AI & RoboticsNews

South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses

Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this year. And it’s one early glimpse of where smart glasses are heading. Over the past few…
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NewsPhotography

Edith Tudor-Hart was one of Britain's best documentary photographers and a soviet spy - so why have most people never heard of her?

If you’ve had any training in a creative discipline, you’ve probably at least heard of the Bauhaus. Despite only being open for a few years (1919-1933), this groundbreaking German art school shaped modernist design and visual thinking and cast a long shadow over 20th-century photography. One of its students was Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish Austrian woman who studied there in 1928 and later…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Rivian opens R2 configurator: here are all the options and pricing

Rivian has opened the online configurator for the R2, its critical mid-size electric SUV, giving reservation holders their first chance to spec out the vehicle ahead of deliveries. The Performance trim starts at $57,990 — just under Tesla’s Model Y Performance at $58,880. The configurator launch comes ahead of Rivian’s previously communicated June timeline, signaling confidence in the R2…
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DefenseNews

Former University of Michigan researcher accused of hiding Chinese military drone ties

Federal authorities say a Chinese national who worked as a research scholar at the University of Michigan lied about his work on drones in the People’s Republic of China. According to a criminal complaint filed last week, Chuan Wang allegedly denied involvement in the production of military products during an interview with customs officers in 2023 when in reality he ran a company that designs…
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