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In July, China reported GDP growth of 5.5 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2023. This was one percentage point faster than the first quarter. Total GDP reached RMB 59.3 trillion (approx. US$8.3 trillion). In the second quarter, GDP grew by 6.3 percent year-on-year, up from 4.5 percent year-on-year growth in the first quarter. ... Read more

ICRA Ratings reports India's economic growth will accelerate to 8.5% in the April-June period of the current fiscal from the 6.1% growth rate witnessed in the preceding January-March quarter. ICRA has projected the year-on-year (YoY) growth of the GDP to improve to 8.5% in Q1 FY2024 from 6.1% in Q4 FY2023, boosted by the supportive ... Read more

One hour into Angry Astronauts livestream there was a readout of a successful touchdown of the Indian lunar lander. It successfully landed at the moon's south pole. Congratulations to India which joins the USA, China and Soviet Union as countries that had successful unmanned lunar landing missions to the moon. The Chandrayaan programme (Indian Lunar ... Read more

The F22 has been operational for nearly 20 years, but the greatest fighter ever" has only ever shot down the chinese spy balloon. The F22 reputation is from technical specifications and wargame combat. It was made operational in 2005 and was used in combat against ISIS in 2014. It has a good top speed (mach ... Read more

The B21 next generation stealth bomber is only a few months behind schedule for a 2023 first test flight. This means we are about 4 to 16 weeks away from the first test flight. The prototype B21's have already had engines turned on and runway taxi tests performed. The white B-21 is using the latest ... Read more

Two months ago in June, 2023, Elon Musk said on a Twitter Space, that SpaceX had recently decided to switch to a hot-staging" approach where the Starship upper stage will ignite its engines while still attached to the Super Heavy booster. There will be a large payload-to-orbit advantage with hot-staging that is conservatively about a ... Read more

Tesla has had 750 KW chargers installed at Pepsi for months and is adding these and megawatt chargers to megacharging truck charging locations between California and Texas. Above is a pictures of one of the 750 KW chargers. Also in Las Vegas: Megacharger. Big chungo.@RateYourCharge @itskyleconner pic.twitter.com/WcW0nnKuoN - Erik Yde (@erikyde) August 7, 2023 Tesla ... Read more

SpaceX VP of Launch, Kiko Dontchev, describes the exponential success of SpaceX. SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk companies follow an algorithm to make things much faster and more efficient. 1. Make the requirements less dumb. Requirements are always bad. Check if requirements are needed and understand why they are needed. 2. Delete the part or ... Read more

Robin Hanson had a lot of tweets about the global fertility crisis. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. I will be talking with Robin Hanson this Friday and posting a video recording of the conversation. The current fertility situation:https://t.co/pvF6zZ86Ze pic.twitter.com/zwU61xoApZ - Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) August 21, 2023 World ... Read more

Analysis of the global top ten battery electric car model sales and their average selling price indicates that Tesla could doubles its Model 3 sales by cutting China prices from $32k to $27.7K. This matches Ark Invest analysis of battery electric addressable market and price sensitivity. The Tesla Model 3 is currently on track for ... Read more

Jet Zero won the US Air Force $235 million blended wing demonstrator contract. Jet Zero will build a full scale demonstrator by the first quarter of 2027. The prototype will be aimed at demonstrating at least a 30%-plus improvement in fuel efficiency compared to the Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing KC-46, and a 30% increase ... Read more

The original LK99 team reassures the world that LK99 superconductivity is real and was demonstrated. They will provide evidence and answers in the next published paper. They recommend other researchers need to have patience and try harder (and implied is to work with the original Korean team) because the others will also make it superconduct. ... Read more

There are many pictures and videos of multiple Tesla Cybertrucks on multiple Semi trailers. Autoevolution reports that many Tesla employees believe that Tesla will soon start employee deliveries of the Cybertruck. The buzz among Tesla staff is that Tesla will offer dual and three-motor variants of the electric pickup. Employee CT deliveries seem imminent. Word ... Read more

The US Army Research Lab has presented general vision for 2040 which features giving soldiers Iron Man like powered full body armor with strength enhancement capabilities and creating new lighter tanks. The US Army has been funding powered and unpowered exoskeletons to help soldiers lift loads and enhance performance. In 2022, 100 soldiers in the ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, talked to Herbert Ong about the problem with the Waymo and Cruise and robotaxi business model. They both have been losing about $2-3 billion per year for the past five years and were losing $1 billion per year before. Waymo started in 2009 and Cruise started in 2013. Waymo has probably has ... Read more

Jet Zero is developing a revolutionary blended wing air plane for commercial and military purposes. They have been awarded $235 million in US Air Force funding. It will halve fuel use and will make flying more spaceous and comfortable. The US DoD's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) funded a four year project to lead to the ... Read more

Roscosmos reported the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon on August 19 after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit. The unmanned robotic spacecraft was aiming to be the first ever to land on the south pole of the moon where there is a lot of water ice and precious elements. Roscosmos said The apparatus moved ... Read more

The Muon g-2 Collaboration has doubled the precision of their 2021 measurement of the muon's magnetic moment and it disagrees with the predictions based on the standard model of physics. Muons are similar to electrons, but 207 times more massive. They are also unstable: they are created in particle collisions and decay into their lighter ... Read more

Dr. Wu Kai, CATL Chief Scientist, presented at the CATL new product launch 2023 event (charge to the future in a flash) on August 16, 2023. CATL launched Shenxing, the world's first 4C superfast charging LFP battery, capable of delivering 400 km of driving range with a 10-minute charge as well as a range of ... Read more

Russia has reported an abnormal situation on its moon-bound Luna-25 spacecraft. Roscosmos, said on Saturday that the spacecraft ran into unspecified trouble while trying to enter a pre-landing orbit and that its specialists were analyzing the situation. During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred onboard the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to ... Read more

The California Department of Motor Vehicles today requested that Cruise cut in half its fleet of driverless cars in San Francisco after a crash with an emergency vehicle and traffic jams. GM Cruise will have no more than 50 driverless vehicles in operation during the day and 150 driverless vehicles in operation at night. DMV ... Read more

Professor Chen at the Beijing University of Science and Technology has a statistical theory of superconductors. It is an attempt at a unified theory of superconductors based on statistical material law. It is a statistical law that indicates a positive correlation between the overall energy band width for all interacting orbital energy range and the ... Read more

A US Coast Guard notice gives the first possible date window for the next SpaceX Starship orbital launch attempt. Page 4 out of 88 pages has a coast guard notice to mariners that starting August 31, 2023 there could be dangerous rocket operations. SpaceX has made or partially completed more than 30 Starship first stage ... Read more

GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney are in the prototyping phase for the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) engine which will power the next generation air domination fighter (NGAD 6th generation figher). They both participated in the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) meant for the F-35 and are instead bringing that engine technology over to ... Read more

Shenar's astronomy research team used an instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to look for the chemical fingerprints that magnetic fields can leave on a star's spectrum and found HD45166 has a field strength of 43,000 Gauss. One-thousand-Gauss magnetic fields are pretty rare amongst massive stars, so 43,000 Gauss is really off the chart," says Paul ... Read more

Vinod M. Menon and his research group at The City College of New York shows that trapping light inside magnetic materials may dramatically enhance their intrinsic properties. Strong optical responses of magnets are important for the development of magnetic lasers and magneto-optical memory devices, as well as for emerging quantum transduction applications. The properties of ... Read more

Doped lead apatite has been recently reported to feature superconductivity at room temperature and ambient pressure, which may have huge impact on the progress of the humanity in general. Bulgarian researchers performing quantum chemical calculations support the one dimensional superconductivity case. Georgi N. Vayssilov,* Petko St. Petkov,* Hristiyan A. Aleksandrov Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, ... Read more

Iris Alexander had the first publicly claimed LK99 levitation and now has claimed to have low resistance at about 7 degrees celsius. She is giving her ingredients and pictures of her samples. The ingredients (MOLAR %) - 23,5% PbSO4; - 70,5% PbO; - 3,5% Cu3P; - 2,5% PbSiO3. Cooled reasonably fast, crystalline structure should be ... Read more

There is an online comic in korean that explains why the LK99 superconductor is so hard to make. @8teAPi has the translation. Translated from the excellent comic here: if anyone knows author please ask them to get in touchhttps://t.co/9SSwA8EFqe - Ate-a-Pi (@8teAPi) August 17, 2023 Why SuperConductor So Hard? - take a bunch of Lead, ... Read more

Anticipating a burgeoning cislunar and lunar economy of scientific research and commercial development in the coming decade, DARPA is soliciting innovative and revolutionary technical approaches to chart a vision and path toward an optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure for peaceful U.S. and international use. Just like DARPA's foundational node of ARPANET grew into the sprawling ... Read more

The original peer reviewed LK99 superconductor paper only briefly mentions the thin film work and measurements but this is the most important part as only the chemical vapor deposited thin film has the zero resistance superconducting measurement. The original team has said they will produce a new peer reviewed by the end of August or ... Read more

Energy Northwest, a premier provider of carbon-free electricity, and X-Energy Reactor Company (X-energy"), a leading developer of advanced small modular nuclear (pebble bed fission) reactors and fuel have a joint development agreement for up to 12 Xe-100 advanced small modular reactors in central Washington capable of generating up to a total of 960 megawatts of ... Read more

Physicist and science writer Michio Kaku said that large language model tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT are nothing more than glorified tape recorders. Kaku is saying that the models take in terabytes of information and then selective return parts of it based upon questions. Large language models (LLMs) are the new wave of artificial intelligence that ... Read more

Hawaiian Electric serves 95% of the island state's 1.4 million residents, and the utility provider is facing a lawsuit over alleged inaction in the face of the destructive Lahaina wildfire that has killed over 100 people on the island of Maui. A class action lawsuit against the utility company alleges that they chose not to ... Read more

Tel Aviv, Israel, August 17th, 2023, Cyberwire Cynomi, the leading AI-powered virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) platform vendor for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and consulting firms, has published the results of its first annual report, The State of the Virtual CISO 2023". The report, conducted by Global Surveys on ... Read more

An article in Nature, says making conclusive statements about LK-99's properties is difficult, because the material is finicky and samples contain varying impurities but then goes on to make conclusive statements that LK-99 claims were wrong. In their preprint, the Korean authors note one particular temperature at which LK-99's showed a tenfold drop in resistivity, ... Read more

The US Navy has built and tested 5 Megawatt and 36.5 megawatt superconducting engines over ten years ago. All of the tests were good and the specifications were met. They need to lower the cost and increase reliability. Test superconducting motors have been built for large wind power systems. If the LK99 superconductors were real ... Read more

Anastasi interviewed the CEO of Cerebras Andrew Feldman. They talk about the New Cerebras Supercomputer. The wafer scale AI chip is a great match for the need for fast compute and large memory requirements of the large language model AI like ChatGPT. They have made them easy to program with PyTorch. Wafer engine 1 was ... Read more

While many people associate exercise with high-intensity cardio, weight-lifting, or sweaty sessions in the gym, it turns out there is a more straightforward, more impactful way to exercise - walking. We all walk to some extent - whether it is a few steps within the house or outside to catch a breath of fresh air. ... Read more

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a grant to HB11 Energy as part of its Innovation Network for Fusion Energy' (INFUSE) program with the objective, to accelerate basic research to develop cost-effective, innovative fusion energy technologies in the private sector." The program will provide access to world-leading expertise from the Laboratory for Laser ... Read more

China now has the lowest fertility rate alongside other southeast asian countries of - Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.Hong Kong's Family Planning Association said in a separate release that the number of childless women in the special Chinese administrative region more than doubled from five years ago to 43.2 percent in 2022. Moreover, ... Read more

Sandy Munro takes apart all of the leading cars in the world and analyzes costs and technological from the materials and components. He describes in this interview how Tesla achieved dominance in all drivetrain and electrical efficiency in all aspects of electric cars that matter since the Model 3 six years ago. This lead in ... Read more

Physics World reports that LK99 produced by the descriptions in the original papers are not superconducting and not room temperature superconducting. A deep investigation of the original samples is needed to confirm any hints of superconducting observations and then to find any very specific impurity that is unique to the Korean samples. The original LK99 ... Read more

Warren Redlich has broken the news that the CATL M3P battery is sodium-ion and not LMFP (manganese). This was in the CATL July 2023 Semi-annual report. The CATL M3P battery has been rumored to be used in the Tesla Model RWD in China. The CATL M3P battery is rumored to be more energy dense than ... Read more

There is clear evidence that the modified Starship upper stage that SpaceX has been working upon for months is the first version of human landing system lunar Starship. This system has different door openings and other modifications. TheSpaceEngineer has a rendering of what is believed to the first lunar starship prototype. Youtuber Felix Schlang at ... Read more

Tesla has a new entry level Model S at below $80,000 and a new entry level Model X at below $90,000. This has less range than the previous low end versions and a starting price about $10,000 less. This could help Tesla to sell 30,000 to 40,000 Model S and X per quarter instead of ... Read more

GM's Cruise robotaxi service has expanded from 70 to 300 robotaxis operating in San Francisco and will soon expand to Phoenix, Los Angeles, Austin and Dubai. GM Cruise had increasing losses of $561 million in the first quarter of 2023. This will be over $2 billion in losses in 2023. GM Cruise will having increasing ... Read more

China's military scientists claim their new high-energy laser weapons can now operate infinitely', thanks to a new cooling system that completely eliminates the build-up of waste heat. Chinese researcher Yuan Shenghfu, August 4 in Acta Optica Sinica,A has made a new laser cooling system using active structures and optimized gas flow to remove heat while ... Read more

The travel sector is undeniably one of the most dynamic markets in the world. However, due to this space being plagued by archaic booking and privacy processes, it is in need of a major makeover. In this regard, many experts believe that blockchain technology has the power to usher in this change since it is ... Read more

Lockheed Martin will scale its combat laser technology to a 500 kW-class laser. It will be the most powerful laser Lockheed Martin has produced, topping its 300 kW-class laser power level developed under a contract from the Department of Defense's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, OUSD (R&E). The 500 ... Read more