Charging yourEVon the go comes with a big disadvantage: youre gonna have to wait a while. But waiting wouldnt be such a hassle if you could do so in comfort and why not? have a coffee and do some shopping. The redesigned stations will feature customer lounges, electric vehicle showcase areas, and dedicated events spaces. A number of them will be installed at selected locations with nearby shopping and dining areas....
Among the intriguing benefits is the potential to charge at a vastly faster rate. In contrast, conventionalbatterycells are charged in parallel and independently of each other, slowing down the entire process. The benefit of this collective charging is measured by a ratio called quantum charging advantage. The IBS research team sought to discover how much the charging speed can be increased. Based on these estimations, charging an EV at home would drop from 10 hours tothree minutes....
Big propsto Tobia King who filmed and translated the opening speeches. The new Gigafactory also aims to generate 50-gigawatt hours of battery power, surpassing all other plants in Germany. Right-wing parties like theAlternative fur Deutschland(AFD)succeed in the once-Communist East. The new Tesla factory will bring more expat-skilled migrants to the area. Spark up in Germany! We know Elons fond of a doobie. Cigarette smoking is something else. Even bars turn a blind eye, putting ashtrays out with the beer mats....
One deal does not change the anti-competitive status quo. How will it work? 40% off TNW Conference! you’re free to choose the one you like to make that payment. But we dont know how exactly this will pan out. This new payment system, called User Choice Billing, will roll out later this year. Whats in it for Spotify? While its fight with Apple will continue, it could find an ally in Google....
The most exciting name in quantum computing today is Google. Googles position comes as a bit of a surprise when you consider the competition. D-Waves been makingquantum computersfor about as long as Google has been in business. And both Microsoft and IBM have focused quantum computing ecosystems generating revenue today to offset their massive research expenditures. But Googles not as big a newcomer to the field as you might imagine....
While drink driving fatalities and injuries have declined in recent decades, it still remains amajor problemon Australian roads. In the US, themassive infrastructure billpassed by Congress last yearmandatedcar manufacturers equip vehicles with advanced drink-driving prevention technology. 40% off TNW Conference! In an emergency situation, these systems can alsowork togetherto prevent a crash. Such technologies have been been integrated into vehicles since theearly 2000s, primarily to monitor fatigue and distraction. Today, most new vehicles come with such systems and theyve becomeincreasingly sophisticated....
Those were the glory days. The idea was to ostensibly sort content based on whats most interesting to you. But pretty muchno one was happy about it, and it yieldedreal ethical and political concernsbeyond general annoyance. After six years of darkness, Instagram has finally seen the light. In December, itannouncedit was bringing back the chronological feed as an alternative to the default view. Whats new? 40% off TNW Conference! How do I do it?...
But that may soon change for an unexpected reason. Lithium is essential forlithium-ion batteries, which power electric vehicles and energy storage. Demand for these batteries is quickly rising, but theU.S. The Elmore geothermal plant near the Salton Sea began operating in 1989. Berkshire Hathaway Energy Enough lithium to far exceed todays US demand 40% off TNW Conference! Geothermal brines arethe concentrated liquid left overafter heat and steam are extracted at a geothermal plant....
Toyota andAurora Innovation, a US developer of self-driving systems, just started testingautonomous robotaxisin Texas. Additionally, it can detect obstacles, and its able to react to stop-and-go traffic and inclement weather. And, yes, there seems to be a clear path to commercialization. Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies. Also tagged with
When you think of the termhacker, what comes to mind? Criminals plotting to destroy multinational corporations, derail governments, or simply spam your inbox? The phrase doesnt usually have positive connotations. We think of people hunkered down in basements, anonymously threatening to change our world for the worse. But the reality is in 2022, hackers arent always the bad guys. But how do they do it? Well, heres everything you’re gonna wanna know....
But what exactly is open-source intelligence? And how is it helping efforts to understand whats happening on the ground in Ukraine? At first sight, open-source intelligence seems to be a contradiction in terms. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Examples include theFrance 24 Observersand the New York TimesVisual Investigationsteam. What does open-source intelligence involve? The practice is best viewed as a spectrum of activities. At one end of the spectrum is what I term the prospector approach....
Ford has a weird habit of extravagant marketing strategies. Ill never forgetthe petrol-scented perfumethe company launched to accompany the electric Mustang Mach-E GT. I mean, who doesnt want to smell like gasoline? But now theres a new marketing campaign to wrap our heads around: online conference calling for…EVs. 40% off TNW Conference! And dont you worry about being distracted while driving. Well, I can think of a few reasons. Imagine having an important meeting while your children are fighting in the back seat....
Dont worry, Ill explain what this has to do with self-aware robots in due course. The pre-print paper comes courtesy of French researcher Pascal Koiran. Peran articleby astrophysicist Paul Sutter on LiveScience: 40% off TNW Conference! The Eddington-Finkelstein metric didnt misbehave at any point in that trajectory. But the new theory says otherwise. And that seems like it should be awesome. But lets take a closer look at the research, shall we?...
