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Ukraine was able to destroy a submarine and a navy landing ship in dry dock but under the protection of several Russian S-400 anti-missile systems. It is interesting for how they succeeded because it effects how we think about China's air defenses. Ukraine defeated the S-400 anti-missile batteries and radar. Russia has about three times ... Read more

Ukraine used ten UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles to destroy a Russian Kilo Submarine and a landing ship in a Sevastopol dry dock. They were on land in dry dock for repairs. Ukraine fired ten missiles and three got through. Ukraine had taken out a S-400 anti-missile battery in north western Crimea and occupied two ... Read more

Ron Baron is worth over $5 billion, manages about $45 billion in his stock funds and he and his funds are a top 20 owner in Tesla. He has picked multiple big winners in Tesla, SpaceX, Gartner, Arch and CoStar Group. As a big and early Tesla investor, Ron frequently talks personally with Elon Musk ... Read more

If Bill Gates had kept his 45% share of Microsoft from after the IPO then he would be worth $1 trillion and not $129 billion today. This would also need to factor in Bill Gates donating about $57 billion to charities. He almost completely missed the stock booms from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and Netflix. ... Read more

There are real world range tests for Tesla Semi, Freightliner eCascadia and other electric Semi trucks at the Run for Less event. Truck average driving speed is critical to the comparison of the real world ranges. People who lived through the 1970s and 1980s know that there was strict enforcement of 55 mph speed limits. ... Read more

The U.S. Air Force announced today the B-21 Raider has started engine runs as part of its ground test program at Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, California, facility. Engine testing is an essential milestone for the program as the world's first sixth-generation aircraft continues on the path to flight test. A first flight in the next few ... Read more

Walter Isaacson biography 94th chapter is about AI for humans. This describes the origin, purpose and some details about X.AI. Elon Musk was musing that he was certain he could make Twitter (now X) into the largest financial institution in the world. However, he wanted to spend his time on more meaningful things. One of ... Read more

The Run on Less Event is testing electric semi trucks with real world deliveries to test their range and payload performance. Tesla is getting up to double the range of many of the competing electric trucks. Freightliner is owned by Daimler and they are the largest semi truck company in the world. There are also ... Read more

The Run on Less - Electric DEPOT is an 18-month study and demonstration event that explores how trucking fleets can scale up from one or two electric trucks to 15 or more. The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) and RMI are hosting the event, which is scheduled for September 11-30. The event will ... Read more

Bill Gates bet billions against Tesla in a method called short selling. Short selling involves borrowing a security from a broker and selling it on the open market. Short selling adds liquidity to a market by increasing the volume of buying and selling above normal levels. This volume would not exist without short sellers. The ... Read more

Scientists are accelerating quantum simulations for the first time at supercomputing scale, thanks to NVIDIA cuQuantum with Xanadu's PennyLane. Shinjae Yoo is leading the computational scientist and machine learning group lead at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory where many researchers are running quantum computing simulations on a supercomputer for the first time, ... Read more

The United Auto Workers has lowered their pay increase demand to 36% from 40%. Ford, GM and Stellantis (Fiat-Chrysler) don't think much of the offer, according to people familiar with the offer. The Big Three US automakers have proposed about 10-15% over five years. If there is no agreement then a strike will start this ... Read more

Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others. Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk will be released tomorrow. Walter describes how Elon can visual the material science, manufacturing processes and even crash tests. Walter can give 500 examples of this special ability. ... Read more

There are some people observing that gasoline has 12700 watt hours per kilogram vs EV batteries with 160 to 450 watt hours per kilogram. Gasoline needs to have an engine and gas tank and other parts to make the vehicle do anything. The battery pack of an electric vehicle is most of the mass of ... Read more

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed K2-18 b whic an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth. It is showing the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide. Webb's discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that K2-18 b could be a Hycean exoplanet, one which has the potential to possess a hydrogen-rich atmosphere ... Read more

CATL of China is mass producing generation one sodium ion batteries starting next month. The first factory has about a 40 GWH per year capacity. China has 16 out of 20 globally planned or built sodium battery factories according to Benchmark Minerals. CATL's first-generation sodium battery generates 160-watt-hours per kilogram. This is 10% less energy ... Read more

A recent Morgan Stanley 66 page report on Tesla makes the case that Tesla AI, Dojo training computer and the FSD (full self driving system) can be as critical to Tesla share price as AWS (amazon web services cloud computing) was to Amazon. AWS has become 70% of the Amazon's profit (EBIT). This means the ... Read more

Businesses want a 100% complete AI systems that can be trained directly with just data. This is what OpenAI was able to do with ChatGPT and large language models. This is what Tesla has been able to achieve with version 12 of FSD (Full self driving). The Tesla FSD v12 was demonstrated for nearly one ... Read more

Morgan Stanley raised their target on Tesla to $400. Details of Morgan Stanley's 66-page upgrade report for Tesla to now overweight" with a Price Target of $400 (from $250): - Catalyst: Dojo, V12 of FSD and next AI day (early 2024) - Dojo (purpose-built super computer to train FSD) can add up to $500bn of ... Read more

Computational theorists believe that the LK99 structure is promising and have discovered ways to improve LK99's structure. The researchers think it is essential to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between the LK-99 structure and properties, which could further open up new avenues for even high-temperature superconductivity (HTS). LK-99 was reported to have Tc ... Read more

There is the possibility of a UAW (United Auto Workers) strike starting this Friday. If the strike lasted ten days it would cause $5.6 billion in losses to US GDP and would send Michigan into a recession. A strike could also help non-union carmakers like Tesla and foreign car makers. Shawn Fain, the combative president ... Read more

Elon Musk tweeted out his congratulatins to SpaceX for completing and documented the 57 items required by the FAA for Flight 2 of Starship. He said taht 6 of the 63 items refer to later flights. Congrats to SpaceX for completing & documented the 57 items required by the FAA for Flight 2 of Starship! ... Read more

There are many people who have the opinion about interstellar travel being impossible. They are looking at our current immature economy and immature space capability. They then extrapolate about some one off interstellar mission. We need to look at how humanity broke out of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea with a fleet of exploration ships. ... Read more

Being able to use antiferromagnets will make computer memory that is more energy efficient and smaller, faster with less corruption issues. Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a new way of reading data in antiferromagnets. There were no practical methods to read data from antiferromagnets. Computer memory traditionally comprises silicon ... Read more

Lam Research Corporation is a $17 billion wafer-fabrication equipment maker. They are simulating and designing next generation computer memory. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which involves the steps that create the active components of semiconductor devices and their wiring. They expect the semiconductor industry to evolve from 2D to 3D DRAM ... Read more

The SLS is the world's most powerful rocket and will enable NASA to return humans to the moon. NASA requested $11.2 billion in the fiscal year 2024 president's budget request to fund the program through fiscal year 2028, in addition to the $11.8 billion spent developing the initial capability. NASA) does not plan to measure ... Read more

John Gibb (aka Dr Know it All) predicted the in 2020 Cybertruck like design elements of the Tesla Next Generation car. Yesterday, the Elon Musk Biography by Walter Isaacson revealed that the Tesla executive and engineering teams have designed a cybertruck like robotaxi and next generation vehicle. John Gibb went to a first principles design ... Read more

Axios has a copy of a section of the Walter Isaacson biography of Elon Musk, which covers how the development and design of Robotaxi and next generation car. Elon was for a couple of years adamant about going to the robotaxi only and not wanting a cheap next generation car. Franz von Holzhausen and his ... Read more

Walter Isaacson explains how in the early stages of Russia's war with Ukraine, Russia knocked out a lot of communications and internet access. Elon and SpaceX have provided 20,000 Starlink terminals which were vital for sustaining Ukraine's economy and critical communication in the company. Lauren Dreyer, SpaceX's director of Starlink operations, began sending Musk updates ... Read more

Similar Web tracks the traffic of internet websites and for August, 2023 they recorded that Nextbigfuture.com had more traffic than MIT Technology Review. Thanks to all my existing and new readers for all of the past and future support. Nextbigfuture was in the top 40,000 of all websites globally, top 20,000 of all websites in ... Read more

The FAA has closed the investigation into the problems with the last SpaceX Super Heavy Starship orbital test launch attempt on April 20, 2023. the FAA cites multiple root causes of the April 20, 2023, mishap and 63 corrective actions SpaceX must take to prevent mishap reoccurrence. The corrective actions include: * redesigns of vehicle ... Read more

Copenhagen Atomics has raised over 25 million euros and has developed full scale reactor hardware for molten salt thorium nuclear reactors. Almost a decade ago Copenhagen Atomics was founded based on a dream dream of a world powered by scaleable and green energy more affordable than coal; a thorium molten salt breeder reactor. They are ... Read more

Hyun Tak Kim and other members of the original korean LK99 room temperature superconducting team should have an American Institute of Physics Materials journal paper published in about 3 to 5 weeks. They submitted a version and have been asked to make revisions. The key information that I would like to see is verified or ... Read more

People compare the count of how many F-35s have been built versus how many China J-20 stealth have been built. There is a comparison of the annual production rate. However, a very important comparison is how many of them are fully available, fully usable and fully capable are they to perform their needed roles?

An Israeli team have made the first complete embryo model that mimics all the key structures that emerge in the early embryo. Instead of a sperm and egg, the starting material was naive stem cells which were reprogrammed to gain the potential to become any type of tissue in the body. Chemicals were then used ... Read more

The US Air force fiscal 2024 budget includes nearly $50 million to start a program called Project Venom - or Viper Experimentation and Next-gen Operations Model - to help it experiment with and refine autonomous software loaded onto six F-16s. The Air Force wants to develop a fleet of at least 1,000 collaborative combat aircraft, ... Read more

The US military announced the Replicator initiative as the latest effort to overcome the production valley of death to speed up and make thousands of all-domain attritable autonomous systems. This will organize dozens of small programs into a focused small drone and combat AI effort. Currently, small kamikaze drones with 10-40 kilometer range (like the ... Read more

The ABBA Voyage, digital hologram show, are a success and could continue forever like the Mamma Mia stage show. Mamma Mia has been running for over 20 years. The hit show, staged in a purpose-built arena in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, welcomed its one-millionth visitor back in April, 2023 and is still playing to ... Read more

SpaceX has stacked the Starship on the Super Heavy booster. Elo said Starship is ready to launch, awaiting Federal Aviation Administration license approval. Fully stacked Starship on the launch pad at Starbase pic.twitter.com/cebFZEVrJZ - SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 6, 2023 pic.twitter.com/9THX2Zp2ur - SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 6, 2023 Starship is ready to launch, awaiting FAA license approval ... Read more

A Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries. Above is a photo of a different Cruise incident where a Firetruck hit a Cruise. Have not found a ... Read more

Professor Young-Wan Kwon is one of the original Korean LK99 research team. A team from Korea University led by Lee Sukbae () and Kim Ji-Hoon () began studying this material as a potential superconductor starting in 1999. In July 2023, they published preprints claiming that it acts as a room-temperature superconductor at temperatures of up ... Read more

There are reports that starting from September 11th, the production capacity of the new Model 3 will have reached 1200 units per day. This would be 108,000 per quarter. This would mean Tesla could produce and sell more new Model 3's in September than most of the prior months in China. There would be no ... Read more

Two years ago, the world started an affordable interstellar sample return space program. The Galileo Project is an international scientific research project to systematically search for extraterrestrial intelligence or extraterrestrial technology on and near Earth. It was launched in 2021 by Harvard University astrophysicist, Avi Loeb. The project had a deep-ocean expedition which retrieved small ... Read more

Ontario's population is where California was in 1960. They both had almost 16 million people. California added 4-6 million people each decade for the next 50 years. Canada has added 2 million people mostly through immigration in the last two years and 44% of those people go to Ontario. Canada is on pace to add ... Read more

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is expected to continue its mission until about 2025. Its radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) will no longer supply enough power to operate its scientific instruments. NASA is limiting the Voyagers' processes to keep them operating until 2030. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977. They are identical probes that ... Read more

Ticketmaster may just be the villain the world cannot defeat. It is hated by fans, artists, and even the event organizers who are locked into exclusive contracts. Playing the part well, former Ticketmaster CEO Fred Rosen famously responded to the hate by replying I have no sympathy for people whining about high ticket prices. . ... Read more

The US Navy is requesting more than $9 billion for its F/A-XX sixth generation fighter project over the next five years. The plan is to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The two statements are very revealing. The US Navy is not talking about replacing the F-35C. Why? The F-35C only had its first trial deployment ... Read more

Avi Loeb discusses his expectation that unmanned alien space probes would vastly outnumber manned alien spaceships. This is certainly the case for the human space program where we have sent out about one hundred manned missions but have sent tens of thousands of unmanned missions over seventy years. In an interview, Avi explained that it ... Read more

In July 2023 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced they will scale its laser technology to a new benchmark: a 500 kW-class laser, the most powerful laser Lockheed Martin has produced, topping its 300 kW-class laser power level developed under a contract from the Department of Defense. This is the second phase of the High Energy ... Read more

Tesla's Shanghai Megafactory will start construction in a few weeks and start production in the second quarter of 2024. We expect to start building the Megafactory for energy storage products in the near future, and the products will be mainly used for export," Xinhua quoted Tesla China president Allan Wang (Wang Hao) as saying in ... Read more