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South Korea has rolled out the world’s first road-powered electric vehicle network. The network consists of special roads that have electrical cables buried just below the surface, which wirelessly transfer energy to electric vehicles via magnetic resonance. Road-powered electric vehicles are exciting because they only require small batteries, significantly reducing their overall weight and thus their energy consumption. There’s also ...

The 2014 Nissan Versa Note is one of the best subcompacts you can purchase today if your requirements are as follows: cheap to buy, cheap to run, lots of room, and as much tech as you can get in a small, entry-level car … and you want transportation not excitement. On the tech side the the Versa’s includes an impressive ...

This week, something momentous occurred: the FBI and Irish police collaborated to arrest the alleged owner of Freedom Hosting, one of the largest Deep Web hosts in the world. We’ll get to precisely what that means in a moment, but the practical upshot is this: by some estimates, taking down Freedom Host has removed the majority of all child pornography ...

On Tuesday, August 6, NASA’s Curiosity rover will celebrate its one-year anniversary of arriving on Mars by… continuing to drive slowly across the planet’s rocky surface towards its primary scientific target, Mount Sharp. NASA, however, which continues to do an admirable job of keeping the public interested in Curiosity, has celebrated the anniversary by releasing an awesome time-lapse video of ...

Teleportation is always as sci-fi dream, but recently scientists have been able to teleport nano-sized objects across significant distances. We’re still nowhere near teleporting even the smallest, visible-to-the-naked-eye objects, but that didn’t stop a team of researchers from calculating how long it’d take to teleport an entire human being. It’s very, very long. Students from the University of Leicester, David ...

MIT start-up Terrafugia says they’re “roadable aircraft,” but everyone else just calls them flying cars. That’s the power of the Jetsons and its contemporaries, creating a conceptual framework that can both drive and shackle technology innovators. It might be a bit of a misnomer to call Terrafugia a “start-up” however, since the private aviation company has been collecting capital and ...

Earlier this year, Caustic Professional began shipping the first dedicated ray tracing cards in more than a decade. As we discussed in our coverage last year, ray tracing is capable of producing some stunning visual effects. Multiple companies, including Nvidia, offer ray tracing plugins for professional workstations, but the Optix solution we covered then doesn’t leverage dedicated hardware to perform ...

If you were shocked by the NSA’s Prism program, hold onto your hat: The NSA also operates another system, called XKeyscore, which gives the US intelligence community (and probably most of the US’s Western allies) full access to your email, IMs, browsing history, and social media activity. To view almost everything that you do online, an NSA analyst simply has ...

The just-announced BMW i3 could be a breakthrough for carbon fiber production as well as for electric drive. Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) provides the weight reduction that effectively neutralizes the heft of the car’s battery pack. To make it happen, BMW teamed up with Boeing for expertise on carbon fiber manufacturing. As in the early days of the industrial ...

Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans — which is a good thing ...