Collaborate Disseminate
The world bought a staggering 2.321 billion tires in 2022 across all categories – a number that’s expected to keep growing. What’s more, in the passenger car segment, the overall trends are toward bigger cars and electrification, both of which add to w… Continue reading Michelin vows to clean up its act
The raw GPT-4 language model – and any model like it – is capable of writing more or less anything a human might. That includes obscene and pornographic content – anecdotally, a big favorite among many early users – as well as content many would define… Continue reading Mightier than the sword: OpenAI’s impossible truth and bias dilemmas
Pioneered by researchers at Uc Berkeley, UC San Diego and Google, NeRFs first popped up on our radar in March 2022 when nVidia revealed its super-quick “Instant NeRF” demo at the GTC Developer Conference.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Nerf, … Continue reading Jaw-dropping AI NeRF tech is gaining incredible 3D capabilities
As we’ve discussed many times before, offshore wind represents an enormous opportunity for clean energy, but some of the best resources are out in deep water, where sinking a shaft straight into the sea bed becomes prohibitively expensive and difficult… Continue reading Pivoting arms could stabilize massive floating offshore wind turbines
“Will Smith eating spaghetti” made text-to-video generative AIs look like a bit of a joke just a month or two ago, but nVidia has now demonstrated a new system that appears to blow previous efforts out of the water. The pace of progress here is astonis… Continue reading nVidia’s new text-to-video AI shows an insane rate of progress
Lithium batteries started an avalanche of innovation when they became widely available, largely because they could hold significantly more energy by weight than other contemporary chemistries. Touchscreen smartphones, drones, all-day laptops, long-rang… Continue reading CATL launches ultra-high density 500-Wh/kg “condensed battery”
The jarring emergence of ChatGPT has made it clear: AIs are advancing at a wild and accelerating pace, and they’re beginning to transform industries based around desk jobs that typically marshall human intelligence. They’ll begin taking over portions o… Continue reading OpenAI and Figure join the race to humanoid robot workers
Replacing the rich energy source of Jet-A kerosene with a zero-carbon alternative is no easy task for the aviation industry. There are “sustainable aviation fuels” made with captured carbon, but in order to go zero-emissions, what works for cars and tr… Continue reading H2Fly prepares for pioneering liquid hydrogen flight tests
I’ll admit, I’m a little tentative to throw this lovingly crafted machine to you savages in the comments section. When the hard-top T.33 was launched, New Atlas readers ripped it to shreds. “OMG,” led an exasperated Guzmanchinky. “Why are they still bu… Continue reading Gordon Murray raises the roof with a V12 T.33 Spider
Targeted at military, commercial and aerospace applications, the XTS-210 is about the size of a basketball, weighs in at 19 kg (42 lb), and displaces 210 cc. It’ll run on multiple fuels, including diesel and kerosene/jet fuel. The company is shooting f… Continue reading “Inside-out Wankel” rotary engine delivers 5X the power of a diesel