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Our current space telescopes have found thousands of exoplanets based upon the slight variation in movement that they cause to the stars they are orbiting, but we have not seen the reflected light from those exoplanets. NASA has a count of exoplanets and candidate exoplanets. We need better and larger space telescopes so that we ... Read more

Ramat Gan, Israel, September 5th, 2023, Cyberwire Reflectiz, a cybersecurity company specializing in continuous web threat management offers an exclusive, fully remote solution to battle Magecart web-skimming attacks, a popular type of cyberattacks involving injecting malicious code into the checkout pages. As the Holiday Season approaches, online retailers face the challenge of protecting their websites ... Read more

Japanese researchers have used computer simulation and the orbits of several large objects past Neptune to calculate that there is Kuiper Belt planet (KBP) 1.5-3 times as massive as Earth, located at ten to twenty times further than Neptune (250-500 au). A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits ... Read more

Tesla had strong August China sales and electric vehicles have passed the tipping point in s-curve adoption. There are a few different tipping points for s-curve adoption (5% market share, 10% and 15%). EVs have passed a crucial tipping point in 23 countries signaling the start of mass adoption. Once sales hit a 5% inflection ... Read more

SpaceX has 61 successful launches of Falcon rockets so far in 2023. Elon indicates they will target 10 flights per month for the 4 remaining months of the year to hopefully reach 100 launches. They will tehn increase to 12 per month in 2024 which would get SpaceX to 140-150 launches in 2024. This is ... Read more

Canada is growing its population by 1.4 to 1.5 million people per year via a robust immigration program and 44% of the people are going to Ontario. 20% of new Canadians go to Alberta, 15% to BC and 13% to Quebec. California's population peaked 4 years ago at 39.5 million and is now 39 million ... Read more

Small melted prices of the IM1 interstellar meteor have been found and measured. The tiny pieces have levels beryllium (Be), lanthanum (La) and uranium (U), dubbed BeLaU" that are hundreds of times above solar-system rocks. Can we determine whether IM1 was natural or technological in origin? The team led by Avi Loeb of Harvard who ... Read more

The top five manufacturers of high-temperature superconductors hold over 95% of the global market. These companies are: Sumitomo, American Superconductor (AMSC), Furukawa, Fujikura and SuNam. There are also makers of low temperature superconductors and medium temperature superconductors. Superconducting wires are classified as low-temperature (LTS), medium-temperature (MTS), and high-temperature (HTS). Low-temperature superconductors (LTS) are made from ... Read more

Present-day volume prices of HTSs (high temperature superconducting) wire and tape range from $150 to $200/kA-m (kiloAmps per meter). Many analyses of the commercial viability of superconducting applications show that a conductor cost of $50/kA-m (kiloAmps per meter) is the tipping point for widespread application for electric power use. Jun 2023, Journal Science The prospects ... Read more

Northrop Grumman believes a good defense against Unmanned Aerial System (aka drones) Threats requires a comprehensive, end-to-end approach. They have a uniquely capable of providing an integrated, layered solution across the kill chain. The C-UAS architecture and system of systems approach starts with sensing and tracking. It delivers a layered defense that includes a full ... Read more

NASA Commercial Space Capabilities office and SpaceX have a 24 page agreed plan to develop the SpaceX starship into a low earth orbit space station design by 2028. This is unfunded and aspirational. The parties will cooperate to try and make it happen. SpaceX with successful Starlink commercial services will have the funds to make ... Read more

Pulsar Fusion is creating fusion rocket able to move astronauts at 500,000 mph which is twenty times faster than the 24,791 mph speed of fastest a crewed rocket has ever flown. The company has raised over $133 million in funding across 19 funding rounds with 65 investors. Pulsar recently partnered with aerospace R&D company Princeton ... Read more

Jamming systems can neutralize drones by causing them to crash, land, or return to the operator. They work by blasting electromagnetic noise at the radio frequencies that drones use to operate and emit information. This drowns out the conversation between a drone and its operator. The UK estimates that Ukraine is losing 10,000 drones each ... Read more

Tesla has lowered the starting prices of the Model S and X below $80,000 and reduced the price of FSD to $12000. Farzad has provided a table of the current pricing of all Tesla models and where he expects the Cybertruck and next generation cars to be priced. Nextbigfuture has long term analysis of batteries ... Read more

CATL of China is mass producing generation 1 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

Car Wow, youtube channel, has a reveal of the new Tesla Model 3. It will have the same price but more range. It will go on sale in Europe in October. The starting price will be 42000 british pounds. Tesla has changed 50% of the parts on the car. Tesla is also releasing two new ... Read more

There is a report from sources in China that the new Tesla Model 3 will be announced in China on September 1 for a price of RMB199800 (US$27500). Several in the Tesla and Tesla China community are claiming the rumors and leaks are fake or wrong. There are claims that the pictures are real but ... Read more

Various unfortunate events have been some blaming climate change. The Maui fire, Canadian wildfires, years of California wildfires and food inflation. Maui Grass Problem Maui did not fix its vegetation problem for years. The root cause of the Maui fire was addressed in the Wall Street Journal, NY Times and other reporting. The WSJ titled: ... Read more

Harvard's Avi Loeb reports that the Galileo Project just completed the early analysis of 57 spherules from the crash site of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1. How do they know the meteor was of interstellar origin? It was detected before impact and was traveling at a speed beyond solar system escape velocity and from ... Read more

Gotion, a major Chinese battery company will be mass producing the Astroinno L600 LMFP battery cell in 2024. It has 15% more energy density than this years ground breaking CATL M3P battery. In May, 2023, it was announced that the L600, which has passed all safety tests, has a weight energy density of 240Wh/kg, a ... Read more

Lockheed has made experimental X-59 plane to test ways to quiet the sonic boom of future commercial supersonic planes. What's the X-59 been up to recently? We're glad you asked. We moved the aircraft to a run stall on the flight line for further ground testing, including vibration testing. It's aiming to quiet the ... Read more

Canada passed 40 million people just 75 days ago but is now on track to have added 300,000 people in 77 days. Canada was adding about 300,000 people each year from 2000 to 2010, but the pace of the last 75 days is 1.44 million people per year. This pace of immigration will reach 50 ... Read more

Jordan Giesige has unraveled the composition, cost and performance of the CATL M3P battery. CATL is the largest EV battery maker in the world with about 36% global market share. CATL is launching its new M3P battery but there has been confusion about what the M3P battery composition, cost and performance. CATL is likely launching ... Read more

OpenAI released ChatGPT for the enterprise that aspires to be a general AI assistant for all office workers. OpenAI also announced that it is passing the $1 billion per year in revenue runrate ($80 million per month now). This is about triple the level of revenue 12 months ago. 80% statistic of Fortune 500 companies ... Read more

Video only learning from end to end neural networks in Tesla FSD 12 is like the large language model Chatgpt. Adding more video data and compute will make Tesla FSD vastly better in months. Tesla FSD is also the basis for the real world AI for Teslabot. Tesla FSD, robotaxi level FSD and factory and ... Read more

Dr. Jordan B Peterson and Stephen J Shaw discuss the Birthgap, a term recently coined by Shaw- and the subject of his documentary. They examine the invisible causes of the global population collapse. They describe one of the very bad but not worst case scenario: total societal collapse due to a lack of new children ... Read more

Helicity Fusion is developing fusion propulsion for space ships. They have built and are testing their first fusion gun and are testing it in the lab. They plan to have four fusion guns and a compressor by the end of the year. They will NOT reach fusion conditions for a few years. They plan to ... Read more

Human rating the SpaceX Starship could take a few years after it is flying successfully to orbit. However, the SpaceX Starship could fly unmanned into orbit and even dock with the ISS Space Station. ErcXSpace has some renderings of what the SpaceX Starship looks like in orbit and docked with the Space Station. It would ... Read more

SpaceX has launched over 5000 Starlink satellites but about 4000 are working in the right orbital location and 600 are moving into position. If SpaceX is successful in launching the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship to orbit then by the end of next year SpaceX will have launched all of the 7500 approved full sized Gen ... Read more

Over 70% of the World's population live in countries that are below replacement fertility levels and this includes poor countries like India and Pakistan. 30% of the World's population is in countries that have declining populations and this includes China, Japan, South Korea, Italy and Spain. Replacement fertility is 2.07 which means a women will ... Read more

China's LK99 wikipedia reports that University of Electronic Science and Technology of China , South China University of Technology , Central South University are making LK99 samples which could have one-dimensional superconducting chains. These are translations of incomplete research reporting and wikipedia entries. However, the basic point is that there is a lot experimental work ... Read more

Kings College of London and University of Colorado researchers looked at LK99 by going beyond density function theory analysis with a different analytic approach. They looked at electron and hole doping, within the QSGW (quasiparticle self-consistent GW ) framework. They conclude that while LK99 might or might not be superconducting, it has interesting properties that ... Read more

The US Air Force will undergo a major transformation over the next ten years by adding new superdrone wingmen with existing fighters and bombers and then the introduction of the next generation B21 stealth bomber and then the new NGAD fighter. The US Air Force has been testing some superdrones that can work as wingmen ... Read more

Elon Musk had a twitter space which talked about how great FSD 12 is. FSD 12 drove nearly flawlessly and it was a completely neural net version of the FSD software. (Full self driving). However, Elon Musk said things that were bullish for Nvidia and AI. * the world will be compute constrained for a ... Read more

Researchers at the University of Rochester have successfully transferred a longevity gene from naked mole rats to mice, resulting in improved health and an extension of the mouse's lifespan. Mole rats can live ten times longer than mice . Naked mole rats, known for their long lifespans and exceptional resistance to age-related diseases, have long ... Read more

The Chinese navy is reportedly testing the planet's most powerful coil gun which can accelerate a 124kg projectile in a firing test to a speed of 700km/h in less than 0.05 seconds. It was the heaviest known projectile to be used in a coil gun experiment. A normal torpedo move at 58 mph and have ... Read more

The US Air force has requested $5.8 billion to build 1000 to 2000 XQ-58A Valkyrie fighter jet companion drones over the next five years. They can cruise at 550 mph and fly at up to 45,000 feet altitude with a range of 3,000 nautical miles. The NY Times reported each Valkyrie will cost between $3 ... Read more

Launched over four years ago, Masterworks is well regarded as the first-ever fractional art investment platform, bringing together two concepts which have been around for a while: fractionalized investment, which splits high-ticket assets into a number of more affordable shares, and investing in blue-chip art as an asset class. While the combination of these two ... Read more

Derek Lowe writes part-time editorials for the Journal Science and he has commented on the LK99 developments. Derek's original hope was since the preparation of the material was relatively simple that replication of the material might be straightforward. This. . .has not been the case. Not anywhere even near the case. He then describes how ... Read more

According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the telescope's aperture diameter. To achieve higher resolutions, telescope systems with ever larger primary mirrors are therefore being designed, making them extremely expensive and technologically challenging ... Read more

A researcher makes the case that in cosmic scale terms, it is a very fast transition from having the start of intelligence and technology to becoming a Dyson sphere scale civilization. A Dyson Swarm or Dyson Sphere civilization would be one that uses all of the energy of a star to power its civilization. The ... Read more

Elon Musk livestreamed his drive with version 12 of FSD. It pulled over to the side and parked. It handled round about and new road work. There was one intervention in a 50 minute drive. The car was stopped at an intersection and then started to move when the left turn lane light turned green. ... Read more

Futurists Robin Hanson and Brian Wang talk about how the global population crisis can send the world into an innovation and economic dark age which could ruin all hope for other positive future scenarios. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. A shrinking and aging population can lead to ... Read more

UCSB Dr. Philip Lubin and his team have NASA, Breakthrough Starshot and other funding to develop laser power beaming to propel missions for eventual interstellar space goals and nearterm orbital and in solar system missions. They have been developing the hardware and the science. They have written over 2000 pages of research. They are now ... Read more

Dr. Norte describes the state of the art for Starchip Nanosails. The Starshot Breakthrough initiative has been funding a 4 by 4 meters sail that weighs one gram. This will be propelled by a 100 Gigawatt laser array to travel at 20% of lightspeed to Alpha Centauri. He has made 4.5 centimeter by 4.5 Centimeters ... Read more

Starship Super Heavy Booster 9's second static fire was a success. The water deluge system worked to protect the launch pad and launch tower. SpaceX appears to be weeks away from another Super Heavy Starship orbital launch attempt.

Jeffrey Gleason describes how to increase the space propulsion beaming range of an ion beam from 0.1 AU to 1000 AU by pinching the ion beam. He also describes getting 50 kilowatts per square meter of power by placing the beam generator at 0.05 AU (about the distance that the recent Parker Space Probe has ... Read more

Here is a video of the Indian rover on the south pole of the moon.

OTOY has created, BrigadeTM, a real-time rendering engine for video games and for its Star Trek videos and work for the Roddenberry Archive. They use path tracing to render images as opposed to rasterization like most other 3D game rendering engines. Path tracing is an extension of the ray tracing algorithm. It simulates many light ... Read more

Get ready for millions of Starlink dishes built and sold every month. SpaceX is completing a 521,000 square foot Starlink Ground equipment/dish factory. The factory has the area of three Costcos which average about 180,000 square feet. SpaceX is currently making 150,000 Starlink dishes each month. Starlink has over 4000 Starlink satellites in space and ... Read more