Heads Up A city near Seoul, in South Korea, is worried about “smartphone zombies” who wander into traffic while looking at their phones. Its solution, according to Reuters: a high-tech crosswalk that uses lights, lasers and an app to alert…
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Toyota is deepening its relationship with Nvidia as the automaker, and its research arms in Japan and the U.S., ramps up its autonomous vehicle development program. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Monday during his keynote at the 2019…
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SpaceX will not build a new nosecone for the Starhopper. Elon Musk tweeted that the new nosecone is being built for the orbital Starship. Elon has previously indicated that the orbital version of the Starship would be completed in June…
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Flying Taxis That’s right. In the not-so-distant future, you’ll open your ride-hailing app and, in addition to ground options like car, SUV, scooter or bicycle, you’ll see on-demand air flight. At least that’s according to the optimists at…
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A prototype device has been developed that is able to transfer heat using ‘muscles’ made from nickel-titanium. Nickel-titanium (aka nitinol) is a shape-memory material that releases heat to its surroundings when it is mechanically loaded…
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Stanford has a new measurement technique for quantum dots. Uncertainty about the quality of quantum dots are holding back the use of quantum dots. Quantum dots are strikingly defect-tolerant. The measurement technique is the first to…
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At first, the CityAirbus will be piloted, but the plan is that once assurance and trust has been sufficiently built, the air taxi would become autonomous. It all sounds remarkably futuristic for a vision that is supposed to be just six…
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French startup Stanley Robotics showed off its self-driving parking robot at Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport today. While I couldn’t be there in person, the service is going live by the end of March 2019. And here’s what it looks like. …
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A group of investors led by SoftBank Group Corp and Toyota Motor Corp is in talks to invest $1 billion or more into Uber Technologies Inc’s self-driving vehicle unit, which would value the unit at $5 billion to $10 billion, said two people…
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