CULVER CITY, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 21, 2017 - Building a new 700mph transport system sounds pretty tricky, so one Hyperloop company has decided to kick things off by building the passenger pods first.
Hyperloop is a proposed plan to transport people or cargo between cities at near-supersonic speed in vacuum-sealed pods.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (PNN) - March 20, 2017 - Robot police were once sci-fi fantasy, but soon the real thing will be patrolling the streets of Dubai.
While the original RoboCop from the 1987 film, a superhuman cyborg law enforcer, could hunt down murderous criminals, the real-life version will be tackling more straightforward misdemeanors.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (PNN) - March 3, 2017 - In an era when humans are taking from the Earth much more than they’re giving, it’s important that developers continue to create sustainable solutions that the globe is facing or will face in the near future. The water crisis that is impacting the whole planet, caused primarily by climate change and overpopulation, calls for new ways to produce water even when traditional natural resources are scarce so that people don’t die of dehydration.
Three of them may be habitable.
HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - February 23, 2017 - Planet-hunters are always on the lookout for worlds that look like Earth - rocky planets that are not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to flow on the surface. Now scientists have hit the jackpot, discovering seven Earth-size exoplanets orbiting a single star just 39 light-years away.
WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 7, 2017 - Vizio, one of the world's biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people watching them.
Electromagnetic pulse weapons are often cited by the Prepper community as a potential threat to our nation. But are they to be taken seriously?
LONDON, England (PNN) - February 8, 2017 - A study by a British think tank Reform says that 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion per year.
Latest technological innovations from the annual Consumer and Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
CANBERRA, Australia (PNN) - February 1, 2017 - Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene - a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the much-touted nanomaterial.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (PNN) - February 1, 2017 - Itron’s Wi-Fi smart meters are being installed in homes across the globe. Iltron's "OpenWay CENTRON”, and its EM420i modular smart meters, are a privacy nightmare.
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