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There are reports that China has a new superchip MT-3000 processor designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). The MT-3000 has general-purpose CPU cores, control cores, and matrix accelerator cores. NUDT's MT-3000 processor features a multi-zone structure that packs 16 general-purpose CPU cores with 96 control cores and 1,536 accelerator cores. The MT-3000 ... Read more

The White House's national security adviser said Wednesday that he had already scheduled a classified meeting with congressional leadership before a top House Republican requested that President Joe Biden declassify all information that relates to serious national security threat. An anti-satellite nuclear weapon would likely be something that would generate an electromagnetic pulse. In 2018, ... Read more

Intuitive Machines will launch the IM-1 mission Nova-C class lunar lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9. The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission will be the Company's first attempted lunar landing as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS") initiative, a key part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration efforts. The Intuitive Machines 1 (IM-1, TO2-IM) mission ... Read more

Elon Musk 13G filing dated Dec 31,2023 was about stock and option ownership prior to the 2018 pay package legal issues.. Lot of confusion about Elon's 13-G filing filed after the close. Bottom line: Elon still owns 13% (411M) of $TSLA shares - not 20.5% as shown in the filing. Just as he did in ... Read more

There was a fatal Tesla car accident by a Tesla employee. The driver had a blood alcohol level of 0.26, more than 3x the legal limit. The FSD software was never downloaded. FSD Beta could not have been activated because the software was never downloaded. NEWS: Rohan (a Tesla executive) also says yesterday's Washington Post ... Read more

Update on Elon's $56B pay package case. Tesla and Elon Musk will appeal the ruling. Before Elon and Tesla can appeal, the two sides will propose a final order for approval by Judge McCormick, which will include a petition for a legal fee. That legal fee, which will be paid by Tesla, is ... Read more

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks-extremely strong 3D structures made with a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer called StattechNN-40CF. Each block had fastening interfaces on every side that could be used to reversibly attach them to other blocks and form a strong truss ... Read more

In 2018, Nextbigfuture predicted that Canada would have 40 million people in 2023. Statistics Canada determined that Canada had 40 million people on June 16, 2023. I correctly made this prediction 6 years before it happened. The UN population actual" numbers are off by 5% for Canada. The UN predictions are off by 20% or ... Read more

Yesterday, Elon tweeted that the SpaceX Starship launch is in about 3 weeks. Starship were meant to fly and our next one launches in about 3 weeks, but I recommend waiting for a few more test flights before hopping on board @NICKIMINAJ - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2024

OpenAI GPT5 has likely started its final training run. An earlier smaller run of a test version of GPT5 gave Sam Altman one of his top 4 feelings of a leap in AI capability. GPT5 will likely include the ability to explain in plain english all of the inference steps and for about 10,000 validation ... Read more

Infleqtion announced the next phase of its quantum computing program: Sqorpius, the world's largest qubit array, comprising 1600 qubits. This new initiative encompasses substantial investments in both hardware and software and is dedicated to creating error-corrected logical qubits tailored for commercial applications. Alongside the announcement of Sqorpius, Infleqtion revealed significant milestones in gate fidelity, qubit ... Read more

In late 2023, NASA tested a new hybrid laser/radio antenna to downlink data from 20 million miles (32 million kilometers) away at a rate of 15.63 megabits per second - about 40 times faster than radio frequency communications at that distance. On Jan. 1, 2024, the antenna downlinked a team photograph that had been uploaded ... Read more

The era of Big Data and Big Compute is here. Per OpenAI, compute demand by deep learning has been doubling every three months for the last 8 years. Neuromorphic computing with deep neural networks is driving AI growth however it is heavily dependent on compact, non-volatile energy efficient memories with various attractive features to suit ... Read more

In 2023, BYD is expected to become one of the top three energy storage system integrators in China and may even compete for the top spot with CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive. In 2022, BYD was not even in the top ten in terms of domestic energy storage system shipments. In 2023, BYDs total capacity of vehicle ... Read more

The top ten EV battery makers in 2023 were again CATL, BYD from China and LG from South Korea.

Sanctuary's CTO Suzanne Gildert explains their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is human-like general intelligence. Suzanne Gildert is Chief Technology Officer and has been a prominent figure in AI robotics leading to her being often affectionately known as the Mother of ... Read more

Canada's realtime population count is about 3 weeks from reaching 41 million people. On June 16, 2023, Statistics Canada announced that Canada's population had reached 40 million people. Canada is adding over 100,000 per month with 868,000 added over less than eight months. This will each over 880,000 by Feb 16, 2024. 15% of the ... Read more

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a type of DRAM technology that offers a number of advantages: Lower voltages - HBM is designed to operate at lower voltages, which means it generates less heat. Higher capacity - HBM can store more data and process it at once than previous generations. Faster training times - HBM3 Gen2 ... Read more

In 2024, Samsung will launch low latency wide (LLW) DRAMs that are designed to improve the power efficiency of artificial intelligence applications by 70% more than that of regular DRAMs. LLW DRAMs will become its flagship, next-generation chips and be embedded into AI devices such as extended reality headsets. Samsung aims to beef up artificial ... Read more

In January 2024, SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, announced that it will become a total AI memory provider by 2024. The company will also build high-end memory capacity to meet the demand for AI. Hynix is partnering with TSMC for new HBM4 memory in 2026 that will stack on top of GPU ... Read more

Machines with human-level intelligence should be able to do most economically valuable work. This aligns a major economic incentive with the scientific grand challenge of building a human-like mind. Here Sanctuary AIs CEO Geordie Rose and CTO Suzanne Gildert describe their approach to building and testing such a system. Their approach comprises a physical humanoid ... Read more

Arxiv - The development of artificial intelligence systems is transitioning from creating static, task-specific models to dynamic, agent-based systems capable of performing well in a wide range of applications. Microsoft researchers propose an Interactive Agent Foundation Model that uses a novel multi-task agent training paradigm for training AI agents across a wide range of domains, ... Read more

SK Hynix and Taiwan's TSMC have established an AI Semiconductor Alliance'. SK Hynix has emerged as a strong player in the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market due to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) craze. TSMC is the world's largest semiconductor foundry (consignment production) company. The strategy is to consolidate the victory of the two companies in ... Read more

A new way of creating color uses the scattering of light of specific wavelengths around tiny, almost perfectly round silicon crystals. This Kobe University development enables non-fading structural colors that do not depend on the viewing angle and can be printed. The material has a low environmental and biological impact and can be applied extremely ... Read more

Here is a video discussion of the most important point about Tesla FSD 12.X. The indications are that the rate of improvement for the Tesla FSD 12.X all neural net system will greatly increase. There was over 300,000 lines of hard coding removed from Tesla FSD. It was reported that Tesla had purchased 15,000 Nvidia ... Read more

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to raise $7 trillion for a massive AI chip company. This would need to tap all of the assets of multiple Sovereign Wealth Funds. If the funds were raised to make many new semiconductor fabs and design new chips, then this would mean multiplying the capital expenditure of TSMC ... Read more

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is talking with leaders of the UAE and elsewhere for $7 Trillion for a new AI Chip company. The WSJ report indicates Sam wants to raise money and then ask TSMC to build factories. Sam must believe that a new class of chip is needed that will build a sustainable advantage ... Read more

Troops in elite commando units of the Israel Defense Forces are increasing attacks on Hamas targets in western Khan Yunis ahead of the looming invasion of Rafah, the terror group's last stronghold in Gaza. On Wednesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the IDF would be conducting intense combat operations in Rafah after ... Read more

Barry-1 had ongoing power-system issues on the bus through LEOP, and after two months of operations, towards the end of LEOP, @RogueSpaceCorp lost communication with the satellite. @ivo_ltd never had the opportunity to test the Quantum Drives. The drives were NOT turned on. Sadly, Barry-1 had ongoing power-system issues on the bus through LEOP, and ... Read more

You can now edit images generated with Dall-E 3. It works directly in Copilot thanks to Designer (and for free). I've been looking forward to this You can now edit images generated with Dall-E 3. It works directly in Copilot thanks to Designer (and for free) pic.twitter.com/Lccf4kedAN - Paul Couvert (@itsPaulAi) February 7, 2024 ... Read more

Here is update on the analysis of the remains of interstellar meteor IM1. There was a paper claiming the IM1 remains were coal ash but that is disproved. The detection threshold of surveys which rely on reflected sunlight sets the minimum size of a detectable object as a function of its distances from the observer ... Read more

Moons and asteroids with a global ocean are tending to become relatively common objects in the Solar System. There have been at least nine and now ten with Saturn's tiny (250 mile across Mimas). Give of the moon's of Uranus are also likely having deep buried oceans. The presence of these long-lived global oceans is ... Read more

The world of marketing technology, or MarTech, is expanding at astonishing speeds. From 2011 to 2023, the number of MarTech solutions available grew an incredible 8620% - surging from just 150 options to over 13,000. In fact, over 2,000 new solutions entered the market in the last 6 months of 2023 alone. Above - Image ... Read more

Last month, Chinese researchers published a pre-print article where they found Possible Meissner effect near room temperature in copper-substituted lead apatite. This was an Lk99 variant with sulfur in the chemistry. They detected evidence of possible Meissner effect magnetic fields which would be consistent with room temperature superconductivity. The lead researcher, Yao Yao, is sending ... Read more

China's main chipmaker, SMIC, has put together new semiconductor production lines in Shanghai, to mass-produce Huawei designed smartphone chips with a 5 nanometer lithographic process. In August 2023, Huawei surprised the industry and analysts with a 7 nanometer processor for its Mate 60 Pro premium smartphone launched. The phone helped it to increase shipments in ... Read more

Here is the video of the previous week in Nextbigfuture highlight articles. There is coverage of Neuralink's first human patient, global excess deaths continuing despite the covid pandemic ending, warming Mars by 10 degrees Celsius by 2050 using 14 SpaceX Starships to deliver equipment and wrinkled graphite has one dimensional room temperature superconductivity on the ... Read more

In 2024, Quera, neutral atom quantum computer company, will beLaunching a quantum computer with ten logical qubits, unique transversal gate capability, and over 256 physical qubits. The Transversal gates are crucial in quantum computing for their ability to prevent error propagation across qubits, making them inherently error-resistant. They simplify quantum error correction by allowing errors ... Read more

China room temperature superconductor researcher Professor Yao Yao believes that the Original Korean team (Lee and Sukbae) took the wrong line of research by focusing too much on zero resistance and ignoring the magnetic phase. Yao yao believes that the CSU research group caught up with Lee's team last November. Professor Yao Yao believes that ... Read more

A LK99 researcher from Hubei, China, said that his paper might not be released before the Lunar New Year because of patent issues, announced the main findings of the paper, which detected three specific magnetic pointing superconductivity in the samples. He also described improved synthesis methods. The LK99 researcher from Hubei, China, who said that ... Read more

Metalenses have been used to image microscopic features of tissue and resolve details smaller than a wavelength of light. Now, Harvard researchers have turned the metalens towards space. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a 10-centimeter-diameter glass metalens that can image the sun, the moon ... Read more

DARPA will give an information session on the Photon-Efficient Nanoscale Optical Metrology (PhENOM) Disruption Opportunity. Photon-Efficient Nanoscale Optical Metrology (PhENOM), seeks to harness novel light-matter hybrids, such as photonic molecules & photon fluids' for novel applications. The PhENOM DO will explore and demonstrate disruptive approaches to loss-resilient generation, detection, and information-encoding of quantum correlated states ... Read more

A new research paper in the Acta Astronautica journal describes a constellation of mirror satellites to increase the power at the large solar farms on Earth. Among all cases, the paper found SSO (sun synchronous orbit) and single reflector cases to be superior. A constellation with 20 reflectors could deliver a significant quantity of solar ... Read more

Every four years, an event occurs in the Bitcoin ecosystem that sets off a chain reaction. As predictable as an astronomical phenomenon, the Bitcoin halving has consistently fueled excitement through parabolic price rises and exponential increases in global visibility that bring waves of new adopters. Image Source For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, ... Read more

There have been two movies about the harm caused by the northern california electrical utility, PG&E. There is the Erin Brokovich in 2000 with Julia Roberts. There is Ron Howard's documentary, Rebuilding Paradise. The Victims or their heirs got some money. However, the bad guys won. PG&E lost the lawsuits but they just increase the ... Read more

Winter storms in California knocked out power for more than 890,000 customers on Sunday-with more than half a million still without electricity on Monday. There are still about 140,000 without power today on Tuesday. As of January 2024, the average monthly electric bill in California is $190-$210, which is a 20% increase from 2023. The ... Read more

A senior citizen with a two bedroom home in Santa Rosa is paying almost $357 in January, 2024. This is up from $195 in December, 2023. There is a new rate increase coming from PG&E. The average residential PG&E customer is expected to pay about $34.50 more each month - a boost of about $400 ... Read more

SpaceX showed off three fully complete Super Heavy Booster and Starships. They each have double the thrust of the Saturn V. There is a fourth Super Heavy Starship that is nearing completion. They are all standing in the Starbase Megabay. Super Heavy boosters for the next three flights, with a fourth ready to stack, in ... Read more

ESA's (European Space Agency) Mars Express has found layers of water ice stretching several kilometers below ground - the most water ever found in this part of the planet. f melted, the ice locked up in the MFF would cover the entire planet in a layer of water 1.5 to 2.7 m deep: the most ... Read more

Bladder tissue was successfully grown from baboon bone marrow. It was kept functional for two years. This success is promising for success with human tissue over the next few years. Scientists from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University have succeeded in regenerating fully ... Read more

Here is a paper written by Virtus Solis, Space based solar power startup. Virtus Solis is a funded startup working to develop space based solar power. They would leverage the low cost launch of the SpaceX Starship and modular satellites to enable power to be beamed from space at lower cost than coal or natural ... Read more