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China Plans To Bring Back Samples of Venusian Clouds

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Some time in next ten years, a Chinese mission aims to do whats never been done before: collect cloud particles from Venus and bring them home. But achieving that goal will mean overcoming one of the most hostile environments in the solar systemthe planets cloaking clouds are primarily made up of droplets of sulfuric acid. When China unveiled a long-term roadmap for space science and exploration last fall, its second phase (2028-2035) included an unprecedented Venus atmosphere sample return miss

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The Tesla Cybertruck Is No Longer The Best-Selling EV Truck In America

InsideEVs

Demand for the angular electric pickup has continued to falter in the first quarter, making room for a new king.

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Tesla pulls all the demand levers with discounts and incentives as sales crash

Electrek

Tesla is now pulling on all the demand levers in the US with new discounts and incentives as sales are crashing due to brand damage.

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Tesla sales plunge again in April, down stunning 75 pct over year before

The Driven EV News

Tesla sales plunged 75 per cent in the month of April from the same period a year earlier, affecting both Model Y ahead of its refresh and the Model 3. The post Tesla sales plunge again in April, down stunning 75 pct over year before appeared first on The Driven.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Global Ferry Electrification Accelerates: 70% Of New Orders Go Electric

CleanTechnica EVs

Seventy percent of ferries currently on order globally now feature electric drivetrains, a remarkable shift underscoring just how rapidly maritime transportation is decarbonizing. Norway has about 70 electric ferries running already, and there are likely north of 200 globally. There are about 15,400 ferries in operation around the world, new. [continued] The post Global Ferry Electrification Accelerates: 70% Of New Orders Go Electric appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Tesla at risk of 95% crash, claims billionaire hedge fund manager

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Christer Gardell, a Swedish billionaire and hedge fund manager, issued a stark warning about Tesla stock and what he believes are bubbles in the stock market. The billionaire’s insights about Tesla were shared during an interview with EFN. Tesla stock has been extremely volatile as of late amidst controversies and souring sentiments over CEO Elon Musk’s increasingly political leanings.

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The 2026 Lucid Gravity Grand Touring

Electric Cars Report

Lucid Motors introduced the 2026 Lucid Gravity, the first and only SUV to deliver everything consumers want in a vehicle without compromise. The Lucid Gravity offers the versatility of a sophisticated full-size three-row SUV, with space for adults and families to ride in comfort with all their gear and the performance of a luxury sports […] The post The 2026 Lucid Gravity Grand Touring appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touchdesigned to transform how robots interact with the physical world. In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its warehouses , and Vulcan is designed to assist (or take over, depending on your perspective) with stowing and picking items in its mobile robotic inventory system.

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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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One of the greatest climate -related engineering challenges right now is the design and construction of a large, zero-emission, passenger airliner. And in this massive undertaking, no airplane maker is as invested as Airbus. At the Airbus Summit , a symposium for journalists on 24 and 25 March, top executives sketched out a bold, tech-forward vision for the companys next couple of generations of aircraft.

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Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities

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Since last September, Ive been spending seven hours a day, five days a week happily researching the history of women in electrical engineering. So far Ive uncovered the names of more than 200 women who contributed to electrical engineering, the first step in an eventual book project. No disrespect to Ada Lovelace , Grace Hopper , or Katherine Johnson , but there are many other women in engineering you should know about.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed

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About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot , which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spots joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this API unlocked some significant performance improvements on Spot, including a much faster running speed. That rumor came from the Robotics and AI (RAI) Institute , formerly The AI Institute, formerly the Boston Dynamics AI Institute , and if you were at Mar

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The Quest to Ensure Nonspeaking Autistic People Are Heard

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Jeremy is a 31-year-old autistic man who loves music and biking. Hes highly sensitive to lights, sounds, and textures, has difficulty initiating movement, and can say only a few words. Throughout his schooling, it was assumed he was incapable of learning to read and write. But for the past 30 minutes, hes been wearing an augmented-reality (AR) headset and spelling single words on the HoloBoard , a virtual keyboard that hovers in the air in front of him.

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XPrize in Carbon Removal Goes to Enhanced Rock Weathering

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The XPrize Foundation today announced the winners of its four-year, US $100 million XPrize competition in carbon removal. The contest is one of dozens hosted by the foundation in its 20-year effort to encourage technological development. Contestants in the carbon removal XPrize had to demonstrate ways to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or oceans and sequester it sustainably.

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I Tried BYD's 5-Minute EV Fast Charging. It's A True Game-Changer

InsideEVs

BYD's new Megawatt charging proves that 5-minute charging stops are possible. And China will get there first.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Worry About Sentient AI—Not for the Reasons You Think

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When AI researchers talk about the risks of advanced AI, theyre typically either talking about immediate risks, like algorithmic bias and misinformation, or existential risks , as in the danger that superintelligent AI will rise up and end the human species. Philosopher Jonathan Birch , a professor at the London School of Economics, sees different risks.

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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

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We are all made of star stuff, as astronomer Carl Sagan was fond of reminding us. Supernova explosions, the catastrophic self-destruction of certain types of worn-out stars, are intimately tied to life on Earth because they are the birthplaces of heavy elements across the universe. Most of the iron in our blood and the sulfur in our amino acids originated in stars that detonated billions of years ago.

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FERC: Solar + wind made up 98% of new US power generating capacity in Q1 2025

Electrek

Solar and wind accounted for almost 98% of new US electrical generating capacity added in Q1 2025, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. Solar and wind also made up an impressive 100% of new capacity in March, and March was the 19th consecutive month in which solar was the largest source of new capacity.

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A Crucial Optical Technology Has Finally Arrived

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A long-awaited, emerging computer network component may finally be having its moment. At Nvidias GTC event last week in San Jose, the company announced that it will produce an optical network switch designed to drastically cut the power consumption of AI data centers. The systemcalled a co-packaged optics, or CPO, switch can route tens of terabits per second from computers in one rack to computers in another.

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Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it

Electrek

Some Tesla employees officially asked for Elon Musk to resign as they confirmed the automaker is facing a massive demand problem, which they attribute to the CEO. One employee got fired for it.

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Tesla Cybertruck inventory skyrockets to record high

Electrek

Teslas Cybertruck inventory has skyrocketed to a new record high of more than 10,000 units. The vehicle program is in crisis.

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Bell Labs Turns 100, Plans to Leave Its Old Headquarters

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This year, Bell Labs celebrates its hundredth birthday. In a centennial celebration held last week at the Murray Hill, New Jersey campus, the labs impressive technological history was celebrated with talks, panels, demos, and over a half dozen gracefully aging Nobel laureates. During its impressive 100 year tenure, Bell Labs scientists invented the transistor , laid down the theoretical grounding for the digital age, discovered radio astronomy which led to the first evidence in favor of the big

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A Self-Balancing Exoskeleton Strides Toward Market

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Many people who have spinal cord injuries also have dramatic tales of disaster: a diving accident, a car crash, a construction site catastrophe. But Chlo Angus has quite a different story. She was home one evening in 2015 when her right foot started tingling and gradually lost sensation. She managed to drive herself to the hospital, but over the course of the next few days she lost all sensation and control of both legs.

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Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests

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Nestled at the foot of a steep, forested hill, 16 kilometers outside Wellington, New Zealand is a rather unassuming building; one among many on a research campus that was first established in the 1940s. From outside, theres little to suggest that this is the birthplace of a remarkable piece of technology bound for the International Space Station (ISS) in the coming months.

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Small electric bus made by world’s biggest bus maker approved for sale in Australia

The Driven EV News

Yutong, the worlds largest manufacturer of buses and coaches, has received approval to sell its small electric bus in Australia. The post Small electric bus made by world’s biggest bus maker approved for sale in Australia appeared first on The Driven.

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As Tesla Semi Struggles, Volvo Just Sold Its 5,000th Electric Truck

InsideEVs

Volvos are chugging down the highway while Tesla is still trying to figure out how to mass-produce the Semi.

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Rivian (RIVN) gets $16 million for a new supplier park: A ‘key enabler’ to ramp EV production

Electrek

Rivian (RIVN) is charging ahead with another major project. The EV maker is building a new 1.2 million-square-foot supplier park near its Normal, Illinois, manufacturing plant as part of a nearly $120 million investment. With a $16 million incentive package from the state, Rivian expects it to be a key enabler as it ramps up EV production.

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BYD confirms new 1,000V ‘Super E-Platform’ capable of fast charging 400km in 5 minutes

Electrek

We EV enthusiasts have heard it all from the haters before. What are you gonna do with all those batteries? Theres just not enough range, and, of course, Charging takes so much longer than a gas station visit. As previously teased, Chinese auto conglomerate BYD has introduced a new 1,000-volt EV platform that can enable charging rates as fast (or perhaps faster) than a trip to the gas station.

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Tesla (TSLA) UK sales crash after being only positive market in Europe

Electrek

Tesla (TSLA) has seen its electric vehicle sales crash in the UK after being the only positive market in a disastrous first quarter in Europe.

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Tesla’s robotaxi fleet will be powered by ‘plenty of teleoperation’

Electrek

Teslas Austin robotaxi fleet will be powered by plenty of teleoperation as it cant screw up, according to a new report from Morgan Stanley after meeting with Tesla.

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AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

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In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kickstarted todays prevailing approach to AI. The source code is available as open source on CHMs GitHub page. What Is AlexNet? AlexNet is an artificial neural network created to recognize the contents of photographic images.

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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

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Researchers this month will begin testing a high-voltage circuit breaker that can quench an arc and clear a fault with supercritical carbon dioxide fluid. The first-of-its-kind device could replace conventional high-voltage breakers, which use the potent greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride, or SF 6. Such equipment is scattered widely throughout power grids as a way to stop the flow of electrical current in an emergency.

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Flawed Diamonds Are a Quantum Sensor’s Best Friend

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Quantum sensors take the biggest roadblock for quantum computersunwanted interference, or noise and turn it into a strength. Noise wrecks quantum computers because the quantum states they use for computation are affected by the slightest disturbances from the environment. But quantum sensors use those disturbances to detect minuscule changes in magnetic and electric fields.

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Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi service without driver weeks before launch

Electrek

Tesla has reportedly yet to start testing its robotaxi service in Austin without a safety driver behind the wheel just weeks before the planned launch.

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Scania electric truck with 624 kWh battery approved for sale in Australia

The Driven EV News

Scania's 31 tonne GVM truck is now approved for sale in Australia with a 500 kW powertrain fed by a 624 kWh battery pack. The post Scania electric truck with 624 kWh battery approved for sale in Australia appeared first on The Driven.

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