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The Caldor Fire is 11% contained and is threatening Lake Tahoe. The Caldor Fire is about 126,000 acres and is smaller than the Dixie Fire (734,000 acres). The Caldor Fire is the number one priority...

Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction series Foundation will debut globally September 24, 2021, exclusively on Apple TV+. Hari Seldon is the hero of the series. Hari is played by Jared Harris....

Skydio gave the keynote to the 2021 HotChips Conference. They have raised $340 million and are the first US Unicorn drone company. Consumer drones are still mostly a hobby because drones are...

China is completing a 2 megawatt molten salt reactor this month (August) and will start tests next month. Professor Yan Rui of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, was a lead researcher on the...

On Aug. 8, 2021, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ). This...

Tesla revealed its Exapod Dojo supercomputer made from 10 cabinets of servers. Each rack has 6 tiles with 9 Petaflops in each tile. Each cabinet is 100 petaflops. The fastest AI supercomputer is...

Prufrock-2 is alive in Texas pic.twitter.com/Hj5H03Fd36 — The Boring Company (@boringcompany) August 21, 2021 Boring Revolution follows the work at the Boring Company very closely. He is...

The Amazon AWS Global Infrastructure is built for performance. AWS Regions offer low latency, low packet loss, and high overall network quality. This is achieved with a fully redundant 100 GbE fiber...

Lex Fridman has a very successful podcast but he has been an AI researcher for 6+ years. Lex was very impressed with the technical details of Autopilot and FSD revealed at Tesla AI day. Lex says...

China is legally allowing three child families to slow the plunge in births. there are also other pro-child policies. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress canceled the...

James Douma was interviewed by Dave Lee about Tesla AI Day. James is an AI expert and notes how Tesla has done significant re-architecting and is charting new paths to solve self-driving. James was...

Woody Allen said that 90% of life is showing up. Tom Peters said 80% of success is showing up. Tesla Bots will be able to show up better than Boston Dynamic robots. Boston Dynamics have some agile...

Here is why Tesla Bot has an assured level of success. The Tesla robots do not have to exceed the level of Boston Dynamic robots for agility to win. Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 and has...

Elon Musk and Tesla revealed the vision for a general-purpose humanoid robot. They would start with the most boring, repetitive and dangerous work. The work humans least like to do. What is dangerous...

Part 2 of Tesla AI Day. DOJO Training Computer – Exaflop Pod in 11 Cabinets

The Tesla AI Day presentation is starting. Elon has started out by asking for people who want to solve real world AI at the hardware or software level to apply to Tesla. Andrej Karpathy, the director...

Baidu plans to expand its robotaxi ride-hailing services across 30 cities in China in two to three years to serve a wider range of users. Robin Li, founder of Baidu, said at the 2021 ABC Summit....

Israel is being closely watched now because it was one of the first countries out of the gate with vaccinations in December 2020 and got more people vaccinated more quickly. Israel is seeing weaker...

Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Canadian quantum computing hardware and software with US$145 million of funding. In May, 2021, they raised US$100M in Series B financing. Bessemer Venture Partners...

SpaceX needs to complete the following to launch the Super Heavy Starship Orbital Flight * complete the launch tower * the Starship SN20 heatshield must be complete and each tile verified * Both the...

The Delta covid variant is the dominant variant in most places around the world and there is information on the level of reduced effectiveness of the vaccines from the CDC. Israel has more people...

Weekly deaths from COVID are highest in Indonesia, Brazil, Russia and then the USA. Weekly COVID deaths are also high in Mexico, India and many other countries. The USA has the highest weekly...

China has travel and other restrictions to fight its latest delta COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreak is in its fifth week and involving more than a dozen cities. China closed the world’s third-busiest...

Momentus has built two Vigoride vehicles, which have completed flight qualification where the satellite is tested under the conditions it will experience during launch and while in space. The first...

The Climate problem we have is about 750 billion tons of excess CO2 in the atmosphere. We have 417 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 versus 285 ppm in 1850 before the industrial revolution. 135 times...

Tesla Model Y had over 38% of US EV registrations and the Tesla Model 3 was second. Tesla had about 67% of US EV registrations. When the Model S and X are back in full production, they should be in...

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and General Fusion will build and operate its Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at UKAEA’s Culham Campus. The FDP will demonstrate General Fusion’s proprietary...

If Tesla FSD proceeds roughly on the two week schedule for updates, then a widely available Full Self Driving should be ready by the end of 2021. This could be the timeline for Tesla FSD. FSD 9.2...

Tesla GigaBerlin will have 8 gigapresses which will enable the factory to produce up to 1.5 million Model Ys. Tesla Austin has similar initial capacity as Berlin. This third quarter of 2021, Tesla...

There is a report that the Tesla FSD Beta v9.2 email is out. This likely means Tesla beta testers will be able to update this weekend. BREAKING: FSD Beta v9.2 email has been sent! — Sawyer...

Elon Musk has said each SpaceX Starship should last for 25-30 years which mean they would be able to make about 12 missions between Earth and Mars. When will Starship production become cost...

In 2020, the global fleet of Tesla vehicles and solar panels let Tesla customers avoid emitting 5.0 million metric tons of CO2e. The cumulative fleet of Tesla cars was about 1 million in 2020. Tesla...

A Tesla short-seller had an epiphany, but the ridiculous epiphany is that he realized that central banks are going to mostly engineer low-interest rates for decades. This is what should be...

The world has been a hothouse most of the last 540 million years. Humanity can mimic what naturally occurred to turn a hothouse Earth 15C warmer than today into a -9C ice age. We can just do a little...

Form Energy has an iron-air battery technology that is optimized to store electricity for 100 hours at system costs competitive with legacy power plants. It is a cost-effective, multi-day energy...

Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, had the third part of his interview with Elon Musk. What comes through is the intense focus Elon Musk and his teams have. They are focused and operating with extreme...

Consumer Reports compared regular cars versus EVs and different car models. EVs have far lower maintenance and operating costs than other cars. Tesla’s have longer range and less maintenance...

The senate passed a $3.5 trillion blueprint which is the first step in the reconciliation process to pass a larger bill. House leaders will return from summer recess Aug 23 to vote on the fiscal...

Sending a rocket into space typically requires about 90% of the rocket’s initial weight to be fuel. This limitation could be overcome by wirelessly transmitting the needed power to the rocket...

The latest UN IPCC, climate change report is out. the IPCC report says that global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios...

Intel was the dominant semiconductor chip maker for decades. They were a generation or two ahead of all competitors. However, six years ago Intel started badly missing deadlines for new chips. Intel...

Rapidly iterating on versions rockets and rocket engines is a huge advantage for SpaceX. Elon said he expects that the fifth version of the Raptor engine should be an A+ version of that engine. The...

This is the first time we are seeing the orbital Starship with heatshield on the launch pad. This is the first time we are seeing the Starship stacked onto the Super Heavy booster. In 2022, this...

In 2014, Blue Origin said the BE-4 engine would be ready by 2017 but it is likely slipping to 2022. ULA need BE-4 for its new Vulcan rocket and Blue Origin needs it for the New Glenn rocket. Blue...

Last Thursday, the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) called Nauka had unplanned firing of MLM thrusters that caused the station to move out of orientation. NASA ground teams regained...

Elon Musk gave a tour of the Starbase Factory to the Everyday Astronaut. He says that manufacturing systems are much harder than designing rockets. He says the launch tower and launch facilities are...

The Dixie Fire is now over 434,000 acres and destroyed the town of Greenville last night. Greensville, California has a population of 817. Taylorsville was just evacuated with a population of 198....

Chris Duffin is an inventor, thought leader, and serial entrepreneur in Health and Fitness. He has Co-Founded multiple prominent brands. He is the Chief Visionary Officer of Kabuki Strength. He has...

Ahead of Tesla AI day on August 19, 2021 is what looks like a 25 AI chip module for the Dojo Training supercomputer. The Tesla Dojo supercomputer is a key part of speeding up the improvement of the...

SpaceX is lifting Super Heavy Booster 4 onto the launch table which is beside the new giant launch tower. There were previous pictures of the launch table under construction and workers in the...