Ford will soon start using coffee chaff from McDonald’s to manufacture auto parts like headlamp housings and other interior and exterior components. “In addition to making Ford vehicles a little bit ‘greener,’ the coffee chaff — or the waste produced by coffee during the roasting process — will apparently also help the company make parts that are 20 percent lighter,” reports…
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Ford Says It Has Nothing To Prove To Tesla In F-150 Vs Cybertruck Tow Battle
Sadly, it’s looking like the Ford F-150 versus Tesla Cybertruck tow battle probably won’t happen. TechCrunch reports: Tesla CEO Elon Musk poked the figurative Dearborn, Michigan bear in the middle of the company’s Cybertruck unveiling when he played a video of the futuristic electric truck pulling an F-150 in what was pitched as a head-to-head contest. Many were quick to question…
Ford Introduces Mustang Mach-E Electric Crossover
140Mandak262Jamuna writes: Battery electric vehicle (BEV) fans are all excited about the introduction of an all-electric SUV by Ford. Specs and pricing are very similar to Tesla. Interior also is very similar with a large touchscreen. Elon Musk congratulated Ford on Twitter and Ford returned the compliments. Die-hard Tesla fans are saying Tesla is still better. Other BEV fans are welcoming…
George Lucas Has Apparently Changed the Famous Greedo Scene In 1977’s Star Wars Again, For Disney+
Freshly Exhumed shares a report from The Guardian: George Lucas, whose departure from all things Star Wars seems to have been greatly exaggerated — appears to have yet again doctored the famous Greedo scene in 1977’s Star Wars [prior to it being shown on the Disney+ streaming service]. The scene depicts the Mos Eisley cantina in which Harrison Ford’s Han Solo…
New Clean-Combustion ‘Ducted Fuel Injection’ Could Eliminate Soot From Diesel Engines
Thelasko shared Sandia’s report:
Ducted fuel injection, developed by Chuck Mueller at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility, is able to fine-tune the amount of diesel used in an engine to the point of eliminating between 50 and 100% of the soot… [H]e and his team, Christopher Nilsen, Drummond Biles and Nathan Harry, began experiments that have now resulted in an assembly of four…
Was Flash Responsible For ‘The Internet’s Most Creative Era’?
A new article this week on Motherboard argues that Flash “is responsible for the internet’s most creative era,” citing a new 640-page book by Rob Ford on the evolution of web design. [O]ne could argue that the web has actually gotten less creative over time, not more. This interpretation of events is a key underpinning of Web Design: The Evolution of…
Florida Man Arrested For Cutting Electric Scooter Brakes
A man in Florida has been arrested for cutting the brake lines on dozens of public scooters. The man has been identified by police as 59-year-old Randall Thomas Williams of Ford Lauderdale, though a possible motive has not yet been released. The BBC reports: According to Fort Lauderdale police, a surveillance operation was set up over the weekend after more than…
Wow! What if 1 in 4 sunlike stars has an Earth?
According to a new study by astronomers, based on data from the Kepler Space Telescope, 1 in 4 sunlike stars should have a planet that’s approximately Earth-sized, orbiting in the star’s habitable zone. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/earth-like-exoplanets-orbit-one-in-four-sun-like-stars…
VMware Buys Carbon Black and Pivotal, Valued Together at $4.8 billion
Software company VMware on Thursday said it’s acquiring Carbon Black at an enterprise value of $2.1 billion and Pivotal at an enterprise value of $2.7 billion. The deals are expected to close by the end of January 2020. From a report: These are VMware’s largest acquisitions yet. The deals build on VMware’s strength helping companies run their software in their own…
Volkswagen Will Share Electric Car Platform and Autonomous Tech With Ford
Ford and Volkswagen have reached an outline agreement to share electric and autonomous car tech, extending their alliance beyond a cooperation on commercial vehicles. Reuters reports: VW will share its MEB electric vehicle platform [a part bin and toolkit for building electric vehicles] with Ford, the source said. Volkswagen’s supervisory board is due to discuss deepening the alliance at a meeting…