Following security problems and threats of terrorism, the travel sector has had to “completely remix” its vacation destinations, reports CNBC quoting officials from one of Europe’s biggest tour operators. In the recent years, concerns over security issues and terrorism have badly hit the tourism industry. Spain and the Caribbean have now become the preferred tourist…
General Motor’s Chevy Bolts spotted cruising around mounted with autonomous technology. Just a couple of months ago General Motors acquired Cruise Automation for more than $1 billion and already it has started implementing the technology in its cars. SpiedBilde’s spy photographers have already spotted a handful of Chevy Bolts cruising around in San Francisco with…
In a widening of a scandal that has already engulfed Mitsubishi Motors, Suzuki Motor Corp said it had used improper fuel economy tests for its cars in Japan but that proper testing subsequently had shown the mileage data did not need amending. Taking responsibility for a major fuel economy scandal, the President of Mitsubishi, Tetsuro…
A Finnish company, HMD Global Oy, will now create Nokia-branded phones and tablets and such phones and tablets would be manufactured by a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Foxconn. An exclusive 10-year licensing deal with the Finnish company has been signed by Nokia , the company said. Nokia had to sell off its entire handset business to…
42 is a French school whose approach to education is very different from the rest of the pack: there is no teacher, no structured course material and no tuition fees. To graduate in software development, you will have to devote 3 to 5 years of your life. For the last three years, residents of Paris…
The Cubimorph will be presented in the upcoming International Conference on Robotics and Automation. With modular smartphones like Google’s Project Ara and FairPhone being still in the works, a group of researchers from the University of Bristol have come up with a rather cunning plan to take over the smartphone market. Scientists from the University’s…
In the future, transparent wood with grains, could become the norm. Researchers from the University of Maryland have managed to remove chemicals components from a block of wood thus making it totally transparent. The resulting material is not only more insulating than glass but also stronger and more bio-degradable. “We were very surprised by how…
A start-up aimed at making existing trucks on the road driverless has been launched by a group of former senior Google employees. Aimed to bring disruption to the long-haul trucking industry, Otto, which came out of stealth mode on Tuesday, presents a different aspect to driverless automobiles even as companies from Google to Tesla are…
The equivalent of $120 million in digital currency has been raised by an automated business run on computer code, with no human input beyond its anonymous backers. The vehicle, called The DAO, in an embodiment of an advanced idea which are automatic companies that operate without managers or boards of directors, making them the purest…
This could be a major breakthrough for quantum physics with major real world applications. It turns out that when light hits your eyeballs, spinning photons twist it in an extremely small way. In physics, the force of that spin is known as angular momentum. In quantum physics, the force of the angular momentum is a…
