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There is safety data on cars by model and types of cars. There is insurance and regulator data for whether particular car models are involved in more accidents and if the drivers of particular cars...

Tesla has declared they will split their shares 3 for 1. On Friday, Tesla submitted a 14A filing with the SEC that clarified its plans for the 2022 Annual Stockholder’s Meeting, which will take place...

Canadian quantum computer company, Xanadu, has used its photonic quantum computer chip, Borealis, to solve a problem in 36 microseconds versus classical supercomputers taking 9000 years. This is 7884...

Atom Computing has closed a $60M in Series B funding, which brings their total funding to $80 million. They are building a larger second-generation quantum computing system that can run commercial...

The Australian Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has installed a room-temperature diamond-based quantum computer developed by Quantum Brilliance. They use synthetic diamonds to run at room...

Gartner predicts that low-code/no-code use will triple by 2025, saying that 70 percent of new applications developed by organizations will have employed some form of low-code/no-code (LCNC)...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 1.0 percent in May on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.3 percent in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported...

The national average price of gas in the U.S. surpassed $5 per gallon today for the first time ever, according to GasBuddy, the leading fuel savings platform saving North American drivers the most...

US and Canadian nuclear regulators completed joint review of Terrestrial’s IMSR (molten salt) nuclear reactor. Terrestrial Energy looks to commercialise the Generation IV small modular reactor (SMR)...

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CNEVPost (China New Energy Vehicle Post) interviewed BYD VP Lian Yubo, BYD executive vice president and president of its automotive engineering research institute, said BYD will soon supply batteries...

At the end of April, 2022 Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger now expects the semiconductor industry to suffer supply shortages until 2024. Nextbigfuture had a video six weeks earlier showing analysis that the...

A total of 12 patients have completed treatment with dostarlimab and have undergone at least 6 months of follow-up. All 12 patients (100%; 95% confidence interval, 74 to 100) had a clinical complete...

Elon Musk has tweeted that Tesla FSD will drive without map data within a few months. Tesla will submit FSD to European regulators soon. Tesla has expanded its FSD Beta to those with driving scores...

Elon Musk shared out an update presentation for a SpaceX all-hands meeting. There are some interesting renderings in the presentation. The new Starlink Generation 2 satellites are shown as having a...

Ivan Ermanoski, Arizona State University, has NASA NIAC funding to evaluate, computationally and experimentally, the feasibility of a process–thermal swing sorption/desorption (TSSD)–to...

A team of astronomers led by scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian who produced the first direct image of a black hole three years ago have now produced a portrait of a second, this time a much-anticipated glimpse of the supermassive blck hole at the center of the Milky Way. The ... Read more

Stanford interview with Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX. She discusses balancing ambitious goals, putting people on Mars in a decade, leading collaboratively, and why she likes making decisions with data. Gwynn talks about operationalizing booster reuse. Gwynn still thinks SpaceX will get humans onto Mars by the end of this decade (aka 2030). ... Read more

Arxiv – Deepmind introduces GATO, a generalist AI agent, which could be a path to AGI, Artificial General Intelligence. Inspired by progress in large-scale language modeling, Deepmind apply a...

In December 2021, NASA awarded a total of $415 million to three companies — Blue Origin, Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman — that are leading efforts to build private space stations in Earth orbit....

Elon Musk believes 2029 is the year we can achieve both AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and humans on Mars. Clearly, Elon believes Teslabot will be used to achieve realworld AGI and realworld...

The United States Oakridge National Lab Frontier Supercomputer is the first exaflop supercomputer. The Frontier system is the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s. The No....

Tesla Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering, Drew Baglino discusses the long term issues building the battery and electric vehicle supply chain. This was at a Stanford University...

I, Brian Wang, had a talk with Warren Redlich about Teslabot and the SpaceX Mechazilla launch tower. Warren Redlich has popular videos on Tesla. Warren is a major Tesla bull and SpaceX and Elon Musk...

Nextbigfuture has interviewed Francois Chopard, Founder and CEO of Starburst Accelerator. Francois has has over 20 years of experience in strategy consulting, entrepreneurship and business...

Most of us like the idea of being environmentally friendly, but we’re disinterested in making certain changes because they’re expensive, inconvenient, or both. In the short term, we’ll be forced to...

SpaceX Starlink is sending up two constellations of satellites. SpaceX with 20,000 employees is likely running at $4 billion per year in expenses for all operations. They will replace satellites to...

Johnny Harris is a journalist who makes popular youtube videos with some nice animations. Johnny projects that China invading Taiwan would follow the following steps: Step 0 – China threats,...

The overall stock market is in a bear market. Tesla’s share price has been roughly cut in half from its peak early in 2022. What are the real risks from continuing market declines and from...

The Boeing Starliner is docking with the ISS (International Space Station). It is currently holding at 10 meters away. It will shortly move in and dock. The Boeing Starliner had a clean launch on an...

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is in orbit, heading for the International Space Station following launch Thursday of the next-generation spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket on a...

Casual observers do not realize how close Tesla is to achieving full self driving cars. Teslabots are considered a distant promise. However, this is not the case. Full self driving software is...

Doug Plata and Chris Wolfe have an updated design for solar drapes for gathering power at the South Pole of the moon. They looked at how much power a single lunar Starship (100 tonnes) could...

This week’s national CDC COVID ensemble forecast is that the number of newly reported COVID-19 deaths will likely increase over the next 4 weeks. The CDC expects 2,000 to 5,300 new deaths likely...

John Hopkins reports that cumulative US COVID deaths have passed 1 million. It’s a morbid milestone for the 2019 virus that rapidly became the third leading cause of U.S. deaths. The number of...

Elon Musk describes Tesla differences and advantages. This was highlighted with commentary from Dave Lee. Typical OEMs (car makers) just assemble car parts made by suppliers and may make the engine....

Elon Musk was interview at the All in Podcast. There were some highlights. Elon Musk thinks it is 100% certain that nuclear fusion will technically work. The question is will nuclear fusion be...

Lab-grown diamonds are a new and more sustainable alternative to mined diamonds because they use less energy, less water, and produce less carbon emissions than regular diamonds. In order to help...

There have been other Mars Society Studies analyzing using Mars resources to make more efficient colonization. The first unmanned missions need to bring the solar panels and automated equipment to...

Elon Musk gave the Everyday Astronaut a new tour of the SpaceX Starbase. Elon showed the Megabay. This will have ten to twelve workstations. The High bay has two stations. This will let SpaceX work...

The US Navy has scrapped 9 new Littoral Combat ships due to structural hull defect problems and failed anti-submarine systems. The United States Navy is decommissioning nine of its Freedom-variant...

SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell says the orbital launch of Super Heavy Starship should be June or July from Boca Chica, Texas, pending FAA approvals. Shotwell said SpaceX views human #Mars...

ColdQuanta, the global quantum ecosystem leader, today announced its acquisition of Chicago-based Super.tech, a world leader in quantum software application and platform development, and the beta...

Elon Musk and JB Straubel talked for 15 minutes on the origins of Tesla. In 2003, JB and Elon and Rosen talked initially about a hydrogen plane but the lunch conversation turned to electric cars....

Elon Musk has said that there will be an interesting demo by the end of 2022 for the Teslabot and low volume mass production in 2023. Low volume mass production for Tesla EVs in 2022 means about 1000...

The Cofounder and CTO of AI Unicorn has said that the Tesla the Factory-Bot is a done deal. The case is made that FSD AI is sufficient for a Tesla factory bot. Tesla FSD AI can already be trained to...

The first step in learning about patents is to define what a patent is. Patents are rights granted to the creator of a technique or product that solves a problem or creates a new method of...

If large scale production is created on Mars, then it would be more efficient to supply high Earth orbit from Mars than from the surface of the Earth. It would take 60-70% of the fuel to send space...

An Oxygen production test on the Mars Perserverance rover has worked. It is 0.5% scale test for a larger system. The larger system will weigh one ton and over one year using 25 kilowatts of power...

Joe Justice (x-Tesla Agile Program Manager) describes how the Tesla Austin Factory has been architected 3D agile cells. Each hexagonal agile cell can send product from the cell to any other adjacent...