September 15 Tentative Date for Tesla Battery Day

Tesla Battery is September 15. Tesla will show off its own battery cell production line. Tesla will likely announce: * longer life-cycle the million-mile batteries * lower-cost batteries and probably lower price cars * the new battery production will likely have implementation of some Maxwell dry cell battery technology * higher charging capacity rate Tentative …

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Can 21st Century Progress Surpass 20th Century Progress

Can the technological, scientific, medical and economic progress of the 21st century surpass the 20th century? The richest countries in the world increased per capita income by 10 times from 1900 to 2000. It will take about 23 years in the 21st century for the US to double per capita income. (2000-2023) If this pace …

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Tesla’s in Process to Make $1.1 billion 4-5 Million Square Foot Tesla Terafactory

The Travis County Commissioners Court is meeting June 23 agenda about deliberations to decide if they would provide Tesla with an economic development performance agreement for a new 5 million square foot factory. Tesla is seeking incentives for the construction of a 4 million- to 5 million-square-foot manufacturing facility on the 2,100-acre Austin Green site …

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Apple TV+ Teaser for Isaac Asimov’s Foundation

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. Foundation stars SAG Award-winner and Emmy-nominee Jared Harris as Hari Seldon; Lee Pace as Brother Day; Lou Llobell as Gaal; Leah Harvey as Salvor; Laura Birn as Demerzel; Terrence Mann …

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NVIDIA Selene Supercomputer Delivers 1 exaFLOPs for AI and 27 petaFLOPs Regular Computing

NVIDIA made the supercomputing cluster called Selene in less than a month. The cluster was built in the month since the announcement of Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture and A100 artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators. Selene provides up to 1 exaFLOPs of AI, and over 27 petaFLOPs of HPM. Selene ranks as the No. 2 supercomputer for …

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How China and India Matchup Militarily if the Border War Escalates

China and India had a border skirmish which resulted in 20 deaths on the India side and maybe 43 on the China side. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has various maps and analysis of the situation. Indian experts have disputed the ASPI analysis. It is a highly mountainous terrain bordering China-Tibet, India and near …

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Coronavirus Antibody Immunity Fades by 70% Within 2-3 Months

Antibody levels found in recovered COVID-19 patients fell sharply in 2-3 months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, according to a Chinese study published in Nature Medicine. This raises questions about the length of any immunity against the novel coronavirus. Published: 18 June 2020 – Clinical and immunological assessment of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. …

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Google Takes Us Closer to Star Trek Holodecks with Light Field Video

Google is taking immersive media technology to the next level, showing a practical system for light field video. Wide field of view scenes can be recorded and played back with the ability to move around within the video after it has been captured, revealing new perspectives. Developed by a team of leading research scientists and …

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Future Living or Camping in a Tesla Cybertruck Without Compromises

The Tesla Cybertruck might implement a midgate. This is rolling down the rear window and rear wall and dropping the seats to allow carrying things 8 feet long or have extended sleeping, camping capacity. The Cybertruck can also easily implement third-row seating. The Cybertruck solar roof option would add 15 miles of range every day …

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