Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that his company is building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Australia to store energy from the wind farms. According to Musk, the 129-megawatt battery will be able to store energy generated by the ...
Read More »World’s First Battery-Free Cellphone Created – Video
Researchers of the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a mobile phone that lets you call without battery. The device extracts its power from ambient radio signals and ...
Read More »Volvo Goes All Electric From 2019
All new Volvo models delivered from 2019 will have an electric motor. Volvo is the first traditional car manufacturer to provide all its cars with an electric motor. Volvo has owned the Chinese automaker Geely since 2010. The first fully ...
Read More »Toyota Built Robot To Help Paralyzed Army Vet With Tasks Around Home
The Human Support Robot (HSR) has been created several years ago but remained in the lab until the team has recently decided to try it in the real world, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Digital Trends. These robots are already ...
Read More »Elon Musk has officially started digging a tunnel under Los Angeles
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX said on Twitter on Wednesday that his tunnel-boring machine, dubbed Godot, had begun digging under Los Angeles, according to Business Insider. Musk officially launched his tunnel company, aptly named The Boring Company, in April. ...
Read More »Don’t try this at home: Bio-hacker implanted chip into hand to for pay public transport easier
A Sydney man had the chip from an Opal card inserted into his hand and is now tapping on using the technology that is implanted underneath his skin, according to ABC News. Bio-hacker Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow, his legal name, ...
Read More »This company fights air pollution with Internet of Things and plants
Air pollution is becoming a global threat as 90% of urban populations breaths polluted air. In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. According to ...
Read More »New Tesla Model 3 photos leaked
The Tesla engineer driving the test vehicle didn’t seem to mind photos being taken and even mentioned that they were driving the vehicle home for the night, Teslarati reports. The Model 3 was seen with full autopilot hardware and this ...
Read More »Google fined a record $2.7 billion by the EU for manipulating search results
Google has been hit with a record-breaking €2.42 billion ($2.7 billion) fine by the European Union for breaking antitrust law, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Verge. The decision follows a seven-year investigation into the US company’s search algorithms, which ...
Read More »Mars Robot Curiosity Making Decisions on Its Own
In 2012, the Curiosity rover began its slow trek across the surface of Mars, listening for commands from Earth about where to go, what to photograph, which rocks to inspect. Then last year, something interesting happened: Curiosity started making decisions ...
Read More »Facebook launches UK initiative to counter online extremist material
Facebook, which outlined new efforts to remove extremist and terrorism content from its social media platform last week, will launch the Online Civil Courage Initiative in the UK on Friday, the company said in a statement, according to Reuters. The ...
Read More »In China, a robot has started delivering packages to people
Jingdong, or JD.com, China’s second-biggest e-commerce company after Alibaba, sent robots to deliver items for the first time yesterday (June 18), on the last day of a two-week-long shopping bonanza that recorded sales of around $17.6 billion, according to a ...
Read More »Car horns are weirdly aggressive, so this guy made a friendlier version
Fortunately, YouTuber Mark Rober has come up with the “nicest car horn ever,” a higher-pitched honk that toots twice quickly, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Mashable. It’s for situations where you want to show courtesy, like if a driver forgets something on ...
Read More »A New 3D Printed Bionic Hand Could Help Two Million Worldwide
A new, affordable, 3D printed bionic hand that could transform the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) has begun its first clinical trial in England, according to Futurism. BBC’s coverage focuses on a girl called Tilly Lockey who is one of ...
Read More »Japanese team develops snake-like robot to help in disasters
It is the first snake-shaped robot in the world that can move with its front tip off the ground, according to the team, which includes members from Tohoku University in Sendai, according to The Japan Times. The Tohoku region was ...
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