Elon Musk finally made it: his Hyperloop is starting to take its first steps. The first test stretch (about 10 km) in California is under construction. It is located in Quay Valley, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will carry 10 million people in its initial phase for the next two and a half years. In the prototype trains, passengers will reach a speed no higher than 260 km per hour in this initial phase, but in some… Read more
Economies of scale and new production technologies promise to significantly reduce electric car prices in the short term.
LED displays and audio signals, the autonomous vehicles will "speak" to pedestrians to signal their presence and interact.
Giove, an advanced predictive policing tool, promises to transform the fight against crime in Italy thanks to AI. Privacy permitting.
Echo is an autonomous tricycle that seems to have come out of a dystopian future. Yet it may not be far-fetched in cities of the coming 30s.
A fleet of interceptors, special catamarans that sift plastic from rivers: this is how The Ocean Cleanup fights pollution with the help of AI
From the conversion of productions to the discovery of live performances, up to the recovery of habits of past generations, here is how companies are changing to reach customers in an economy undergoing profound transformation.
David Sretavan, professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, studies how to repair damage to the optic nerve caused by glaucoma, a disorder that causes irreversible blindness and affects approximately 70 million individuals worldwide. Glaucoma is a disorder that arises from a complex of causes without an apparent trigger. We try to monitor its possible onset by measuring the pressure of the eyeball, but the rapid and frequent fluctuations of ... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg responded enthusiastically to the question of whether Facebook is currently working on augmented reality projects. When asked during a convention in San Francisco, the young SEO simply replied "Yes". Facebook's intentions had appeared clear since the purchase of Oculus, the start-up that currently produced one of the best virtual reality devices. And the words used by Michael Abrash, head of the Oculus project, leave no room for doubt: virtual reality is on the home stretch. There is … Read more
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