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by Brian Wang on (#5KETW)
Helion Energy is the first private company to announce exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius in its sixth fusion generator prototype, Trenta. The Trenta prototype recently finished a 16-month testing...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KES0)
In 1987, John McAfee founded McAfee Associates, a computer anti-virus company and in recent years he was active promoting Libertarian politics. John McAfee was imprisoned in Spain on charges of tax...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KEPJ)
Rocket Lab, Blue Origin and Relativity Space and battling to be the second place US rocket company after SpaceX. Blue Origin has yet to launch commercial satellites. The plans is for a launch of a...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KDCX)
Indonesia’s health ministry reported over 12000 weekly COVID cases last week but these are underreported infection rates. Health restrictions and travel bans are being ignored and COVID testing...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KD99)
As life expectancies around the world increase, so are the number of people who will experience age-related cognitive decline. The amount of oxygen in the blood declines with age. Aging in the brain...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KD9A)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are adding tiny, Swiss-cheese-type holes to components to improve fusion energy generation processes....
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by Brian Wang on (#5KD9B)
The US government UAPs task force’s unclassified assessment is not expected until June 25 but the New York Times provided a preview of its contents in an article on June 3. U.S. Finds No Evidence of...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KBGR)
David Lee summarized and analyzed Andrej Karpathy recent technical presentation on Tesla FSD. Andrej indicated that Tesla already has over 1.8 Exaflop of processing power with 10 Petabytes of storage...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KBEC)
Elon tweeted that the Tesla AI Day will be in about a month or so. Tesla will go over progress with Tesla AI software, hardware, both training and inference. Purpose is recruiting. Looking at holding...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KBBG)
SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell, a Northwestern graduate, delivered a commencement address from the SpaceX factory in Hawthorne, California. Gwynn walked in the SpaceX factory in front of a graphic that...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KBBH)
There is a new DNA sequencing instrument, the MINI, for sequencing DNA in the clinic or core research laboratory.Unlike all other DNA sequencing systems, which run only one or two samples at a time,...
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by Brian Wang on (#5KBBJ)
George Church is a giant in genetics and has started many biotech companies. Professor Church helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 and the Personal Genome Project in 2005. He has...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K7FV)
James Stephenson has made detailed projections for Tesla financials focused on the last three quarters of 2021. James also has projections for estimated Tesla car sales by quarter through 2023. Tesla...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K6YC)
Smartphone giant Xiaomi is hiring many positions for its electric vehicle unit and for its autonomous driving project. Xiaomi is targeting its first car model to market within three years (around...
by Brian Wang on (#5K6VT)
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and General Fusion have announced an agreement under which General Fusion will build and operate its Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at UKAEA’s Culham Campus....
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by Brian Wang on (#5K6RM)
Motor Trend confirmed that the Tesla Model S Plaid accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in 1.98 seconds. The tested model was using 21 inch wheels. The Plaid launches so ferociously hard, it generates more...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K542)
Mr Know It All has a projection that Tesla should solve FSD (Full self-driving) to a six sigma level within 275 days. This is based upon the improvement of the FSD system matching to the amount of...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K543)
The Tesla Plaid electric motor has several innovations. Elon says the Plaid’s carbon-wrapped motor is the most advanced motor on the planet outside of a lab. The motor is able to go to over 20000...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K3Z6)
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a new self-healing concrete that could multiply structures’ lifespans and slash CO2 emissions. Most infrastructure is composed of...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K22Z)
Relativity Space has raised a $650 million Series E. They have raised over $1.2 billion. Relativity’s post-money valuation now stands at $4.2 billion. They will make the heavy-lift, fully reusable...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K202)
Elementor, the platform that allows users to more easily design websites on WordPress, will celebrate its 5th year by hosting a star studded conference focused on the future of the web. The...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K1EZ)
UC Riverside engineers have developed a catalyst to remove a dangerous chemical from water on Earth that could also make Martian soil safer for agriculture and help produce oxygen for human Mars...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K1F0)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have turned a longstanding challenge in DNA data storage into a tool, using it to offer users previews of stored data files – such as thumbnail...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K1F1)
Artificial intelligence isn’t science fiction any more. Innovative AI is currently revolutionizing a wide range of industries and fields. Those who plan on working in those industries should...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K0SW)
NIO is starting to build its second electric car and battery factory in the Neo Park in Hefei, with production scheduled for the third quarter of 2022, William Li, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO....
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by Brian Wang on (#5K0SX)
The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) has again raised its forecast for new energy passenger car sales for 2021 as the industry grows rapidly. The 2021 forecast for new energy passenger car...
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by Brian Wang on (#5K0SY)
CATL chairman Robin (Yuqun) Zeng said the firm would start marketing sodium-ion batteries as early as late July, 2021. CATL is the largest producer of batteries in the world. Shares of Shandong...
by Brian Wang on (#5K0SZ)
A researcher has discovered an alternative signaling pathway that is compatible with regeneration of tissues. This could ultimately lead to regenerative medicine therapies for humans. This could help...
by Brian Wang on (#5JYK9)
Tesla Model S Plaid delivery event highlights and summary is below. The refreshed Model S has a drag coefficient of 0.208. Model S Drag Coefficient at 0.208 Cd. That's better than the...
by Brian Wang on (#5JXBK)
The Limiting Factor indicates that Tesla is getting more range and performance from existing battery form factors. This means improvements from 4680 and structural battery packs will provide even...
by Brian Wang on (#5JXBM)
Luis Elizondo, Former Director, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, says that UFOs took U.S. nuclear technologies are being taken offline. Luis “Lue” Elizondo is the former director of...
by Brian Wang on (#5JWC6)
The US passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a $250 billion bill promoting US semiconductors, AI, robotics and technology. It authorizes $81 billion for NSF, including $29 billion over five...
by Brian Wang on (#5JV50)
David Sinclair is a geneticist at Harvard and author of Lifespan. Nature – Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice Sinclair and his team restored vision in old mice and in mice...
by Brian Wang on (#5JTYF)
Ray Kurzweil wrote the Singularity is Near in 2005 and he described the near inevitability of the creation of super intelligence and a Technological Singularity. Kurzweil built upon the Singularity...
by Brian Wang on (#5JSXD)
Powerful reinforcement learning agents could constitute a solution to artificial general intelligence. They hypothesise that intelligence, and its associated abilities, can be understood as...
by Brian Wang on (#5JS7Q)
Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will join the auction winner on New Shepard’s first human flight on July 20th, 2021. Ever since Jeff Bezos was five years old, he has dreamed of traveling to space. On...
by Brian Wang on (#5JS7R)
Jordan Giesige has researched all aspects of the Tesla Battery Day announcements. Jordan’s analysis is that the Kato Road 4680 battery plant should be achieving a 5 GWh per year production...
by Brian Wang on (#5JPYJ)
The US Air Force is funding $48 million to study using the SpaceX Starship to move military cargo anywhere in the world in one hour. There will need to be more spent to actually use SpaceX Starships...
by Brian Wang on (#5JPYK)
The SpaceX Super Heavy booster that will fly to orbit should be completed within weeks. This first booster will have 29 Raptor engines and each engine will have 225 tons of thrust. The regular Super...
by Brian Wang on (#5JP8E)
There are many companies working to develop commercial supersonic planes. There is Boom Technology which has raised $241 million and has may pre-orders from potential customers. United Airlines...
by Brian Wang on (#5JMQ7)
The largest battery maker in the world, CATL, is planning an 80 GWH/year plant near Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. The new plant would be able to make 80 gigawatt-hours of battery cells a year....
by Brian Wang on (#5JK02)
SpaceX is scheduled to fly a cargo Dragon 2 to the space station starting June 3. Crew Dragon’s system of SuperDraco abort thrusters and other gear were removed from the human flight Dragon 2 to...
by Brian Wang on (#5JJXH)
Andrej Karpathy, Director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, says that the cameras and AI used by Tesla can process visual driving data ten times faster than humans. Yes vision...
by Brian Wang on (#5JJXJ)
Elon Musk says that Raptor engine production has reached one every two days. This is a runrate of 180 per year. The previous Merlin engines had reached a production rate of 400 engines per year....
by Brian Wang on (#5JJXK)
Tesla electric vehicles are not competing in the below $40,000 price range. Tesla Model 3 starts at $41,000 and the Tesla Model Y starts at $51,000. The Tesla Model S starts at $70,000. The Tesla...
by Brian Wang on (#5JHP5)
Axiom Space is hosting private missions to the ISS, starting in 2021. They are adding modules to the International Space Station. Axiom will separate their modules from the Space Station around...
by Brian Wang on (#5JHMG)
Plug in electric vehicles and full battery electric vehicle sales were up over 40% from last year in terms of percentage of overall car sales. 2021 PEV (plug-in electric) share was 5.7% (3.7% BEV)...
by Brian Wang on (#5JHHP)
Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will live chat with Warren Redlich on Youtube tomorrow at 5pm PST. Warren and I will talk about Tesla and perhaps some other topics.
by Brian Wang on (#5JHD4)
Ford currently has one electric vehicle production facility and is building another. The Ford Mach-E is built in Mexico. The Cuautitlan Stamping and Assembly Plant (CSAP) is a Ford Motor Company...
by Brian Wang on (#5JGAR)
The Hill talks about the Pentagon confirming the 2019 “triangle” UFO video as a real navy video. Mick West and others identified the stars in the video. They determined the number of...