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There are two propulsion experiments on the Rogue Systems OTP2 satellite. The nanosats database has descriptions of the systems. The current satellite movement is the other propulsion system. I only care about the IVO quantum drive. It has not been turned in yet. If they are testing the other system as they appear to be ... Read more

Satellite 63235 is Rogue Space Systems’ OTP-2 satellite and the propellanless drive onboard OTP-2 is IVO’s Quantum Drive. The satellite tracking is continuing to show a shallowing of the orbital decline. Rogue’s new spacecraft, named OTP-2, will test the company’s on-board computing software and its ability to aggregate data from multiple sensors and process that ... Read more

Claybrook is an experimental AI model developed by Google and the model’s focus is on web development with an emphasis frontend tasks such as UI/UX coding. Claybrook leverages advanced techniques, such as reinforcement learning (RL), tailored for frontend design. Frontend tasks—like designing user interfaces—lend themselves to well-defined reward functions, making them suitable for RL optimization. ... Read more

Reinforcement Learning does NOT make the base model more intelligent and limits the world of the base model in exchange for early pass performances. Graphs show that after pass 1000 the reasoning model is surpassed by the base. Above – Figure 1: (Left) The effect of RLVR on LLM’s reasoning ability. Search trees are generated ... Read more

The 35-engine SpaceX Starship booster using version 3 raptor engines is coming sooon. Booster 18 could be the first Version 3 booster. 35 Raptor 3 engines (280 tons of thrust each) will be 9800 tons of thrust. This is 29% more than 33 Raptor 2 engines with 230 tons of thrust each for 7590 tons. ... Read more

The IVO Propulsion drive that is in a satellite is now slowing the decline of its orbit. This slowing decline of the Semi Major Orbit is evidence that the propellentless drive is working. The drive was used to move a large beam in a rotating motion in a lab experiment. CORRECTION: It is IVO Propulsion ... Read more

Boeing has 130 orders for new planes, but China is rejecting the planes due to the trade war. At least one of the Boeing 737 Max planes has been flown back and two others are will be rejected. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported Chinese government officials had instructed domestic airlines not to order any new ... Read more

If the President asks SpaceX to help make the Golden Dome then SpaceX will do it. But Elon Musk hope that other companies (not SpaceX) can do this. Elon Musk would prefer to focus on Mars colonization and development. The Golden Dome is a planned missile shield that will need thousands of satellites to constantly ... Read more

$25K Tesla and unsupervised robotaxis are starting this quarter—and BYD, Xiaomi, and legacy auto won’t keep up. With BYD’s 4% margins a sham (thanks to 3% dodged interest and other non-GAAP accounting), Tesla’s cheaper EV and 5,000+ robotaxi fleet by 2025 and one million Tesla robotaxi network in 2026 in will dominate. We break down ... Read more

U.S. Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman clarified the Golden Dome is not a single mega-shield, but a network of systems built to counter advanced missile threats. The system will combine terrestrial, naval, airborne, and space-based sensors and interceptors, along with non-kinetic defenses like directed energy weapons and electronic warfare capabilities. Saltzman emphasized that decision-making ... Read more

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system. The most likely reason (when combined with other observation) for seeing 1000 times more of the chemical DMS would be that exoplanet K2-18B is an ocean planet teeming with life. This ocean filled with life is causing the chemical ... Read more

Universal’s Isle of Berk had it’s soft opening two weeks ago. The dragon robots and large animatronics are very impressive. Visitors are very impressed with the walking baby dart dragon robot.

Technology experts Brian Wang and Jon Twigge discuss the fast arriving future of AI. The acceleration of AI technology has already started happening. It is the shocking speed of development and the speed of change which will make adapting and surviving harder. Speed of change is everything. XAI and Tesla have more speed. Physical change ... Read more

A Huawei M7 with Huawei’s Advanced Driving System (ADS) 2.0 crashed into a person and some cars at an Auto Show. It should have been going at low speed in a parking lot situation. The Huawei M7 is a premium electric SUV that is equipped with Huawei’s Advanced Driving System (ADS) 2.0. The Huawei M7 ... Read more

Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently ranked as the top released model on the leaderboards. Google’s has more models lined up, and Nightwhisper (probably Gemini Coder) is reportedly amazing and so is Dragontail. There is a flood of new model releases from Google, OpenAI, XAI, Deepseek and others. Here we will review what has been released ... Read more

Bytedance has new Uno AI that lets you change a picture into any selected style and you can upload photos to combine them into one picture. You can upload a photo of a wrinkled t-shirt and an image of a logo or any other picture or words. The words, logo or picture would be placed ... Read more

One year ago Microsoft Researchers created a hyper releastic AI video animator, VASA-1, but did not release it. Now, Bytedance owner of TikTok, is getting closer to matching the VASA-1 ability to hyper-realistically animate the facial muscles of faces and lip-sync based upon a single photograph. The Bytedance product is called Dreamina. The lipsync is ... Read more

Mark Rober tested Tesla Autopilot against simulated heavy rain but Kyle Paul tested the newest Tesla FSD self driving with Hardware 3 at the test was passed every time.