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Dec 5, 2019

Love It or Hate It, Tesla Cybertruck Is Revolutionary

With a collective gasp and puzzled looks, the world was recently introduced to Tesla's newest vehicle. The so-called Cybertruck is an angular, stainless steel, all-electric pickup truck that quickly became polarizing. The launch didn't go very smoothly. The truck's windows shattered when its lead designer smashed them with a metal...

Feb 28, 2021

Is an electric car better for the planet?

Which is better for Earth: an electric or gas-powered vehicle? The answer to this question might seem blindingly obvious: Of course electric cars must be better for the environment, because they don’t have exhausts and so don’t emit greenhouse gasses as they drive. However, electric vehicles (EVs) aren't perfect, and...

Nov 23, 2023

World’s 1st electric flying passenger ship could 'revolutionize how we travel on water'

The world's first electric flying passenger ship has completed test flights in Sweden and will now enter production ahead of its introduction into Stockholm's public transport network in 2024. The Candela P-12, designed by Swedish tech company Candela Technology AB, is 39 feet (12 meters) long,runs on a 252 kilowatt-hour...

Dec 28, 2023

New battery tech will slash charging times and boost EV range before the decade is out

A technology that could dramatically increase the range and decrease the charging time of electric vehicle (EV) batteries could soon be in many more cars. The technology swaps the graphite normally used on the negatively charged anodes of lithium-ion EV batteries for silicon. Panasonic recently announced a partnership with Sila...

Jan 22, 2024

Futuristic vertical-takeoff air taxi could hit the market by 2028

A proof-of-concept four-passenger air taxi that can take off and land vertically is slated to hit the market by 2028. Known as an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, the SA-2 is made by Hyundai subsidiary Supernal and will begin test flights later this year, company representatives announced on...

Jan 26, 2024

Largest ever fully electric concept plane could take to the skies by 2033

A startup has unveiled its design for a fully electric passenger jet that can seat up to 90 passengers, with plans to launch it within the next 10 years. The E9X concept, designed by the Dutch company Elysian, is a battery-powered plane that can fly up to 500 miles (800...

Feb 5, 2024

NASA and DARPA flew 'experimental' self-flying helicopters to see if they could avoid crashing into other virtual aircraft

NASA successfully performed a series of test flights with two autonomous helicopters to check the systems that could one day be used in pilotless air taxis, the agency has revealed. During the flights in October 2023, conventional-looking helicopters flew autonomously over Long Island Sound, Connecticut, NASA said in a statement...

Feb 8, 2024

MadRadar hack can make self-driving cars 'hallucinate' imaginary vehicles and veer dangerously off course

A malicious technology can trick self-driving cars into hallucinating phantom vehicles and veering dangerously off-course to get out of their way, researchers have discovered. The new hack, dubbed MadRadar, can also hide real cars from on-vehicle radar sensors and fool a self-driving car into thinking a real car has jerked...

Feb 16, 2024

Future electric cars could go more than 600 miles on a single charge thanks to battery-boosting gel

Electric vehicle (EV) range anxiety could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a breakthrough in battery technology, which could give EVs a range of more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers). Today's EVs have a maximum range of 300 miles (480 km) on average. Even the longest-range electric...

Feb 29, 2024

Flying car designed to hop across the Philippines' 7,000 islands coming this year

A vehicle that's a strange blend between a futuristic electric minivan and the rear half of an airplane could soon revolutionize island-hopping. The unusual vehicle, which is currently still only a concept, will be able to travel both on land and in the air and be powered by electricity or...

Sep 10, 2015

Why We Must Build an 'Immune System' to Ward Off Cyber Threats (Op-Ed)

Nicole Eagan is the CEO of Darktrace, a cyber threat defense company that uses technology to detect previously unidentified threats in real time, powered by machine learning and mathematics developed at the University of Cambridge. This op-ed is part of a series provided by the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers,...

Sep 20, 2015

3D Computer Chips Could Be 1,000 Times Faster Than Existing Ones

ST. LOUIS — A new method of designing and building computer chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of, researchers say. The new method, which relies on materials called carbon nanotubes, allows scientists to build the chip in...

Oct 13, 2015

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Exhibit Honors 1st Computer Programmer

A century before the first computer was developed, an Englishwoman named Ada Lovelace laid the theoretical groundwork for an all-purpose device that could solve a host of mathematically-based problems. Widely credited as being the first-ever computer programmer, Lovelace's pioneering work is explored in a new exhibit that opens today (Oct....

Oct 16, 2015

Photos: Retro Computers and Calculators Up for Auction

The Apple computer that started it all, a Nazi German cipher machine and a 14th-century clock are among the items available for purchase in the Seven Centuries of Science sale, an online auction hosted by Christie's auction house in London. The sale, which kicked off yesterday (Oct. 15), features items...

Jan 6, 2016

How Computers Help Biologists Crack Life’s Secrets

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Once the three-billion-letter-long human genome was sequenced, we rushed into a new “omics” era of biological research. Scientists are now racing to sequence the genomes (all the genes) or...