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Green hydrogen can’t be viewed as environmentally friendly if it drinks huge amounts of fresh water, or results in the bulk output of toxic chlorine, according to RMIT researchers who say they’ve come up with a cheap technique that does neither.Continu… Continue reading “Exceptional” new catalyst cheaply splits hydrogen from seawater
With tiny, ducted electric “jets” instead of exposed propellers, Lilium’s eVTOL aircraft looks incredible, but it’ll place a unique strain on its batteries. Lilium has invested millions into a company that makes cells it believes are up to the task.Con… Continue reading The extraordinary batteries Lilium will use for its odd eVTOL approach
French DJ and music producer David Guetta has discovered AI tools, and thought it would be fun to use an unauthorized deepfake of Eminem’s voice to rev up a huge crowd at a live show. It looks like it worked, but it raises legal and ethical questions.C… Continue reading Top DJ deepfakes Eminem into a song, and it seems that’s totally legal
One factor limiting the output of today’s power stations is the metals used in the blades, bearings and seals of their steam turbines, which tend to soften and elongate well before their melting point. Solve these problems, and you could conceivably ra… Continue reading Heat-loving lightweight superalloy promises higher turbine efficiency
Remember the Terrafugia Transition flying car, out of Massachusetts? Terrafugia was acquired by Chinese giant Geely in 2017, after which it pivoted to designing transitioning eVTOLs, and then was more or less shut down and relocated to China in 2021. G… Continue reading Geely begins testing the largest eVTOL prototype ever flown in China
Praga stunned us with its futuristic, ultra-lightweight Bohema supercar last year, but this Czech company has taken a retro angle on its first streetbike in nearly a century. The ZS 800 combines a gorgeous classic look with some nice modern thinking.Co… Continue reading Praga resurrects girder-forked hardtail motorcycle from 1928
“No Lights, no cameras, all action.” You knew it was coming. One of the key companies behind the Stable Diffusion image generator has launched a mind-blowing AI video creation and editing tool that operates something like DALL-E for moving pictures.Con… Continue reading AI tools are now creating video, and matching sound effects
We are witnessing a revolution. After the stunning debut of OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 image generator last year, the company opened its natural language generator up to the public at the end of November last year. Since then, it’s spread like wildfire, amassin… Continue reading ChatGPT: The friendly face of your AI replacement
An awkward, triangular site near the Greektown neighborhood was chosen for the project, since according to the developers, it wouldn’t have been possible to build a tower of this height using traditional construction methods – the elevated People Mover… Continue reading Liftbuild nears completion on remarkable “top-down” skyscraper
An awkward, triangular site near the Greektown neighborhood was chosen for the project, since according to the developers, it wouldn’t have been possible to build a tower of this height using traditional construction methods – the elevated People Mover… Continue reading Liftbuild nears completion on remarkable “top-down” skyscraper