The full Neuralink paper describing how their multi-thousand channel brain interface system will be built and implanted is here. It is called “An integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channels”. Neuralink believes the key to high fidelity brain interfaces is to precisely reading the electrical spiking of the brain. They call this roughly ten …
There continues to be many advances on multiple fronts towards the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. SpaceX should have a 20-meter altitude untethered test hop of the Starhopper today. Update: they aborted the Starhopper test just before it left the ground. The Starhopper is about half the height of a full orbital Starship. The Dragon that …
The IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) has a roadmap to one-nanometer semiconductor devices in 2033. The updated IRDS includes new information on cryogenic electronics and quantum information processing, added benchmarks for applications, and supplemental information and metrics from the More Moore team. There is an update to Beyond CMOS and updates for …
In 2017, China spent about $8.4 billion on its civilian and military space budget while Russia cut its space program back to $3 billion. The US NASA and Military Space budget is about $48 billion. The US spends about $14 billion on the military space program. There is NASA’s $21.5 billion budget. There is also …
Social engineering is when someone tricks people into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information. Social engineering attacks are increasing. According to the FireEye email threat report, they discovered a 26% increase in malicious URLs using HTTPS and a 17% rise in phishing attempts. There was also an increase in file-sharing service exploitation and …
In an interview with Time magazine, Elon Musk thinks SpaceX could land a cargo mission to the moon in less than two years. Time magazine editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger’s interview with Elon Musk for CBS Sunday Morning. Elon thinks a manned mission to the moon is possible by 2022. This would be three years faster than …
The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical ahead of tonight’s resupply mission to the space station. Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical ahead of tonight’s resupply mission to the @Space_Station. Weather is 30% favorable for the instantaneous launch window at 6:24 p.m. EDT, 22:24 UTC→ https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/S5t9KxvmAG — SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 24, 2019 Brian …
Tesla has released its second quarter earnings. The analysts expected $6.41 billion in revenue and a forty cents on adjusted per share loss. Revenue reported was $6.35 billion in revenue and a $1.21 adjusted per share loss. The revenue miss and losses are disappointments and Tesla is trading down about 11% in the after-market. Quarterly …
A video shows some of the interior of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory and there is another video indicated the potential financial impact of the factory in 2020. After spoke with my source in China, I am now more confidence to believe Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory GF3 is capable to reach 3K Model 3 / week production …
Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will have 41 raptor engines. This means that instead of 31 engines on the first stage super heavy there will be 35. There will be six engines on the second stage Starship. Full stack is 41 rn, but kinda beggin for just one more … — …
Elon Musk tweeted that a 10-kilometer hyperloop track with a full vacuum tunnel and a curve will be built. It will be built by The Boring Company with SpaceX. They currently have a 1.6 km (1 mi) track. Elon Musk indicates that they will have the 10-kilometer track by next year. Virgin Hyperloop One and …