Battery swap startup Ample publicly unveiled its second-generation station design in San Francisco today. This next chapter in US battery swaps is the culmination of thousands of previous swaps performed by Ample, which has now cut its processes down to a mere five minutes.
Ample is a California-based startup that has tasked itself with helping get 1 billion electric vehicles on roads around to…
A new report states that Tesla has proposed to build a factory in India during a meeting with officials today. After years of negotiation in the world’s most populous country, it would mark a reversal of its strategy.
India has the biggest auto market that Tesla has yet…
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May 17, 2023
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The Leica M11 Monochrom is the company’s latest full-frame digital rangefinder camera, built around a version of the M11’s 61MP BSI CMOS sensor that has no color filter array to interpret color.
Key features
60MP BSI CMOS sensor…
Gen. David Allvin, the Air Force’s No. 2 officer, is the frontrunner to become its next chief of staff, four people familiar with the deliberations told Air Force Times.
Allvin, a career mobility pilot and strategist who has served as Air Force vice chief of staff since November 2020, is the service’s internal pick for chief, according to one current military officer, two retired officers and…
Elon Musk is predicting that some companies will go bankrupt within the next 12 months. He didn’t go as far as saying that they would be Tesla competitors, but he made it feel like given the context.
Which ones could it be?
Over the last year, Musk has often complained…
Rimac Nevera electric hypercar sets 23 records in single day, including fastest 0-249 mph time
May 17, 2023
Times of 0-60 mph simply aren’t enough when you get into the peak-performance, hypercar segment of electric vehicles. The Rimac Nevera has already done an excellent job demonstrating that it’s one of the highest-performing vehicles on the planet, but any doubt should now…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army wants to make its command posts nimbler and more easily concealable to survive intense, widespread fights of the future, and it’s pulling lessons from the invasion of Ukraine to inform the effort.
Command posts of the past were relatively stationary, cumbersome to set up and break down, and often identifiable by the heat, noise and electronic artifacts they give off.
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Axie Infinity: Origins is now available on the Apple App Store in select markets. While publisher Sky Mavis is planning a global iOS launch, players in key LATAM and…
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On January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block on a small server in Helsinki, Finland, and received a reward of 50 bitcoins, which marks the beginning of crypto mining.
From CPU to ASIC
In Satoshi Nakamoto’s initial vision, mining could be…
Report: Biden Administration 'Crypto Tsar' Says DOJ will Target Digital Asset Exchange Platforms
May 17, 2023
According to Eun Young Choi, the head of the crypto unit at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the United States has resolved to target digital platforms because they are making it easy for criminals and money launderers. Choi said the DOJ hopes taking action against entities such as crypto exchanges is “going to have a multiplier effect.”
DOJ to Target Mixers and Tumblers
The U.S.
