Elon Musk-led SpaceX has constructed a 1.5-km long vacuum tube close to its headquarters in California for the Hyperloop pod competition taking place this weekend between thirty teams from across the world.
Apple plans to push its presence in Artificial Intelligence segment. The tech giant has announced that it is set to join an industry collaboration on AI. The group was floated last year to establish benchmarks for AI. It has tech behemoth such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon among its members.
For decades, scientists have dreamed of turning hydrogen, the lightest element, into metal.
A team of Czech and British scientists has managed to break a "magical barrier" and create the most powerful laser on Earth. This "super laser" is believed to be 10 times more powerful than any other laser of its kind in the world.
South Korea plans to develop a high-speed train system in the next three years which can travel at a speed of up to 1,000 kmph (621mph), almost the speed of sound. The train, which is based on hyper-tube technology that propels floating pod-like vehicles through tubes under partial vacuum, will connect Seoul to Busan covering the distance in half an hour, instead of the current time of three hours.
Toyota has finally launched the 2017 Vios sedan in Thailand with a starting price tag of 609,000 baht (roughly $17,200) and it is expected to make a debut in India later this year.
Tesla introduced its new Model S 100D with an EPA-rated range of 335 miles when fully charged, making it the world's longest-range consumer electric vehicles, according to Autoblog. It also introduced a similar 100kWh option for the Model X 100D, with a rated range of 295 miles.
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University have developed a smartwatch application that could verify handwritten signatures by observing wrist movements during the signing process, thereby detecting forged ones.
Australia is angling for a more digitized approach to identifying travelers who pass through their airports.
