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HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in Portsmouth for first time

NuTonomy hopes for second-quarter 2018 launch of paid Singapore self-driving car rides

These cars not only drive themselves but they will undoubtdly also pay for themselves over a number of years.

Hmmm?

Smart observations about the future

New Tesla Model 3: Elon Musk confirms battery pack sizes

'Self-driving' lorries to be tested on UK roads

Trains?

Some "people" need to be self driven never mind lorries 😀

Is 'killer robot' warfare closer than we think?

New iPhone out today..what a waste of money 😄

China Claims To Have Built A Version Of NASA’s ‘Impossible Engine’ That Uses NO Fuel

I agree Stan. I will carry on with my current Iphone 6s until it breaks or gets lost and even then, would not pay the premiums they are asking for what appears are a marginal set of new features.

Are smart phones moving from the "must have the latest iteration" to replace when broken or lost.

I went through it with PCs and flat screen TVs and now Smart phones?

Or maybe I am just getting old!

Sign of the times Martini I'm afraid they bring virtually the same thing out tarted up with a few add ons and try and charge us for the privilege, if your generally happy with what you have then stick with it my motto.

Another scam their trying on is introducing their next OS which needs a load more hard drive/ram so we have to literally buy a new computer.

Something I am presently having to do, bloody annoying but not a lot of exceptable options for me

One thing I shall resist to the very end is signing up to the Cloud, the idea of having my OS and all my personal stuff on someone's else's server fills me with dread.

Never bought a new mobile phone.

Always grab the one's discarded by my grandkids.

I only need them in case my 40year old car breaksdown.

But have just spent 48 hours trying to sort out W10 crash.#

Why did I change down from 7.

Porsche's stunning Tesla rival will arrive in 2019 and cost $85,000

I'm not sure that I could get in or out of it.....

If I managed to get in I probably wouldn't care about getting out!😃

Why switching to fully electric cars will take time

Interest for Apple users https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/19/ios-11-best-new-features-iphone-ipad-apple-smartphone-tablet-software-customisation-multitasking-download-today?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=244339&subid=23313800&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Step towards better 'beyond lithium' batteries

Your battery link is important news and actually well worth a 'C&P', skinny, IMHO:

A step towards new "beyond lithium" rechargeable batteries with superior performance has been made by researchers at the University of Bath.

We increasingly rely on rechargeable batteries for a host of essential uses; from mobile phones and electric cars to electrical grid storage. At present this demand is taken up by lithium-ion batteries. As we continue to transition from fossil fuels to low emission energy sources, new battery technologies will be needed for new applications and more efficient energy storage.

One approach to develop batteries that store more energy is to use "multivalent" metals instead of lithium. In lithium-ion batteries, charging and discharging transfers lithium ions inside the battery. For every lithium ion transferred, one electron is also transferred, producing electric current. In multivalent batteries, lithium would be replaced by a different metal that transfers more than one electron per ion. For batteries of equal size, this would give multivalent batteries better energy storage capacity and performance.

The team showed that titanium dioxide can be modified to allow it to be used as an electrode in multivalent batteries, providing a valuable proof of concept in their development.

The scientists, an international team from the University of Bath, France, Germany, Holland, and the USA, deliberately introduced defects in titanium dioxide to form high concentrations of microscopic holes, and showed these can be reversibly occupied by magnesium and aluminium; which carry more than one electron per ion.

The team also describes a new chemical strategy for designing materials that can be used in future multivalent batteries.

The research is published in the journal Nature Materials.

Diesel's disgrace brings hybrids-for-all in race to electrify