Apple announced its new Macbook Pro’s and they have increased the power and efficiency of the M1 chip and GPU. The M1 Max will have 70% more CPU performance and double the GPU performance over the already leading M1 chip. The performance per watt blows away the competing chips. If you are going to spend …
D-Wave Systems revealed their next-generation quantum computing platforms will include both annealing and gate-model quantum computers. This is a significant shift because they were the pioneers in quantum computing but used something like an analog computer, called an annealer. D-Wave is responding to major competition with billion-dollar valuations and hundreds of millions in funding. IonQ …
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab has had a successful two-year mission using a new deep space atomic clock. Next-generation deep space atomic clocks will improve spacecraft navigation. The technology demonstration operated far longer than planned and broke the stability record for atomic clocks in space. Currently, spacecraft rely on ground-based atomic clocks. The farther a spacecraft …
Germany failed to meet its 2020 clean energy target and will lose 12% of its clean energy if it shuts 8 GW of current nuclear power. Germany will miss its 2030 climate target of 65 percent less emissions that in 1990 emissions. They are projected to miss by 16 percentage points and reach only 49 …
If Bill Gates kept all of his shares after the first day of the Microsoft IPO he would now be a trillionaire. This would even allow for several billion in charitable donations. Bill Gates had 49% of Microsoft going into the IPO of Microsoft and had 45% after the first day of the IPO. Microsoft …
It is still a secret and a mystery who Zatoshi Nakamoto is, but this the public name for the person who created Bitcoin. Elon Musk is the richest person in the world has a net worth today of about $230 billion. Bitcoin is at a value of $57,000 today. Bitcoin would need to reach $230,000 …
Before the recent political and business campaign and censorship against Ivermectin was a Nobel Prize-winning wonder drug. It was being given to 200 million people per year in Africa to reduce River Blindness. There were many other diseases it was being tested and was a major treatment for other human parasitic diseases. Ivermectin was given for …
Khan Noonien Singh could not kill Captain Kirk and Jeff Bezos also failed. Captain Kirk, William Shatner, has safely returned from a trip to suborbit on a Blue Origin rocket. Congratulations to William Shatner and Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin. As Captain Kirk says, risk is our business: They used to say if man could …
Tesla produced 56,006 cars in China in September and produced about 34,000 cars in Fremont in September. Tesla delivered 241,000 EV cars in the third quarter. Tesla makes EVs exclusively. Tesla made 133000 cars in China in the third quarter and 109,000 cars in Fremont in the third quarter. Tesla made about 92000 cars in …
Tesla China production for September is 56,006 China-made cars. This increased 27% MoM versus August – Tesla’s wholesale sales of MIC Tesla in September were 56,006 units, up 27% month-on-month, compared with 44,264 units in Aug. Domestic: 52,153 units Exports: 3,853 units This is an annualized runrate of 672,000 cars per year. This confirms reports …
JB Straubel was the CTO of Tesla and is now the CEO of Redwood Materials. Redwood Materials had $700 million of funding in July, 2021. In an interview below, JB says he was amazed that legacy automakers did not rapidly follow Tesla after the success of the Model S. This was in 2012. Car companies …