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BYD passed Ford as the world's fourth best-selling auto brand in August, Ford's sales dropped in Europe and the US, market research firm TrendForce said in a report today. BYD could reach 8-9 million China sales in about 4 years (2027). BYD is dominant with plug in hybrid but as China electrifies the plug in ... Read more

A discussion with Randy Kirk on how rapidly Teslabot and FSD can be developed and scaled next year. How much financial impact will each make next year ? How fast and how world-changing can things get by 2030 and 2040? Billions in addition profits in 2024 to completely changing our world and civilization by 2040.

Thousands of rockets are being fired from Gaza by Hamas at Israel. There were hundreds of invaders, raiders and kidnappers who were able to cross into Israel. Hundreds are dead and injured. Israel has responded with air strikes and mobilization. Over 50 women and some Israeli police and soldiers were kidnapped. Paragliders and boats were ... Read more

Sherman Oaks, United States, October 4th, 2023, FinanceWire Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, shares insights that 40 of the top 100 mobile games have launched their Web Shop using Xsolla's solution. These insights offer a glimpse into the increasing trend of multiplatform operations in the mobile gaming industry for 2023 and entering 2024. ... Read more

In 2024, the US Air Force will select the vendor the sixth generation NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter and the either GE or Pratt & Whitney for the ATEP engine (Adaptive Engine Transition Program). The Air Force last year awarded contracts worth nearly $1 billion each to aircraft manufacturers Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop ... Read more

Tesla has been producing the Semi in Texas since October 2022. Tesla has also deployed a mobile Megacharger at its Supercharger station in Baker, California. If Tesla adds 750 kilowatt chargers at larger Supercharger locations then they will need to allocate about three times the parking space and three times the power draw as a ... Read more

The Run on Less electric truck and electric depot -truck stop event is over after 18 days. There were 22 trucks. Here we summarize what happened with all of the trucks and the complete payload, mileage and operation for the three Pepsi Tesla Semi. The three Tesla Semi trucks averaged 511 miles per day per ... Read more

Marginal cost of energy by 2030 will approach ~$0.005/kWh. This is about ten times less than most of the energy today. It is essentially making power free and abundant. The big issue will be the realized cost of this energy and will demonstrate, especially in the US, the decrepit and costly delivery infrastructure from the ... Read more

The US Office of Naval Research has provided $100,000 in funding for LK99 room temperature ambient pressure superconducting research at Chapman University. Armen Gulian. professor of physics, Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University was given the funding. Development of Discrete Elements for Superconducting Electronics (Including SQUIDs) for Room-temperature Operation Enabled by LK99 ... Read more

Lithium ion battery capacity is set to grow four fold by the end of the decade according to Benchmark Mineral's Chief Operating Officer Andrew Miller at the Battery Gigafactories Asia Pacific 2023 conference in Tokyo. Global lithium battery capacity is set to grow to 4 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2030 after surpassing the 1 TWh ... Read more

Elon Musk spoke at the International Aeronautics conference in Baku and described the following points: Starlink Version 3 satellites should start deploying next year (2024) the first mechazilla catches of returning super heavy boosters and Starships will be late in 2024 Elon thinks an uncrewed test landing on Mars could be attempted in 4 years ... Read more

The US Air Force has given the first look at the the Air Force's Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile. This will be a hypersonic missile with a supersonic ramjet engine that is scheduled for deployment around 2027. Drawings of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile are below. The scramjet propelled the missile at a speed greater than ... Read more

Antimatter behaves like regular matter under the influence of gravity. Antigravity doesn't exist for antimatter. The experimental results were reported in the Sept. 28 issue of the journal Nature by a team representing the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) collaboration at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. The gravitational acceleration of ... Read more

The new Tesla Model Y RWD likely has changed to Iron LFP batteries from China. The $43,990 price has the full $7500 subsidy this year. This will be because the batteries will be sourced from China but the lithium comes from Australia. This could change next year unless the battery sourcing is adjusted for the ... Read more

The US Air Force and Navy are buying and testing new superdrones that can act as wingmen with existing bombers and fighters. They will have a competition to select the winning superdrones late this year. However, there will be multiple contracts and constantly upgrading superdrones over the next few years and beyond. The superdrones will ... Read more

Without full fault tolerance in quantum computers we will never practically get past 100 qubits but full fault tolerance will eventually open up the possibility of billions of qubits and beyond. In a Wright Brothers Kittyhawk moment for Quantum Computing, a fully fault-tolerant algorithm was executed on real qubits. They were only three qubits but ... Read more

Is radical lifespan extension foreseeable? No one can answer that question with certainty. But there are certainly enough tantalizing clues suggesting that aging is sufficiently malleable to warrant the allocation of very substantial resources. Support the message of the Declaration to add your signature, using the form below, and to urge others to do the ... Read more

There is clear evidence for the rejuvenation of specific biological functions is now available in model organisms for a growing range of treatments. Achieving full medical control of aging, however, will certainly require the use of not just one, but an arsenal of longevity therapies. Aubrey de Grey explained how the Robust Mouse Rejuvenation program ... Read more

Jay Leno drove the Tesla Semi and called it the biggest revolution since trucks displaced rail for most cargo. Heavy trucks are 1% of the vehicles on the road but consume 18% of the fuel. The Semi batteries are operating at 800-1000 volts. It has a low-voltage 12 volt system but they are looking at ... Read more

Layer 1 privacy-as-a-service blockchain Namada announces kan airdrop to $ATOM holders and kickstarts its incentivized testnet with the mainnet launch around the corner. Head of Community at Heliax, Park Feierbach speaking at the Cosmoverse conference in Turkey (Image: X) During the Cosmoverse 2023 conference held in Istanbul, Turkey on Monday, October 2, Namada, the asset-agnostic, ... Read more

Tsubame is Japanese startup, with CEO 25-year-old inventor Ryo Yoshida, that is making real life giant mech robots. The robots are 15-feet-tall and weigh around 3.5 tons. They will sell giant mechs for $3 million each.

Felix Schlang at What About It? reports on the official SpaceX Starship roadmap for 2023-2028. 2024 cargo with SpaceX (starlinks to orbit obviously) 2024 Q3 first recovery of booster and the upper stage. Mechazilla Catches A screen capture of rendering animations made in TijnM youtube video which is embedded below 2025 on orbit fuel storage ... Read more

Pepsi has described its experience of using 21 Tesla Semi trucks for ten months and how they operated during the Run on Less trucking event. In December 2022, PepsiCo took the first delivery of the all-electric Tesla Semi trucks and as of September 1, nearly 680,000 Zero Emissions (ZE) miles have been traveled. Pepsi Confirms ... Read more

Youtuber Pilot Photog has renderings of the likely look of the US Navy's planned F/A-XX 6th generation stealth fighter. The reason Pilot Photog can be quite confident that the F/A-XX will look like this is that a blended wing body (BWB) design. The BWB is what will be used for the Air Force NGAD (Next ... Read more

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has won a contract from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft. The in-space flight demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket engine vehicle will take place no later than 2027. The project is called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO). DARPA partnered with NASA's ... Read more

Microsoft will integrate small modular nuclear reactors and microreactors to power Microsoft Cloud and AI datacenters. Artificial intelligence takes a lot of compute power, and Microsoft is putting together a road map for powering that computation with small nuclear reactors. Data Centers already use 20% of the electricity in the United States. 10% for regular ... Read more

Billionaire David Sacks of the All in Podcast explains how CEO Sam Altman will won most of OpenAI. Sacks says that the funding for OpenAI has been a capped return model. Capped return means that investors get returns up to some multiple say 10X or 100X. When they get their return then there shares revert ... Read more

Nextbigfuture is a top 1% predictor at the public prediction site Metaculus. My overall rank is 45 out of over 5000 forecasters and ranked 31st based on predictions resolved in the past 12 months. Only 8 predictions out of 256 were wrong for predictions resolved in 2023. 248 correct out of 256 predictions resolved in ... Read more

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a $17.5 million contract option to X-energy develop an enhanced engineering design (second mobile reactor) for a transportable microreactor suitable for both commercial and defense use under the Project Pele initiative. X-energy has developed the Xe-Mobile - a power generation system that can be delivered to the ... Read more

The Boring Company (TBC) has been building tunnels at about 40 meters per day. This is for the digging and for the concrete reinforcement of the tunnel. Will at the Boring Revolution Youtube channel has spotted hundreds of hexagonal concrete segments at the Boring Company. This means that Boring Company has changed its tunnel walls ... Read more

Rolls Royce has made nuclear reactors for submarines and is in the second year of a micro nuclear fission reactor design effort. They will use encapsulated uranium fuel aka a pebble bed nuclear reactor. It will have heat pipes to move the heat from the core. The full sized reactor model and design will be ... Read more

Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion power company, and Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer and recycler in North America, announced an agreement to develop a 500 MWe fusion power plant at a Nucor steel manufacturing facility in the United States. This collaboration is aimed at accelerating the future of clean energy in the industrial manufacturing ... Read more

The Tesla Teslabot and the Agility Robotics Digit will both be mass produced in the thousands in 2024. Agility Robotics announced a factory they had started last year would be completed and in production late in 2023. Mass production takes a few months to ramp up. The Agility Robotics factory will have a capacity of ... Read more

One of the Pepsi Tesla Semi Trucks was driven for 1076 Miles in one day. This was on the 17th day when the three trucks had over 2600 miles of combined driving in one day. This shows that Tesla Semis can have multiple fast chargings in one day to give 240% of the trucks range ... Read more

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said 90% of the top 100 advertisers have returned to the platform. In the past 12 weeks alone, about 1,500 have returned. X should profitable 4-6 months. NEWS: X CEO @lindayaX says 90% of the top 100 advertisers have returned to the platform; In the past 12 weeks alone, about 1,500 ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink has introduced double speed priority internet service plans for residential, business and mobile customers. The priority speed will be double the standard service plan speed. The Standard service gets unlimited standard internet download speed. The Priority will have data caps for the higher speed priority service and then unlimited Standard speed. Priority will ... Read more

Boring Company current and highly likely potential projects are mainly in Las Vegas, Texas, California and Florida. Boring Company will make over $600 million to build the Las Vegas system. There are about $1-2 billion of other projects under consideration for Boring Company. IF Boring Company goes slowing it will take 2-3 years to complete ... Read more

China launched its 3rd aircraft carrier in July 2022. It is the first without a skijump ramp for launching planes. The Type 003 uses steam turbines and electromagnetic catapults. It is far larger than the first two aircraft carriers which are more like the size of the US Amphibious Assault ships. China's Type 001 carrier ... Read more

CALSTART has a May 2023 report on the zero emission U.S. medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) truck market (Class 2b-8). It presents deployment statistics for on-road zero-emission trucks (ZETs). Deployments or deployed sales are defined as trucks that have been sold, delivered, and placed into service on U.S. roads. The cumulative number of U.S. MHD ZET ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink has a satellite internet license for India. SpaceX Starlink can soon start competing for millions of potential customers in India. After getting the license, Starlink will become eligible for spectrum allocation, after which it can start providing satellite broadband services. https://t.co/GzbIzeD4cL - Dima Zeniuk (@DimaZeniuk) September 28, 2023 Starlink has fulfilled all regulatory ... Read more

SpaceX Starshield has won a $70 million US Space Force contract. Starshield will offer secure communications to the US Space Force like SpaceX is providing via Starlink for Ukraine. Each secure SpaceX Starshield terminal will likely charge $1000 to $5000 per month. SpaceX has proven secure communications in Ukraine that Russia could not hack. SpaceX ... Read more

This is a summary of the information from the Inertial Fusion Science and Applications 2023 conference and the presentations and announcements from Lawrence Livermore National Labs and the National Ignition facility. There is already an article with more details on the scaling plans. The July 30, 2023 result already improved already got 23% more power ... Read more

Western Australia Police will spend $8.5 million in Starlink equipment and internet services to provide reliable connectivity for 550 police vehicles and 129 regional police stations across the state. WA Police have been running a 12-week trial using Starlink's low orbit satellite technology in some of the most remote parts of the state - Balgo, ... Read more

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) made worldwide news when they reached nuclear fusion ignition in December 2022 but they went beyond that result on July 30, 2023. I am attending the 2023 International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications where there have been numerous presentations by leaders of ... Read more

All of the next generation US fighters and bombers will go for maximum stealth with tailless designs. The B-21 Raider is first as planes have already been built and will be flying later this year. The Air Force plans to have 24-30 of them operational by 2030. The B-21 Raider is a flying wing like ... Read more

The Giant Magellan Telescope begins the four-year process to fabricate and polish its seventh and final primary mirror, the last required to complete the telescope's 368 square meter light collecting surface. The Giant Magellan telescope will use adaptive optics to look through the atmosphere with four times the resolution of the James Webb Space Telescope. ... Read more

SpaceX has more than 8,000 space lasers across the Starlink constellation. Starlink satellites are able to connect thousands of kilometers apart, beyond the view of ground stations, and maintain pointing accuracy to enable data transfer up to 100 Gbps on each link. Starlink's laser mesh network allows us to provide truly global coverage and serve ... Read more

SpaceX announced that Starlink passed the 2 million subscriber mark on Sept. 23, 2023. Starlink is available on all 7 continents, in over 60 countries and many more markets, connecting 2M+ active customers and counting with high-speed internet! Thank you to all of our customers around the world https://t.co/D6L8BSisQq pic.twitter.com/jVfWTEfHkz - Starlink (@Starlink) ... Read more

Oisin Biotechnologies has been able to safely apply gene therapies in humans to remove senescent cells. They were able to identify the bad cells and then applied a therapy to cause those cells to self-destruct. New Oisin Biotechnologies therapies will remove all visceral fat. Visceral fat is a type of body fat that lies deep ... Read more