Innovation California Is Installing Chargers for a Type of Electric Car Dec 11, 2018 Jumping the Gun California is bending over backward to support electric vehicles — so much so that it’s setting up the infrastructure for…
Innovation Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s “Epic Rap Battle,” Explained Dec 11, 2018 From 810 Epic Rap Battles of History, the YouTube channel famous for pitting historical figures against each other in fictionalized rap battles,…
Innovation People Are Refusing to Use Self-Checkout Because It’ll “Kill Jobs” Dec 10, 2018 Fighting The Tide A new story by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation looks at a group of people who are fighting the future: shoppers who refuse…
Innovation Waymo’s Self-Driving Taxi Service Signals Rough Roads Ahead for AVs Dec 9, 2018 Cold Start Self-driving vehicle company Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project, has been making steady progress with its vehicles for…
Innovation People With Paralysis Control the Robot Waiters at This Cafe Dec 8, 2018 People with paralysis are finding their way back into the workforce — thanks to a four-foot-tall robot. On November 26, a pop-up cafe unlike any…
Innovation At DFW Airport, your face could someday replace your boarding pass Dec 8, 2018 Credit: CC0 Public Domain On a recent weekday morning, hundreds of passengers lined up at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to board Japan…
Innovation Rich People are Protecting Their Homes With Surveillance Drones Dec 8, 2018 Pollen Jockeys The bougie homes of the future may find themselves guarded by high-tech, defensive Sunflowers and Bees. Those are the brand names of…
Innovation New traffic rules in ‘Graphene City’ Dec 7, 2018 In the drive to find new ways to extend electronics beyond the use of silicon, physicists are experimenting with other properties of electrons,…
Innovation California Now Requires Solar Panels on All New Homes Dec 7, 2018 Going Solar It’s official: any new homes built in California after 2020 will have to be at least partially solar powered. The California Building…
Innovation Looking past the hype about trackless trams Dec 7, 2018 CRRC’s version of the optically guided bus, now operating in Zhuzhou, is more like light rail than its predecessors. Credit: CRRC The optically…