Fitting Cats With Geolocating Backpacks Shows There Is a Dark Outcome to Letting Them Out – This Week in Tech
Fitting Cats With Geolocating Backpacks Shows There Is a Dark Outcome to Letting Them Out
Your pet cat might enjoy a romp in the yard, but local wildlife won’t be so thrilled. Cats kill up to ten times more wildlife than a comparable predator in the wild, according to a new study…
Elon Musk’s Battery Farm Is an Undeniable Success
More than two years after winning an electricity bet, Elon Musk’s resulting Australian solar and wind farm is an almost total success. The facility powers rural South Australia, whose population density falls between Wyoming and Alaska, the two least dense U.S. states…
A Brainless, Single-Celled Organism Called Slime Mold Has Inspired an Algorithm That’s Helping Astronomers Map the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe’s Dark Matter
A brainless, single-celled organism with a knack for finding food is helping astronomers study the largest, most mysterious structure in the universe — the cosmic web. But first, things could get a bit slimy…
Italian Hospital Saves Covid-19 Patients Lives by 3D Printing Valves for Reanimation Devices
Many have been asking what the implications of the current Covid-19 pandemic are going to be on additive manufacturing as an industry. The relationship between coronavirus and 3D printing is not entirely clear, mostly because we are very far from understanding what the long, medium and even short terms implications of the pandemic are going to be on global supply chains…
Amazon Offers Cashierless Tech to Rival Retailers
Amazon on Monday began offering its “just walk out” technology to other retailers in a move aimed at boosting the use of the cashierless store system…
Tesla Just Made Its One Millionth Car
Tesla has produced one million electric cars, the company’s CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter. Musk made the announcement by sharing a picture of the car, a red Model Y, and congratulated the Tesla team on hitting the milestone. It’s a significant moment for an automaker that was only founded in 2003…
2020 iPhone Could Include a 3D Camera System
The triple-lens camera on Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro was a huge photography improvement for the smartphone maker when it was announced last September. Now it seems that the latest photography innovation from Apple could come in the form of a 3D camera…