Self-driving vehicles have become a common sight in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there are more companies looking to deploy their autonomous vehicles to public riders in the coming months. Earlier this year, ride-hailing giant Uber, electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors and autonomous vehicle company Nuro unveiled the Lucid Gravity robotaxi, the result of
NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday that they recently agreed to conduct second-stage hot-fire tests for the company’s New Glenn rocket at the B-2 test bed at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The addendum to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed earlier this month highlights NASA’s commitment to working together
Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents: “You don’t need to type a single word.” Finally, a technology company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imagination. StoryKit was
Many years ago, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 gained notoriety when its batteries caught fire in a series of incidents. Since then there has been a steady stream of similar, albeit isolated, incidents. However, despite the high-profile coverage of batteries gone wrong, the vast majority of lithium-ion batteries are safe. The chemical reaction that occurs
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the world in February 2020, Linda Guamán, a microbiologist at the UTE University of Quito, was ready to serve her country. Ecuador announced its first case on February 29 and the disease spread rapidly. Guayaquil, the country’s largest city, was especially hard hit. Hospitals, funeral homes and mortuaries
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Navigation and Operations Technology Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities. Designed to test and validate technologies in lunar orbit, CAPSTONE launched