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Type One Energy raises $200 million to develop world’s first commercial fusion reactorThe Series-B round, which takes total funding to-date to more than $400 million, is the third-biggest sector Series B raise over the last f...- Defence stocks: Time to change strategy in a bearish market? An ecosystem with down and upside potential of -39% to plus 37%The current fall is both at the level of the indices and the broader market. And when the selling is this broad, almost every sector is aff...
- In 2015, Bill Gates backed a Seattle-based company that turned human waste into drinking water and Electricity. Now it has secured $500 million from investors, and earns nearly $100 million a yearThe Omniprocessor, developed by the Seattle-based Janicki Bioenergy with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, came to the lime...
- In 1957, two Minnesota brothers built a tiny loader to clean a turkey barn; their unusual 3-wheel machine led to Bobcat, which later sold more than 1 million loadersIn the 1950s, Cyril and Louis Keller engineered a groundbreaking compact loader tailored for turkey farmer Eddie Velo. Using simple materia...
- "One small step for TPUs": Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces Project Suncatcher to test AI compute in SpaceAccording to Google, Project Suncatcher is a long-term, research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine learn...
- AI Is Changing How Customers Choose Your BusinessAs AI increasingly mediates how customers research, evaluate, and choose suppliers, competitive advantage is shifting from direct customer ...
- In 2017, Japan tested a twin-turbine machine in the Kuroshio Current; the floating device later showed it could generate 100 kW from the Pacific’s “river”Japan's innovative Kairyu turbine has achieved a significant milestone by effectively harnessing strong ocean currents to generate electric...
- Applied Materials' Prabu Raja says $5 billion investment in India to drive firm's global R&DThe US company that supplies equipment and services for semiconductor manufacturing is set to invest about $5 billion over 10 years in Beng...
- In 2024, engineers lowered a 28-ton underwater kite off the Faroe Islands; it generated up to 1.2MW by flying figure-eights faster than the tideAn innovative underwater kite created by a Swedish company is making waves in renewable energy. This device generates significant electrici...
- This wind-turbine nacelle once sat atop a giant machine in the Dutch city of Eindhoven; designers turned the 10-metre-long retired shell into a tiny houseNestle's most memorable achievement may therefore be its ability to change the way people see an object that would normally disappear at th...
- In 1983, Steve Jobs reportedly ordered Apple’s failed Twiggy Macs destroyed; one surviving prototype sold for $150,075A rare 1983 Macintosh prototype, which Steve Jobs ordered destroyed, recently sold for $150,075. This early computer featured an unreliable...
- How a palm-sized machine with no battery or plug pulls drinking water from Death Valley's driest airA remarkable device has been developed to harvest drinkable water from the desolate air of Death Valley, powered entirely by sunlight. This...
- In 1955, a British engineer while trying to prove a game changing theory about a revolutionary invention used a cat food tin, a coffee can, and a reversed vacuum cleaner. Later, the patent changed the landscape of modern transportation foreverIn 1955, a British engineer while trying to prove a game changing theory about a revolutionary invention used a cat food tin, a coffee can,...
- Meet Soren Plante, the 5-year-old Utah inventor who became the world’s youngest active patent holder with a commercially useful gardening robotAt just five, Soren Plante had already done something most inventors spend years trying to achieve. The Utah youngster became the world’s y...
- From Ping-Pong table to Harvard: This 13-year-old built a Rs 3,000 robotic arm you can control with mindA teenager Benjamin Choi built a low-cost prosthetic arm during the 2020 lockdown using a 3D printer, fishing line and non-invasive brainwa...
- Gaganyaan delays should be taken with 'pinch of salt': Astronaut Angad PratapGaganyaan astronaut Angad Pratap acknowledged that delays are a natural part of developing ambitious programs. He assured that the astronau...
- TCS launches fully automated facility in Pune to advance AI-led manufacturingTata Consultancy Services launched a new lab in Pune. This facility is India's first lights-out factory lab for AI. It will help manufactur...
- Quote of the day by Charles Babbage: ‘Propose to a man any principle, or an instrument, however admirable…’ – Father of the Computer on the curious human habit of finding flawsOver a hundred years ago, Charles Babbage foresaw the power of mechanical computing with his ambitious designs for the Difference and Analy...
- Zorawar: The war machine built to counter China takes centre stage in India's Belgium defence outreachIndia and Belgium are cooperating on advanced defense equipment development. Prime Minister Modi highlighted the indigenous Zorawar light t...
- In 1976, a theoretical physicist pushed Caltech toward building a machine to detect Einstein’s gravitational waves - 39 years later, black-hole-hunting LIGO heard their ripples, and by 2017, the Interstellar science adviser wept before the man who predicted them while receiving the Nobel PrizeKip Thorne, an illustrious physicist, chased the elusive gravitational waves predicted by Einstein for many years. His commitment yielded t...
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