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Jul 13, 2018

Opener: We are a fast-growing company with a single lofty goal: to bring personal aviation to the general public

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Innovating at the leading edge of electric aviation technology, we have developed BlackFly, the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing VTOL personal aircraft.

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Jul 12, 2018

Chinese cities will soon get thousands of self-driving buses

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This is the 427 service to the future of transport.

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Jul 12, 2018

Flying Trains Could Be Coming Your Way

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A French firm has designed an airplane with removable wings that it’s presenting to Boeing, Asia to cut Europe dependence.

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Jul 11, 2018

7 experimental aircraft tested by NASA

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These experiments paved the way for today’s most advanced aircraft.

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Jul 11, 2018

How all your wheels are going to change

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It’s not just your car’s wheel that’s getting an upgrade. From bikes to NASA rovers, there’s a wheel of the future for everyone.

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Jul 10, 2018

This Robotic Assistant Will Also Give You A Ride

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This robotic assistant is also a self-driving bike.

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Jul 10, 2018

This concept car has built-in AI to keep you safe

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The Toyota Concept-i has a built in AI technology to keep you safe and wants to be your friend. (via CNBC)

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Jul 9, 2018

Generating electrical power from waste heat

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Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn’t so easy.

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tiny -based that can harness what was previously called waste and turn it into DC power. Their advance was recently published in Physical Review Applied.

“We have developed a new method for essentially recovering energy from . Car engines produce a lot of heat and that heat is just waste, right? So imagine if you could convert that engine heat into for a hybrid car. This is the first step in that direction, but much more work needs to be done,” said Paul Davids, a physicist and the principal investigator for the study.

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Jul 9, 2018

Blockchain for IoT: A Big Idea Meets Hard Design Questions

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Cut through the tantalizing visions of cars with wallets trading with each other, and you’ll find debates taking shape over nitty-gritty details.

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Jul 7, 2018

China VC has overtaken Silicon Valley, but do aggregate numbers tell the whole story?

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The evidence is increasingly clear: 2018 is the year of the Chinese venture deal.

With half of the year now complete, China is driving ahead of Silicon Valley and the rest of the United States on venture capital dollars invested into startups, according to a number of data sources including Crunchbase, China Money Network, and Pitchbook.

These sorts of top line numbers are always driven by large deals, and the Chinese VC market is no exception. Monster rounds this year have included a $1.9 billion investment from Softbank Vision Fund into Manbang Group, a truck hailing startup formed from the merger of two competitors, Yumanman and Huochebang, as well as Ant Financial, which raised a whopping $14 billion from investors.

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