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IBM will invest $2 billion to develop artificial intelligence hardware and boost AI performance by 1000 times over the next ten years.

There's no doubt that the Raspberry Pi has played a huge part in the growth of the maker community.

Nikola recognizes the advantages of BEVs. Will skip FCVs at some point?

A video came out about five months ago that detailed the nation of Asgardia, a newly formed technocracy that is based in space. Their sovereign "lands" are a space station currently in low Earth orbit and their citizens are spread around the worl

British billionaire Richard Branson plans to travel to space within the next four or five months aboard his own Virgin Galactic spaceship, he told AFP Thursday.

Purdue has created part of a new cubesat thruster which electromagnetically accelerates plasma to produce thrust. They have successfully tested the ignition system for more than 1.5 million pulses. This is a giant leap for extending the lifetime of e

Autopilot in California - just a week after the same thing happened in Vegas

Back in 2015, we took a look at one of the most awe-inspiring camping trailers we've ever seen, the Beauer 3X.

Got hold of a Raspberry Pi but not entirely confident with Linux? While the main desktop is easy enough to use, at times you'll need to rely on command line entry in the terminal. But if you're new to the Raspbian operating system and Linux, this

Electric truck sighting confirmed.

Maxwell Technologies has breakthrough dry battery electrode technology and ultracapacitors. Tesla has announced the purchase of Maxwell Technologies for $218 million in an all-stock deal.

Embark, Electrolux, and Ryder have partnered in a driverless truck endeavor on a 650-mile I-10 route...

Save for Winter...This ground-breaking new solar-powered battery is giving the fossil fuel industry reason for concern. After decades of research, prototypes, and trials, the first sustainable solar-powered storage system is underway and it is poi

So, you want to get on the dark web? Don't worry; we're not judging. There are lots of perfectly legitimate reasons you might want to access all that shady content. Joking aside, if you want to know how to access the dark web in a safe and ano

The tunnel would sit about 100 feet below the surface of a fjord.

video here...(Natural News) As part of 2019 effort to conduct more lab science in the public interest, we are announcing glyphosate testing for water filters. The experiment, carried out at CWC Labs, will pour diluted glyphosate (2ppm glyphosate in w

Although there's nothing like cycling with a good tailwind, your bike and your body are only capable of catching a limited amount of that wind.

Learn as you sleep: study shows sleepers can learn language from scratch in the depths of slumber

In April 2017 the Lilium Jet successfully completed its maiden test flight series in the skies above Bavaria.

This as-yet unnamed Harley-Davidson concept bike seems somewhere between a dirtbike and a motorized mountain bike in function and weight.

Last night Elon Musk posted a pair of low resolution images showing the new Raptor engine getting ready for testing at the Mcgregor, Texas facility.

As you read this, countless cards, letters and packages are en route to delivery destinations across the globe. We rarely think about the logistics involved in international mail crossing land and sea, country borders and continents, because we don'

A Norwegian distributor of CAT heavy machinery has converted a CAT excavator to electric power using 3.4 tons of batteries. This was 300 kWh of batteries.

David Sinclair is working on various anti-aging molecules. He was famous for discovering the anti-aging effect of resveratrol and sirtuins. David Sinclair was interviewed on the Joe Rogan show about antiaging.

Volkswagen is taking matters into its own hands. On Friday, the German auto giant said it's going to spend €870 million (about $995 million) by 2020 to develop electric vehicle (EV) components.

Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly.

The Tesla product path is pretty exciting. With the Model 3 finally hitting its near-term production and delivery stride, we're ready for more details about what's coming. Last night's financial call with analysts was pretty revealing on this f

A Company That Will "Fill Your Veins With The Blood Of Young People" Has Opened 5 Clinics In The United States

From the Rivian R1T to the promised Tesla pickup, these are the electric pickup trucks to start saving up for.

The amount and quality of light you're exposed to every day can have an enormous impact on your health. The healthiest light, of course, is natural sunlight, which has a number of benefits beyond the making of vitamin D in your skin. Unfortunately,

iRobot, the company known for making the Roomba, some of the best robotic vacuum cleaners out there, is looking to jump into the lawn care game with the announcement of Terra. Much like the company's selection of indoor cleaners, this device will a

The projectile, called a "sabot," releases a payload of material into the center of the plasma that radiates, or spreads out, the energy stored in the plasma, reducing its impact on the interior of the tokamak.

A new technique has been used to turn ordinary metals into "metallic wood" with a greatly improved strength-to-weight ratio.

The US military's Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) has put out a request for contractors to submit proposals for small nuclear reactors that could be deployed to remote locations that are difficult or dangerous to transport fuel, reports Defense O

Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have taken a step in that direction, with the first fully flexible device that can convert energy from WiFi

than 2 cents per liter....Jim Mason was first profiled in Reason in 2008 when his early attempts at homemade power generation ran afoul of regulators in his hometown of Berkeley, California. He fought through and created a business, All Power Labs,

Vendit recently announced that it now supports Uber, the world's largest cab-hailing service. This will allow cryptocurrencies to be credited to the user's Uberwallet, which can be used to pay for cab rides.

What if the all the ships that navigated our vast oceans could navigate, chart a course, and think for themselves--without any human input?

bottles and other recyclable materials...(Natural News) Scientists have found a way to integrate recyclable plastics with cardboard fibers to create a durable filament for 3D printing. These innovations in 3D printing will allow soldiers to recycle e

growth and purifies water...(Natural News) A future study may just find a new way to harness the power of the sun further and provide more sustainable methods for crop development. Engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder, in collaboration w

Blue Origin has started building a BE-4 rocket-engine production facility in Huntsville, Alabama. It will cost more than $200 million and employ about 300 when it opens in March 2020. This was reported by the Herald Net.

Notes from a monthlong hydration quest...

We've had all sorts of articles on this website about technology run amok, like videos that are undiscernable from reality and doorbells that monitor the entire neighborhood and China mining data from the brains of workers. But this one takes the c

SpaceX continues to march ahead with the Starhopper. They are recovering from the wind damaged nose cone for the Starhopper and they placed fuel tanks into the bottom half of the Starhopper.

One of the problems preventing the Multi-billion dollar ITER nuclear fusion project from scaling to provide commercial energy are disruptions of the plasma. Disruptions are sudden events that can halt fusion reactions and damage the tokamaks.

Thermoacoustic device turns waste heat into cold using no additional power

A Columbia University-led team has developed a new method to finely tune adjacent layers of graphene--lacy, honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms--to induce superconductivity.

Quantum Circuits (QCI) is using superconducting qubits in a modular, robust, and scalable architecture. They are a spinout from Yale University.

Rocketstar LLC plans to launch a 3D printed aerospike rocket to over 50 miles altitude on February 7, 2019.

Airbus chief technology officer (CTO) Grazia Vittadini predicts a quantum era in aerospace. Vittadini made this prediction in a Wall Street Journal article.