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Kevin Feige announced Marvel Phase 5 movies and shows. The Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever is final installment of the MCU Phase 4. The third Ant-Man and the Wasp movie, Quantumania, will begin Phase 5. Kang the Conqueror will be in Quantumania. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) will be dealing with a Skrull invasion in ... Read more

SpaceX has confirmed that they will try to catch the Super Heavy Booster on the landing of its first test flight. The Mechazilla launch tower in a 480 foot tall stationary robot with massive moving chopstick arms. the arms present a landing target about the size of the drone ships that SpaceX has been using ... Read more

China 7 nanometer bitcoin miner chip is low-volume production product that is a chip to learn to make true 7nm process according to TechInsitghts. The MinerVa Bitcoin mining chip is basic, simple and small measures only 4.6 x 4.2 mm, implying that SMIC is still in the early stages of chip development. they also appear ... Read more

China leading chip company SMIC and Intel are both making 7-nanometer chips. China was always behind TSMC, Samsung and the leading semiconductor chip companies. Intel was the long chip technology leader for decades with the smallest dimensions in the most advanced chips but Intel fell behind badly in the last five to ten years. Semiconductors ... Read more

In an older discussion with Lex Fridman about Artificial Intelligence, Gary Kasparov says he believes humans must be flexible to see how to add value as we increasingly work with AI. Humans need to recognize when AI becomes superior in particular areas and then find ways to continue to contribute and add value.

Tesla quarterly earnings have been released and Tesla beat expectations. Tesla has given its mile driven with over 100,000 testers with FSD beta. Tesla has more self-driving miles in the last 6 months than other companies have ever had driven. The chart is for cumulative miles driven. They are adding Tesla has sold most of ... Read more

Munro and Associates have finally been able to safely remove the top cover of the Tesla 4680 battery pack from a Texas produced Model Y. It reveals a cement like foam. The structural strength of the battery pack is very high. The 4680 structural batteries and pack reduce weight of the vehicle by having the ... Read more

Here is some historical information about how long it might take for the fog of war to lift to get more accurate estimates of deahs in the current War in Ukraine. It took until 1990-2006 to get better estimates for Russian deaths in World War 2. The Soviet Union had to fall for records to ... Read more

Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center researchers, in collaboration with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, have developed a new method to assess on a large scale the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, or how the genome folds. The genome is the complete set of genetic instructions, DNA or RNA, enabling an organism to function. ... Read more

Panasonic Energy is building a pipeline of 2 terawatt-hours (TWh) of battery and raw material supplies for Tesla as part of a new mandate from the Elon Musk-led company, according to Chief Technology Officer Shoichiro Watanabe. 2 Terawatt-hours per year is enough for about 26 million electric cars per year. Panasonic will need to build ... Read more

The James Webb Space Telescope is sending back pictures of space that are amazing this past week. Imagine we could have thousands of space telescopes that can see billions of times better. I’d like to share how in my video in three steps. NOTE – I was talking about how the $10 billion was spent ... Read more

Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind and he had a great talk with Lex Fridman about AI. DeepMind beat the best human players with Go and they also made the best AI for chess. DeepMind also created AlphaFold 2 which has solved protein folding. As advanced mathematics and Calculus were critical to ... Read more

DALL·E 2 is a new AI system from OpenAI that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. You can sign up to get on the waitlist to access DALL-E 2. They create pictures based on descriptions like Dinosaur birthday party or Cats playing chess on Mars.

China GDP was negative 2.6% in the April-June period on a quarter-over-quarter basis but was +0.4% expansion compared to the second quarter of 2021. It was China’s worst quarterly performance since a 6.9% contraction in the first three months of 2020 as the country locked down the city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus was ... Read more

Jordon at the Limiting Factor is a battery expert and he has had a detailed analysis of a six month old 4680 Tesla battery. It is a world class battery with an extra 10 watt hours per kilogram of energy density. It achieved with a 15% disadvantage of using a thicker shell around the battery ... Read more

Dr. Know-it-all Knows it all explains how Neural Network Transformers work. Neural Network Transformers were first created in 2017. He explains how Transformers remember data better than other neural network architectures. Neural Network Transformers are the basis for Tesla FSD. Neural Network Transformers continually improve with more and more data. Tesla FSD now has over ... Read more

Lithium comes from spodumene ore via hard rock mining or from metallic brines stored in man-made ponds in the high deserts around the world, South America primarily. If brine is the source material, water has been pumped into the earth, usually in a very remote location, to create a brine that is captured in storage ... Read more

I have a farely comprehensive understanding of the huge challenges needed to create commercial nuclear fusion power. This is why I am more optimistic about molten salt nuclear fission. I try to explain this in two videos. However, this is a complex topic. I will try to state this as clearly and briefly as possible ... Read more

Preliminary data indicates that the Tesla Model Y has passed the Toyota Corolla and Toyota RAV4 as the top selling cars by unit volume in the world on a monthly basis. It is close in June but further increases in production will make it definitive in August, 2022. When this is revealed in official statistics ... Read more

NASA is sharing the James Webb Space Telescope images at this flickr account. There are higher-resolution images of the Carina Nebula and some other known great astronomical views. It can also image individual stars in certain distant galaxies. The James Webb space telescope had massive delays and cost overruns. It is good that it is ... Read more

Tesla’s 4860 structural battery packs are built so strong and tough that they are not designed to be repaired. The packs are so strong and durable that if there are any issues they will have to be replaced. Munro Associates perform disassembly analysis of cars. It is taking them about a week to safely take ... Read more

Subscription services are gradually becoming a part of the normal internet user; over the past two years, this industry has grown by a magnitude as more people subscribed to digital services such as Netflix and Spotify. That said, the process is not as smooth as it should be, most of the existing subscription packages often ... Read more

SpaceX Booster 7 had an explosion during a test. There was some fire. The booster is still mostly intact. It is being checked for damage assessment. Live coverage continues on Starbase Live. Crews are returning to the pad to begin damage assessments. Today will be a setback in terms of schedule, but it could have ... Read more

Reaction Engines today revealed the start of a new testing campaign to expand the performance envelope of their high-Mach enabling technology through the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program at the Department of Defense and supported by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The FCT Program is administered by the Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering ... Read more

VW CEO Herbert Deiss said Volkswagen will pass Tesla in EV sales by 2025. Ford CEO Jim Farley says Ford will challenge Tesla globally. But Tesla doubled its US sales from the first half of 2021 in the first half of 2022. Tesla does not report official US sales numbers but monthly US sales for ... Read more

SpaceX is making a 480-foot-tall giant robot with arms that will catch giant rockets. It is insanely cool. Sci-fi made real. But moon landings were already insanely cool. The difference is with this working we have almost a thousand launches per month from the same launch pad versus at most one today. This means rockets ... Read more

Many countries have built nuclear reactors and different nuclear technologies have been successfully commercialized over the past six decades. There will be multiple winners with new nuclear fission technology and new reactor designs. The best new nuclear fission technology is molten salt nuclear. This is because reactors would be far more compact than current nuclear ... Read more

Munro Live have dissassembled the Tesla Structural Battery pack cover and car seat mountings. They show that the seat mounting has substantially fewer parts and are lighter weight. Reducing parts and...

We know what will happen in the next two years with electric cars because we know what electric car factories and battery factories have already been built. Electric Car Factories take time to build...

Can we get nuclear reactors that are walkaway safe with no physical possibility of meltdown? Can we have energy that is a hundred times safer than solar and a million times safer than coal? Can we...

Researchers looked at the transcriptome of aged mice to assesswhich genes are being expressed, and to what degree. The differences between mice in early and late old age are large. This reflects what...

Holtec HI-HEAT District Heater System could store surplus electricity generated by nuclear, solar or wind. It will be a two modules called the Preservator and the Steam Chest. The Preservator...

Munro Associates has dropped the 4680 structural battery pack out of Texas Model Y. The battery pack plus the seats and carpet only weighs less than 1200 pounds. It has about 68 kwh of batteries....

Meta0, an interoperability protocol for connecting metaverses, has announced the completion of its litepaper and the appointment of Jason Fung as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining and...

You may have thought the human genome was “solved” decades ago when it was first declared fully sequenced in 2003. However, the “complete” sequencing was incomplete with many...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) have demonstrated a magnet with a record-breaking 20 Tesla magnetic field. This is the core technology that they planned...

Thermal storage is a bridge to Molten-Salt Reactors. They can be set up rapidly and cheaply and they are an off-the-shelf item. They can use wasted curtailed “renewable” power, and might...

H2SITE, is a pioneer in on-site hydrogen (H2) production, and just raised 12.5 Million euros in a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), with participation from Equinor...

Electrek reports that they have obtained inside information for the first time that says Tesla Texas production rate reached 2000-5000 cars per week. Joe Tegtmeyer has daily drone footage of Tesla...

Sandy Munro and his team have a video showing a teardown of the Tesla Model S Plaid batteries. The Model S Plaid uses 7920 smaller 18650 battery cells. It has superior cooling and more cells in...

Direct detection of superconductivity has long been a key strength of point-contact Andreev reflection. However, its applicability to atomic-scale imaging is limited by the mechanical contact of the...

Ultra Safe Nuclear has been funded by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate a chargeable, encapsulated nuclear radioisotope battery (called EmberCore) for propulsion and power applications...

Avalanche is a VC-backed, fusion energy start-up based in Seattle, WA. They are designing, testing and building micro-fusion reactors that you can hold in your hand. Their modular reactor design can...

Zap Energy creating the first plasmas in their FuZE-Q prototype. They achieved Q=1 where the process of nuclear fusion inside a plasma yields more energy than was consumed to create the plasma. In...

The United States is the largest market for stationary (battery) storage in the world. Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that annual demand for lithium-ion batteries will surpass 2.7...

Smart exchange ecosystem, Unizen has received a $200 million capital commitment from Global Emerging Markets (GEM), a $3.4 billion alternative investment group, to expand its product range, expand...

Brian and Warren talked in this video about latest developments with Tesla, SpaceX, Boring company and the most important legacy for Elon Musk. Where Tesla will clearly be in two years is more...

Satellitemap.space has a real-time view of the Starlink low earth orbit satellite constellation. Each dot is a Starlink satellite. You can see how many are over any particular country or region....

I did some research on Tesla safety using non-Tesla data to address the issue from the AI experts. Some AI experts criticized FSD. I used US, UK government and insurance data to show Tesla is already...

Lars of Best in Tesla has reviewed the EV forecasts made by IEA, EIA and Opec and Deloitte and Ark Invest from 2016. Let us look at how much the energy picture changes as we shift over from gas cars...