Technology
HTC Launches Smartphone With Bitcoin Technology
HTC launches today its newest smartphone, the EXODUS 1s. The new phone is purported to be a lower-cost version of the HTC EXODUS 1, which included a built-in hardware wallet. The EXODUS 1s, however, will include a full bitcoin node along with a hardware wallet, allowing the phone to act as a sort of cryptocurrency …
Hot car deaths rising, technology providing ways to prevent them
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)- A 1-year-old has died after being left inside a hot Jeep for most of the day on Monday. It seems like it’s happening more and more. Just this summer, Jacksonville mother has been arrested after the OnStar system in her car alerted authorities to her 1-year-old daughter trapped inside a car, in the sweltering Florida heat. The in-car vehicle …
Bill McKibben’s New Book “Falter” Explores End of Humanity
Is the human race approaching its demise? The question itself may sound hyperbolic — or like a throwback to the rapture and apocalypse. Yet there is reason to believe that such fears are no longer so overblown. The threat of climate change is forcing millions around the world to realistically confront a future in which …
Three Major Technological Changes That Are Going To Redefine The Automotive Sector And Change Our Lives
Getty Volvo has unveiled its first fully electric vehicle, and with it, an important commitment to decarbonization. The carmaker says it will bring out a new electric model every year and reduce production of traditional combustion vehicles and hybrids, so that by 2025, half of its sales will be electric, and the other half will …
Fifty-five years ago, Tokyo was already the stage for significant technological advances at the Games!
Tokyo 1964 Worldwide TV broadcasting by satellite; a big leap for the pole vault with fibre glass poles; and swimming with timing touch pads fixed to the pool walls… But also the last athletics races at the Games on a cinder track – the Games in Tokyo served as …
New Plan To Deploy Chinese Network Kit In America Is Underway
LightRocket via Getty Images The offer was first touted in mid-September and confirmed two weeks later—Huawei would be willing to license the company’s entire 5G platform to any U.S. business willing to pay the Shenzhen giant a hefty fee and invest time and resources to ready the tech for the U.S. market. A month later, …
Honda To Showcase Safety And Driver Assist Technology At ITS World Congress
Honda will showcase a its Honda Sensing technology which is a safety and driver-assistive system which includes various functions such as a Collision Mitigation Braking System, Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) system and Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) . View Photos Honda’s booth at ITS World Congress 2019 will showcase these technologies …
China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter Is Built on Stolen F-35 Technology
Key Point: Beijing has long stolen foreign technology and used it to reverse-engineer its own weapons. Photos of the J-20 provide an up close and personal look at the fuselage of the new interceptor. But the photos also appear to show a sensor system that looks awfully similar to the Lockheed Martin Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) …
Technology used to keep track safe for horses
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — We’re ten days into Keeneland’s fall meet, which means the dirt track is getting a lot of wear and tear. Variations in the track’s surface can lead to injuries. That’s where different technology comes in handy. “Once a day, they’ll go out and they’ll measure the cushion. They’ll measure the …