And Universal Hydrogen is joining the race this week. The company has a test flight planned for its Dash 8-300, a regional aircraft with over 40 seats. The major goal is to test out the propulsion system, which will use hydrogen fuel cells that turn hydrogen and oxygen into water vapor, generating electricity to power […]
Monthly Archives: March 2023
DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can be a boon for industrial designers
Enlarge / A volcano-themed tissue box designed with the help of AI-assisted image generation reader comments 15 with Share this story Since the introduction of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, there has been a fair amount of hand-wringing about AI technology—some of it justified. It’s true that the technology’s future is unclear. There is great debate […]
The Download: turning garbage into energy, and China’s app anxiety
Some people might look in a grocery store’s dumpster and see garbage. But others are starting to see dollar signs. New facilities are popping up in the US to help tackle food waste using a process called anaerobic digestion, which uses microbes to break down organic materials. Divert, a company working to address food waste, […]
These companies want to tackle food waste with microbes
“We need to handle this waste somehow.” Meltem Urgun Demirtas For companies interested in anaerobic digestion, however, producing methane is the goal. Because these facilities are sealed up, the mixture of methane and carbon dioxide produced by microbes, called biogas, can be captured and purified into biomethane, which can be used as a replacement for […]
Why the stress around Chinese apps in the US is overblown
Lotus Ruan, who has conducted technical analyses of Chinese apps like WeChat and is currently a senior research fellow at the Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab, echoes this view: “With the rise of TikTok and the Chinese apps going global, [people] are looking at the Chinese apps with a magnifying glass.” As a result, the […]
Google adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar. Should you care?
reader comments 12 with Share this story On Tuesday, Google made client-side encryption available to a limited set of Gmail and Calendar users in a move designed to give them more control over who sees sensitive communications and schedules. Client-side encryption is a generic term for any sort of encryption that’s applied to data before […]