Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2023

University research groups are also launching tiny, standardized cube satellites (CubeSats) into LEO for research and demonstration purposes. That may be because one of the temptations of LEO is the ability of relatively cheap new hardware to do smaller jobs. Satellites are becoming smaller.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Potential applications include tackling fake profiles on social media, distributing a global universal basic income (UBI), and empowering new forms of digital democracy. tried out in locations including California, Finland, and Kenya. The founders envisaged Worldcoin as a global distribution network for universal basic income.

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