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The Federal Reserve raised interest rate by a quarter point today and signaled another hike is at least on the table in coming months amid a solid economy. The federal funds rate was changed from 5.25% to 5.5%. This is the highest level in 22 years.

An early application of practical room temperature superconductors would be to enable 2 month trips to Mars. Paihau-Robinson, an industry leader in high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet development, is undertaking a five-year research programme into the application of its proprietary magnet technology to applied-field magneto plasma dynamic (AF-MPD) thrusters-a type of electric space thruster. Applied-field magneto ... Read more

There have been reports that South Korean researchers have made a practical regular atmospheric pressure room temperature superconductor using basic lab equipment. This would mean superconducting wires and magnets that would not need special cooling. Depending upon your application you might still want to cool the system but you could use regular refrigerants. We had ... Read more

HONG KONG, HONG KONG, July 26th, 2023, Chainwire OKX, a leading crypto exchange by trading volume and Web3 technology company, has published its industry-best ninth consecutive monthly Proof of Reserves (PoR), showing a balance of USD$11.3 billion in BTC, ETH and USDT. OKX's PoR covers 22 commonly used digital assets and demonstrates that OKX has ... Read more

For the first time in the world, researchers (From Korea University, Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Hyun-Tak Kim) have succeeded in synthesizing a room-temperature superconductor (Tc>=400 K, 127C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Critical temperature (Tc), Zero-resistivity, Critical current (Ic), Critical magnetic field ... Read more

Very advanced civilizations could graduate from using regular stars for power and use black holes. Manufacturing of antimatter is hugely energy-inefficient, and antimatter is difficult to contain. The process of generating a Black hole from collapse is naturally efficient. It would require millions of times less energy than a comparable amount of antimatter or at ... Read more

As with many technologies, zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are easy to understand at a high level but hard to master on a fundamental one. It's a bit like knowing that 2 + 2 = 4 yet struggling to explain how you know it to be true. A cryptography degree is not required to talk ZKPs ... Read more

Las Vegas, Nevada, July 25th, 2023, Chainwire Xandeum, a trailblazing blockchain startup committed to accelerating humanity's transition to decentralized control, announces its highly anticipated launch on July 30, 2023, at 11:00 am PT. Leveraging the power of blockchain technology, Xandeum's mission is to empower collective self-determination by creating a scalable, blockchain-based storage layer for smart ... Read more

General Patton: I don't want any messages saying I'm holding my position.' We're not holding a goddamned thing. What is the best strategy for a hyper-advanced space civilization to guarantee its survival? A hyper-advanced space civilization will need to have mastered nuclear fusion, molecular nanotechnology, AI and genetic biotechnology and all physically possible science, technology ... Read more

Web3 and its decentralized protocols are creating more opportunities for budding moviemakers to transform their ideas from simple scripts to big-screen blockbusters. For decades, the moviemaking industry has been dominated by the biggest film studios, and anyone who wanted to produce a big picture film had little option but to try and convince the likes ... Read more

Cerebras Systems and G42, the UAE-based technology holding group, announced Condor Galaxy, a network of nine interconnected supercomputers, offering a new approach to AI compute that promises to significantly reduce AI model training time. The first AI supercomputer on this network, Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1), has 4 exaFLOPs and 54 million cores. Cerebras and G42 ... Read more

Willemstad, Curacao, July 24th, 2023, Chainwire Last year, the Fairspin platform launched two associated loyalty programs: Play To Earn and Hold To Earn. Within the first one, it is possible to receive TFS tokens as a rakeback; using the second one, it is possible to increase them thanks to the holding without any risks. Both ... Read more

CEO of Twitter Linda Yaccarino says X is the future state of unlimited interactivity - centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking - creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we're just beginning to imagine. X is the future state of unlimited interactivity ... Read more

The Great Depression was a global event in the 1930s. There are proposed definitions of economic depressions, which are * a decline in real GDP exceeding 10%, or * a recession lasting 2 or more years. A recession is defined as negative economic growth over two quarterly GDP measurements. This is 6 or more months ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, discussed my ideas about Tesla Robotaxi, Robotrucks, RoboFactories and RoboEverything with Randy Kirk. Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is will speed up this ... Read more

It is the year 2200 and the world has 250 million people. What has happened? Was there a total nuclear war and followed by a famine? Was there a terrible super-pandemic? How can the world have fallen from over 8.1 billion people in 2023 to 250 million. How can there be only 3% of the ... Read more

The new Tesla GigaBerlin production building will be 700*700 meters. This will be larger footprint than the current Tesla Berlin factory. It will be a multi-floor building and will likely end up with about 11 to 12 million square feet. This would make the new addition the single largest factory in the world. There is ... Read more

Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is will speed up this year and beyond. Robotaxi could require the system being 10 to 100 times safer than the ... Read more

DARPA has selected 11 organizations to begin work on the Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program. Selected teams are Applied Materials, Inc., Arizona State University, BRIDG, HRL Laboratories, Intel Federal, North Carolina State University, Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, PseudolithIC, Raytheon Technologies, and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging. Development of 3DHI technologies creates the ... Read more

The UK government wants a backdoor into end-to-end encryption communication applications, but Apple says they would rather remove iMessenger and Facetime from iPhones in the UK. Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. The UK ... Read more

Tesla reported that the 4680 batteries grew 80% in Q2 versus Q1. This was from one production line in Texas and the California test line. Tesla reported 10 million cells were made in Texas from the start of production to June. This was 0.86 GWh of cells. The growth of 4680 battery cells was mainly ... Read more

D-Wave Quantum Annealing systems are providing real business value to Mastercard and other companies. Steve Flinter of Mastercard presented a live demos of quantum-hybrid applications. The live demo showcased the technology's applicability and potential impact in the financial services industry, with an application for customer loyalty and rewards programs. Mastercard is able to use D-Wave ... Read more

The colliding planar shock (CPS) platform should deliver precise measurements of the characteristics of warm dense matter (WDM), a state of matter exhibiting properties of both solids and plasmas. This is a change where high energy physics experiments alone could provide accurate, clear-cut data without needing to rely so heavily on the predictions of models. ... Read more

An AI tool can rapidly decode a brain tumor's DNA to determine its molecular identity during surgery - critical information that under the current approach can take a few days and up to a few weeks. Knowing a tumor's molecular type enables neurosurgeons to make decisions such as how much brain tissue to remove and ... Read more

In Tesla Earnings call, Elon Musk mentioned that Neuralink will be able to drive artificial arms and legs for amputees. He equated this to the $6 million man. It is also Star Trek Borg, which have the motto Resistance is Futile. Elon has the most entertaining earnings calls. Elon says it will be cheaper...the $60,000 ... Read more

Tesla is talking with other carmakers to license FSD. This is huge as Tesla could say make half or more of the FSD profit by allowing other carmakers to license. Tesla could $10,000 on profit off of cars that someone else makes and sells out of the total $15000 price. Will this be like all ... Read more

Tesla has released its Q2 2023 financial results and has 91 cents EPS. Tesla made 18% gross margin on energy. Q2-2023 was a record quarter on many levels with our best-ever production and deliveries and revenue approaching $25B in a single quarter. We are excited that we were able to achieve such results given the ... Read more

Rocket Lab successfully deployed seven satellites into space following its latest mission on Tuesday. Part of the Electron rocket parachuted into the Pacific Ocean and was recovered by a boat. It will be returned to Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab has now completed almost 40 launches with an Electron rocket, which is a reusable small rocket. ... Read more

In the realm of finance, the buzzword of the decade is undoubtedly tokenization." However, the conversation often overlooks the vital infrastructure needed to support this revolutionary shift. AllianceBlock, a trailblazer in this burgeoning space, has stepped up majorly to fill this gap. After nearly five years of relentless innovation, AllianceBlock has produced a groundbreaking alternative ... Read more

The Japan Times reports, Mitsubishi Motors has suspended its China business indefinitely and will lay off staff after years of poor sales in a market rapidly turning to electric vehicles. China is at about 35% EV today and will head to 50% EV in 2024 and 70% EV in 2025. Car makers without EVs or ... Read more

Joe Justice talks about how Toyota has been the number one car company in the world because of their focus on efficiency and quality. However, Toyota's Corolla and Camry has been displaced as the top car model by the Tesla Model Y. Elon Musk focuses on leading all of his companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, X.Ai, ... Read more

A new astronomical model proposes that the age of the Universe is 26.7 billion years old and not 13.7 billion years. For years, astronomers and physicists have calculated the age of our universe by measuring the time elapsed since the Big Bang and by studying the oldest stars based on the redshift of light coming ... Read more

Aubrey de Grey has been a primary leader advocating, fundraising and advancing the science of Antiaging technology for the past three decades. He provided his comment on the work of Harvard's David Sinclair for chemically reversing cellular aging. It's an exciting study. It's analogous to the finding that small molecules can selectively kill senescent cells, ... Read more

Elon Musk said the Ford Lightning is somewhat expensive, which seems to be hinting that the Tesla Cybertruck will have lower prices. Tesla Cybertruck can also have the same price points and more range and features. It seems likely that Tesla will have a delivery day by the end of August and there will be ... Read more

Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of attacking the Kerch bridge with two unmanned surface vessels" (USVs) - drones that travel over water. . Telegram- The Insider pic.twitter.com/uQah84oX9I - (@ukrpravda_news) July 17, 2023 The Kerch bridge was opened in 2018 and enables road and rail travel between ... Read more

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 17th, 2023, Chainwire Delegated proof-of-stake blockchain Kalima has entered into an agreement with ABO Digital, a private alternative funding group based in the Bahamas and Dubai. This significant partnership involves a commitment of US$10 million into the French-based blockchain company. Kalima has also released details of its KLX token sale. ... Read more

From January to May, total global battery consumption for electric vehicles (EVs) was 237.6 GWh, up 52.3 percent from 156.0 GWh in the same period last year, according to data released today by South Korean market research firm SNE Research. 104 GWH was installed in April and May. There was likely about 57 GWH of ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 14th, 2023, Chainwire Chancer, a revolutionary blockchain-based predictive markets app that's taking the crypto and betting world by storm, has raised a whopping $750,000 in just 4 short weeks during its exciting presale. Stage 1 is now set to imminently sell out, with under 23% of tokens left before the price ... Read more

seychelles, seychelles, July 17th, 2023, Chainwire As part of Flipster's (formerly AQX) name launch, the business today announced an additional 1,500,000 USD worth of bonus rewards to encourage new users to join and trade on their exchange. Until the rewards are fully distributed, the futures exchange will run at least one campaign per week to ... Read more

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