By: Dan The Model S is Tesla’s attempt at creating a electric vehicle, and achieved relative success. Now, Tesla is looking to create a cheap electric vehicle accessible to everyone called the Model 3. The Model 3 is to travel at least …
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By: Bryan VTOL’s, or vertical takeoff and landing, have had a history of being cool, but suffer from being extremely inefficient. However, DARPA, or Defense advanced resesarch projects agency, has a new design for a VTOL that may solve some of VTOL’s …
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By: Dan So a couple years ago, a company called NanoSystems created what was then the blackest material on earth, called Vantablack. It was so black, that it absorbed everything but 0.35% of light. The human eye struggles to determine its shape …
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By: Bryan The Koenigsegg Regera. I really couldn’t resist writing about this. It’s a supercar capable of hitting 185 mph in 11 seconds, has 1500 horsepower, and is even a hybrid. Considering the Bugatti Chiron, another supercar, also came out recently, the …
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By: Bryan Magic Leap is a brand new start up company, working on a new kind of virtual reality. The super secretive startup is working on something new, called “mixed reality” technology. It’s different from the virtual reality we’ve all heard about, …
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By: Dan SuitX, the robotics company out of Berkeley’s Human Engineering Lab, has launched its first exoskeleton after years of development. It’s called Phoenix, a relatively lightweight and affordable device that can help people with mobility disorders walk again. The wearable robot …
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By: Albert There is almost nothing we know about dark matter. We can’t even be sure that it’s really there, but we’re fairly sure something is there. It’s the only way our calculations about the universe make sense. First off, what is …
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By: Bryan Wu Google has started a new top secret project, called Project Skybender, and it aims to deliver 5G internet from drones powered by solar panels. Mountain view has begun experimenting with millimeter wave-based internet in a base in New Mexico. …
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By: Bryan Wu From 2012 to 2015, Russia researched ways of deflecting Earth-bound asteroids using nuclear weapons and came up with a best-case scenario. The Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building, an arm of Russia’s state-run Roscosmos space agency, worked …
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By: Dan SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which flies only once. Compare that to a …
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