Apple last week released the first beta of iOS 15.4 to developers and public beta users. The update, which comes with multiple new features, hints at some welcome changes coming to Safari. More specifically, Apple is finally working to enable push notifications for web apps on iOS, as well as the WebXR API for AR/VR headset support.
As noted by developer Maximiliano Firtman, iOS 15.4 beta…
Elon Musk gave an update on his expected timeline for Tesla achieving Full Self-Driving capability, and he now says that he would be “shocked” if Tesla does not achieve “Full Self-Driving safer than human this year.”
We have heard that before.
Since back in 2018…
The most expensive electric vehicles on the road in 2022
January 31, 2022
Entering 2022, electric vehicle sales continue to boom. Nearly all legacy automakers have set end dates for manufacturing new combustion vehicles and have begun introducing all-electric options into their fleets more and more. This year alone, the world will see over twenty…
Tesla expands program to open Supercharger network to electric cars from other automakers in Norway and France
January 31, 2022
Tesla has officially expanded its pilot program to open Superchargers to electric vehicles from other manufacturers in Norway and France.
Over the last year, we have been reporting on Tesla ramping up its effort to open the Supercharger network, its extensive global network of fast-charging stations, to electric vehicles from other automakers.
In November 2021, we saw Tesla take the first step…
First ride: Taking a spin in the Eli ZERO not-a-car electric car
January 31, 2022
It’s not every day you get the chance to go for a few hot laps in a funky new electric mini-car. But when fate calls, you answer. And that’s just what I did recently on a trip to Milan when the Eli team nervously let me borrow their only prototype vehicle. I wasn’t…
Union Pacific buys ten more all-electric locomotives, this time from Caterpillar Inc.’s Progress Rail, investing over $100 million in total
January 31, 2022
Following recent news of the purchase of ten electric locomotives from Wabtec, Union Pacific railroad has followed up by purchasing another ten from Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Inc. company. Union Pacific’s combined electric locomotive purchases and upgrades to its rail…
NIO rolls first ET5 validation prototypes off assembly line, makes moves to enter Danish market in 2022
January 31, 2022
Chinese EV automaker NIO, recently shared images of production line verification prototypes of its upcoming ET5 sedan that recently rolled out at its facility in Hefei. The ET5 will arrive this fall beginning in China, although it should eventually see other markets as well. One of those markets could be Denmark, which sits as one of several new countries NIO intends to sell its EVs in, beginning…
Canada’s Largest News Agency Moves Exclusively to Sony Cameras
January 31, 2022
The Canadian Press, the largest news organization in Canada, has announced that it would be switching its journalists entirely over to Sony camera equipment. Sony will become the exclusive imaging products provider for the media company.
Canada’s Largest Media…
Camera on North Korean Missile Captures Earth from Space
January 31, 2022
North Korea’s official state media has released a set of photos captured from space that it says were taken from a camera mounted on one of its missiles designed to deliver a nuclear warhead.
Taken from a Missle Capable of Carrying a Nuclear Payload
The photos are…
Scientists Create COVID Test That Uses a Smartphone Camera
January 31, 2022
Researchers have created a new type of COVID-19 test that transforms an ordinary smartphone camera into a virus detector. The system could one day allow for cheap and accurate at-home COVID testing.
The new COVID test was developed by a group of scientists and physicians at UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and was published on January 28th in the journal JAMA Network…
