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Although Insta360 is known for its panoramic video cameras, two years ago it released a tiny conventional actioncam called the Go. This week the company announced that model's new-and-improved sibling, the Go 2.

Making an all-electric camper tends to be a little easier when that camper doesn't require a large motive engine to propel itself to camp.

Talk about nosedives.

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We've written plenty about hydrogen's potential as a transformative technology for green aviation; in gaseous form, hydrogen offers an energy density much higher than lithium batteries, and that offers a genuine path toward the decarbonization of sho

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Cairn Energy Research Advisors reports that Tesla has the lowest cost batteries by at least 10% and over 24% versus other car companies. This is before the cost reductions that Tesla is implementing from 2020 Battery Day.

What are the improvements SpaceX will have to make for their next Starship after SN10 and what does Elon Musk have in store for the future of Boca Chica and our plans to colonize Mars? Let's find out!

Robert Zubrin has proposed using rotating membranes to create Enormous Space Telescopes (ESTs) that can scale to over 1000 meter diameter or match current space telescopes for thousands of time lower cost. They would also not require the construction

What a difference 400 years makes! AI 'Mayflower' will make groundbreaking crew-less crossing of Atlantic next month powered by solar energy: Craft will chart same 3,000-mile route taken by ship that brought 102 Pilgrims to America in 1620

Researchers are studying a dewormer for dogs and a pinworm medicine for people as possible treatments for glioblastoma and other forms of cancer.

A speedy all-electric aircraft being developed with one eye on the record books has taken another step forward, with Rolls-Royce taking its Spirit of Innovation plane to the runway for the very first time.

Mushrooms make for a savory, vitamin D-rich addition to a balanced diet. But it turns out, they make for more environmentally friendly "bricks," too.

Looking like a mix between an F-1 car and the Batmobile, the world's first mass-produced solar-powered car just took several more steps towards its first market day.

The Malta energy storage system takes electricity, converts and stores that electricity as heat, and then converts it back to electricity to be redistributed on the electric grid. In charge mode, the system operates as a heat pump, storing electricit

Zoom calls and video meetings have exploded over the past year (thanks, COVID), but a flat screen doesn't do a great job of transmitting a person's presence.

Rocketlabs is in second place for making reusable rockets after SpaceX. Blue Origin is not in second place.

Researchers discover a new state of active matter.

"The FAR robot can work 24 hours a day and picks only ripe fruit. It uses AI perception algorithms to locate the trees and vision algorithms to detect the fruit among the foliage and classify its size and ripeness. After choosing the right fruit, th

Four major manufacturers have committed to developing a standardized swappable battery system for electric motorcycles, opening up the possibility of quick-swap battery banks at service stations, servicing a range of brands and models.

IBM has created low-loss (0.3% loss over 10 microns) silicon waveguide could enable new photonic chip designs for applications that rely on visible light, and could lead to more efficient lasers and modulators used in telecoms.

Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored "digital characters" to modernize optical storage.

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks.

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Neutron's first launch could fly in 2024.

...complete with restaurants, cinemas and rooms for up to 400 guests

3D printers may one day become a permanent fixture of operating rooms, now that Australian scientists showed they could print bone-like structures containing living cells.

California's ViewSonic has launched a new 1080p portable projector that uses a technique called time of flight ranging to quickly measure the distance to the wall and achieve sharp focus in just one second.

Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) are some of the most promising batteries available today. They are cheaper, lighter and capable of storing much more energy than conventional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which currently power most kinds of electroni

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Lithium Titanate Oxide battery build

GM corn presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, U.S. authorities.

The new creation is described as "neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal" but a "new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism."

Californian startup Framework says that it was founded to provide quality products that can be customized, upgraded and repaired with ease.

Joby Aviation has been in semi-stealth mode for so long that this pair of videos released today comes as a real shock.

David Attenborough is bringing long-extinct prehistoric creatures into people's homes through the magic of augmented reality in a new app.

Florida's Triton has been making high-end civilian submarines for more than a decade now, dividing its sales between scientific explorers, commercial and cinematography clients, and ultra-rich superyacht owners looking to spruce up their wet garages

Starlink will change the angle to cover 500-kilometer diameter spots from 1000 kilometer diameter spots.

Coming later this year, the Cognixion ONE headset is promising something extra on top of the regular augmented reality experience: a brain computer interface (BCI) that can turn thoughts into commands for the device.

THE SAFIRE PROJECT has become a commercial venture.

...strapping a paintball gun to it. They're letting the internet control it. And Boston Dynamics is furious.

Musk adds that the growing network of satellites should offer complete global coverage "by next year."

Four independent experiments across the globe have found that it's possible to establish two-way communications with people in the weird, hallucinatory state of lucid dreaming, opening up a new field of real-time "interactive dreaming" research.

Right now, the entire electric VTOL scene is a house built on a foundation of faith. Faith that the hordes of researchers beavering away on next-gen battery technology will achieve an enormous energy density breakthrough, or faith that hydrogen fuel

BP and Chevron have led a US$40 million investment round for a Canadian startup that claims to have developed a unique way to extract energy from geothermal heat on demand, using an unpowered looping fluid design that's already prototyped in Alberta.

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Now you can print untraceable AR-15s, AKMs, semi-automatic pistols, and more--no serial number, no registration, no background check.

Just as technology has underpinned economic growth for decades, the future of flying electric taxis will revolutionize transportation while transforming urban mobility into a greener, zero-emissions world.

He turned his father's RV garage into an off-grid home relying on photovoltaics, rainwater and composting toilet. Attached to the home, he built a half-buried (6-feet-under) greenhouse (walipini) to use the earth's heat to grow figs and fruits du

When the Woolsey Fire burnt down their home in 2018, Molly and Ed Murphy wanted a house that would go up fast, that their limited insurance funds would pay for and that wasn't wood. They were introduced to Alexis Rochas whose Oasys prefab can be erec