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I have researched the major self driving car companies. We know Argo AI failed. They were ranked 5th in California based upon disengagement miles. Disengagement miles is a misleading statistic. It is only somewhat predictive. Argo had $4 billion or so of funding and 2100 employees. Ford after pulling the plug said Argo was over ... Read more

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical forecaster who uses simplified analysis and makes broad generalized predictions. He has predicted financial doom for China for over a decade. He does correctly identify things like demographic challenges which in some cases can cause a -1% drag on GDP growth for a country. However, he broadly assumes that no ... Read more

NASA is awarding SpaceX $1.15 billion for SpaceX to provide a second crewed landing demonstration mission in 2027 as part of NASA’s Artemis IV mission. “Returning astronauts to the Moon to learn, live, and work is a bold endeavor. With multiple planned landers, from SpaceX and future partners, NASA will be better positioned to accomplish ... Read more

I was interviewed by Lars at BestinTesla. I talked about why robotaxi at scale competition won’t be coming once Tesla solves robotaxi at scale. Tesla has over 160,000 people currently using FSD and driving 10 million miles per quarter on surface roads with it. The new version 11 is being deployed and switches navigate on ... Read more

Thanks to all Nextbigfuture community for your support. This is just an FYI that I have to shutdown comments to articles related to FTX, Binance and Crypto. The level of spam on those articles is insane. There has been a general increase in comment spam. This is causing me to shut comments on various older ... Read more

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX may have misused customer funds in violation of its own terms of service. Although, there is legalize needed to use uncertainty in the statement that crimes might have been committed. It is very apparent that financial crimes and theft and misuse of client funds did happen. FTX placed billions of dollars worth ... Read more

Self-driving car company Argo AI failure when Ford and VW pulled the plug after spending over $3 billion. It is big evidence that Lidar-dependent self-driving has a long way to go. All of the self-driving car companies except Tesla and Comma were using Lidar. Ford said removing the driver is over 5 years away. Most ... Read more

A talk with Tesla author Randy Kirk discusses several catalysts that will help share prices recover or to better weather the financial storms. Randy Kirk, Lars Strandridder, John (Dr Know it all) Gibb, and Brian Wang have just published a book. Randy and I sat down to discuss Tesla news and catalysts. Get The Elon ... Read more

Here is a snapshot of the top 13 or so crypto exchanges for cryptocurrency, crypto exchanges for derivatives and distributed exchanges. Various exchanges already had problems before the recent collapse of FTX. Voyager went under. Now Genesis has frozen withdrawals. Crypto.com is in danger. Crypto.com’s Cronos token (CRO), fell 55% in a week before getting ... Read more

Here is analysis that makes that case that collapse of the FTX exchange and the FTT token ponzi is a faster version of what will happen to the japanese Yen and the UK Pound. Here is some data about external debt. The foreign debt (not in domestic currency) is what can be greater than the ... Read more

I have looked at all of the dozens of self-driving car companies. I looked at many of the 80 LIDAR (laser radar) companies. I cut through all of the noise, complexity and confusion. Robotaxis will change the world and are a multi-trillion opportunity. Companies have spent over a hundred billion dollars already and even more ... Read more

NASA has successfully launched an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a 26-day mission around the Moon and back to Earth. During #Artemis I, Orion will lift off aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and travel 280,000 miles (450,000 km) from Earth and 40,000 miles (64,000 km) beyond the far side of the Moon, carrying science ... Read more

Almost as soon as they burst onto the scene with CryptoKitties back in 2017, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been hailed as the future of digital collectibles. With their innate scarcity and the ability to represent just about anything digitally, NFTs have a lot of potential for a wide variety of applications. Unsurprisingly, this has led ... Read more

Alexandra Merz proposed that Elon Musk is raising more cash to buy Shift4 to accelerate the move of Twitter into payments processing. Jared Isaacman is the founder and CEO of the payment processing firm Shift4 Payments ($FOUR). He started the firm in 1999, at age 16, in his parents’ basement in Far Hills, New Jersey ... Read more

Tom Brady and his x-wife Gisele Bundchen are at risk of losing $650 million if crypto exchange FTX goes completely bankrupt. Tom and Gisele apparently invested $650 million in the FTX company. Tom Brady still has a three-year contract. Tom is getting paid $75 million this year which includes $45 million in endorsements. Brady makes ... Read more

Crypto exchange Binance is walking away from bailing out FTX. FTX has a shortfall of up to $8 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that FTX Chairman and founder Sam Bankman-Fried is missing and may be on the run. As a result of corporate due diligence, as well as the latest news reports regarding mishandled ... Read more

It’s becoming increasingly important to focus on keeping your wallets safe. There are plenty of hackers and other cybercriminals looking to get their hands on your crypto investment. Check out five essential tips on how to make that doesn’t happen. One of the major topics in the world of crypto is security. The threat of ... Read more

There has perhaps never been a corporate takeover as controversial as Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter recently. The self-proclaimed “meme-lord” began by secretly buying up Twitter stock before making an offer in April 2022. Musk tried to back out of the deal before being faced with a court battle to force the purchase. Key to ... Read more

Twitter has filed with a financial regulatory agency to process payments. This is the start of Elon Musk going back to his Paypal plans. Elon Musk had visions for reinventing finance with Paypal. Elon Musk will now use Twitter to realize those previously abandoned plans. Elon wants to integrate all financial data into one database, ... Read more

The FTX crypto exchange, was second largest in the world, has collapsed. Binance, the largest crypto exchange, was considering buying FTX but is now unlikely to follow through. Bitcoin (BTC) is under $17000. Ether (ETH) is below its post-Merge low of $1,160. As of June 30, 2022, Alameda Research (sister company of FTX, both headed ... Read more

Tesla Herbert has a list of his expected changes and features to Twitter. Elon is laying off about 3500 employees which reduce the cash burn by almost half. Adding new features like creator monetization and videos could rapidly transform the financials at Twitter. Getting the cloud infrastructure more efficient could provide stop the cash burn ... Read more

There has been many billions of dollars invested into quantum computing. The picture above is partial view of the companies and institutions working toward quantum computing. William Oliver of MIT gave an overview of the status of Quantum Computing as of late 2021. There had been experimental indications that the 1 and 2 qubit systems ... Read more

IonQ has received over $400 million in funding from Venture capitalists and an IPO. They presented their work at the 2021 QBWare conference. I, Brian Wang, will go going to the 2022 QBWare conference. IonQ indicates that their near term quantum computing systems can reach qubit fidelity of 99.98%. This means they are close to ... Read more

Zuckeberg’s Meta will layoff thousands of workers this week. Elon Musk has begun firing about half of the workforce of Twitter. Twitter was losing $4 million per day. The layoff of 3500 workers enables Twitter to reduce the losses by $2 million per day. Twitter will also need to get another $1 billion per year ... Read more

Elon Musk had an interview today with Ron Baron. Here are some highlights: * Elon confirms that Tesla will make a lower priced car. Based on previous statements, this will likely be a China designed $20k-35k smaller EV vehicle. This would likely also be a human driven and robotaxi platform * Elon repeated his expectation ... Read more

Boeing human crewed Starliner mission has been delayed from February to April 2023 or later. There continue to be technical problems and there are now new concerns about the parachutes. The continuing problems raise concerns that any human crew should be risked flying in Starliner. Due to delays and technical problems, Boeing has taken a ... Read more

Researchers from Australia and Singapore are working on a new quantum technique that could enhance optical VLBI. It’s known as Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP), which allows quantum information to be transferred without losses. When imprinted into a quantum error correction code, this technique could allow for VLBI observations into previously inaccessible wavelengths. Once integrated ... Read more

Cryptosat, a startup creating satellites that beam cryptographic building blocks down to Earth, has raised $3 million from seed investors. The company aims to harden cryptographic applications by providing tamper-resistant trusted execution environments in space. Trusted setups are vital to many areas of cryptography. A guaranteed absence of physical security vulnerabilities would improve the integrity ... Read more

I had a discussion of what is next for Tesla and SpaceX from the four co-authors of the Amazon Best Seller book in the Technology category (Elon Musk Mission). Randy Kirk, Lars Strandridder, John Gibb and I have just published a book–and we sat down to discuss the details about Tesla, SpaceX and more.

SpaceX had a successful Falcon Heavy launch of the USSF-44 mission to a geosynchronous Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In the last couple of years, companies have started to pay more attention to cybersecurity. Allocated budgets have increased, and that is reflected in the overall cyber market. By 2030, the market is expected to reach around 538 billion U.S. dollars. The way cyber risks are perceived has taken a new shape as well. Namely, ... Read more

The State of AI 2022 report was released a few days ago. * Deep Mind, Open AI and Google (neural net transformers team) are source of over two dozen AI startups * Almost $3 trillion in enterprise value for companies (private and public) using or creating a lot of Saas AI

Andrej Karpathy was interviewed by Lex Fridman and one of his many key points was that Teslabot is not setup for zero or one loss function. Andrej means that the business model is not set up where a lot of money is invested and it does not take complete capabilities for Teslabot to be a ... Read more

Randy Kirk, Lars Strandridder, John (Dr Know it all) Gibb, and Brian Wang have just published a book–and we sat down to discuss the details about Teslabot in part 1 of the discussion. Check out our chat, get hyped up about the future that Elon is helping to create, and then go buy the book ... Read more

Randy Kirk wrote a best-selling book on the business practices of Elon Musk, The Elon Musk Method. Now he has joined forces with popular Tesla news YouTuber, Lars Strandridder of Best in Tesla, to unpack the companies that Elon currently runs. Elon is Techno King of Tesla, Chief Twit at Twitter, and has every boy’s ... Read more

Ultra Strong Carbon Fibers from fused DWNT nanotubes have been made and the work was published in Science Advances. Ultrahigh strength, modulus, and conductivity of graphitic fibers by macromolecular coalescence Theoretical considerations suggest that the strength of carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers be exceptional; however, their mechanical performance values are much lower than the theoretical values. ... Read more

Neuralink is designing the Link to connect to thousands of neurons in the brain, so that it may one day be able to record the activity of these neurons, process these signals in real time, and translate intended movements directly into the control of an external device. As a first application of our technology, they ... Read more

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) plans to start mass production of its sodium-ion batteries in 2023. CATL has setup a large supply chain for the batteries and has entered negotiations with some carmakers about their use. Sodium-ion batteries have sodium-ion batteries have already been commercialized in e-bikes and energy storage. Sodium is 2.3% of ... Read more

Researchers led by Professor Dennis Leung from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has discovered a new possibility—a rechargeable aqueous battery with a magnesium metal anode. The innovation opens a new direction for the development of post-lithium-ion batteries. “With a high theoretical capacity and negative electrochemical potential, magnesium is ... Read more

David Tenant is returning as the 14th Doctor Who and he returns with show runner and writer Russell T Davies. David Tenant was the tenth doctor and has been voted the best doctor by fans. Certainly, Tenant is the most popular of the recent Doctors. My favorite Doctors would be 1. Tom Baker 2. David ... Read more

The General Dynamics Land Systems Abrams X is a main battle tank for the next generation, featuring reduced weight for improved mobility and transportability and delivering the same tactical range as the M1A2 Abrams with 50% less fuel consumption. The AbramsX’s hybrid power pack supports the U.S. Army’s climate and electrification strategies, enhances silent watch ... Read more

Amazon stock has fallen 24% today including afterhours trading and sent Jeff Bezos net worth to about $107 billion. Elon Musk is at about $211 Billion in net worth. Amazon has lowered guidance for the fourth quarter. Meta is down 25% today and Mark Zuckerberg with about 12.8% is down to about $40 billion in ... Read more

There is a video of Elon Musk entering the lobby of Twitter carrying a bathroom sink. He is laughing and joking. Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022

Elon Musk has confirmed that after taking over Twitter he will add a clone of Youtube to Twitter. Nextbigfuture wrote how it would be simple to combine Starlink generation 2 backhaul bandwidth capabilities to enable video with Twitter. SpaceX Starlink just passed 250,000 users in April and is now about 1 million users. Starlink could ... Read more

ThorCon Power’s main investor, Chris Anderson, who is also the manager of TED Talks and a friend of Elon Musk, and Operations Director of PT ThorCon Power Indonesia , Bob S Effendi, held an audience with the Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) , Laksana Tri Handoko. BRIN together with ThorCon agreed ... Read more

The Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP) at Caltech is working to deploy a constellation of modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electricity, then wirelessly transmit that electricity wherever it is needed—including to places that currently have no access to reliable power. Over a period of two years, they have built and demonstrated two ... Read more

Researchers at Northeastern have built a device that can recognize “millions of colors” using new artificial intelligence techniques. “In the world of automation, shapes and colors are the most commonly used items by which a machine can recognize objects,” Kar says. The breakthrough is twofold. Researchers were able to engineer two-dimensional material whose special quantum ... Read more

Researchers at the University of Boston have made a version of COVID that kills 80% of mice and it has immune escape. Boston University has a defense. BU said its research should not be considered “gain of function” because “it did not amplify the Washington state SARS-CoV-2 virus strain or make it more dangerous.” They ... Read more

SpaceX is offering high speed in-flight Starlink internet to commercial airlines and private airplanes. High-speed, low-latency, in-flight internet will cost each airplane $12,500/mo-$25,000/mo with a one-time hardware cost of $150,000. Deliveries will start 2023. Starlink has been available for cruise ships and private ships with up to 350 Mbps download while at sea. $5,000/mo with ... Read more