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Isaacman wants NASA to returns humans to the Moon as quickly as possible. This includes flying Artemis II around the Moon in 2026, and then landing the Artemis III mission later this decade. Isaacman has been a private astronaut who was with a crew that has gotten further from Earth than anyone except the Apollo ... Read more

There is a 90 day pause on tariffs for all countries except China. All other countries still have the 10% tariff which is likely permanent. Tesla is up 20%, Nasdaq is up 10%, Dow and S&P500 are up 6-8%. This was foreshadowed on Monday when markets were up 10% on the rumor that there would ... Read more

New Tesla Model Ys and Cybertrucks are now autonomously driving themselves about 2 miles from the end of the production line at Giga Texas to their designated lanes near the outbound lot with no humans in the cars. Tesla Fremont is making 1,603 cars per day and Austin 925 cars per day yield a total ... Read more

The dire wolf is no longer extinct. Meet the world’s first de-extinct animals. The science of de-extinction is to analyze the frozen DNA of extinct animals and then genetically engineer a similar animal to have the desired traits of the extinct version. They took Grey wolves and changed DNA so the child wolves would have ... Read more

SpaceX previously used Super Heavy Booster 14 and was able to catch it. They have now rolled Booster 14 back out to the launch tower and plan to reuse it for Starship flight 9. SpaceX has switched to a new generation of engine bell covers. There is orange and orange and white tape on the ... Read more

SpaceX’s Starship upper stages, capable of one-hour cargo flights between continents, could revolutionize global logistics by drastically reducing delivery times compared to the 12-24 hours typical of traditional air cargo. However, to fully capitalize on this speed, bureaucratic and procedural delays—such as customs clearance, security checks, and documentation—must be minimized. By implementing expedited pre-approval processes ... Read more

What is a full stack AI company? AI is making huge changes but we have not reached an intelligence explosion. We have not transformed all transportation, labor or computer coding. A company that can fully unlock the AI future would have control all aspects of what is needed for better and better AI. This would ... Read more

Tesla Optimus has shown improved walking and improved actuators. The actuators will continue to be improved. The walking was mastered using reinforcement learning in a digital simulation. This training approach is used by all of the leading humanoid bot companies. The reports and claims from the humanoid robot companies is that training of skills is ... Read more

SpaceX Starship could have significantly faster delivery options (12, 24 and 48 hours) compared to the current express standard of under five days. How much demand could there be for this service? People could be willing to pay 2X to 4X the price for ultrafast package delivery. Current express delivery is about 17% of total ... Read more

The Boeing Starliner faced a critical situation during its approach to the International Space Station (ISS), where multiple thruster failures brought it within minutes o losing full control and potentially endangering the crew. Ars Technica got the details from Astronaut Wilmore on the danger 9 months ago during the docking. The Starliner was likely 30-60 ... Read more

The decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it’s throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and The decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it’s throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Anthropic with the imminent launch of Open Deep Search. Known as ODS, it’s a very ... Read more

Tesla’s unboxed process will transform car manufacturing and the cybercab will be revolunize transportation. They are so disruptive, they will need to have two major steps over two years. The first two steps will be done this year and next year. Tesla will no longer paint new cars starting with the new models introduced in ... Read more

One of the more main achievements with Intel’s 18A is the utilization of BSPDN (Backside Power Delivery), which is said to move the power delivery process to the backside of the wafer. Intel’s 18A “high-density” versions are now said to report a macro bit density of 38.1 Mb/mm², and overall, things are looking prett...

SpaceX and the Air Force Research Lab will start testing and developing the capability to fly anywhere in the world in under an hour. SpaceX’s Starship is poised to revolutionize global logistics and travel with breakthrough ultra-fast point-to-point flights on Earth. The US Air Force Research Lab and Space Force have awarded SpaceX contracts totaling ... Read more

The fully reusable SpaceX Starship includes huge combinations of new technologies. The innovations combine into a massive increase in capability. We will be able to launch 1000 times as much payload to orbit. A similar multi-year effort is being achieved with the Tesla Cybercab and its breakthrough manufacturing processes. A Starship uses the Mechazilla launch ... Read more

Super-Turing AI operates more like the human brain and with much less energy. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do. AI data centers are consuming power in gigawatts, whereas our brain consumes 20 watts. That’s 1 billion watts compared to just ... Read more

Bodidata has next level size-matching technology for clothing and this will eliminate costs, reduce environmental waste, and make things easier and faster for customers. The 3D body scanner has over 15 x Faster than traditional fitting + 90% Accuracy on recommendations If this is used this would stop nearly a trillions of garments that don’t ... Read more

There is a global total of $60 trillion of final consumer consumption for 2025. The US with about 4% of total world population has 33% of total consumption.

Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. They build short range surface to ship missiles. They tried for a low earth orbit test and it failed after 30 seconds. They went for an orientation change it failed. The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch 1,000 kilograms ... Read more

Chinese electronics giant Huawei is testing elements for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine at its Dongguan facility, according to two sources posting photographs on X social media. The sources say the equipment is scheduled for trial production of circuits in 2Q25 with full-scale manufacturing in 2026, without attributing the information to any sources of ... Read more

SpaceX is going to make huge advances with fully reusable Super Heavy Starships. A fleet of 100 fully reusable Starships with boosters could transport about 2 million tons per year to orbit. This would be about one thousand times more than last year. SpaceX is making huge progress in these few months. They are on ... Read more