In what the Los Angeles company developing the technology said was the first successful test of a futurist transit system called hyperloop, a car-sized sled powered by electromagnets rocketed to more than 100 miles (160 kph) an hour through the Nevada desert. Elon Musk, the founder of rocket maker SpaceX and electric car company Tesla…
A world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans is what Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for. The world’s largest producers of broadband network equipment and smartphones are what Huawei is best known for. But the company used science fiction movies like “The Matrix” to envision…
Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged that technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyber heist which left the Bangladesh’s central bank more vulnerable, reports the Reuters. Mohammad Shah Alam, the head of the criminal investigation department of the…
Tesla’s air filters can clean polluted air 83% times dirtier than the quality of air the EPA considers good. When Tesla had disclosed that it’s Model X and eventually its Model S cars would be fitted with HEPA filters that would be so effective so as to protect against bioweapons, consumers and car enthusiasts welcomed…
Customised interface has tied McLaren’s F1 supercar to a decade old laptop. Thankfully, it’s working on an upgraded version. Although many organisations tend to cling on to old technologies to keep their business going, perhaps following the saying that if something does not breakdown, don’t touch it. As per a Jalopnik tour, McLaren, is heavily…
For those who are plan on being at the event, the app will help you familiarise with the location before your actual date of travel. As you may be well aware of, Google Maps not only provide the outer locations of major attractions, but also their indoor views. Before the commencement of the Olympic games…
As per the boy’s father, Jani and his twin brothers are adept at finding security holes in websites which are supposedly secure. According to a report from Mashable, a ten year old kid from Finland made by the headlines having won the $10,000 bug bounty from Facebook, after he figured out a way to delete…
BMW set to flaunt its hybrid technologies in the next avatar of its i8. First introduced in 2014, BMW’s i8 is now scheduled for its first update. You can avail of the new version from dealers from late 2017 onwards; its hybrid powertrain will receive a host of improvements. As per a report emanating from…
By just replacing the front wheel of your bike with one from GeoOrbital’s, you can convert your regular bike into an e-bike that can travel up to 20mph for the next 50 miles. While electric bikes have been around for decades, they have not managed to make any inroad into the mainstream and have instead…
Fiscal constraints have primarily caused this delay. Both nations have now scheduled their respective launches for 2020, instead of 2018. Although the first part of Russian and European ExoMars missions have gone as per schedule, the follow up second part is now seeing some delay. Now both nations have announced that they will be launching…
