for firetrucks, ambulances and police cars and city traffic. California state agencies have set up the rules where city leaders cannot block autonomous vehicle regulation. San Francisco and Los Angeles are fighting the expansion of robotaxi operations. Thee Los Angeles Department of Transportation and ... Read more

Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22nd, 2023, Cyberwire The industry's first-ever directory of virtual Chief Information Security Officer service providers has gone live today at www.thevcisodirectory.com. This extensive list of virtual CISO (vCISO) providers, collated by Cynomi, means that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can easily tap the expertise of qualified cybersecurity professionals to protect their ... Read more

Physicist Avi Loeb and his team have used NASA data of meteor impacts to identify interstellar meteors. The NASA data was so good they were able to pinpoint a candidate meteor that hit near Australia. They believe have recovered pieces of that meteor and begun analyzing parts. They believe it is interstellar and has technological ... Read more

Mark Zuckerberg is creating a Twitter competitor at Instagram. The internal codename for the app is Project 92" and it could be called Thread. They are talking to creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run. Oprah Winfrey could join. Meta chief product officer Chris Cox talked about ... Read more

A Canadian aircraft searching for the missing Titan submersible detected underwater noise" on Tuesday from the vicinity of the location where the crew was touring the wreck site. Former submarine commander Capt. Don Walsh explains how deep submarine dives report every 15-30 minutes to their surface ship. He explains how the sonar buoys can triangulate ... Read more

Tesla is starting production of the Dojo AI training Supercomputer next month. Tesla will have 13 Exaflops of AI training by the end of 2023 and 100 Exaflops by the end of 2024. Jan 2023 3 Exaflops of AI compute, 10,000 Nvidia A100 June 2023 5.5 Exaflops, 17,000 Nvidia A100 Oct 2023 13 Exaflops, 40,000 ... Read more

Space News has an article by Justin Fauntleroy, who is a government contractor responsible for writing future concepts and doctrine for the U.S. military, specifically the Joint Staff and Naval Warfare Development Center. Justin describes how SpaceX will not just monopolize space launch but also satellite production. Starshield is a new SpaceX program that offers ... Read more

In 2022, Nextbigfuture noted that China's economy had basically stalled out. China's economy was extraordinary and outperformed relative to other countries for decades. It did this by catching up. China's economy will be stalled for the 10-15 years as its population and working age population shrinks and ages. However, after the stall is the steep ... Read more

Mexico City, Mexico, June 21st, 2023, Chainwire ENO, the native token of an emerging wine industry platform, has been listed on LATOKEN. The news marks a milestone in the history of wine while cementing LATOKEN's reputation as a testbed for innovative new tokens. The ENO platform aims to provide access to a rapidly expanding wine ... Read more

During an interview with CNBC/Mad Money/Jim Cramer, Ford CEO Jim Farley dismissed the Tesla Cybertruck as a high-end product targeted at Silicon Valley rather than a truck for real working people. In the United States, Ford F-Series deliveries totaled 170,377 units in Q1 2023, an increase of about 21 percent compared to 140,701 units sold ... Read more

Anti-China channels are reporting of thousands of abandoned EVs. It is unclear exactly when the video of the registered EV in fields were taken. Thousands and even tens of thousands of sold and abandoned vehicles does not necessarily make a big deal in the big picture. There are normally millions of cars on dealer lots ... Read more

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, June 21st, 2023, Chainwire Struct Finance, a DeFi platform that enables investors to engage with tailored structured financial products linked to digital assets, today announced the mainnet launch of its innovative Interest Rate Vaults and unique tranching mechanism. Amid the highly volatile crypto industry, users can now invest in products tailored ... Read more

Rolling Stone was the first to reporta n aircraft heard sounds at 30-minute intervals from the area where the sub disappeared, according to internal emails sent to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone. A Canadian plane searching for the missing Titan submersible, which failed to return Sunday from an expedition to the wreckage of the ... Read more

NASA and SpaceX are partnering to build Space stations using SpaceX Starship. NASA and SpaceX have not revealed or developed plans for their Starship based space stations. Cuzza Futurism has some designs for space stations built using standard and redesigned SpaceX Starships and some other components. The first is a space station built using 16 ... Read more

If we connect SpaceX Starships for space stations and rotate them for artificial gravity then we have to make sure they are rotationally stable. A Space Station with three SpaceX Starships with one in the center for docking is not rotationally stable. A two SpaceX Starship system is rotationally stable. The central structure for docking ... Read more

A submersible taking tourists to the wreck of the Titanic has disappeared. It is still not found. Apologies, a source that said it was found was fake. NOTE: The original article had to be deleted to accelerate removal from Googla mobile pages and search. The comments on the original article pointed out that major new ... Read more

Elon Musk announced to the press that he will invest in India. Presumably this will be some kind of Tesla factory. Based upon India taxing and custom duties of vehicles, Tesla will likely at least assemble vehicles in India. Custom duties for fully built cars are about 70-100% while assembled vehicles are far less. BREAKING: ... Read more

A submersible taking tourists to the wreck of the Titanic has disappeared. Apologies, a source that said it was found was fake. It had about 72-96 hours of emergency air and survivability. The tours are run by OceanGate, an expedition startup with a focus on the deep sea. Local submarine expert Greg Williams says the ... Read more