A new joint venture between major carmakers will attempt to make it easier to get around Europe using electric cars, thanks to a network of chargers with up to 350
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Misinformation on social media—can technology save us?
Sharing election hashtags: Dots are Twitter accounts; lines show retweeting; larger dots are retweeted more. Red dots are likely bots; blue ones are likely humans. Credit: Clayton Davis, CC BY-ND
Faraday Future’s factory construction paused; shipping timelines at risk
Electric vehicle maker Faraday Future may not be able to make its first cars in time to hits its 2017 shipping deadlines, according to a new report by the Financial
Maserati plans an all-electric Alfieri for 2020
Maserati was said to be looking at 2020 as the target timeframe for its first production electric vehicle, and now the company has confirmed to Autocar that a battery-powered electric
Internet of Things will demand a step-change in search solutions
The Internet of Things, IoT, the cloud, big data…buzzwords for the modern age. But, asks Won Kim, Jaehyuk Choi and colleagues in the Department of Software at Gachon University, in
Researchers run largest known transparent checkpointing process
A team of researchers led by Jiajun Cao, a PhD candidate in the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) at Northeastern University, recently completed what appears to be the
Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Tamara Broderick, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, was a presenter at the 2016 Machine Intelligence Summit. Credit: Marcy Rolerson Surviving breast cancer changed the course
Changing SIM card number for more secure mobile phone
Yet another path to smartphone break-ins and fraud? Trouble-seeking cryptographer and security researcher Karsten Nohl, the managing director of Security Research Labs, based in Berlin, Germany, has revealed that some
Volkswagen will begin making electric cars in North America in 2021
Volkswagen’s EV plans include manufacturing in North America starting in 2021, according to the company. The new production expansion is part of VW’s goal to ramp up to sales of
Tesla and SolarCity made this whole island solar-powered in under a year
Tesla and SolarCity’s union is still very fresh, but the combined companies are already highlighting what they’ve been able to accomplish even just as partners. The SolarCity blog details a
NextEV’s new NIO EP9 electric supercar holds a Nürburgring world record
Chinese electric car maker NextEV has debuted its NIO brand, along with the first car from that electric car line, called the EP9. The first vehicle it revealed is already
Tesla officially acquires SolarCity
Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity officially closed Monday morning, bringing together Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company with the solar energy company founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive. The deal
Mapping migrations by using mobile phone data
While cholera has hardly changed over the past centuries, the tools used to study it have not ceased to evolve. Using mobile phone records of 150,000 users, an EPFL-led study
Ordnance Survey to lay grounds for UK 5G networks
Mapping out a 5G network Proper formulation and contemplating for 5G will be vicious if a record is to be deployed successfully, since a aloft frequencies that 5G will use
These Adidas shoes are biodegradable
These Adidas kicks are woven from Biosteel fiber, a material designed to replicate spider silk that was developed by a German biotech company. The material is lighter than other synthetic