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Elon Musk announces that Tesla will build a second Gigafactory in Europe -
Airbus is building autonomous air taxis to become the Uber of the skies Uber released a 98-page white paper last week outlining its plans to bring “flying cars” to commuters by 2026. Google co-founder Larry Page is also funding a “flying car” project through a start-up named Zee.Aero, and its prototype was reportedly seen in action at Hollister Municipal Airport in October.
But Airbus, which offers a legacy of building civil aircrafts and working with the Federal Aviation Administration, is also developing its own “flying car” as part of its Project Vahana — and its aviation experience could give it an edge. Project Vahana is being run under Airbus’ Silicon Valley arm, named A³.
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Uber’s driverless cars could solve one of the biggest problems in the auto industry (F, GM)
Traditional carmakers are investing in, providing vehicles to, and in some cases even buying up buzzy Silicon Valley startups.
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npr:
South Korea’s got Shake Shack fever.
Since opening its first outlet in Seoul on July 22 — in the Gangnam District, known as the city’s Beverly Hills — the popular American burger chain has attracted incredibly long lines of people. On its first day of business, about 1,500 people lined up for two to three hours before the store’s 10 a.m. opening time to be the first to sample its burgers, according to The Korea Herald, a local newspaper; some had been there all night.
More than a month and a half later, the fever has not died down. The Seoul Shake Shack reportedly serves an average of 3,000 customers daily, which works out to about four burgers per minute. When sizzling summer temperatures hit Seoul, the restaurant dispatched a nurse to prevent heat-related illness among those waiting in line, and also provided free bottled water and sun-blocking umbrellas, according to local reports.
What’s Behind South Korea’s Shake Shack Fever?
Photos: Han Myung-Gu/WireImage/Getty Images and Haeryun Kang for NPR
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Edible Rings On Six-Packs Feed Marine Life If They End Up In The Ocean Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach, Florida, has created edible six-pack rings that feed, rather than kill, marine life if the rings end up in the ocean and an animal happens to eat it. The rings are created from beer by-products during the brewing process such as barley and wheat and are completely safe for humans and fish to eat.
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Solar Power to Grow Sixfold as Sun Becoming Cheapest Resource -
Talk About An Ancient Mariner! Greenland Shark Is At Least 272 Years Old npr:
The Greenland shark, a massive carnivore that can be more than 16 feet long, hasn’t been studied much, and its life in the cold northern waters remains largely mysterious. Julius Nielsen, at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, says there had been some hints that Greenland sharks grow very slowly, perhaps less than a centimeter per year. That suggested the huge sharks might be ancient.“We only expected that the sharks might be very old,” says Nielsen.
“But we did not know in advance. And it was, of course, a very big surprise to learn that it was actually the oldest vertebrate animal.”
He and some colleagues obtained 28 female Greenland sharks taken by research vessels as unintended bycatch from 2010 to 2013. The researchers then used radiocarbon dating techniques on the lenses of the sharks’ eyes.
There’s a bit of uncertainty associated with the age estimates, but Nielsen says the most likely age for the oldest shark they found was about 390 years. “It was, with 95 percent certainty, between 272 and 512 years old,” he says. The researchers believe these sharks reach sexual maturity at about the age of 150 years.
