The Royal Navy Is Testing Using Jet Suits to Fight High-Seas Piracy
The Royal Navy Is Testing Using Jet Suits to Fight High-Seas Piracy
The British Royal Navy has apparently been testing using jet suits to board ships like a scene out of some scrapped Christopher Nolan film, according to a new video released by UK-based Gravity Industries. Business Insider writes that the tests were conducted over three days on the HMS Tamar, a Royal Navy Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol ship…
Electric Cars ‘Will Be Cheaper to Produce Than Fossil Fuel Vehicles by 2027’
Electric cars and vans will be cheaper to produce than conventional, fossil fuel-powered vehicles by 2027, and tighter emissions regulations could put them in pole position to dominate all new car sales by the middle of the next decade, research has found…
IBM Says It Has Created the World’s First 2nm Chip
IBM claims it has taken a major step forward in chip technology by making the first 2nm chip. The company says it has squeezed 50 billion transistors onto a chip the size of one’s fingernail…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Lands Starship Spacecraft in First Full Successful Test Flight
Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally stuck the landing of one of its Starship spacecraft prototypes Wednesday, a key milestone in the test program and a dramatic statement coming just two weeks after NASA chose the vehicle to fly its astronauts to the surface of the moon…
Bentley Will Electrify Its Cars Starting 2025
Luxury car brand Bentley plans to phase internal combustion engines out this decade. It has set 2025 as the year it will fully embrace electric power, CAR Magazine reports…
Hologram Experts Can Now Create Real-Life Images That Move in the Air
They may be tiny weapons, but Brigham Young University’s holography research group has figured out how to create lightsabers—green for Yoda and red for Darth Vader, naturally—with actual luminous beams rising from them…
Rockley Photonics to Deliver Glucose Monitoring for Apple Smartwatches
Rockley Photonics, which recently announced a $1.2 billion listing on the New York Stock Exchange via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), is thought to be developing advanced health monitoring features for smartwatches including for Apple…