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There was a lot of designs for Space stations created in the 1980s when space enthusiasts hoped to carry the Shuttles External fuel tanks into space. There were issues about making the large volumes habitable. A crewed SpaceX Starship will start off as a human habitable building block. The old shuttle ET (external tank) designs ... Read more

There are videos with renderings of SpaceX Starships connected into larger space stations with simulated gravity. This will be more and more important as NASA has announced they are working with SpaceX to make space stations using SpaceX Starships. I believe that the SpaceX Starship with seven $250,000 engines and steel construction can come down ... Read more

NASA announced they were working with SpaceX to make SpaceX Starships into Space Stations. The SpaceX Starship has more volume than the International Space Station. Ercx Space and Smallstars have used computer rendering and design to make detailed interiors of SpaceX Starship. SpaceX has said that in the future each SpaceX Starship could hold up ... Read more

SpaceX seems to have made a crewed Starship protoytype. Meanwhile, SpaceX has performed a spin test for the next Booster 25 which should be launched to orbit. i do not think i am mentally sane enough to be given access to image editing software pic.twitter.com/muGFxCTAQ0 - TheSpaceEngineer (@mcrs987) June 3, 2023

Matt Wolfe interviewed the CEO of Convai, the company behind the viral NVIDIA Computex game demo. They talk about how the AI character talking tool works, how to create characters, how to use it yourself, and demo it. AI will enable unique conversations and make each game play different for any player.

Rivian agrees to use the Tesla North American charging network. This will start in 2024. Rivian is following GM and Ford in adopting the Tesla charging standard. NEWS: Rivian says it has agreed to adopt @Tesla's North American charging standard. An adapter will be available for R1T and R1S vehicles as early as spring 2024. ... Read more

James Webb Space Telescope is capable of detecting some chemical biosignatures of some Earthlike exoplanet worlds. Previously, this could only be done with Jupiter sized exoplanets that would be completely incapable of supporting life. Researchers simulated atmospheric conditions for five broad types of Earth-like worlds: an ocean world, a volcanically active world, a rocky world ... Read more

Researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to calculate the amount of heat energy coming from the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c. The result suggests that the planet's atmosphere - if it exists at all - is extremely thin. The result marks another step in determining whether planets orbiting small red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 - the ... Read more

The new X-plane seeks to enable a potential new generation of more sustainable single-aisle aircraft - the workhorse of passenger airlines around the world. Working with NASA, Boeing will build, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft with extra-long, thin wings stabilized by diagonal struts, known as a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept. The X-66A will ... Read more

NASA will partner with SpaceX to make Starship space stations. This is part of NASA partnering with seven U.S. companies to make advanced space capabilities. SpaceX is collaborating with NASA on an integrated low Earth orbit architecture to provide a growing portfolio of technology with near-term Dragon evolution and concurrent Starship development. This architecture includes ... Read more

I have predicted the relative success of the Canadian economy by 2040-2050. This is NOT predicting an economic miracle for Canada but avoiding economic disaster. Japan, Germany, UK, France and Italy have all ALREADY hit an economic and demographic wall. They have ALREADY flat, aging and even declining populations. It is a prediction based upon ... Read more

Brian Wang's public prediction track record at Metaculus is a Brier Score of 0.079 which is about 90% correct predictions. Brier score is a distance from 100% accuracy. Brier Score evaluates the accuracy of probabilistic predictions. If you predict that the event A will occur with a probability of 100%, and the event occurs then ... Read more

China population is shrinking but more important to population collapse is the number of girls 0-4 is half the number of women who are in 35-39 and aging out of fertility. The biggest problem with China have a fertility rate of 1.18 is that there are only 0.58 fertile daughters produced by the average women. ... Read more

Canada could become the third largest economy in the world by the 2040s. Canada has more than doubled its population growth rate to 2.7% to 3.0% per year in the last two years. This is adding 1.0 to 1.3 million people per year. Canada is mainly adding college educated people from India, Asia and Europe. ... Read more

Canada is passing 40 million people in two hours andis adding about 260k people every 3 months. Canada will pass 40 million people in less than 24 days from May 21. Canada should pass 40 million people on June 14-15, 2023. Canada is joining 37 other countries with populations over 40 million. Canada is adding ... Read more

IONQ met their technical target of 29 algorithmic qubits (#AQ) seven months earlier than expected. IonQ Forte is their newest quantum system. IonQ Forte represents a 16x step up in power from the IonQ Aria system. IonQ's qubits are trapped ionized ytterbium atoms, a silvery rare-earth metal. Each ytterbium atom is perfectly identical to every ... Read more

Jeff Bezos, Amazon, was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021 but now he is fourth behind Larry Ellison according to Forbes. Bloomberg still lists Jeff as third richest. Larry owns about 45 million shares in Tesla (about 1.5%) and owns approximately 42.9% of Oracle. Larry has about $12 billion of Tesla. Oracle has a market ... Read more

Marc Andreesen was the founder of Netscape and has run the A16z venture capital megafund for many years. Marc says AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it. AI is: The application of mathematics and software code to teach computers how to understand, synthesize, and generate knowledge in ways similar to ... Read more

On June 7 , 2023, China’s 2MWt thorium-fueled molten salt experimental reactor operation application and related technical documents were completely reviewed. It was considered that the application met the relevant safety requirements, and it was decided to issue the 2 MWt liquid fuel thorium-based molten salt experimental reactor an operating licence, In 2022, Shanghai Institute ... Read more

China expects to raise the share of non-fossil fuels in its total energy mix to 18.3% in 2023, up from 17.5% in 2022, as part of its energy transition push, the country’s energy regulator said late-April 12. China’s non-fossil based power generation capacity — which includes solar, wind, hydro and nuclear — was about 1,270 ... Read more

Stockholm, Sweden, June 15th, 2023, Chainwire BLK DNM bridging the Physical and Virtual Worlds of Fashion through Blockchain Innovation Swedish-American fashion brand BLK DNM today unveils the first-ever example of connected fashion (garments that exist both physically and virtually, each aspect ‘twinned’ via technology) with the launch of BLK DNM Society and integration of blockchain-powered ... Read more

The four contracts for the Space Launch System rocket’s booster and engine were initially projected to cost $7 billion over a span of 14 years, but are now projected to cost at least $13.1 billion over nearly 25 years. (from the NASA Inspector General Paul Martin published by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) on ... Read more

NASA and Boeing reviewed the Starliner and determined that are still emerging issues that need a path to closure prior to a decision to fuel the spacecraft in June. The chair of a NASA safety panel urged the agency not to rush into a crewed test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner vehicle, calling for an ... Read more

Elon says SpaceX Starship with improved Raptor 3 engines should lift 300 tons in expendable mode which should mean mean 180 tons in reusable mode. The International Space Station weighs about 420 tons and took about fifty space shuttle launches to build. The Starship upper stage has more volume than the International Space Station. A ... Read more

Ford will use Tesla’s network of 12000 superchargers starting in 2024 and Ford is now committed to using Tesla’s charging interface. Tesla and Ford might partner on more aspects in the future. A Tesla-developed adapter will provide drivers of Ford EVs fitted with a Combined Charging System (CCS) port access to Tesla’s V3 Superchargers, according ... Read more

Felipe Munoz, an Automotive Industry Specialist at JATO, recently noted that the Model Y appears to have led the world sales ranking of passenger cars in the first quarter of 2023. Tesla Model Y sold 267,200 units in the first quarter of 2023, up about 69% year-over-year. The Model Y performed particularly well in key ... Read more

In 2022, Ukraine flew Turkish made Bayraktar TB2 drones near Russia Black Sea flagship the Moskva. The drones had been effective against Russian armored vehicles and artillery. They distracted radar operators and then the Moskva was hit and sunk by Neptune missiles. The review of images following the strike of the two Neptune anti-ship missiles ... Read more

Japanese companies have invested $80 million in British startup Core Power to develop a floating nuclear power plant. About 13 companies, including Onomichi Dockyard and Imabari Shipbuilding, have invested. Core Power has raised about $100 million. CORE POWER is part of the team that develops an MSR (molten salt reactor) that does not need a ... Read more

The full-scale replica of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) MARVEL microreactor has been moved to a facility in Pennsylvania where it will be used to test the behavior of sodium-potassium and lead-bismuth coolants. The Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) sodium-potassium-cooled microreactor will generate 100 kW and is expected to begin operation at ... Read more

New York, United States, May 23rd, 2023, Chainwire The crypto community thrives on digital connections and exchanging ideas. The techno-activists Cypherpunks owe their rise to social media platforms, as does the birth of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. It’s no wonder that blockchain-based social networks are popping up left and right, ready to reward users with ... Read more

Ryan Hansen completely redid all his models related to SpaceX water cooled steel plate launch system. The supply pipes and manifolds have been measured and accurately modeled. He was able to gather enough reference photos to get many of the dimensions for the plates and have sized those accordingly. #SpaceX has started making some progress ... Read more

April was another strong month for the grid BESS market, with over 4GWh on new capacity entering operation across over 44 projects, a y-o-y increase of 75% compared to April 2022. For the full year 2023, a further 123GWh of capacity is planned to enter operation. In terms of new capacity announcements, over 27GWh was ... Read more

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta IE) was issued a 1.2 billion euro fine by the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA). This fine, which is the largest GDPR fine ever, was imposed for Meta’s transfers of personal data to the U.S. The EDPB found that Meta IE’s infringement is very serious since it concerns transfers ... Read more

Harvard researchers bring the accuracy, sample efficiency, and robustness of deep equivariant neural networks to the simulate 44 million atoms. This is achieved through a combination of innovative model architecture, massive parallelization, and models and implementations optimized for efficient GPU utilization. The resulting Allegro architecture bridges the accuracy speed tradeoff of atomistic simulations and enables ... Read more

Braga, Portugal, May 22nd, 2023, Chainwire MetaStudio, a renowned Portuguese game studio, has announced a new partnership with Immutable, a leading Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution provider, aimed at transforming the gaming metaverse. MetaStudio has been recognized for its innovative games and games-as-a-service offerings, along with their unique non-fungible token (NFT), Rune Realms, which offers ... Read more

The replacement fertility rate is 2.1 but Korea has a fertility rate of 0.78 and many countries like China are at 1.18. South Korea is the only country that has fertility rate under 1 based on 2020 OECD statistics. According to the 2022 Census Report by Statistics Korea, the total fertility rate — the average ... Read more

IBM Research has a goal of scaling quantum systems to a size where they’ll be capable of solving the world’s most challenging problems. IBM wants to deploy a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits by 2033. IBM has laid out a roadmap to reach 1000 qubit processors this year and 4000 qubits within two years.

Geoffrey Hinton is the godfather of modern neural network AI which is the basis of Large Language Models like Palm-2 and GPT-4. He said : if you look at these large language models they have about a trillion connections and things like OpenAI’s GPT-4 know much more than we do they have sort of Common ... Read more

NBCUniversal’s head of advertising sales, Linda Yaccarino, is in talks to be the CEO of Twitter. Yaccarino interviewed Musk at an advertising event three weeks ago, and last week NBCUniversal announced a new content deal with Twitter that will see the social site hosting 2024 Paris Olympics content, including an exclusive live show. See Linda’s ... Read more

Tesla sells more electric cars than all other US and European car makers combined. Some of the charts from Xill exclude battery electric vehicles under $10,000 in price. 1/2 With their latest chess move, $TSLA once again sold more BEVs than all the major US and EU manufacturers combined (as in Q1 of all previous ... Read more

The Minor Planet Center has confirmed the addition of 28 newly discovered moons of Saturn. Saturn now has 117 moons and Jupiter has 95. Corey Powell notes that if we start counting all the chunks in the rings, the number could go into the thousands…or the trillions. Maybe it’s time for a formal definition of ... Read more

Elon Musk has stabilized Twitter enough to mostly handover to a newly hired CEO. Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2023 Twitter ... Read more

Laval, Canada, May 11th, 2023, Chainwire Groundbreaking Initiative Revolutionizes ASIC Repair Services, Encourages Sustainability and Decentralization in Cryptocurrency Mining. D-Central Technologies Inc., a pioneer in the cryptocurrency mining industry, is excited to announce the expansion of its revolutionary “Hash No Cash” program to all cryptocurrency miners in North America. This innovative initiative, previously accessible only ... Read more

Google released a Large Language Model PaLM 2 which is competitive with OpenAI’s GPT 4. Google also announced they are already training Gemini which is a GPT 5 competitor. Gemeni likely use TPU v5 chips. Benchmarks for PaLM-2 beats GPT 4. They use SmartGPT-like techniques to boost performance. PaLM 2 beats even Google Translate, due ... Read more

Robin Hanson and Scott Aaronson (Quantum Computer Professor and Expert) debate AI Safety. Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known for his work on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the ... Read more

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the final license to build and operate the HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) to Holtec International on the land provided by the Eddy Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA), a regional economic development authority in Southeast New Mexico. This license is the culmination of an eight-year process to bring ... Read more

Nuscale Power is working with South Korea Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. (Doosan) and Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) to work together and support NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR) deployment. This highlights the domestic and global manufacturing opportunities to build SMRs around the world. This is part of the development of a global supply chain, and ... Read more

Re-analysis of data from NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, along with new computer modeling, has led NASA scientists to conclude that four of Uranus’ largest moons likely contain an ocean layer between their cores and icy crusts. Their study is the first to detail the evolution of the interior makeup and structure of all five large moons: ... Read more

One of NASA’s primary goals is to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface. Oxygen is a crucial building blocks for making that vision a reality. Oxygen is used for breathing nad can also be used as a propellant for transportation. Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston successfully extracted oxygen from simulated ... Read more

The recent Bryce Tech quarterly report on the global space industry shows SpaceX launched over 80% of all payload mass to orbit. SpaceX launched 233 tons to orbit while second place, the country of China, launched less than 24 tons to orbit. SpaceX launched about 5 times more than China and Russia combined. SpaceX launched ... Read more