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Nov 5, 2023

Tesla design head spotted driving matte black Cybertruck

Posted by in category: transportation

The Tesla Cybertruck has been spotted in a handful of unique colors and designs over the last several weeks, the latest of which includes a new matte black that hasn’t yet been seen before — as driven by one of the automaker’s top executives.

Tesla’s Head of Design, Franz von Holzhausen, was seen driving a matte black Cybertruck in Santa Monica on Saturday, as spotted by X user AtomAntEater. In the clip, the vehicle can be seen with von Holzhausen behind the wheel outside of Santa Monica Teslas and Coffee before driving away.

We saw Franz driving a matte black Cybertruck at today’s Santa Monica Teslas & Coffee. Franz said “nice shirt” when he noticed the man was wearing a CT t-shirt. Dope or nope? @DMC_Ryan @BLKMDL3 @TeslaOwnersSCV @TeslaClubSoCal @ChargeGoGroup pic.twitter.com/wl3TAR0hHP

Nov 5, 2023

Tesla to run smaller native version of xAI’s Grōk using local compute power

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

The first product from Elon Musk-led xAI was announced on Friday, and the CEO has suggested that Tesla’s vehicles may natively run a smaller version of the AI assistant.

On Saturday, X user and Tesla enthusiast Chuck Cook spotted that Musk liked a post saying that a smaller, quantized version of the AI model Grōk would run natively on Tesla with local computing power. Following Cook’s mention, Musk noted that Teslas will likely come with the largest amount of usable inference compute in the world — as long as the vehicles’ AI computer can run the Grōk model.

Provided our vehicle AI computer is able to run the model, Tesla will probably have the most amount of true usable inference compute on Earth.

Nov 5, 2023

First plasma fired up at world’s largest fusion reactor

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Japan’s JT-60SA tokamak will test technologies put to use in ITER.

Nov 5, 2023

Next-Gen $25,000 Tesla EV To Be Produced In Germany: Report

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently had an opportunity to visit the Tesla Giga Berlin-Brandenburg plant in Grünheide near Berlin, Germany. Besides making some pronouncements about interior decor, Musk reportedly let on that the plant is expected to be engaged in making Tesla’s next-generation, affordable electric car model.

According to the https://twitter.com/Gf4Tesla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5E…vs.com%2F” target=“_blank” rel=“noopener noreferrer”>Gigafactory Berlin News channel on Twitter/X, which covers plant-related news, Musk announced during his visit that the upcoming €25,000 electric car (known in the U.S. to be a $25,000 electric car) will be produced in Berlin.

Nov 5, 2023

Fancy Gyroscopes Are Key To Radio-Free Navigation

Posted by in category: space

Back in the old days, finding out your location on Earth was a pretty involved endeavor. You had to look at stars, use fancy gimballed equipment to track your motion, or simply be able to track your steps really really well. Eventually, GPS would come along and make all that a bit redundant for a lot of use cases. That was all well and good, until it started getting jammed all over the place to frustrate militaries using super-accurate satellite-guided weapons.

Today, there’s a great desire for more accurate navigational methods that don’t require outside communications that can easily be jammed. High-tech gyroscopes have long been a big part of that effort, allowing the construction of inertial navigation systems with greater accuracy than ever before.

Nov 5, 2023

World’s most sensitive force sensor measures in ‘quectonewtons’

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

The quantum behaviours of extremely cold rubidium atoms can be used to detect forces smaller than a tenth of what is needed to lift a single electron.

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Nov 5, 2023

New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky

Posted by in category: sustainability

The gargantuan number comes from crunching data on photosynthesis, other means of converting carbon dioxide into organic matter.

Nov 5, 2023

First benchmarks back up Apple claims of blazing-fast M3 chip speeds [Updated]

Posted by in category: computing

The Geekbench database’s benchmark speed test results show Apple’s on target with its claims about M3 chip speed.

Nov 5, 2023

2000-Year Old Charred Manuscripts Reveal Their Secrets

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery eruption of a volcano. The task would seem virtually impossible, and the information in the scroll lost forever. Right?|

As it turns out, new developments are changing that. Modern scanning techniques and machine learning tools have made it possible to read fragments of the heavily-damaged Herculaneum scrolls. Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be salvaged, giving us a new insight into the ancient past.

Nov 5, 2023

A significant milestone toward quantum computing

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Breakthrough realized for retaining quantum information in a single-electron quantum bit.