Dr. Robert Epstein told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday that Google can manipulate votes by using tools that they have at their disposal exclusively, and that no one can counteract them. Epstein warned the senator of big tech election meddling during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee
I filmed some running miniature engines. In the video you can see the details of the engine and listen the sound during the start up and revving. In order: – 1917 Caterpillar Holt 75 – scale 1:8 – 1921 Moto Guzzi Normale – scale 1:2 – 1954 Fiat 55 CL – scale 1:6
Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars’ production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars
Solar roads in France and the US trialled and failed miserably, but the Dutch in the land of the bicycle exceeded their projected solar power generation from an experimental 70-meter-long solar bicycle lane. “They had originally hoped to produce somewhere between 50 and 70 kW?h per square
The invention of induction motors permanently altered the course of human civilization. This hundred-year-old motor—invented by the great scientist Nikola Tesla—is the most common motor type, even today. In fact, about 50 percent of global electric power consumption is due to induction motors. Let’s get
A handful of US cities have banned government use of facial recognition technology due to concerns over its accuracy and privacy. WIRED’s Tom Simonite talks with computer vision scientist and lawyer Gretchen Greene about the controversy surrounding the use of this technology.
Just when you thought it could not get any sillier, Phil Goff who needs to spend money on stopping the sewage polluting Auckland beaches, proudly announces that they will spend $18 million on a battery-powered tug boat for Ports of Auckland. Watch the video here. Auckland ratepayers must be
If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation Electric vehicles, rockets… and now brain-computer interfaces. Elon Musk’s newest venture, Neuralink, aims to bridge the gap between humans and artificial intelligence by implanting
There is a stupid advert on TV for an electric car where two old geezers throw pebbles at a window to wake some poor soul who tosses down an extension cord to the tossers in the car. This is a wonderful thing, we are told, to be able to charge
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Watch Dennis Prager’s opening testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution regarding Big Tech censorship.
Wind turbines create ‘clean’ energy and do not release evil CO2 or dirty carbon into the atmosphere. This, we are told, is a wonderful thing. But what is the net CO2 output or saving when a wind turbine catches fire and burns 242 acres of brush and scrubland that was
Very interesting graphic from Domo. Utterly mind-boggling numbers. Remember this is every minute, every day, 24×7.
Elon Musk has recently promised to send an ‘over-the-air’ software update that will turn hundreds of thousands of Tesla vehicles into fully automated, self-driving cars. Many of the vehicles are already theoretically able to do this, having been spec’ed with the appropriate hardware. Many of today’
