… Read More → "Tesla’s Supercharger network goes live in six California towns, encourages EV road trips"Time to go on that great California road trip, Tesla owners; the EV maker has just launched new Superchargers in six Golden State locations: Folsom Premium Outlets, Harris Ranch in Coalinga, Gilroy Premium Outlets, Barstow, Tejon Ranch in Lebec and Hawthorne.
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The team at Scaled Composites have installed SpaceShipTwo’s oxidizer tank, a key component that puts Virgin Galactic on track to make the spacecraft’s first powered flight by the end of the year.
Spacecraft like SpaceShipTwo need an oxidizer tank because there isn’t enough oxygen at the upper reaches of the atmosphere and basically none in space to allow for combustion in its rocket motor. Like the … Read More → "SpaceShipTwo on track for powered flight this year"
Moogfest isn’t happening for another week, but the synth-maker couldn’t wait to take the wraps off of its latest bit of technology. Still in the early days of beta-testing ,the LEV-96 is a far cry from the classic analog instruments we’ve come to associate with Moog. The company is showing off the sensoriactuator in its early stages by affixing it to a guitar, with two pickup … Read More → "Moog shows off LEV-96 sensoriactuator prototype on an acoustic guitar"
Samuel J. Seymour appeared on the TV show I’ve Got A Secret in 1956. Now, nearly 150 years after the event, YouTube has the record of a person (a child at the time), who was at Ford’s Theater the night that President Lincoln was shot and killed.
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In Mark Andreessen’s words, software is “eating the world.” Everywhere you look, software is transforming industries and increasing efficiency. Well, not everywhere.
As Washington Post columnist Stephen Pearlstein noted in a recent piece, productivity gains have materialized in some areas more than others:
While the income of both sets of workers has risen, more people are now employed in the service sector while fewer are making goods. Significantly, a big price gap has opened—the prices of goods are … Read More → "Can software eat the deficit?"
Passengers aboard an Air Canada flight to Sydney enjoyed an unusual experience as they arrived Down Under — participating in a search-and-rescue mission to find a sailor stranded off the coast of Australia.
Air Canada Flight AC033 was nearing the end of its 16-hour flight from Vancouver when it got a call from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Tuesday morning. Officials needed help locating a sailor who had issued a distress call. They’ … Read More → "Air Canada pilots, passengers spot sailor stranded at sea"
This is a terrible, terrible idea. It is, or rather could be, a bridge in Paris (called “A Bridge in Paris”) that’s made of inflatable tubing and three giant interconnected trampolines. It’ll never happen, because people would sue the berets off of anyone who put it up for the injuries that would ensue, but wow, I want this to be real.
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Oracle boss Larry Ellison wanted to make the America’s Cup as exciting as Nascar. He’s succeeded.
His team, the defending champs at Oracle Team USA, capsized one of its wickedly fast AC72 catamarans in San Francisco Bay on Tuesday during the team’s eighth day on the water, then scrambled to keep it from drifting out to sea.
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