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Cruise layoffs begin as GM winds down robotaxi business

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General Motors (GM) has officially launched layoffs at its self-driving robotaxi business Cruise, coming just months after the automaker first announced plans to cut funding and wind down operations for the startup. “We look forward to teaming with Cruise to accelerate our work together.”

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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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The ratio of bypass air to combustion air is an important measure of engine performance, with higher ratios indicating higher efficiencies, according to Mohamed Ali , chief technology and operating officer for GE Aerospace. The partners have already tested open-fan engines in two different series of wind-tunnel tests in Europe, Ali added.

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China Plans To Bring Back Samples of Venusian Clouds

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Venus Sample Return Mission Challenges Sara Seager , a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led a team to put together a Venus atmosphere sample return mission proposal in 2022. NASA did not select the proposal, but her team has carried on working, including experiments with concentrated sulfuric acid.

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These Companies Were the Patent Powerhouses of 2024

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Semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology came out on top at the time, with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Broadcom rounding out the top five. Samsung has patents filed both under its primary company, Samsung Electronics, and a subsidiary that focuses on display technology. patents generated by more than 1,000 organizations.

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The Transformer Transformer

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But, as Moseman reports, its still an emerging technology whose future depends on yet-to-be-developed semiconductors that can handle loads of at least 13 kilovolts. Well need MCTs or something similar to build out power grids that can handle more solar and wind power, EV chargers, and utility-scale batteries.

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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 joins growing group of electric 3-row crossover SUVs

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for the Ioniq 9—reflecting thousands of hours of wind tunnel time to eliminate turbulence, reduce drag, and let the slab-sided SUV slip through the air using as little battery energy as possible. The effect is similar to that of a Cadillac Escalade. Despite its boxy stance, Hyundai claims a drag coefficient of 0.27

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Bertrand Piccard’s Big Hydrogen Adventure

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Now hes in the midst of what looks like his most technologically ambitious mission yet: to fly around the planet in a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft. So both had a vision that was about protection of the environment, about quality of life, about the use of technology to improve the quality of life. So that was a fantastic example.

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