The FAA has now grounded Starship prototypes as it conducts a thorough but standard “mishap investigation” designed to determine issues with the launch vehicle, their effect on the environment, and to ensure the safety of the nearby population for subsequent launches. Each commercial launch license handed out by the FAA requires the user to have …
A SpaceX board member discusses the SpaceX Starship launch on the All in Podcast. Antonio Gracias is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of Valor Equity Partners. Antonio founded Valor in 2001. He has over twenty years of experience in private equity investing. Antonio currently serves as Lead Independent Director at Tesla Motors …
The First Orbital SpaceX Starship did not reach orbit but there was the guaranteed excitement that Elon promised. The rocket did lift off and flew for two to three minutes before it lost control and blew up. SpaceX likely triggered a self destruct. It reached about three times the speed of sound and about 39 …
Tesla released its first quarter 2023 financial report and had 19.3% auto gross margin. Energy storage increased to 3.9 Gigawatt hours which is about 1000 megapacks in a quarter. The Energy revenue increased to $1.5 billion in the quarter. Tesla’s near-term pricing strategy means having less current profits for more a long-term profits given the …
Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties (like Cambridge Analytica) and there is now a legal settlement for $725 million. You and about 200 million other Americans can get a piece of that settlement. If almost everyone who is a US user of Facebook applies then each applicant will get about …
More accurate counts of tanks in Russian storage tell us when Russia’s ability to replace destroyed tanks will drop. This will be a further drop in Russia’s military capability. The other key take away is that traditional military assessment sources like the International Institute for Strategic Studies (British research institute) are likely less accurate than …
Elon Musk says Starship is stacked and ready to launch next week, pending regulatory approval. SpaceX says there is a wet rehearsal this coming week and then there will be the need to destack and arm for the real launch. Booster 7 will land in the Gulf of Mexico and will simulate a chopstick Mechazilla …
In Emergent abilities of large language models, emergent ability are defined as an ability that is “not present in small models but is present in large models.” Is emergence a rare phenomena, or are many tasks actually emergent? It turns out that there are more than 100 examples of emergent abilities that already been empirically …
SpaceX has found its second partner for their upcoming Starlink-enabled direct satellite-to-cellular service. New Zealand’s telecommunications company, One NZ (formerly known as Vodafone), has announced it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to offer mobile coverage across the country, eliminating cellular dead zones. SpaceX announced the direct satellite-to-cellular service with T-mobile. T-Mobile has more than …
Bob Lee, Cash App founder and chief product officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, was killed in a San Francisco stabbing. San Francisco allows crime to go unchecked and now Bobs daughters have to grow up with no father pic.twitter.com/FhIypmlHGk — Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) April 5, 2023 MMA fighter Jake Shields posed I just found out …
There are reports (rumors) from China that Tesla is planning a next generation low-priced high volume car with initial production capacity of 4 million vehicles. 36 Krypton learned from several industry insiders that Tesla is planning a grand production capacity map for its new low-priced models. “This low-priced model is a small Model Y.” The …