Remove Definition Remove Design Remove Future Remove Personal
article thumbnail

Cadillac reveals CELESTIQ show car

Green Car Congress

Cadillac unveiled the CELESTIQ show car, previewing the brand’s future handcrafted and all-electric flagship sedan. Designers drew further inspiration from classic architecture such as the mid-century masterpieces of architect Eero Saarinen, along with other iconic American designs.

Cadillac 448
article thumbnail

ASX and Spirit AeroSystems partner to develop affordable eVTOL aircraft for mass production

Green Car Congress

Airspace Experience Technologies ( ASX ), an aviation technology start-up, and Spirit AeroSystems, a global aircraft design and manufacturing company, have signed a memorandum of understanding and a definitive agreement to cooperate on creation of affordable, certified all-electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

article thumbnail

Next Fuel, Inc. signs definitive agreement to field test coal-to-gas technology in China; Chinese partner makes strategic investment

Green Car Congress

The company also announced that persons affiliated with Future Fuel made the second part of a $2-million strategic investment in Next Fuel and now own 1 million shares of common stock, which exceeds 10% of Next Fuel’s outstanding shares, and a representative of the investor group joined the Board of Directors. Next Fuel, Inc.,

Coal 199
article thumbnail

The Future of the Transistor Is Our Future

Cars That Think

With its potential for societal, economic, and personal upheaval, climate change calls for tools that give us humans orders-of-magnitude more capability. Almost by definition, all technologies increase human abilities. In the near term, you can glimpse the transistor’s future by looking at its recent past.

Future 88
article thumbnail

Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

Cookies are designed to taste delicious, so why measure quality based on something completely unrelated to taste? With these experiments plus a lot of elegant mathematics, Shannon estimated the theoretically optimal performance of a system designed to compress English-language texts. We believe that.

article thumbnail

The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

Cars That Think

With COVID-19 shaking the global supply chain like an angry toddler with a box of jelly beans, the average person had to take a crash course in the semiconductor industry. But you are not the average person, dear reader. We're definitely doing that in 2025." And many of them didn't like what they learned. Want a new car?

Future 138
article thumbnail

Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Networks that link personal computers in offices. As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. The speech writer later said that neither he nor McColough had a specific definition of the phrase. Colorful weather maps on TV news programs.

Future 144