Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle will be tasked with taking tourists to the edge of space, something I like to call a space taxi. The reusable spacecraft will enable the tourists to float around weightless for a few minutes before taking the paying customers back down. While the rocket has been launched and landed a […]
Read MoreNorway’s top coastal agency has some big aspirations. In an effort to make Norway’s Stad Peninsula coastline less dangerous, which is characterized by tumultuous waters, the agency has proposed building a tunnel for ships. And not just any old tunnel, a $272 million, 150 foot-tall, 118 foot-wide, mile-long tunnel for commercial vessels to utilize for safety. […]
Read MoreAlaska Airlines, which actually calls Seattle home, acquired Virgin America for $2.6 billion last year in a move designed to ramp up its Californian presence. However, the company recently announced that it will kill off the Virgin brand name in 2019. In an effort to up its own offering, Alaska Airlines still plans to utilize […]
Read MoreIn case you missed the latest rocket launch from United Launch Alliance this past weekend, we’ve got you covered. The launch was successful on Saturday night, with the rocket responsible for carrying a $424 million military communications satellite into orbit. ULA has plans for another launch this week, this time for International Space Station supplies […]
Read MoreOh Canada! The country is finally getting its own spaceport, meaning it no longer has to ship rockets all the way to Virginia to launch them. Canadian space transport company, Maritime Launch Services, has announced plans to construct a spaceport in the town of Canso, on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. While the spaceport […]
Read MoreNvidia officially has a go-to-market strategy for its self-driving hardware and software platform, Drive PX 2 driver-assist. The company unveiled in a press release that it is partnering with Bosch, joining ZF as the two tier-one suppliers responsible for distributing Nvidia’s technology to automakers. Nvidia’s self-driving tech utilizes “deep learning” AI which essentially means it […]
Read MoreThe new Volvo XC60 is loaded with all types of sweet features. It comes with new driver-assist tech, a myriad of powertrains, and a T8 hybrid with 407 horsepower. But it also happens to be safe. Like really, really safe… And to prove it, the Volvo XC60 recently went through a whole slew of crazy […]
Read MoreWe hear so much about Elon Musk and SpaceX that it’s easy to forget about Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin. However, Bezos turned heads recently by telling The Washington Post that Blue Origin has interest in the moon. Bezos has asked NASA to back an “Amazon-like shipment service for the moon that would deliver gear […]
Read MoreFirst, Amazon patents an idea to have a massive flying warehouse that deploys drones to deliver packages and now this! Ford unveiled its ‘Autolivery’ concept at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, which plans to utilize electric, self-driving vans together with drones in order to deliver packages to hard-to-reach areas in urban environments. The main […]
Read MoreSpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced the private space company will be involved in an unprecedented mission set to take place very soon. In Late 2018, SpaceX will launch two private citizens around the moon aboard a spaceship which is set to carry out its first unmanned test flight later this year. The tourists “have […]
Read MoreAccording to scientists, the global potential of wave energy is more than 500 GW of renewable energy. Today, wave energy is being developed so that within a few decades it will represent 10% of global energy supply. The current global installed capacity of wind is 360 GW, and solar power is 150 GW. Huge WaveRollers: […]
Read MoreElon Musk and SpaceX are starting to make landing a Falcon 9 rocket look easy. Something which was unfathomable only a couple of years ago is now becoming the new normal. And with each successful SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landing, we are getting new vantage points, the latest being a drone’s eye view of the […]
Read MoreIn 2018, GM is planning to construct thousands of autonomous chevy bolts, many of which will be utilized in test fleets by Lyft. Recently, GM has been testing a number of its self-driving vehicles on public streets, most notably throughout San Francisco, with the company’s Cruise Automation technology built in. Ultimately, with Lyft unleashing a […]
Read MoreThis past Wednesday, India absolutely obliterated all previous records for launching satellites into space at one time. Russia was the previous record holder after sending 37 satellites into orbit at once back in 2014. However, the Indian Space Research Organization is much more interested in boosting its space program than setting records, with goals to […]
Read MoreFrench, German, Spanish, and UK military and defense officials have been negotiating with Airbus Defense & Space as they look for delivery of tactical versions of the A400M military transport/cargo plane. There has recently been some angst over the inability of Airbus to deliver the AQ400M in anything other than the basic version of the […]
Read MoreDodge’s new Officer Protection Package is specifically designed to keep officers from being ambushed from behind when sitting in a parked squad vehicle. The company is repurposing existing technology in its Dodge Charger Pursuit police cars that enables rear-facing ultrasonic parking sensors to be activated by flicking on the protection feature. Essentially, the sensors can […]
Read MoreUber announced it would be partnering with Daimler, the German automaker behind the Mercedes-Benz, for its next round of autonomous cars. Not only does this mean the self-driving vehicles won’t be owned by Uber, it also represents the possibility that the first autonomous vehicle you hail from the taxi app will be a Mercedes. “We […]
Read MoreThe nation’s largest offshore wind farm, 30 miles southeast of Montauk Point, has secured approval from the Long Island Power Authority. “For all the environmental groups, this project is very exciting and we want to see it be a success story,” says Neal Lewis, executive director of the Sustainability Institute at Molloy College. Operated by […]
Read MoreIn an effort to make ‘green’ beer, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is now using Tesla batteries, in conjunction with solar power and a microturbine generator in the company’s brewing process. In fact, Sierra Nevada has installed a 1MWh Tesla Powerpack battery system at its Chico, California facility, which draws power from an existing 10,751-panel, […]
Read MoreFor a motorcycle collector, a bike with zero miles on it is an absolute gem, which is the case for a Harley Davidson MT500 military motorcycle about to be auctioned off in Las Vegas. The bike itself is only one of 500 in existence, produced in Harley’s York, Pennsylvania factory from 1993-2000, making the MT500 […]
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