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Amazon on Thursday launched a range of new products aimed at integrating itsAlexa voice-enabled assistant into people's everyday lives, including a microwave, wall clock and car device. The event, held at the company's headquarters in Seattle, marked the most significant move yet by Amazon to become an industry leader in smart-home technology. The company said it unveiled more than 70 new...
Elon Musk's SpaceX welcomes Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and an entourage of artists as its first BFR spaceship moon tourists.  SpaceX has been talking up its plans to shoot tourists around the moon since early 2017. The vision's finally starting to feel a little more real, as Musk announced the company's first paying passenger on Monday. The deep-pocketed space explorer is Yusaku Maezawa,...
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Two trains built by the French train maker Alstom are now operating on a 62 mile stretch of line in northern Germany Germany has rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology. Two bright blue Coradia iLint trains, built by French TGV-maker Alstom,...
On a clear autumn day, the panoramic view from atop the unfinished Gerald Desmond Replacement Bridge alongside Long Beach harbor is as stunning as the construction below. By the time the $1.5 billion cable-stayed bridge is complete, laborers will have laid 300,000 cubic feet of concrete, equal to about 60.6 million gallons, and erected more than 90 million pounds of steel and...
LOS ANGELES • Apple Inc, the world's most valuable company, said proposed United States tariffs on US$200 billion (S$275 billion) worth of products imported from China will raise prices for some of its popular consumer goods such as the Apple Watch and AirPods headphones. The Mac mini desktop computer, Apple Pencil stylus accessory for iPads, various chargers and adaptors, as...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is starting to earnestly evaluate space resources for future mining. Since its establishment in the 1870s, the USGS has focused pretty much solely on Earth. But now it's also investigating what benefits may or may not exist in tapping extraterrestrial water, minerals and metals. The agency seeks to portray accurately how humanity could exploit off-Earth assets —...
Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses soundwaves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity. This technique could enable the manufacture of many new biopharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food, and expand the possibilities of optical and conductive materials. “By harnessing acoustic forces, we have created a new technology that enables myriad...
Alternatives to the toxic chemicals traditionally used for de-icing airplane wings and helicopter rotor blades have long been sought. To that end we've seen ideas like this graphene-based coating that heats up when subjected to an electrical current, but airlines aren't super keen on such active heating systems due to cost and safety concerns. Now researchers at MIT have come up...
Nestle the world's largest food company, has joined the trend for personalised nutrition with a blend of artificial intelligence, DNAtesting and the modern obsession with Instagramming food. The program, which began in Japan, could provide the Swiss company with a wealth of data about customers' wellness and diet as it pivots towards consumers who are seeking to improve their health and longevity. In Japan, some 100,000 users of...