A. Tarantola
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Hitting the Books: Buck Rogers flew so that NASA astronauts could spacewalk
Wonders All Around, exhaustively researched and written by McCandless's son, Bruce III, explores McCandless the elder's trials and tribulations during NASA's formative years and his laser-focus on enabling astronauts to zip through space unencumbered by the mass of their ships.. → Read More
This toe tickling navigation system will help the visually impaired walk tall
The Ashirase system allows low-sighted people to navigate through cities using their feet, rather than cell phones or visual aids.. → Read More
Why Tesla is delaying the Semi EV until 2022
Tesla representatives confirmed previous reports that its commercial EV project, Semi, will be delayed until 2022.. → Read More
Tesla breaks its own delivery record by building and shipping 200,000 vehicles in Q2
Tesla announced a number of "new and notable records" during its Q2 earnings call on Monday.. → Read More
Why every robot needs a spiffy hat
Tomorrow's robotic workforce will be just like us, putting their robo-pants on one leg at a time.. → Read More
Hitting the Books: Digital youth activism can help save America from itself
Don't just think of the children, listen to them for once.. → Read More
GM's hands-free Super Cruise is coming to six more Cadillacs in 2022
Beginning the first quarter of next year, GM will make its advanced semi-autonomous driving assistant, Super Cruise, available on six more Cadillac models including the Escalade, CT4,CT5, Silverado, Hummer EV, and Sierra.. → Read More
Mercedes plans to go fully electric by the end of the decade
Mercedes has announced plans to expand its EV lineup by 2022 and go EV-only by the end of the decade.. → Read More
Hitting the Books: The correct way to make coffee, according to science
The best part of waking up is, of course, hot bean juice in your cup.. → Read More
Facebook’s BlenderBot chat AI no longer has the mental capacity of a goldfish
Facebook AI's research lab released the second iteration of its open-source chatbot with a number of key enhancements like the ability to remember the subject of a conversation after it has concluded.. → Read More
Can Richard Branson really call himself an astronaut after Sunday's Virgin Galactic flight?
Does flying 50 miles above the Earth's surface make you an astronaut? Depends on which aviation agency you ask.. → Read More
Clubhouse unveils its new 'Backchannel' DM feature
On Wednesday, the company announced that the Clubhouse app will now support DMs in the form of the new Backchannel messaging feature.. → Read More
Hitting the Books: How NASA selected the first Lunar Rover to scoot across the moon
In his latest book, Across the Airless Wilds, journalist Earl Swift, examines the oft ignored Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions, our last trips to the Moon's surface.. → Read More
Volvo's C40 Recharge is a solid second stab at an EV
Come early next year, Volvo's first EV, the XC40 Recharge, will be joined by a sleeker, curvier sibling dubbed the C40. → Read More
Volvo's C40 Recharge is a solid second stab at an EV
Come early next year, Volvo's first EV, the XC40 Recharge, will be joined by a sleeker, curvier sibling dubbed the C40. → Read More
Moderna enters clinical trials for its mRNA-based flu vaccine
Moderna has injected its mRNA-derived vaccine for the seasonal flu into a human volunteer for the first time as part of a Phase 1/2 clinical study, the company announced on Wednesday.. → Read More
What Neuralink and other BCIs can and can't do
Elon Musk's BCI startup wants to make people more than human by putting computers in their heads but a number of neurology researchers aren’t quite so bullish on these fantastical promises.. → Read More
Hitting the Books: How memes spread through society like a 'mind virus'
In The Ascent of Information, award winning New York Times author Caleb Scharf explores humanity's unique penchant for maintaining stores of information outside of ourselves and the steps we'll soon have to take if we want to hang on to the 20 quintillion bits of data we produce every day.. → Read More
How the rising popularity of EVs could lead to a resurgence of drum brakes
Drum brakes are some of the automotive industry's oldest technologies. → Read More
Facebook's latest AI doesn't just detect deep fakes, it knows where they came from
On Wednesday, Facebook and Michigan State University debuted a novel method of not just detecting deep fakes but discovering which generative model produced it by reverse engineering the image itself.. → Read More