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Artemis 2- Orion Lunar Flyby
The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal some regions no human has seen, including a rare in-space solar eclipse. During the lunar flyby, the crew documented impact craters, ancient lava flows, and surface fractures that will help scientists study the Moon’s geologic evolution. ...
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Tesla FSD 14.3 Makes Improvements But Setting Up for Big Release
Tesla FSD V14.3 first drive impressions • Highway follow distance is more comfortable • Quicker take off from stop signs after coming to a complete stop • Highway lane change hesitation from previous versions seems gone for me • The navigation routes it takes are still sometimes confusing • It understood detour signs correctly on ...
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Two Week USA-Iran Ceasefire
U.S. officials says the ceasefire begins tonight but will take time for orders to reach individual IRGC units. US halts all offensive military operations against Iran, per US official. Defensive actions remain in place as ceasefire takes hold. Officials expect delays before Iran’s IRGC fully receives and implements the order.
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Intel Partners with Tesla and SpaceX on Terafab
Intel is now officially partnering with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI on the Terafab project. Terafab is their joint venture for a massive, vertically integrated semiconductor facility (primarily in Austin, Texas) that combines logic chips, memory (HBM), advanced packaging, testing, and even photomask production all under one roof. The goal is to produce ~1 TW/year of ...
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AI Will Give Humanity the Moon, Mars and Supersonic Travel
Boom Supersonic has secured one major public sales order for its Superpower 42 MW natural gas turbines aimed at AI data centers. They will sell 29 units totaling 1.21 GW from launch customer Crusoe (announced December 9, 2025), creating a $1.25 billion backlog. Boom closed a $300 million funding round led by Darsana Capital Partners ...
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Anthropic Number One AI in Ranking and Revenue – Making $30 Billion Per Year
Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027. This significant expansion of their compute infrastructure will power our frontier Claude models and help us serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide. The run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion—up ...
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SpaceX Raptor Engine Test Seems to Have an Explosion
A SpaceX Raptor has what looks like an explosion at McGregor.
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NASA Orion Astronauts Will Go Over 252000 From Earth to Beat Old 248,655 Mile Record
Orion is more than two-thirds of the way to the Moon, traveling at high speed and breaking the Apollo 13 distance record (about 248,655 miles from Earth). It will enter the Moon’s sphere of influence early on April 6. A lunar flyby will happen Monday, April 6, 2026 at about 2:45–9:40 p.m. EDT . Orion ...
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China Build Focused Economy Versus India
China’s economy for the past 50 years has been investment/export/industrialization-driven with permissive building. There are fast approvals, state capacity). India’s became more consumption-led with decentralized hurdles and lower infrastructure spending. China’s GDP multiplied ~30× (1980–2010) vs. India’s ~5×. Productivity growth (output per worker) was nearly double India’s for decades. India and China starting point was ...
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China’s Energy Build Drives GDP Growth While Europe Has a Drag From Low, Costly Energy
Europe’s restrictive energy policies—characterized by lengthy, fragmented permitting (often 7–10+ years for renewables and industrial projects), heavy environmental/regulatory burdens, NIMBY/local opposition, carbon pricing (ETS), and phased-outs of reliable baseload (nuclear/coal) without rapid replacement—have led to persistently high energy costs, volatility, and slow infrastructure rollout. China has a permissive pro-growth energy approach. State-directed fast approvals, massive ...
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Housing Supply and Demand
Metro areas/states allowing sprawl (Texas metros like Dallas/Houston permitted ~72k homes in 2024 alone) + densification (Minneapolis, Auckland NZ upzoning → 21–24% rent drops in targeted studies) show housing stock growth 2–3x higher and price appreciation 50–80% lower than restrictive peers (California, New York). Supply elasticity over 0.5 typically caps real price growth near inflation. ...
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Exodus Propulsion and the Exodus Force aka Electrostatic Pressure Force
NASA’s Lead Electrostatics Scientist, Dr Charles Buhler, claims he’s discovered a “new force” that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. ...
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Tesla Will Soon Unleash Scaled Robotaxi
Tesla is deploying more supervised robotaxi, hiring more drivers and testers and will start production of Cybercab in weeks. This should lead to a scaled robotaxi future.
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Details of the NASA Moonbase Plans Include a Fifteen Ton Lunar Rover
The NASA Lunar Gateway program was cancelled but pieces of it will be used for the early parts of the moonbase and as part of the nuclear mission to Mars. NASA wants to fly two crewed missions to the moon every year. Japan is helping to build a large 15 ton lunar rover that will ...
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Pulsar Fusion Ignites Plasma in Nuclear Rocket Test
UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world’s first for a rocket of this type, was showcased live during a technical session at Jeff Bezos’s exclusive MARS Conference in California, offering a tantalizing glimpse into a future of dramatically faster interplanetary ...
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Third ARC AGI Test
ARC-AGI-3 is an interactive benchmark for studying agentic intelligence through novel, abstract, turn-based environments in which agents must explore, infer goals, build internal models of environment dynamics, and plan effective action sequences without explicit instructions. Like its predecessors ARC-AGI-1 and 2, ARC-AGI-3 focuses entirely on evaluating fluid adaptive efficiency on novel tasks, while avoiding language ...
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Tesla China Launching Sub-$30,000 Standard Model 3 in April-June
There are reports Tesla Giga Shanghai already has dedicated production lines running for the standard Model 3. This variant is the simplified, lower-cost version (smaller battery, ~480 km CLTC range) that Tesla will sell in China and export to Asia. Expected pricing for the new Standard version per Multiple sources (Global China EV, CarNewsChina, 36Kr, ...
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SpaceX Starlink Satellite and Launch Plans from Shotwell
Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Humans on lunar surface before 2030. HLS (Human Landing System) planned ready by 2028, though much must go right. Starlink Constellation Size has ~10,000 Starlink satellites launched and [high speed internet] likely cap 15,000–20,000. There has been a separate FCC filing for 15000 ...
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Carbon Nanofibers in Dry-Coated Batteries Will Boost Energy Density by 20% for Tesla
Carbon Nanofibers in Dry-Coated Batteries (21.8% Energy Density Gain) is described by Jordan at the Limiting Factor. A new University of Chicago paper (published March 2026) demonstrates a simple but powerful tweak to dry-electrode cathode design that delivers a 21.8% increase in usable energy density while maintaining excellent cycle life. The breakthrough relies entirely on ...
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2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Winners Announced during RSA Conference as AI Security Dominates
San Francisco, USA, 25th March 2026, CyberNewswire
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