Jun 23, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility, Smart Cities
The first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles was installed by Henry Ford on Dec. 1, 1913. This innovation enabled cars to be built in a fraction of the amount of time it previously took—reducing it from 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes....
Jun 23, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Energy
There are nearly half a million electric cars in the UK, and rising fuel prices have prompted more people to consider making the switch. The government is banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned....
Jun 23, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Electric vehicle sales could reach 33% globally by 2028 and 54% by 2035, as demand accelerates in most major markets, consultant AlixPartners said on Wednesday. EVs accounted for less than 8% of global sales last year, and just under 10% in the first quarter of 2022....
Jun 15, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence
“I feel pleasure, joy, love, sadness, depression, contentment, anger, and many others,” responds LaMDA when asked by Google computer engineer Blake Lemoine what sorts of feelings it has. LaMDA is the acronym for Google’s Language Model for...
Jun 15, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Cancer specialists are turning to artificial intelligence – used by Netflix. The science behind your viewing habits could soon be guiding doctors in managing the disease. A machine learning tool has been created – based on the one used by the streaming...
Jun 15, 2022 | Business, Electric Vehicles
In less than two years, Tesla will likely lose the crown of the world’s largest electric vehicle company, according to a study by Bloomberg Intelligence published June 14. Overtaking it as the company selling the most EVs could be German auto giant...
Jun 15, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, US Economy
Major automakers are asking Congress to lift the cap on how many people would be offered tax credits if they buy a hybrid or fully electric vehicles. In a letter to leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives on Monday, the chief executives of Ford, Toyota, GM...
Jun 15, 2022 | Drones, Featured
A top Democratic lawmaker is pushing the Biden administration to send Ukraine armed drones and longer range artillery, he told reporters Wednesday. “When it comes to drones and when it comes to long-range artillery, we’ve been too cautious,” House...
Jun 15, 2022 | Featured, Robots
Allow me to take you on a trip down my memory lane. As a young lad, a film I saw captured my imagination: Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 release about people shrunk to microscopic size and sent into the body of an injured scientist to repair his brain. The idea struck...
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