The fate of time-traveling doctor Dr. Sam Beckett may finally be revealed. NBC has ordered a pilot for a new version of Quantum Leap that’ll take place 30 years after the original TV show ended. It’ll follow a new team who has been put together to bring back the Quantum Leap project and hopefully figure out what…
The reptiles have been linked to a recent salmonella outbreak.
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Crowdsourcing automaker Local Motors will cease operations this Friday, according to employees, TechCrunch reports. The company has not yet officially announced its imminent demise, though its reactions from its workforce have already appeared on LinkedIn.
“As with most adventures, they must come to an end,” Jeff Hollowell, Local Motors VP of information technology, wrote on Thursday. “Local Motors has closed its doors. It has been an exciting, challenging, and educational experience working with Olli and all the team at Local Motors. I was fortunate to work with amazing individuals and help build what others said could not be done! I’ve been able to grow as a leader and learn new skills that I now take to my next path forward. Thanks to all the team members and partners that I was able to work with. The time spent was well worth the effort.”
Local Motors pioneered the idea of crowdsourcing the production of vehicles with 2016’s, Olli, a 3D-printed 12-passenger microbus powered by now equally defunct IBM’s Watson. It set off a minor arms race among automakers to produce a new class of autonomous EV people movers, however, imparting Level 4 autonomous capabilities has proven exceedingly difficult to date — in part due to technological shortcomings in the current generation of sensor and signal processing systems. Of. course, that hasn’t dissuaded companies from trying, their efforts having led to a series of high-profile traffic accidents in recent years such as the Navya that wrecked in the opening hours of CES 2017, the Toyota e-Pallette that ran down a paralympian in August, and the solo-vehicle accident in Whitby, Ontario that critically injured a man last December.
Local Motors first made a name for itself with the Rally Fighter kit car before it pivoted to developing the Olli. The company had planned to launch a pilot program for the second iteration of its autonomous shuttle, the Olli 2.0, in Toronto last spring, however those plans were subsequently pushed back to February, 2022, and, with Thursday’s revelation, will now likely never take place.
Real Steel is one of the greatest sci-fi sports movies of all time. Granted, the subgenre of sci-fi sports movies is pretty slim—especially ones where the entire movie focuses on that theme—but Real Steel is near the top of the list. And now, after years of the film’s fan base clamoring for more, it might actually be…
In May 2021, a Pacific footballfish washed ashore at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach, California. Still in good condition, the rarely seen fish featured spikes along its body, sharp teeth, and a bioluminescent lure. But as scientists would go on to discover, it also had biofluorescent tissue, a characteristic…
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2020, attack on the United States Capitol subpoenaed some of the largest tech companies in the U.S. on Thursday, demanding they answer for their platforms’ role in the insurrectionist attack.
On Thursday, the Department of Energy announced a newly formed Clean Energy Corps. Rather than being an invading force, the plan is to have a veritable army of experts who can make the zero-carbon future we need a reality. No word yet on what the uniforms might look like, though.
DNA forensics, at their best, are intended to bring an air of scientific confidence to the criminal justice system to hopefully prevent the worst kinds of wrongful convictions. Those good intentions are made meaningless though when bad cops decide to fight dirty.
A new year is upon us, and what better way to look ahead than by thinking about all the times we’re going to be glued to our desks or sofas watching TV? There’s once again so much content coming along the way in 2022 that we’re splitting our TV preview into streaming and broadcast lists—here’s what’s coming to Apple…
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