Jul 19
For years, Chevy has built many of the most successful American cars, but along with that have been a few stinkers. Here are some of their biggest flops.
Jul 19
The private space race continues with a shuffling of personnel between companies: astronaut Chris Sembroski announced via Twitter that he’ll will be joining Blue Origin after previously working with SpaceX.
Jul 19
A Tesla Model S recently broke 1 million miles, hitting a milestone for electric vehicles. But the cost of reaching such high mileage wasn’t cheap.
Jul 19
Dean Fleisher Camp, the director of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, had the best excuse ever to be late to an interview. Last week, at the exact time he was scheduled to talk to io9 about his incredibly charming feature debut, news broke that he’d been hired by Disney to direct a live-action film version of Lilo and…
Jul 19
Chevrolet’s next big EV release is a 2024 Blazer, delivering an affordable electric SUV to the masses in several distinct trims.
Jul 19
Twitter’s lawyers laid into Elon Musk Tuesday with blistering, blunt language in opening arguments of the multi-billion dollar court case that will decide whether the richest man in the world will purchase one of the internet’s most influential social networks, as he agreed to months ago.
Jul 19
Synchron says it's the first to implant a human brain-computer interface in the US
Posted in: Today's ChiliBrain-computer interfaces have become a practical (if limited) reality in the US. Synchron says it has become the first in the country to implant a BCI in a human patient. Doctors in New York’s Mount Sinai West implanted the company’s Stentrode in the motor cortex of a participant in Synchron’s COMMAND trial, which aims to gauge the usefulness and safety of BCIs for providing hands-free device control to people with severe paralysis. Ideally, technology like Stentrode will offer independence to people who want to email, text and otherwise handle digital tasks that others take for granted.
Surgeons installed the implant using an endovascular procedure that avoids the intrusiveness of open-brain surgery by going through the jugular vein. The operation went “extremely well” and let the patient return home 48 hours later, according to Synchron. An ongoing Australian trial has also proven successful so far, with four patients still safe a year after receiving their implants.
It may take a long time before doctors can offer Synchron’s BCIs to patients. The company received FDA approval for human trials in July 2021, and it’s still expanding the COMMAND trial as of this writing. Still, the US procedure represents a significant step toward greater autonomy for people with paralysis. It also represents a competitive victory — Elon Musk’s Neuralink has yet to receive FDA permission for its own implant.
Jul 19
Wear OS Is Finally Getting The Smartwatch Chip To Fully Take On Apple Watch
Posted in: Today's ChiliQualcomm has taken the wraps off two new smartwatch chips, as well as the first models that will pack this new hardware starting with the next Oppo Watch.
Jul 19
A team of physicists say they’ve discovered two properties of accelerating matter that they believe could make a never-before-seen type of radiation visible. The newly described properties mean that observing the radiation—called the Unruh effect—could happen in a tabletop lab experiment.
Jul 19
Showcase Cinemas made the gesture amid the extreme heat wave in Europe that has already led to hundreds of deaths.
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