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Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, appears to have moved fast and taken Rostov - southern military command. He knows where the Russian military leadership is. He has sent his forces into Moscow. Wagner and Prigozhin could win if enough of the Russian army flips or stays neutral. Wagner would then just need to take out FSB ... Read more

Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to have launched an armed rebellion on June 23 to force a leadership change within the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) which is unlikely to succeed. Prigozhin amplified a video from a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel on June 23 which reportedly shows the aftermath of a missile strike on a ... Read more

There are reports of fighting between Wagner group mercenaries and regular Russian army. There are reports that Putin is in hiding. Russia's FSB security service accused Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin of calling for an armed rebellion" when he vowed retaliation after claiming Moscow's military killed a huge amount" of his mercenaries in a strike ... Read more

BA Rehl and presumably Youtuber Common Sense Skeptic make the following claims: 1. Starlink won't be profitable and will fail. It needs to be in a higher orbit. 2. Starship won't become operational and won't complete Artemis 3. 3. CyberTruck will not exceed 50k units/year, 250k total. 4. Tesla facing bankruptcy by 2027. Youtuber Common ... Read more

SpaceX has been recovering and reflying fairings. Two fairing cost about $6 million each. Reusing them ten times brings the amortized cost to $600k for the two fairings flown on each launch. I think the SpaceX statement might mean that the total number of reused fairings is ten. Just like when they say they have ... Read more

On Sunday, the U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost. While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the incident commander to assist with the ongoing search and ... Read more

There are several companies working to develop solutions for space debris and some are working on refueling, recovering and reusing satellites. Outpost is working to make satellites re-usable. They plan to build in a heatshield (shown above) that would enable a satellite to return to earth. After re-entry, they want to deploy a high altitude ... Read more

There are various Youtubers who make weekly videos attacking SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk. They are able to make a few thousand dollars a month making these attack videos. One of these people is someone who calls himself the Common Sense Skeptic". He claims that SpaceX Starlink will not live up to its promises. Incorrect ... Read more

There is some debate on how many people could fit inside SpaceX Starships that are converted into Space Stations. We can get a better maximum estimate by looking at the Apollo mission and German and American submarines. Apollo's Command Module had a diameter of 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) and a height of 11.4 feet (3.47 ... Read more

Hurun is a maker of wealth reports and list with a British founder. Hurun Report is run by former Forbes rich list researcher Rupert Hoogewerf, publishes its own count every April, two months after Forbes. Founded in 1999, Hurun Report is a private company that produces lists and research. Hurun report claims China tops the ... Read more

The US Coast Guard told a press conference there was a catastrophic implosion" on the lost submarine. Rear admiral Mauger confirmed that parts of the Titan were found approximately 1600ft from the bow of the Titanic wreck. He says he cannot confirm whether the five bodies can be recovered, saying it is an incredibly unforgiving ... Read more

BBC and CNN report that the debris is the external part of the lost submarine. OceanGate Expeditions (owners of the Lost Submarine) said it believes the five passengers on board the missing Titanic wreckage-bound submersible have died. The Horizon Arctic's ROV (remotely operated vehicle) found debris on the sea floor near the Titanic wreck. Debris ... Read more

Joe Rogan says Zuckerberg went undercover with a covid mask and fake name and won a Blue belt competition. Others are not as impressed. Mark Zuckerberg could soon fight Elon Musk.

Avi Loeb is looking for objects that have crashed into the Earth which based upon their speed and angle indicate they originated from outside the solar system. We have been unsuccessfully using SETI to detect communications from alien technological civilizations. However, we know that humanity has over 2 billion tons of garage every year and ... Read more

There is a new report from the US Coast Guard looking for the lost OceanGate Titan submarine. The Titan submarine is a 21 foot long tourist submarine that can go down 13,000 feet to the wreck of the Titanic. BREAKING UPDATE: BBC and CNN report that the debris is the external part of the lost ... Read more

Robotaxis on public streets are causing dozens of problems each month for firetrucks, ambulances and police cars and city traffic. California state agencies have set up the rules where city leaders cannot block autonomous vehicle regulation. San Francisco and Los Angeles are fighting the expansion of robotaxi operations. Thee Los Angeles Department of Transportation and ... Read more

Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22nd, 2023, Cyberwire The industry's first-ever directory of virtual Chief Information Security Officer service providers has gone live today at www.thevcisodirectory.com. This extensive list of virtual CISO (vCISO) providers, collated by Cynomi, means that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can easily tap the expertise of qualified cybersecurity professionals to protect their ... Read more

Physicist Avi Loeb and his team have used NASA data of meteor impacts to identify interstellar meteors. The NASA data was so good they were able to pinpoint a candidate meteor that hit near Australia. They believe have recovered pieces of that meteor and begun analyzing parts. They believe it is interstellar and has technological ... Read more

Mark Zuckerberg is creating a Twitter competitor at Instagram. The internal codename for the app is Project 92" and it could be called Thread. They are talking to creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run. Oprah Winfrey could join. Meta chief product officer Chris Cox talked about ... Read more

A Canadian aircraft searching for the missing Titan submersible detected underwater noise" on Tuesday from the vicinity of the location where the crew was touring the wreck site. Former submarine commander Capt. Don Walsh explains how deep submarine dives report every 15-30 minutes to their surface ship. He explains how the sonar buoys can triangulate ... Read more

Tesla is starting production of the Dojo AI training Supercomputer next month. Tesla will have 13 Exaflops of AI training by the end of 2023 and 100 Exaflops by the end of 2024. Jan 2023 3 Exaflops of AI compute, 10,000 Nvidia A100 June 2023 5.5 Exaflops, 17,000 Nvidia A100 Oct 2023 13 Exaflops, 40,000 ... Read more

Space News has an article by Justin Fauntleroy, who is a government contractor responsible for writing future concepts and doctrine for the U.S. military, specifically the Joint Staff and Naval Warfare Development Center. Justin describes how SpaceX will not just monopolize space launch but also satellite production. Starshield is a new SpaceX program that offers ... Read more

In 2022, Nextbigfuture noted that China's economy had basically stalled out. China's economy was extraordinary and outperformed relative to other countries for decades. It did this by catching up. China's economy will be stalled for the 10-15 years as its population and working age population shrinks and ages. However, after the stall is the steep ... Read more

Mexico City, Mexico, June 21st, 2023, Chainwire ENO, the native token of an emerging wine industry platform, has been listed on LATOKEN. The news marks a milestone in the history of wine while cementing LATOKEN's reputation as a testbed for innovative new tokens. The ENO platform aims to provide access to a rapidly expanding wine ... Read more

During an interview with CNBC/Mad Money/Jim Cramer, Ford CEO Jim Farley dismissed the Tesla Cybertruck as a high-end product targeted at Silicon Valley rather than a truck for real working people. In the United States, Ford F-Series deliveries totaled 170,377 units in Q1 2023, an increase of about 21 percent compared to 140,701 units sold ... Read more

Anti-China channels are reporting of thousands of abandoned EVs. It is unclear exactly when the video of the registered EV in fields were taken. Thousands and even tens of thousands of sold and abandoned vehicles does not necessarily make a big deal in the big picture. There are normally millions of cars on dealer lots ... Read more

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, June 21st, 2023, Chainwire Struct Finance, a DeFi platform that enables investors to engage with tailored structured financial products linked to digital assets, today announced the mainnet launch of its innovative Interest Rate Vaults and unique tranching mechanism. Amid the highly volatile crypto industry, users can now invest in products tailored ... Read more

Rolling Stone was the first to reporta n aircraft heard sounds at 30-minute intervals from the area where the sub disappeared, according to internal emails sent to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone. A Canadian plane searching for the missing Titan submersible, which failed to return Sunday from an expedition to the wreckage of the ... Read more

NASA and SpaceX are partnering to build Space stations using SpaceX Starship. NASA and SpaceX have not revealed or developed plans for their Starship based space stations. Cuzza Futurism has some designs for space stations built using standard and redesigned SpaceX Starships and some other components. The first is a space station built using 16 ... Read more

If we connect SpaceX Starships for space stations and rotate them for artificial gravity then we have to make sure they are rotationally stable. A Space Station with three SpaceX Starships with one in the center for docking is not rotationally stable. A two SpaceX Starship system is rotationally stable. The central structure for docking ... Read more

A submersible taking tourists to the wreck of the Titanic has disappeared. It is still not found. Apologies, a source that said it was found was fake. NOTE: The original article had to be deleted to accelerate removal from Googla mobile pages and search. The comments on the original article pointed out that major new ... Read more

Elon Musk announced to the press that he will invest in India. Presumably this will be some kind of Tesla factory. Based upon India taxing and custom duties of vehicles, Tesla will likely at least assemble vehicles in India. Custom duties for fully built cars are about 70-100% while assembled vehicles are far less. BREAKING: ... Read more

A submersible taking tourists to the wreck of the Titanic has disappeared. Apologies, a source that said it was found was fake. It had about 72-96 hours of emergency air and survivability. The tours are run by OceanGate, an expedition startup with a focus on the deep sea. Local submarine expert Greg Williams says the ... Read more

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