Tech giants including Alphabet and IBM are racing toward building a quantum computer, and financial firms including JPMorgan are exploring possible uses.
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Self-Driving Truck Completes 950-Mile Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver
TuSimple, a transportation company focusing on driverless tech for trucks, recently transported a load of products with its autonomous truck systems.
The road to fully autonomous trucks is a long and winding one, but it’s not an impossible one, and it seems to be in closer reach than fully self-driving cars.
The company in charge of the feat was TuSimple, a transportation company focusing on driverless tech for trucks. Eighty percent of the journey, or 950 miles (1,528 km), was driven by the autonomous system, with a human at the wheel for the other 20 percent of the cross-country trip, and at-the-ready to take over the wheel if anything faulted with the technology.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole Is The Deepest Vertical Borehole In The World
Back in the 1970s, the Soviet Union began an ambitious project to drill down 15 km. Whilst they didn’t succeed, the Kole Superdeep Borehole is still the deepest vertical borehole in the world.
