“If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beasts… His number is 666.” — Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verse 18
2electron McFly: Electric bike tech emulates petrol engine of your choice
Electric bike tech firm, 2electron, have been working on further developing their McFly system, which emulates the power and torque characteristics, gear ratios, sound and vibration of a potentially infinite number of internal combustion engine-powered motorbikes.
Lucid beyond 500 miles, Nikola electric garbage trucks, Tesla in Korea: Today’s Car News
Lucid blasts past the 500-mile range barrier. Nikola Motors announces the largest order of tailpipe-emissions-free garbage trucks, but hydrogen isn’t part of it. And South Korea is angling to exclude Tesla. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
Main Belt asteroid Psyche might be the remnant of a planet that never fully formed
New 2-D and 3-D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile. Knowing this will be critical to NASA’s forthcoming asteroid mission, Psyche: Journey to a Metal World, that […]
Classifying galaxies with artificial intelligence
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images. This technique, in combination with citizen science, is expected to yield further discoveries in the […]
Nvidia announces GeForce event for September 1st with RTX 3080 rumors abound
Nvidia started teasing a big GeForce GPU announcement yesterday, and now the company says it has an event planned for September 1st. The graphics card maker will broadcast the event, featuring Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, at 9AM PT / 12PM ET on September 1st. Nvidia says “Huang will […]
Google tests new profile cards that let you add yourself to search results
Google is testing a new user-created public profile system called “people cards,” which will let users create their own profile (including their job, links to their social media platforms, a brief bio, and more) that will appear directly in Google search results. It’s similar to how celebrities and businesses already […]
Video of the Day: Car commercials of the ‘50s and ‘60s
The post-war boom was defined in most respects by the roaring success of the auto industry, when chrome was king and an automobile was presented as an artistic showpiece.
Used car sector begins to recover following near-50% drop
Sales dropped heavily during lockdown, but reopening of dealerships has fuelled demand