It is reported that Tesla Robotaxi app access users received an update that implies service in and around San Francisco was getting close to going live for the public and a map of the likely service area was posted. Tesla VP Lars Moravy discussed the Robotaxi expansion to San Francisco during his keynote at the …
This is real. Hero Tech has built a retractable light saber that is using no visual effects. You cannot fight with it but it looks like the movie light saber. The two led light strips are attached to a retractable magicians cane. The internal setup has a motor to rotate the blade and the lights. …
Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)—a next-gen propulsion technology that’s been theorized for decades, but never flown… until now. The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) changes everything, and Venus is the first venture-backed aerospace company to bring the RDRE from concept to commercialization. RDREs are a …
SpaceX Starlink direct to cell tests do work with 500 enabled satellites. However, there are times where service can degrade to 5-7 minute delay. Perhaps only 300 of the 500 satellites are in position and fully active. There will be a need to increase satellites by the end the year for reliable voice and internet …
Colossus Bioscience creation of the woolly mice Tuesday in a news release and posted a scientific paper online detailing the achievement. Scientists implanted genetically modified embryos in female lab mice that gave birth to the first of the woolly pups in October. Reviving extinct species like the mammoth, the dodo and others could help repair …
Venus Aerospace, making hypersonic flight a reality for commercial and defense purposes, has achieved the first long-duration engine test of their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) in partnership with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). They have a detonation ramjet engine and a rotating detonation rocket engine. Venus Aerospace has raised over $48 million in …
Hypersonic plane startup, Hermeus, plans to make a plane faster than the SR-71 blackbird spy plane. the SR-71 could reach mach 3.3 and fly at 85000 to 100,000 feet in altitude. Quarterhorse Mk 2 will fly with this precooler-F100 engine combination and be capable of hitting speeds greater than Mach 2.5. The entire Chimera engine, …
The SpaceX Raptor engines are becoming far more powerful and should reach over 330 tons of force while not needing a heat shield. Removing the need for a heat shield will lower the overall mass and increase the thrust to weight ratio. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger …
The Boring Company is deploying the PruFrock 3 tunneling machine at Tesla Gigatexas. The PruFrock 3 machine will be able to dig continuously. It will only need to stop to change out teeth and other parts as they wear out. The Boring Revolution youtube has analyzed the actual tunneling rates on actual real world projects …
Electric motors are finally getting good enough in performance to capture efficiency gains from having a second turbine drive an adaptive cycle jet engine. This new jet engine will enable commercial flights anywhere in the world 3x faster than anything today for the same price. That's the win – Commercial flights anywhere in the world …
Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is an enhanced fibrous and cementitious concrete with high compressive strength (120–250 MPa) particle packing density (0.825–0.855, tensile strength (15–20 MPa) and extraordinary durability. UHPC has 300 times the ductility and energy absorption of high performance concrete (HPC) and three to sixteen times the compressive strength of regular concrete. A $100+ …