Trust Unveils SWIFT Wallet Powered by Account Abstraction

The field of web3 non-custodial wallets just gained a new contender from an old face. SWIFT is the product of Trust Wallet, one of the longest established and most popular crypto wallets. It’s now unveiled the beta of its new product: SWIFT. The user-friendly wallet, which is incorporated into the Trust app, makes use of …

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Reaction Engines Begins Testing Breakthrough High-Mach Propulsion Under US DOD Contract

Reaction Engines today revealed the start of a new testing campaign to expand the performance envelope of their high-Mach enabling technology through the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program at the Department of Defense and supported by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The FCT Program is administered by the Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering …

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Open Lunar Foundation Believe $2-3 Billion Could Create a First Lunar Settlement

Open Lunar Foundation is a San Francisco based non-profit that had the goal of creating settlements on the moon. Steve Jurvetson and executives from Planet Labs are among those involved. There is $5 million invested in the organization. They were founded in 2018 and recently have appeared in Bloomberg. Their analysis is that will be …

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SpaceX Casting Raptor Engine Parts from Supersteel Alloys

SpaceX is developing stronger steel superalloys. SpaceX is making improved versions of Inconel alloys. SpaceX metallurgy team developed SX500 superalloy for 12000 psi, hot oxygen-rich gas. It was hard. Almost any metal turns into a flare in those conditions. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2018 Inconel is a family of austenitic nickel-chromium-based superalloys. Inconel …

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If we had general intelligence at the level of a rat then the Singularity would be very near

The head of Facebook’s AI, Yann LeCun, says AI still has a long, long way to go before it approaches anything near the intelligence of a baby, or even an animal. LeCun thinks the keys are * machines that can build, through learning, their own internal models of the world, so they can simulate the …

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DARPA’s Dormant but Always-Alert Sensors

DARPA has new sensor that use virtually zero stand-by power. Then ovel sensors could improve situational awareness for warfighters, add smarts to Internet of Things. A research team at Northeastern University, led by Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Matteo Rinald has built sensors remain dormant and unattended but always alert, even for years, without …

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Mercedes Benz makes new home battery modules to compete with Tesla Powerwall

Mercedes Benz has new home battery modules. The Mercedes Benz battery modules start with a capacity of 2.5 kWh and up to eight battery modules can be combined for a total energy storage capacity of 20 kWh. Including a required power inverter and installation, the total price for the Mercedes-Benz home battery will range from …

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Toyota plans to leapfrog Tesla electric cars by 2022 with fast charging solid state batteries

Toyota Motor Corp is working on an electric car powered by a solid state battery that significantly increases driving range and reduces charging time. Toyota aims to begin sales of solid battery electric cars in 2022, the Chunichi Shimbun daily reported on Tuesday. Toyota’s new electric car, to be built on an all-new platform, will …

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