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Neuralink has proven its electronics to brain connection device and now has FDA approval for a Blindsight device. It would be a real life version of the Geordie Laforge’s visor in Star Trek the Next Generation. The Neuralink Blindsight device will try to restore vision, particularly for individuals who have lost their sight or those ... Read more

Mercedes, BMW and Tesla are the leading car companies by profits per car with over 500,000 cars sold for the first 6 months of this year. This is for all kinds of cars. (Battery electric, Plug in hybrid, hybrid and combustion engine). Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche had very high profits per car but far lower ... Read more

Israel booby trapped about 5000 pagers used by Hezbollah. The update on the Pager explosions is there are 12 dead, 2800-4000 injured and 400 serious or critically wounded in Lebanon. There were also 19 dead and 150 wounded in Syria. The Syria casualties were Iranian Republican Guard. IOT – Internet of Targets This operation maps ... Read more

Multiple Hezbollah ICOM radios detonated across southern Lebanon and Beirut, causing significant damage and numerous injuries. Several explosions occurred during a funeral in Beirut, where Hezbollah officials were present. 🚨 HEZBOLLAH ICOM RADIOS EXPLODE ACROSS LEBANON Multiple Hezbollah ICOM radios detonated across southern Lebanon and Beirut, causing significant damage and numerous injuries. Several explosions occurred ... Read more

The economics for AI chips has to work for Chip builders System builders Data center operators Application builders Paying customer (end users). The bigger large language models are at 400 Gigabytes or more and mixture of experts is at 1.8 terabytes. TechTechPotato interviews AyarLabs and makes the case that optical connections between chiplets is needed ... Read more

SpaceX launched and returned commercial astronauts in the first crewed Polar mission and that mission included a space walk. Three countries (US, Russia and China) have performed Spacewalks on their own with their own rocket own facilities. The European Space Agency has not launched crewed mission or missions to the ISS. Astronauts from 12 countries ... Read more

SpaceX satellites built for the US Space Development Agency demonstrated direct satellite to satellite laser communications in space using optical terminals compliant with military standards. U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) director Derek Tournear said Sept. 4. that two SpaceX-built satellites successfully exchanged data using optical communications terminals. The satellites, part of SDA’s Tranche 0 experimental ... Read more

Barcelona is one of the most loved city break destinations in Europe. With its ingenious city design, there are many great neighbourhoods to stay in. Choosing the right area is important to get the most out of your stay, depending on what you’re looking for. Gothic Quarter (Barri Gòtic) The Gothic Quarter is what first ... Read more

© Florian Giday, Managing Director of Arthy The rise in return rates is becoming a major concern for e-commerce, directly impacting profitability. The cost of retail returns in the United States soared to an astonishing $817 billion, with online retail contributing to about a quarter of this figure. Out of the $1.3 trillion in online ... Read more

Taalas and Etched are two AI chip startups aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI hardware market. Etched is using ASIC chips. Taalas is using eASIC chips. They are both putting the logic into the hardware instead of using software on top of GPUs. There is the potential to get 100 to 1000 times ... Read more

United will add Starlink high speed internet to all of its passenger planes in 2025 and will offer free Wi-fi internet with streaming gaming to passengers. United will use high speed internet and entertainment as a competitive advantage. Starlink will make about $80-100 million per year providing this service. IF all other airlines need to ... Read more

OpenAI o1 is a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user. OpenAI o1 ranks in the 89th percentile on competitive programming questions (Codeforces), places among the top 500 students in the US ... Read more

Jim Fan is one of Nvidia’s senior AI researchers. The shift could be about many orders of magnitude more compute and energy needed for inference that can handle the improved reasoning in the OpenAI Strawberry (QStar) approach. This could mean far more powerful and energy intensive chips needed to run inference. Nextbigfuture had previously analyzed ... Read more

Hermeus is breaking ground on a new engine and flight test facility HEAT will accelerate US hypersonic development, offering increased testing cadence for not only Hermeus, but the DoD and larger defense industrial base. Hermeus has selected Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida for its hypersonic engine test facility. Named HEAT (High Enthalpy Air-Breathing Test Facility), ... Read more

Polaris Dawn in polar orbit has the first successful commercial space walk. It is an altitude three times higher than the International Space Station. “SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” – Mission Commander @rookisaacman #PolarisDawn pic.twitter.com/F17Fq5ItQD — Polaris ... Read more

Bloomberg reports OpenAI is in talks to raise a $6.5 billion round at over a $150 billion valuation. They are also talking to banks about a $5 billion credit line. The latest funding round, led by Thrive Capital, gives OpenAI a significantly higher valuation than its $86 billion appraisal earlier this year. Apple and Nvidia ... Read more

Japan plans to spend about $761 million to build a Zettaflop supercomputer. It is called Fugaku Next. It will be built by Japanese companies RIKEN and Fujitsu, which were both involved in the construction of Fugaku. The AI training clusters with lots of GPUs can get to a peak of a Zettaflop but this is ... Read more

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope’s ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered. The results, which are important for understanding the formation of the Solar System, were obtained through an international collaboration between the Subaru Telescope and ... Read more

Google Quantum AI has just proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing is possible. For the first time ever, a logical qubit meets all criteria, demonstrating that Quantum Error Correction is effective. Here is the link to the research paper. Many challenges remain. Although Google might in principle achieve low logical error rates ... Read more