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Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations::The billionaire said people living in space could visit Earth on vacation.

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Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises::As wafer fab tools are getting more expensive, so do fabs and, ultimately, chips. A new report claims that

Japan spacecraft enters lunar orbit for Moon landing on Jan. 20::Japan’s lunar explorer has successfully entered the Moon’s orbit, the country’s space agency says, with the spacecraft expected to land on its surface on Jan. 20 if the mission goes as planned.

Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC’s N2 performance and beat it to market::undefined

Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective::Back in July, Reuters released a bombshell report showing that not only has Tesla aggressively lied about its EV ranges for the better part of the last decade, it created teams whose entire purpose was to lie to customers about it when they...

Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to ‘work longer hours’ in year-end email::Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah sent a year-end note to employees, suggesting they work longer hours and do better at mixing work with their personal lives.

It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere

Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends: The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he’s rebo…::The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he’s...

China bans export of rare earth processing kit::Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home

Britain likely to generate more electricity from wind, solar and hydro than fossil fuels for the first year ever in 2023::There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point...

The original post uses "roll-up" instead of "catch-all" for some reason. I meant to crosspost this hours ago but something happened, sorry....

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