I have nothing against Google’s Meet videoconferencing platform — I’ve even used it a couple of times with relatives — but I can’t help being annoyed when the feature is pushed at me via other apps. Specifically, Gmail. Meet first appeared on the desktop Gmail app last spring, but it […]
2020 Nissan Qashqai: closest look yet at upcoming SUV
The third generation of Nissan’s class-defining SUV is nearing completion ahead of launch later this year
Watch live: Slooh livestreams the Perseid meteor shower Wednesday @ 7 pm ET
Video courtesy of Slooh. Visit Slooh.com to snap and share your own photos from this live event, and interact with our hosts and guests, and personally control Slooh’s telescopes.
Watch live tonight: Perseid meteor shower webcasts
The annual Perseid meteor shower, one of the best “shooting star” displays of the year, peaks overnight tonight (Aug. 11-12). Skywatchers with clear, dark skies can expect to see about 60 meteors per hour.
Devilish delight: U.S. 191 in eastern Arizona
“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 […]