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Feb 26, 2022

Tesla will allow other cars on its charging network in the U.S. but wants the government to pay for Superchargers, too

Posted by in categories: government, transportation

Tesla’s well-established Supercharger network would be a willing participant in the Infrastructure Bill’s US$7.5 billion effort to build 500,000 EV charging stations nationwide. In comments sent to the FHA, however, Tesla notes that it’d like its exclusive Supercharger stations to get the same grant treatment as any public stations it builds where non-Tesla cars can be charged.

Feb 26, 2022

Smart Factory: What It Is and the Vital Solutions You Need to Build One

Posted by in categories: food, internet, robotics/AI, sustainability

What is a smart factory? It is a shop floor that adopts smart manufacturing, manufacturing that uses technologies and solutions—like AI and IoT—arising from Industry 4.0 to optimize the production process…


Industrial revolutions then, and now

To fully grasp what smart factory is and where it’s headed, we must first understand the history of manufacturing.

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Feb 26, 2022

How Mars lost its magnetic field — and then its oceans

Posted by in categories: chemistry, space

Chemical changes inside Mars’ core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?

Feb 26, 2022

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry asks drone owners to help repel invading Russian troops

Posted by in category: drones

As battles erupt in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense appeals private drone owners to use or donate them to repel invading Russian troops.


Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has called upon citizens who own drones to use them in support of the country’s armed forces in their battle to prevent the invading Russian Army from capturing the capital, Kyiv.

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Feb 26, 2022

China’s ‘Laser Assault Rifle’ Can Silently Sear Flesh From a Half Mile Away

Posted by in category: futurism

The whole person will be set on fire.

Feb 26, 2022

James Webb Space Telescope is nearly halfway through its mirror alignment stages

Posted by in category: space

Stars are getting sharper in the James Webb Space Telescope’s field of view.

The team recently completed the third of seven planned steps to align the 18 hexagonal segments of Webb’s mirror, marking nearly the halfway point in a complex, weeks-long process.

Feb 26, 2022

Google’s Sundar Pichai Just Announced a $100 Million Educational Fund. It Might Mean the Beginning of the End for College

Posted by in categories: business, education

While college tuition rises, businesses like Google are offering their own credentials — for a lot less. It might be the educational model we’ve needed for decades.

Feb 26, 2022

Ukraine supplies 90% of U.S. semiconductor-grade neon (and what it means to chip supply chain)

Posted by in category: computing

Ukraine supplies more than 90% of the US’s semiconductor-grade neon, a gas integral to the lasers used in the chip-making process,. Now what?

Feb 26, 2022

Watch: Drones capture an epic new 360-degree video of SpaceX Starship

Posted by in categories: drones, space travel

SpaceX prepares its first orbital Starship flight.

Drone capture 360-degree video of SpaceX Starship.


SpaceX is currently developing its Starship rocket at the firm’s Starbase facility in Texas. The project could lead to a giant, fully-reusable rocket system.

Feb 26, 2022

Russia Intensifies Censorship Campaign, Pressuring Tech Giants

Posted by in category: law

Google, Apple and others were warned that they must comply with a new law, which would make them more vulnerable to the Kremlin’s censorship demands.