A large blast has hit the Lebanese capital, Beirut, causing widespread damage and injuring many people. It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the port area of the city. Video posted online showed a large mushroom cloud and destroyed buildings. The blast killed at least 50 people and injured more than 2,500 …
Most of the world has 10-100 times less per capita COVID-19 testing than the USA. The USA has probably only detected about 10-20% of its total COVID-19 cases. South Africa has the fifth most cases in the world. 90% of Africa has virtually no testing for COVID-19. It is impossible that South Africa has rampant …
OpenAI’s GPT-3 is the most powerful AI language model ever. GPT-2 was released in 2019. GPT-3 is a big leap forward. The model has 175 billion parameters (the values that a neural network tries to optimize during training), compared with GPT-2’s already vast 1.5 billion. GPT3examples.com is a site that has collected applications that have …
Minister of Economy, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg Jörg Steinbach said Tesla’s goal is to complete the construction Gig Berlin factory at a faster pace than the 11-month Giga Shanghai build. Tesla is leveraging modular construction for faster construction. Tesla is able to complete new gigafactories in less than 11 months. Tesla …
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Facebook had combined 2019 revenue of $899 billion and should have over $1 trillion in revenue in 2020. Most of the revenue gains will be from Amazon. Amazon has a 40% increase over its 2019 revenue. Amazon should have $320-350 billion in 2020 revenue. This would be about $80-100 billion …
The Boeing Starliner crew capsule will fly a second time without astronauts after software problems and other issues caused the first test flight on 20 December 2019 to fail to reach the International Space Station. If the November, 2020 uncrewed Starliner flight is successful then there would be a first crewed flight around April 2021. …
On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and today NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Dragon spacecraft returned human spaceflight to the United States. SpaceX and NASA undocked Saturday, August 1 for Crew …