Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, technologist, and entrepreneur. She co-founded Socos, where machine learning and cognitive neuroscience are combined to maximize students’ life outcomes. She sits on the boards of StartOut, The Palm Center, Emozia, Engender, and Genderis Inc., and is a Chief Science Advisor to Cornerstone Capital, Platypus Institute, Shiftgig, and Bayes Impact. …
A Norwegian distributor of CAT heavy machinery has converted a CAT excavator to electric power using 3.4 tons of batteries. This was 300 kWh of batteries. A Tesla 85 kWh battery pack weighs 1,200 lb (540 kg) and contains 7,104 lithium-ion battery cells in 16 modules wired in series. 340kWh of Tesla batteries would weigh …
Elon Musk is projecting volume production of the Tesla Model 3 in China by the end of 2019. Elon Musk believes that they will reach a combined production of 10,000 Model 3 cars per week from the Fremont and China factories. Tesla announced its second quarter of profitability in row. Tesla Q4 operating income was …
Facebook had revenue and profitability problems up until 2016. They had raised many billions of dollars in funding and went public in 2012 with a valuation of about $100 billion. Facebook had many years of problems solving the problem of generating a lot of money from advertising. Facebook needed all the income and revenue that …
SpaceX is building walls around its Starhopper construction area. Here are some pictures from Austin Barnard and Maria Pointer via Cowboy Dan’s twitter. Solar power is also being added to the Boca Chica launch area. Currently, it appears that the Starhopper and the launch site will most likely be ready in March. [Nasa Space Forum …
Samsung has begun mass producing the industry’s first one-terabyte (TB) embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1, for use in next-generation mobile applications. This is just four years after introducing the first UFS solution, the 128-gigabyte (GB) eUFS. This provides terabyte smartphone storage. Smartphones will provide a more notebook-like experience. The 1TB eUFS also possesses exceptional …
SpaceX has applied for a launch date of March 7, 2019 or later for the next Falcon Heavy launch. The first Falcon Heavy launch of 2019 will place Arabsat-6A spacecraft for Saudi Arabia into geostationary orbit. Arabsat-6A weighs 6,000 kilograms (13,000 pounds). This communication satellite will serve the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. SpaceX has …
Dongguk University and other Korean researchers have made wafer scale hexagonal boron nitride films with a nearly perfect single-crystalline structure. The film self-assembles on top of liquid gold. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is also called white graphite. They can be single atom thick crystalline films. They have an insulating effect that has found uses in …
Boeing will soon decide whether to spend $15 billion to develop a new 797 mid-range passenger jet. The proposed 797 would have an oval-shaped body that saves weight and fuel. 797 trip costs would be about 40 percent lower than today’s wide-body aircraft. It would have more space to passengers and less to freight in …
Aridor, chairman of the board of AEBi and CEO Dr. Ilan Morad, say the AEBi anti-cancer treatment, which they call MuTaTo (multi-target toxin) is essentially on the scale of a cancer antibiotic – a disruption technology of the highest order. They are using peptides. MuTaTo is using a combination of several cancer-targeting peptides for each …
The U.S. Treasury will block $7 billion in assets of Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA. The [US] Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13850 for operating in the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy. …. As Venezuela’s state owned oil …