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Renewable energy grids need lots of energy storage – and EVs plugged into charging stations represent a huge, city-wide battery just waiting to help out. The Dutch city of Utrecht is about to pioneer a clever way to kickstart two-way charging.Continue … Continue reading World-first Dutch program will use ride-share cars as a grid battery
Zero-emissions long-distance aviation is absolutely possible… Provided you’re not in a hurry. Solar Airship One will take 20 days to fly all the way around the equator, some 40,000 km (~25,000 miles), in a single zero-emissions hop.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Solar-powered airship will circle the world non-stop without fuel
Callboats has become the first company in the world to offer autonomous water taxi rides between the Finnish city of Helsinki and a nearby archipelago. These solar-charged electric boats aim to drastically cut prices and address a captain shortage.Cont… Continue reading World’s first autonomous water taxi service opens in Helsinki
Born April 6th, 1986, Adcock is already a veteran technology entrepreneur at the relatively tender age of 37, having successfully sold employment website Vettery for US$110 million, then founded key eVTOL aircraft contender Archer and taken it public o… Continue reading Figure’s Brett Adcock on the practicalities of humanoid robot workers
As Tesla’s Optimus robot shows off new capabilities in pick ‘n’ place sorting and one-legged yoga balancing, Singaporean company Fourier Intelligence has released new video showing the production process for its super-strong GR-1 humanoid.Continue Read… Continue reading Fourier and Tesla show off impressive humanoid robot progress
After coming into nine-figure wealth from the sale of his first company Vettery, then founding eVTOL company Archer in 2018 and taking it public on the NYSE at a US$2.7 billion valuation, Adcock wanted a new and bigger challenge to chew on.Continue Rea… Continue reading Getting philosophical with future robot overlord Brett Adcock
Huawei has launched a breakthrough short-range wireless connection tech, aiming to combine the advantages of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Faster, more efficient and with a vastly reduced delay, it’s also got more than 300 companies and institutions on board.Co… Continue reading NearLink launches, 6X faster than Bluetooth, with 1/30th the latency
When you take 800,000 human brain cells, wire them into a biological hybrid computer chip, and demonstrate that it can learn faster than neural networks, people have questions. We speak to Dr. Brett Kagan, Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs.Cont… Continue reading Inventor ponders ethics of wiring human brain tissue into computers
UW researchers say they can now mute different parts of a noisy room, or isolate one conversation in a chaotic environment, thanks to a swarm of small audio robots that auto-position themselves to pinpoint and follow multiple moving sound sources.Conti… Continue reading Autonomous audio robot swarm can mute conversations in chaotic rooms
Heaven help the young guitarist who wants a new Strat in 2023; searching the Fender USA website today gives you no less than 74 different options, some coming in as many as nine different colors. There are Player Strats and Player Plus Strats, Made in … Continue reading Fender Vintera II 70s Strat review: Big vintage tone, accessible price