GE Aviation will open a new assembly plant in Indiana to build the world’s first passenger jet engine with 3D printed fuel nozzles and next-generation materials, including heat-resistant ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and breakthrough carbon fiber fan blades woven in all three dimensions at once.
Though the engine, called LEAP, will not enter service until 2016, it has already become GE Aviation’s bestselling engine, with more than 6,000 confirmed orders from 20 countries, valued at more than $78 billion (U.S. list price).
“Mobile is the platform of today, and now we’re also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow,” said Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in a brief explanation of why his company is buying Oculus.
Oculus makes Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headseat (pictured above) for immersive, 3D gaming.
Investors and press flooded into the Computer History Museum this morning for Y Combinator’s demo day.
The incubator has proven to be an effective vehicle for selling the startup dream. Twice a year, batches of startups pitch their ideas to potential investors, who open their checkbooks in the hopes of funding the next Dropbox, Airbnb, or Stripe — all YC alumni.
This year, the audience may have noticed a few changes. The organization has a new president, Sam Altman, and more nonprofits and “tech for good” companies made it into the lineup than ever before.
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Because your home can always be smarter, allow me to introduce Droplet, the smart robotic gardener.
Effectively replacing your sprinkler system, the Droplet tries to save you money and the world’s water resources by watering only the area where there are plants.
Through a cloud software system, you can configure your Roomba-style Droplet to water the grass, the trees and the areas where you have flowers planted without indiscriminately watering the whole yard.
But it goes further than that. The Droplet actually knows about the soil, the type of plants it’s watering, and other data to help ensure each plant gets just the right amount of water to be healthy.
La Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) et Furukawa Electric Co ont développé un aimant super-conducteur à haute température pour un grand volant d'inertie. Ce nouvel aimant devrait être intégré à un grand système de stockage par volant d'inertie connecté à une centrale photovoltaïque de 1 MW qui sera construite dans la ville de Kofu en 2015. Le surplus d'électricité produit par les énergies renouvelables peut être stocké dans un volant d'inertie en le faisant tourner. Lorsque les énergies renouvelables produisent une quantité insuffisante d'électricité, le volant d'inertie peut combler ce manque et fournir de l'électricité en ralentissant sa rotation.
Unlike one category of e-bikes that look and feel just like a regular bike, the JiveBike’s appearance is a bit different. It has a low center bar, which holds the batteries and the Raspberry PI CPU that’s running the show. But, at the same time, the JiveBike doesn’t look so different from a traditional bike that you will turn into some spectacle on the road.
Call it cow computing. Or cow chips. Scottish startup Silent Herdsman has raised £3 million ($4.9 million) to create remote sensors for livestock farmers.
The wearable collars are part of the giant trend toward wearable computing and the Internet of things, which will provide a huge amount of data from sensors so we can track just about everything. The sensors will enable predictive analytics software so that farmers can make better data-driven decisions about taking care of their cows and other livestock.
The money came from Scottish Equity Partners, Albion Ventures, and Scottish Investment Bank. It will fuel the company’s growth and international expansion.
It’s the second year of operation for TechStars London and the accelerator has just named the 11 companies in its 2014 cohort — which this year come from eight different countries including the U.S., Estonia, Germany, Spain, Israel, Ireland, South Korea and the UK.
Virtual View App, a London startup that offers an augmented reality publishing platform and app designed specifically for the property sector, has raised $500k in funding. The investment comes from unnamed private investors from a finance and professional services background. It’s the 2013-founded company’s only external funding to date.
