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Dyson announces housekeeping robots - 05/26/2022

Dyson, the hairdryer and vacuum cleaner manufacturer, revealed details on development of robots for home cleaning, and demonstrated the first prototypes. They can vacuum furnishings and pick up stuff like dishes and children's toys. By 2030, the firm plans to showcase its first model. Dyson has announced that it is working on robots to clean houses. The company's website has the announcement as...

Bloomberg: Apple to launch mixed reality headset soon - 05/20/2022

Bloomberg discovered that Apple's board of directors had revealed a mixed-reality headset a week before. New product categories presented in this manner mean that the device will be launched shortly. Bloomberg learned that Apple's board of directors previewed a presentation of a mixed reality headset combining augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) last week. The discussion was held...

US Air Force announces successful hypersonic weapon test - 05/17/2022

According to a released military statement, the US Air Force successfully tested an advanced hypersonic cruise missile on 14 May. The launch took place on California's southern coast. During the test, the missile traveled at five times the speed of sound. Heath Collins, United States Air Force weapons program manager, stated, "This was a wonderful achievement by the development team for the...

El Salvador authorities reveal additional Bitcoin purchases - 05/10/2022

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said the country's government has purchased "on a dip" 500 bitcoins for a national cryptocurrency fund. "El Salvador just bought on a dip! 500 coins at an average price of $30,744," the politician wrote on his blog. El Salvador's first government purchase of 400 bitcoins took place last September at a price of $51,353, and authorities have publicly reported...

Nissan develops collision-avoidance technology - 04/25/2022

Nissan Motor, one of Japan's most well-known automakers, has announced development of new driver assistance technologies targeted at minimizing danger of collisions. The system, which is still being researched and modified, allows the car to avoid collisions with objects on its own, according to the company, by gathering data from the LIDAR technology, as well as radar and surveillance cameras....

WSJ: Green energy will spur global inflation - 04/19/2022

Unless environmental rules in the European Union and the United States are overturned, the world will face strong rise in demand for metals and other commodities in the next ten years, according to the Wall Street Journal. At the same time, the "staggering" level of basic fossil fuel consumption in the green economy will only increase global inflation. "Wait till the rest of the commodities...

Meta will release its first AR glasses in 2024 - 04/15/2022

Meta will release its first Project Nazare augmented reality glasses in 2024. The American company Meta will release its first augmented reality glasses Project Nazare in 2024. It is reported by The Verge, citing employees of Meta.  According to The Verge's sources, Mark Zuckerberg calls the new development of AR glasses "the Holy Grail", which "will change our relationship with...

Bill Gates invests in a startup to produce clean water from air - 03/30/2022

Billionaire Bill Gates' foundation has invested in hydropanels capable of generating water from the air. The startup Source Global, which developed them, raised $150 million; among the investors were the BlackRock and Lightsmith foundations and the Duke Energy energy holding. Venture capital fund Breakthrough Energy of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has invested in startup Source Global, which...

Elon Musk's SpaceX sends thousands of Starlink Internet kits to Ukrainians - 03/23/2022

Elon Musk's SpaceX sent thousands of Starlink satellite Internet reception kits to Ukraine. Elon Musk's SpaceX has sent thousands of satellite Internet dishes Starlink to Ukraine. This was reported to CNBC by President of the private space company Gwynne Shotwell. According to her, the deliveries were financed by private sources and possibly France and Poland.  SpaceX President added that...

Meta shows a tool to create virtual worlds with voice commands - 02/25/2022

Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated a prototype of the Build Bot system, which can create three-dimensional objects in metaworlds using voice commands. During the online event Meta AI: Inside the Lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated a prototype of an artificial intelligence system that can create three-dimensional objects in a virtual world using voice commands. A video of the demonstration was...
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