Bloomberg looks back at what tech industry titans predicted would be happening “by 2020.”
– Here’s what Huawei Technologies Co. said in 2015 predicting a “superphone” by 2020, according to ZDNet: “Inspired by the biological evolution, the mobile phone we currently know will come to life as the superphone,” said Shao Yang, a strategy marketing president of Huawei. “Through evolution and adaptation,…
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13-Year-Old Scientist Designs Alternative To Hyperloop
dryriver shares a report from CNN: Several rival companies may be hard at work trying to get Elon Musk’s Hyperloop concept off the ground, but hurtling across country — maybe even across continents — at 600 miles per hour in a low-pressure steel tube still feels far from reality. But 13-year-old New York student Caroline Crouchley may have invented a more…
Elon Musk Promises Longer, Curved Tunnel For Future Hyperloop Contests
Shortly after the 2019 Hyperloop Pod competition ended, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that next year’s Hyperloop competition will be held in a six mile curved vacuum tunnel. Previously, the competition was held in a straight three-quarters of a mile test tunnel which is located at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Engadget reports: The Hyperloop competition is a student engineering challenge…
‘Boring Company’ Video Suggests Company Is Abandoning Underground Rails
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider: Shortly after news broke that Elon Musk’s Boring Company landed its first tunnel-building project in Las Vegas, it released a video of two Teslas racing in its tunnel near Los Angeles — one using the roads, and the other using a Boring Company tunnel. The Tesla in the tunnel took one minute and 36 seconds…