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Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s secretive Neuralink has an event next week

Elon Musk is CEO of so many companies, its hard to keep track. So if you forgot about Neuralink, we won't hold it against you. The secretive AI company, whose ultimate goal is to meld human mind with machine, was profiled in an (excruciatingly) detailed rep…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

VR

What tech to buy (and avoid) on Amazon Prime Day

Amazon Prime Day 2019 is coming! For Amazon's fifth annual summer sale, Prime Day is two entire days instead of one. The shopping event can be worth it if you score big discounts on pricey products. But the problem I've noticed is that there are too many pro…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Electric Car

Ford confirms it will build a car using VW’s EV architecture

Ford hopes to sell more than 600,000 vehicles using the MEB framework over a six-year period. A second model -- again, designed for Europe -- is under discussion at the company. "This supports Ford's European strategy, which involves continuing to play on its…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Bees

Readers’ wildlife photos

Reader Tony Eales from Australia sent some lovely ant photos. His notes are indented: Ants, eating and being eaten. Im a big fan of ants, and am currently trying my hand at keeping and raising colonies from queens. Its a fun and relatively cheap hobby that I…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX targets Tuesday for Starhopper demo rocket hover test

SpaceX is preparing for a key test in development of its next-generation Starship spacecraft, with a target of performing a ‘hover’ demo of its ‘Starhopper’ prototype rocket on Tuesday next week. The test will be the first time the rocket attempts liftoff wit…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Plastic Pollution

5000 tons of plastic released into the environment every year

Overall, around 5,120 tons of the seven types of plastic are discharged into the environment each year. This is around 0.7% of the total amount of the seven plastics consumed in Switzerland each year (amounting to a total of around 710,000 tons). According to…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

VW invests $2.6 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance

VW Group is investing $2.6 billion in capital and assets into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that burst onto the scene two years ago with $1 billion in backing from Ford. The deal, which has been rumored for months, is part of a bro…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Virtual Reality

‘Lion King’ director Jon Favreau explains how they used VR to make the movie

If there's one thing everyone who's seen The Lion King remake seems to agree on, it's that the visuals are stunning. But how did director Jon Favreau and his team go about creating such an impressively realistic world for the Disney film? Well, it started w…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Yes, Google Listens to Some of Your Assistant Recordings. That’s Not Surprising.

The proliferation of smart speakers has made it easier to listen to tunes and control smart home devices, but they also raise some potential privacy concerns. After all, these are internet-connected microphones capable of listening to your conversations from …

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Chinese Economy

What every Canadian investor needs to know today – The Globe and Mail

Equities Canadas main stock exchange was hovering just below the break-even mark early Friday with gains in materials stocks on higher gold prices offset by declines in the health-care sector. On Wall Street, the Dow and S&P 500 both touched record highs…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Elon Musk’s secretive Neuralink has an event next week

What tech to buy (and avoid) on Amazon Prime Day

Ford confirms it will build a car using VW’s EV architecture

Readers’ wildlife photos

SpaceX targets Tuesday for Starhopper demo rocket hover test

5000 tons of plastic released into the environment every year

VW invests $2.6 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance

‘Lion King’ director Jon Favreau explains how they used VR to make the movie

Yes, Google Listens to Some of Your Assistant Recordings. That’s Not Surprising.

What every Canadian investor needs to know today – The Globe and Mail

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