Nov 17, 2022 | Drones, Electric Vehicles, Transit
German aircraft manufacturer Volocopter flew its electric helicopter in air traffic for the first time when it took to the skies in Paris on November 10. The aircraft, known as the VoloCity, resembles a large drone with eight rotors and space for two people. The...
Nov 17, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Electric cars will no longer be exempt from vehicle excise duty from April 2025, the chancellor has said. Announcing the change as part of his Autumn Statement, Jeremy Hunt said the move was designed to make the motoring tax system “fairer”. The RAC...
Nov 17, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Finance, US Economy
An artificial intelligence tool could help governments decide whether or not to bail out a bank in crisis by predicting if the intervention will save money for taxpayers in the long term. The AI tool, developed by researchers at University College London (UCL) and...
Nov 17, 2022 | Archaeology, Autonomous Vehicles
Griffith University researchers are using the same technology that helps control automated vehicles and is used in speed cameras to find ancient sites in the Mariana Islands. Published in the Journal of Computer Application in Archaeology, the paper explores the...
Nov 17, 2022 | Metaverse, Robots
RobotEra is a brand new metaverse project that allows gamers to take on the role of a robot, and to then develop on their own plot of land in any way that they please. A metaverse focused on robots is filling a niche that hasn’t previously been explored, and the team...
Nov 10, 2022 | Telecommunications
To support the Emergency SOS feature for the iPhone 14, Apple plans on spending $450 million to help expand the satellite networking infrastructure across the US. A majority of the funding will go to Globalstar, the satellite communications provider...
Nov 10, 2022 | 5G, Agriculture
Thirty miles north of Seattle, the urban landscape thins out into agricultural lowlands. There lies Swans Trail Farms, a family-owned operation that focuses on agritourism and events with apple orchards, a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and strawberry fields. But Swans...
Nov 10, 2022 | Telecommunications
AT&T Mexico is offering customers biometric authentication to open and secure their accounts. The identity authentication and digital contract holds the same legal authority as a paper contract and enrolment process, according to the telecommunications company....
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