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  San Francisco (AFP) June 6, 2018 A flying car project backed by Google co-founder Larry Page was closer to take-off on Wednesday, with a model for test flights by aspiring buyers. Kitty Hawk, funded by Page, unveiled a "Flyer" model it described as "an exciting first step to sharing the freedom of flight." The company was created last year in Google's home town of Mountain View, California, and has been testing a prototype in New Zealand. Images and details were available at a freshly launched website at flyer.aero, and CNN ... read more |
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New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk saysWashington (AFP) June 11, 2018 An update to Tesla's Autopilot software coming in August will enable "full self-driving features" for the automaker's electric cars, chief executive Elon Musk says. ... more  
Equinor sees break-evens slashed for Johan CastbergWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Norwegian energy company Equinor said Tuesday its Johan Castberg field could be profitable so long as the price of oil is about $35 per barrel. ... more  
US launches another trade case against ChinaWashington (AFP) June 12, 2018 US President Donald Trump's Commerce Department on Tuesday announced another trade action involving Chinese imports, with producers of steel propane tanks accused of dumping and unfair subsidies. ... more  
Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite propertiesHouston TX (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Scientists led by Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered electronic properties in quantum-scale devices that are likely to impact the growing field of low-cost perovskite ... more |
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New BlackBerry phone aims to revive faded brandNew York (AFP) June 7, 2018 There's a new BlackBerry smartphone, the latest effort to revive the once-dominant brand. ... more 
London hopes for bright tech future despite BrexitLondon (AFP) June 13, 2018 London has a bright tech future post-Brexit working closely with other European capitals but the government should open up more to immigration, London Mayor Sadiq Khan told AFP. ... more 
China's Ant Financial raises $14bn to become biggest fintech firmShanghai (AFP) June 8, 2018 Chinese digital payments giant Ant Financial said Friday it had raised $14 billion in its latest financing round, making it the world's largest fintech company ahead of an expected mammoth IPO. ... more 
Germany hits Mercedes with mass diesel recallFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) June 12, 2018 Germany ordered Monday the recall of some 774,000 vehicles from Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler across Europe, citing illegal "defeat devices" designed to conceal high levels of harmful emissions from regulators' tests. ... more 
Gazprom Neft reports record dividend yieldWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Coming off a record-setting year in terms of income, Russian oil company Gazprom Neft's chairman said shareholders are now reaping the rewards. ... more |
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Economic recovery for OPEC-member Angola shakyWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Economic recovery for Angola, an OPEC member coping with declining production, is progressing but it's still uncertain over the long term, the International Monetary Fund found. ... more  |
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APICORP: Venezuela is the biggest risk for OPECWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 The biggest risks to the OPEC-led effort to stabilize the oil market are outside the Middle East and North African region, an Arab investment bank found. ... more 
High gas prices influencing consumer habitsWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Consumer demand for gasoline might be on the decline as retail gasoline prices in the United States remain stubbornly high, sector analysis finds. ... more 
Economic data overshadows Trump-Kim meeting for oilWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Uncertainty about global oil demand and an increase in U.S. fuel prices overshadowed U.S-North Korean talks to push oil prices slightly lower early Tuesday. ... more 
MIT study helps driverless cars change lanes more like humans doBoston MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on de ... more 
Self-driving cars must reduce traffic fatalities by at least 75 percent to stay on the roadsWashington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 The race is on for companies to present their driverless cars to the public, but recent collisions involving autonomous vehicles developed by Uber Technologies Inc. and Tesla Inc. have led consumers ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Fossil fuel stocks have long been a safe financial bet. With the International Energy Agency projecting price rises until 2040, and governments prevaricating or rowing back on the Paris Agreement, investor confidence is set to remain high.
However, new research suggests that the momentum behind technological change in the global power and transportation sectors will lead to a dramatic decl ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
A Rutgers-led team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power electronics and, potentially, quantum computing that would be far faster than today's computers.
Their findings, which involved using a special mix of materials with magnetic and insulator properties, are published online in Nature Physics. ... more |
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 Tallinn (AFP) June 1, 2018 
A state-owned Estonian wind farm launched a cryptocurrency mine on Friday, hoping to cash-in on Mother Nature's unlimited supplies of power on a windswept Baltic Sea island, a company official said.
Mining virtual currencies, like bitcoin, ethereum or ripple, requires powerful computers that are voracious users of electricity, making it uneconomical to mine without a cheap source of energy l ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
Will you ever be able to charge your mobile device, car and even clothing with flexible solar cells? Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and Universite de Montreal are studying whether the now-experimental technology could someday be mass-produced and commercialized, and some of the issues that have to be resolved, including the environmental impact.
For the electronic cells to be v ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Milk in parts of Ukraine has radioactivity levels up to five times over the country's official safe limit, new research shows.
Scientists from the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter and the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology sampled cow's milk from private farms and homes in the Rivne region, about 200km from the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plan ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Someday, the gasoline you buy might trace its heritage to carbon dioxide pulled straight out of the sky rather than from oil pumped out of the ground. By removing emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turning it into fresh fuels, engineers at a Canadian firm have demonstrated a scalable and cost-effective way to make deep cuts in the carbon footprint of transportation with minimal disru ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 11, 2018 
Dozens of French farmers blocked access to 13 refineries across the country on Monday to protest plans to import palm oil for use in biofuels, a move they denounce as unfair competition which jeopardises their livelihood.
Energy giant Total wants to import up to 300,000 tons a year of palm oil, which environmental advocates say has caused massive deforestation chiefly in southeast Asia.
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 Johannesburg (AFP) June 13, 2018 
The South African government said Wednesday that the national state of disaster it declared in March over a drought that ravaged parts of the country had lapsed after significant rainfall.
The three-year drought hit Cape Town particularly hard, threatening to leave residents of the country's second largest city without drinking water.
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 Beijing (AFP) June 6, 2018 
Rescuers pulled 23 workers out of a mine in northeast China on Wednesday, hours after they were trapped underground by an explosion that killed 11 and left two others missing, state media reported.
Nine other workers were injured in Tuesday's blast at the iron ore mine owned by Huamei Group, a subsidiary of China National Coal Group Co, in Benxi, Liaoning province.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6.
The Aerospace Information Research Institute said the Miyun station of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station received the first batch of observation data from the Gaofen-6 satellite. There was ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 12, 2018 
The United States government has approved a deal to sell the Indian military six AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for $930 million, the State Department said Tuesday.
The agreement has been passed to the US Congress for approval, but if no US lawmaker raises an objection the contract is expected to go ahead.
Boeing and Indian partner Tata have begun to produce Apache fuselages at a plant ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyze on the fly; or they're so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decis ... more |
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 Green Bank WV (SPX) Jun 13, 2018 
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the exact source of a peculiar type of faint microwave light emanating from a number of regions across the Milky Way. Known as anomalous microwave emission (AME), this light comes from energy released by rapidly spinning nanoparticles - bits of matter so small that they defy detection by ordinary microscopes. (The period on an average printed page is ap ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 
Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are single atom layers that can be stacked together like "nano-interlocking building blocks."
Materials scientists and physicists are excited about the properties of 2-D materials and their potential applications. The researchers descri ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 28, 2018 
Dutch students due to compete in Elon Musk's high-speed 'Hyperloop' challenge this July subjected their motor module to near-vacuum conditions within ESA's technical heart.
The Delft Hyperloop team at Delft University of Technology is one of 20 finalists selected to compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 3 on 22 July.
The team visited ESA's Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Neth ... more |
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 Strasbourg, France (AFP) June 12, 2018  The European Parliament has told its lawmakers and staff to set an example for EU citizens by no longer drinking water from plastic bottles by next year.
The European Parliament bureau headed by Antonio Tajani and 14 vice presidents adopted a measure late Monday to phase out the plastic bottles and build a network of drinking fountains.
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