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Harvard's David Sinclair and his research team have identified six chemical cocktails, which, in less than a week and without compromising cellular identity, restore a youthful genome-wide transcript profile and reverse transcriptomic age. Rejuvenation by age reversal can be achieved, not only by genetic, but also chemical means. Molecules that reverse cellular aging and rejuvenate ... Read more

Geordie Rose (CEO) and Suzanne Gildert (CTO) look at their PhoenixTM humanoid robot and CarbonTM- their AI that they are developing towards AGI (artificial general intelligence). They explore the role of simulation in achieving Artificial General Intelligence and other technical aspects of their path to AGI. In March, Sanctuary AI announced it completed its first ... Read more

Rob Mauer of Tesla Daily has some highlight notes from the X.AI twitter space and Farzad has a supercut of the Twitter space. It sounds like Elon said that Tesla work on AI seems to have given them insights into AGI. Tesla over-complicated the problem. This suggests that simplifying and scaling up their systems could ... Read more

Sanctuary AI is a Canadian humanoid robotics company iwth over 100 million in funding. They want to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Sanctuary AI general-purpose robots can be operated in three modes: directly piloted by people; operated by people using pilot-assist; ... Read more

Fourier Intelligence will mass produce humanoid robots. They plan to make 100 GR1 humanoid robots units by the end of 2023. They will mainly target robotic R&D labs. GR-1 will be able to carry patients from the bed to wheelchairs and help pick up objects. It is still in the research and development phase. Fourier ... Read more

A Blue Origin rocket engine exploded during testing in June 2023. During a firing on June 30 at a West Texas facility, a BE-4 engine detonated about 10 seconds into the test, according to several people familiar with the matter. A dramatic explosion destroyed the engine and heavily damaged the test stand infrastructure. NOTE: We ... Read more

China, Guowang, has filed a spectrum application with the International Telecommunication Union for two constellations with the cryptic names GW-A59 and GW-2. This will be a 12992 satellite constellation. Chinese Aerospace conglomerate, Kasich, has large constellation satellite plans in August 2017 They announced plans for a constellation of 156 satellites with individual satellite capacities of ... Read more

Tel Aviv, israel, July 14th, 2023, Chainwire Spacemesh is proud to announce today, that after five years of work, they will at long last be performing network genesis on July the 14th at 08.00 UTC. Spacemesh chose the date of July 14th, which commemorates the storming of the Bastille, as the day to launch the ... Read more

China has started to construct an ultra-low orbit satellite constellation of 300 satellites. These 300 will be for communications and remote-sensing satellites orbiting the globe, providing a global ultrafast response capability within 15 minutes. The first satellite in the constellation will be launched in December. The launch of a nine-satellite cluster for service verification is ... Read more

This July, NASA is sending a team of four six-unit (6U)-sized CubeSats into orbit around Earth to test cooperation without real-time updates from mission control. While that kind of autonomous cooperation may not sound too difficult for humans, this team will be robotic - composed of small satellites to test out key technologies for the ... Read more

Oh man. Hate to break it to y'all but Cox has now revised the data (on 7/13, the one I published was revised on 7/12). They calculated the market share wrong. I also didn't think to check. Tesla actually has a 60.5% market share. Got some work to do!https://t.co/tbnRcqufti pic.twitter.com/s0RccT5GnV - Jaan of the EV ... Read more

-Tesla (TSLA.O) is in talks with the Indian government to set up a factory with an annual capacity to produce about half a million electric vehicles according to a Times of India report on Thursday, citing a government source. The starting price for the vehicles will be 2 million rupees ($24,400.66) which is more than ... Read more

The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, July 14th. The X.AI team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. They have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 14th, 2023, Chainwire Shiba Memu, a new dog-themed memecoin, has reported strong demand for its presale, raising almost $800,000 in just nine days. A total of $798,000 worth of SHMU tokens have been purchased so far ahead of the memecoin's official exchange launch. The project is centred around combining AI with ... Read more

The limitations for Tesla AI development are programming resources, AI architecture, compute resources, training data and financial resources. Tesla has started operating its Dojo AI training supercomputer and this will scale to over 100 Exaflops by the end of 2024. Tesla will likely continue to expands its AI supercomputing datacenters and cloud. Tesla continuing its ... Read more

Elon Musk explained his plan for building a safer AI and the creation of his new XAI comppnay. xAI will seek to create a maximally curious" AI. If it tried to understand the true nature of the universe, that's actually the best thing that I can come up with from an AI safety standpoint," Musk ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, July 13th, 2023, Chainwire Recently, ungrounded allegations are spreading on social media regarding a supposed decline in assets" at global major exchange Huobi. To prevent panic among users, Huobi has released a necessary response based on data and facts. On July 1, the crypto giant published its Merkle Tree-based proof of reserves for ... Read more

Canada has added 700,000 people to its population over the last 5 months (from Feb, 2023). This is a rate of population increase of 140,000 per month or about 1.7 million per year. If this population increase was sustained then Canada would have 40.9 million people at the end of 2023 and 42.6 million people ... Read more

Dr Know it All points out that Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's Director of Autopilot software, said Tesla is building Foundational World Models for its AI. John Gibbs (Dr Know It All) believes this is Tesla converting the Full Self Driving software to have a large language model style view of the physical world. Instead of training ... Read more

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 13th, 2023, Chainwire XBorg, the Web3 company developing a collaborative credential infrastructure that allows players to create their digital identity and enjoy tailored user experiences within enhanced gaming applications, sold out their $2 million seed round community allocation in record time. The funds will facilitate the scaling and adoption efforts ... Read more

The decentralized wireless network infrastructure provider World Mobile is looking to beef up its presence in the U.S. after securing the rights to licensed spectrum in a handful of western states. World Mobile is a wireless network operator that is aiming to build an entirely new, and ultimately global mobile network based on blockchain. Uniquely, ... Read more

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, has reported the successful implementation of a 400,000 pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) that they say will pave the way for the development of extremely light-sensitive large-format superconducting cameras. The camera will also prove invaluable for those doing medical research, where ... Read more

The Metaverse continues to be a hot topic amongst major stakeholders in the global financial market scene and the tech industry. But despite the hype and interest by major players in Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the Fashion industry, the metaverse has its fair share of critics, including Elon Musk who has previously poked fun ... Read more

Rolls-Royce is working on a Micro-Reactor program to develop nuclear energy technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon. The UK Space Agency provided 2.9 million of new funding for the project which will deliver an initial demonstration of a UK lunar modular nuclear reactor. This follows a ... Read more

Angry Astronaut provided more technical information about the development and plans of the Pulsar Fusion Rocket. Pulsar has their own operational chemical rockets and plasma drives. The 11 year old, UK company, Pulsar has been mainly focused on fusion research. Pulsar started developing products that could bring in revenue while that research continues: a Hall-effect ... Read more

Calgary, Canada, July 12th, 2023, Chainwire Portals, the leading yield and protocol aggregator for DeFi, is proud to announce the launch of Milky Way, a major architecture upgrade that enables one-click gasless access to any-to-any swaps across a wide range of ERC20 tokens. With Milky Way, users and developers can enjoy a seamless, cost-effective, and ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, July 12th, 2023, Chainwire ATPBot has launched one of the easiest auto-trading bots on the market. With its user-friendly interface and simplified features, the bot offers a hassle-free experience for novice and experienced traders. ATPBot focuses on quantitative trading strategy development and services. It uses artificial intelligence to develop and implement quantitative trading ... Read more

The Suzuki Base Spacia 2023 has a fold-down rear seat and a hard table luggage compartment cover that asks as an in-car desk. The car sells for less than US$10,000 in Japan. It is a very clever way of getting a very good office setup in an affordable car. This is showing that with a ... Read more

Tesla FSD and Autopilot used to require complete retraining when the cameras were moved on Tesla vehicles. Tesla AI lead, Ashok Elluswamy, has now said that Tesla can now even use video of driving from Youtube. This means the cameras can be moved and Tesla can still use the driving video for its General AI. ... Read more

Tesla will make about 2 million model 3, model Y and 80k Model S and X in 2023 and will have mostly ramped the Lathrop Megapack factory. This will mean about 170 GWh of batteries used by Tesla for its commercial products. Cybertruck and Semi are in production but will not be in ramped mass ... Read more

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 11th, 2023, Chainwire Pikamoon, an emerging Ethereum blockchain game, has raised $3.6 million in its ongoing ICO to bring more value to the Ethereum ecosystem and revolutionise the blockchain gaming space. Pikamoon would launch the world's most immersive metaverse game and a first-of-its-kind earning model that allows players to withdraw ... Read more

Elon Musk described continued improvement of the Raptor 3 engine beyond levels reported in May. The Saturn V rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust. A 20 million pound thrust Starship booster with the improved Raptor 3 engines will have 263% of the power of the Saturn V. Looks like we can ... Read more

New York, United State, July 10th, 2023, Chainwire WOW EARN, a new mining DeFi platform, has released a multi-chain crypto wallet on smartphones. Launched on May 29th, WOW EARN Wallet is now available for download on Google Play Store and App Store. The platform facilitates the purchase, exchange, and trading of cryptocurrencies. Since its release, ... Read more

Paris, France, July 10th, 2023, Chainwire Leveraging its successful $4.5m fundraising, Swaap launches its v2 protocol, bringing easy-to-use and powerful market-making strategies to the global DeFi community. Swaap v2 is unique in addressing key challenges such as impermanent loss which have plagued Liquidity Providers. Swaap, the cutting-edge market-making protocol for blue-chip crypto assets, is thrilled ... Read more

This week Chins rocket startup, Landscape, will have its second attempted launch of the Zhuque-2 medium rocket. Landspace has raised over $340 million. Zhuque-2 is a medium-sized rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane capable of lifting 4,000 kg of payload into a 200 km low Earth orbit, or 2,000 kg of payload into a ... Read more

Members of the Safe Street Rebels is placing traffic cones on Cruise and Waymo vehicles to disable the self-driving robotaxis. The cones on the hoods of the cars confuse the driving software. On Thurs 7/13, the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission) will vote to expand AVs in San Francisco. Cruise and Waymo promise they'll reduce ... Read more

China rocket startup Space Pioneer, aka Beijing Tianbing Technology, has raised a total of three billion Chinese yuan ($414 million) across 11 rounds since its establishment in 2018. The funding will be used to complete the Tianlong-3 kerosene-liquid oxygen launch vehicle and its engine and the construction of a dedicated launch complex at the Jiuquan ... Read more

We have made our own gravity wave detectors on Earth that are about 40 kilometers long and detect variation with lasers and now we have used decades of Pulsar observations to detect long wave gravity waves. We needed to create single wavelength lasers and use one-megawatt of power to detect differences of one trillionth of ... Read more

We cannot travel to other star systems and may not be able to travel there for a hundred years. However, we can find and test interstellar material. We can determine that meteors that were traveling faster than solar system escape velocity came from outside the solar system. NASA has a record of about 300 such ... Read more

Japan has had regular high speed rail for commuting betweens its cities for decades. N700A trains can reach 285 km/h (177 mph) on 3,000 m (9,843 ft) curves, allowing the maximum operating speed to be raised to 285 km/h (177 mph). All N700 series were upgraded to N700A but there have been new N700S being ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 8th, 2023, Chainwire Aptius Ltd, a British financial enterprise, has developed a new cryptocurrency called BritanniaCoin which will be available for pre-sale from June 18th onwards, ahead of its launch later this year. BritanniaCoin is a British-built blockchain that introduces real-world applications while honouring British cultural heritage. The pre-release contains 316,000 ... Read more

Randy Kirk and Larry Goldberg reviewed my analysis of Tesla margin impacts from almost double Model S and Model X deliveries in Q2 2023 versus Q1 2023. Larry and Randy agree that Tesla will be in the range of 20% margin for Q2 2023. They also estimate the earnings per share will be about 96 ... Read more

World BEV market share was 11% in May and is average 10% in 2023. Global light vehicle sales are forecast to increase by 6.2% y/y to 86.0 million units in 2023. World BEV sales should be about 11 million in 2023. This would be up from 7.2 million in 2022. The world should have 1 ... Read more

Pulsar Fusion (UK) is working on a Direct Fusion Drive (DFD). It is a compact nuclear fusion engine which could provide both thrust and electrical power for spaceships. This technology opens unprecedented possibilities to explore the solar system in a limited amount of time and with a very high payload to propellant masses ratio. This ... Read more

Felix at What About it and other SpaceX followers are covering the installation of the deluge plate and other work to prepare the launch facility for Starship launches. SpaceX is installing the Deluge plate! That's certainly the biggest shower head I've ever seen! Looking at SpaceX's current impressive progress speed, 4-6 weeks for launch ... Read more

Elon Musk spoke today in a video at the World AI Conference 2023. He said FSD will be officially released at the end of this year, and he said Tesla would be happy to license self-driving technology to other car companies. He also ended by praising China's AI capabilities. Elon Musk spoke today in a ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, July 6th, 2023, Chainwire OKX's Signal Trading is a trading bot and marketplace that bridges the gap between signal providers and traders Signal Trading will be integrated with TradingView, enabling signal providers and traders to create signals directly on the leading charting platform A pre-launch waitlist is available now for signal providers and ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 6th, 2023, Chainwire Veloce Media Group announces major investment commitment of $50 million from GEM Digital LimitedSignificant investment to fuel Veloce Media Group's growth Gem Digital Ltd a global leading digital asset investment firm Following the announcement of Veloce Media Group's evolution to Web3, with the launch of its new blockchain ... Read more

Tesla should have over 20% auto gross margin in Q2 2023. This is a big factor for whether the share price of Tesla goes up for the next few months. Tesla Model S and X have an average selling price about twice the Model Y. The Model S and X sales and deliveries in Q1 ... Read more

Santa Clara, California-based Alef Aeronautics has been certified for test flights be able to take off into the air vertically and fly like a helicopter up to 110 miles on a single charge. The whole car becomes a wing, a circular wing. Alef is taking pre-orders for a $150 deposit. The company is backed by ... Read more