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Tesla FSD (Full Self Driving) Hardware 4 has almost double the compute cores and three neural network chips. The FSD HW4 system has more cameras. The motherboard has room for additional improvements. Tesla will be adding back a radar. It will be high-definition radar.

Black holes are Dr Becky area of expertise and she does not buy the recent Black Hole – Dark Energy theory. Dr Becky describes the work of the two papers where they looked only at globular galaxies so that they could eliminate galaxy and black hole mergers for black hole growth. They plotted the size ... Read more

Google has a quantum computing goal of encoding a logical qubit on 1000 physical ones with an error rate of 0.0001% and they have achieved a 3% error rate using 17 qubits. The scaling or error reduction must be 20 times better. Using a 72-qubit chip, the Google team encoded a single logical qubit in ... Read more

Limiting Factory Youtuber, Jordan Giesige, analyzes key factors for Tesla Master Plan Part 3 and Investor day. Elon Musk and Tesla have previously described getting to 20 Terawatt hours per year and a total of 300 Terawatt hours of batteries to transition energy and transportation to electricity. This means 14 million tons of lithium carbonate ... Read more

Erik Ekudden, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson, Kista, Sweden describes how the growing data and speed needs of 5G [and 6g] are Driving Exponential Increase in Processing Needs Across all Industries.

Jo De Boeck, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, imec & KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium talked about the EU Chips Act and roadmaps and challenges that the EU sees for future computing. He notes that the next generation AI model GPT4 will likely be 500 times larger than OpenAI GPT3 (basis for ChatGPT).

In 2021, Intel talked reaching Zettascale in three phases. AMD CEO talked about getting to a Zettaflop in 2030-2035. AMD CEO indicated that an earlier Zettaflop supercomputer would need about 500 Megawatts of power. Exascale systems today consume 21MW of power. AMD and Intel have managed to roughly double the performance of their CPUs and ... Read more

Machine Learning techniques will improve the service performance and management NTN (satellite to earth) connectivity. Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) have been gaining importance in the last years due to their technological improvements and the integration in the 3GPP standards. Direct satellite-to-device connectivity will have more than 25 million subscribers by the end of 2023 due to ... Read more

Here are some talks of 6G satellite communication. This is mainly not the cellphone direct to satellite communication but satellite to satellite dish communication.

6G networks could one day allow you to hit max speeds of one terabit per second (Tbps) on an internet device. This would be a thousand times faster than 1 Gbps, which the fastest speed available on most home internet networks today. It’s 100 times faster than 10 Gbps, the hypothetical top speed of regular ... Read more

Here is the roadmap for the next four years of 5G with re. There will be a new 5G standard released each year (rel 17, 18, 19 and 20.) They will improve the energy efficiency and increase internet of things to internet of everything. They are increasing satellite communication. Improvements in 5G release 17 1. ... Read more

For highly reliable NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks) communication with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, Samsung has developed and simulated 5G NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks) standard-based satellite technology using its Exynos Modem 5300 reference platform to accurately predict satellite locations and minimize frequency offsets caused by the Doppler shift. Based on this technology, Samsung’s future Exynos modems will ... Read more

New York, United States, 23rd February, 2023, Chainwire Following exciting Maison Hennessy Web3 projects last year, including its first NFT-connected bottle and launch of Cafe 11 social club in partnership with Friends with Benefits DAO, Hennessy introduces H3NSY with a new brand mark, website and Twitter handle dedicated to the brand’s Web3 ventures and innovative ... Read more

Wendover Productions wants to have the commenters attack them for making and publishing a one-sided hit-piece video. Wendover says: One note: this video is going to get a lot of negative response, and we’ve made it with full knowledge of that. In fact, #TSLA investors pre-planned their brigading strategy for this video on Reddit, having ... Read more

Zurg, Switzerland, 23rd February, 2023, Chainwire A fork of Bitcoin, known as Particl, has announced the completion of an eBay-style marketplace that’s been integrated into its wallet. Built using blockchain smart contracts, the marketplace is derived from an original concept first proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Particl’s latest release forms a trustless, unstoppable marketplace where buyers ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, 23rd February, 2023, Chainwire The layer-1 for data, Flare, just completed a live demonstration of new interoperability functionality now available in beta on the network. Using two core interoperability protocols, State Connector and Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO), an NFT was trustlessly purchased with the transaction taking place on a different chain using ... Read more

By 2100, there should be two cities, Lagos and Kinshasa, with over 80 million people. Lagos has an official government plan to support 40 million people by 2050. The largest African, South Asian and Indian cities will pass Tokyo’s population by 2050. China is integrating several multi-city regions into areas with over 100 million people. ... Read more

There appears to be large amounts of hydrogen in underground reservoirs. Hydroma and other companies have recently bought land rights and built mining operations. They are close to pumping commercial hydrogen from underground mines. If there are huge hydrogen resources that can be mined then it could change the economics of a potential hydrogen economy. ... Read more

Rotterdam, Netherlands, 21st February, 2023, Chainwire Spheroid secures $25 million in an investment commitment from ABO Digital as a strategic financing partner. Spheroid is an AR/XR platform that uses the SPH utility token for powering all the activities in its ecosystem. This funding commitment from ABO Digital marks a significant milestone for Spheroid, which plans ... Read more

Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy – the ‘missing’ 70% of the Universe. ​The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, aligning with a phenomenon predicted in Einstein’s theory of gravity. The result potentially means nothing new ... Read more

99 Red Balloons was a protest song released in 1983. In the lyrics, a boy and girl innocently release a batch of balloons into the air; confused by these flying objects, international governments panic, triggering a nuclear holocaust. In 2023, China has spy balloons triggered an international incident and now numerous balloons and objects are ... Read more

It is possible to use AI, like Midjourney, to generate art and resell it at adobe stock photos. Here are some videos that describe how to use Midjourney and the process for upscaling the photos for use and sale on Adobe Stock Photos.

Chamath says that venture capitalist investors are looking for companies that can collect unique datasets. Proprietary unique datasets could be critical to having superior performance for ChatGPT like Generative AI.

For years, digital marketers have hailed content marketing as the “king” of digital marketing strategies. This makes a lot of sense; in addition to being low-cost, content development is an inbound strategy that works well with almost every other digital marketing strategy, including SEO, PPC ads, social media, and email marketing. Still, it’s reasonable to ... Read more

Since 2021, Blue Origin has been making solar cells and transmission wire from regolith simulants. Using regolith simulants, their reactor produces iron, silicon, and aluminum through molten regolith electrolysis, in which an electrical current separates those elements from the oxygen to which they are bound. Oxygen for propulsion and life support is a byproduct. Above ... Read more

In Q4, 2022, SpaceX launched 142 tons to space while the rest of the world launched 157 tons. In 2023, Elon Musk indicates that SpaceX will average 400 tons to orbit every quarter. This will be nearly triple the launch payload mass for the rest of the world. SpaceX should have 24 Falcon 9 launches ... Read more

NASA has published its new goals for the moon and Mars. Most of the ambitious goals will require SpaceX to develop the Superheavy Starship, in orbit refueling and the lunar Starship. The purple infrastructure goals are interesting for developing a lunar power grid and robotics automation.

SpaceX had a good Starlink launch a few minutes ago. In less than nine hours, SpaceX should launch another rocket to place an Inmarsat into orbit.

SpaceX had seven launches in January, 2023 and should have five in February by the end of today. The two missions are scheduled to launch at 2:12 p.m. and 10:59 p.m. ET. There will be a Starlink mission today 2:12pm EST. There will also be an Inmarsat mission 10:59 pm EST. There should be two ... Read more

China has added heat capture equipment at the Haiyang 2 nuclear plant so it provide heat to 1 million homes and avoid the use of 900,000 tons of coal each year. The plant heating project began in July last year and has now been completed. The heating pipe network and pumping station in the plant ... Read more

Solid robots can now move, melt and reform like the T-1000 in the movie Terminator 2. Magnetoactive liquid-solid phase transitional matter. Highlights • Magnetoactive phase transitional matter (MPTM) is made of NdFeB embedded liquid metal • MPTMs can reversibly switch between solid and liquid phase • MPTMs can solder electronic components and assemble parts in ... Read more

3D printing has been unlocking new ways to solve bespoke issues for a long time now. One of the more interesting developments isn’t only what it can make, but what materials it can print. More recently, concrete has been quickly developing as a 3D printing material, and many believe it may revolutionize the construction industry. ... Read more

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) using lasers would resemble the rapid-fire explosions of an internal combustion engine. The NIF’s (National Ignition Facility) shot had a one-off ignition event. An ICF-based power plant may need to fire up to 10 laser shots per second, consuming almost 1 million targets a day, and produce far more energy per ... Read more

Tokamak Energy’s roadmap is for commercial fusion power plants deployed in the mid-2030s. They plan to complete the ST80-HTS prototype reactor in 2026 “to demonstrate the full potential of high temperature superconducting magnets”. They will then design and build a fusion pilot plant, ST-E1, which is slated to demonstrate the capability to deliver electricity – ... Read more

Lightbridge plutonium disposition fuel variant consumes 5.5 times more plutonium per fuel rod than mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. Lightbridge’s proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology features metallic fuel rods with a helical multi-lobe design that can be used to fuel small modular reactors as well as existing light water reactors and pressurised heavy water reactors. The high ... Read more

Dan Fleisch briefly explains some vector and tensor concepts from A Student’s Guide to Vectors and Tensors. In the field of machine learning, tensors are used as representations for many applications, such as images or videos. They form the basis for TensorFlow’s machine learning framework. It is useful to understand Tensors, Tensorflow, and TPU (Tensor ... Read more

Bloomberg News reports that Tesla China will be halting some production at Gigafactory Shanghai until the end of February. The facility has two phases that are used for vehicle manufacturing, and with the upgrades in motion, some workers in the first phase will reportedly not be allowed on production lines as soon as Sunday. According ... Read more

The White House said Tesla will open part of its U.S. charging network to electric vehicles (EVs) made by rivals as part of a $7.5 billion federal program to electrify the nation’s highways to cut carbon emissions. Tesla will make at least 7,500 chargers available for all EVs by the end of 2024, according to ... Read more

Elon Musk was interviewed at the World Government summit. Highlights: * Elon will stabilize Twitter financially and operationally and get a new Twitter CEO around the end of 2023. * The transition to clean sustainable energy (solar, batteries and EVs will take 20-30 years to fully play out and is gradual but profound transformation). * ... Read more

Semiconductor manufacturing is dependent upon chemistry for photoresists and other key processes. IBM Quantum and JSR (Japan) want to use a Quantum Centric supercomputer to accelerate Chemistry analysis to bootstrap semiconductor manufacturing. The Quantum Centric supercomputer will help solve quantum chemistry.

Gwynne Shotwell told reporters last week that SpaceX sold the two oil rigs that SpaceX was converting for launching and landing rockets. Shotwell said they were not the right platform. SpaceX is still interested in sea-based launch platforms, but the company wants to start flying Starship first and understand it before proceeding. Gwynne Shotwell told ... Read more

Plasmoid thrusters have had successful proof of principle experiments done in the lab at Princeton University. The systems should be compact and simple and based upon magnetism present in solar flares. There are designs for initial systems with ISPs in the range of ion drives. The systems should scale to higher ISPs of 50,000 and ... Read more

Ford has paused production and shipments of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup due to a potential battery issue, the company said Tuesday. The stop-shipment order and halt in production was issued at the beginning of last week. BREAKING: Ford has paused production and shipments of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup due to a potential battery ... Read more

Swanage, United Kingdom, 14th February, 2023, Chainwire UK-based PEGA Pool announces the official launch of its eco-friendly Bitcoin mining pool that enables clients to offset their carbon footprint and incentivizes them to use renewable energy. By allowing clients to connect their ASIC miners to its platform and mine together, it provides them with a more ... Read more

Vienna, Austria, 14th February, 2023, Chainwire Pantos, a multichain token system conceived by the team behind Bitpanda, announces the public beta launch of its multichain protocol today. Developers and users will be able to use the public beta to send tokens, wrap native coins of supported chains, and soon also create and deploy multichain tokens ... Read more

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 13th February, 2023, Chainwire Venom Foundation, the first Layer-1 blockchain licensed by the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has announced a partnership with DAO Maker, a leading blockchain growth solutions provider known for their Launchpad, to incubate promising Web3 startups focused on delivering real-world use cases. DAO Maker will actively assist ... Read more

Canada is tracking to pass 40 million people late in 2023 and is following the Statscan high population growth scenario to pass 50 million people by 2040. Canada should have 44 million people by 2030. The US has about 334 million people now. Canada has 11.7% of the US population today. US population projections: 2023 ... Read more

James Brigg is a freelance ML (machine learning) engineer, startup advisor, and dev advocate @ Pinecone. He has an article and video describing how to improve responses from OpenAI ChatGPT using context and data provided at the time a question is asked. There are many instances where ChatGPT has not learned unpopular subjects. There are ... Read more

Felix Schlang of What About It? has identified that are six out of seven Mechazilla segments in Florida. The Mechazilla segments will be shipped by barge from Florida to Texas Boca Chica. A second Mechazilla tower will be built at Boca Chica. The first Mechazilla tower was built at Starbase but there is no room ... Read more

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 11th February, 2023, Chainwire AshSwap, the first stable-swap DEX on the MultiversX blockchain (previously Elrond Network), is officially launching on the MultiversX mainnet on February 17. The DEX will seamlessly bridge critical DeFi functions and provide tighter spreads with a fraction of the liquidity on MultiversX. In November 2021, AshSwap ... Read more