Last week, Shell became another major oil and gas company that bet on electric batteries. The British-Dutch giant announced purchase of German startup Sonnen, the leader in intelligent systems and energy storage for households. This is a new, but extremely promising direction in the market, especially against the backdrop of ambitious state projects on renewable energy sources in many countries...

The new Swedish government wants to ban sale of new gasoline and diesel cars since 2030. Vehicles should stop using fossil fuels and replace it with electricity or biofuels. However, many questions arise as to how this can be implemented in practice. In just 10 years from now it will be impossible to sell new cars that run on fossil fuels in Sweden. Instead, politicians hope that electric...

Developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are considered almost the key direction of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. But which countries and companies on our planet are leading in creating "thinking" and self-learning machines and computer programs? It is widely believed that North America is still ahead, but Asia is about to overtake it, while Europe is...

Leaders of the aircraft manufacturing company are convinced that they are on the right path to developing autonomous air taxis on demand. The company published a test flight video showing how a PAV (Passenger Air Vehicle) takes off, hovering for a short time in the air before making a controlled landing. “In one year, we have moved from conceptual design to a flying prototype,” said Greg...

In the UK, a scandal broke out because of accusations against social networks that they contain may push adolescents to suicide and injuring themselves. British Health Minister Matt Hancock has already turned to social networks with a demand to deal with such posts, threatening otherwise with harsh actions, including blocking. UK Health Minister Matt Hancock said on the BBC TV channel that the...

According to psychologists, the public attitude to robots and artificial intelligence is changing for the worse: most Europeans, in principle, are not against them, but categorically object to the machines having any influence on their daily lives. Robots are quickly moving from science fiction to people daily lives. On average, there are already more than 70 robots per 10,000 industrial workers...

Representatives of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia announced cooperation in order to create a new cryptocurrency. Representatives of both countries discussed a draft of a joint integrated strategy that includes initiatives in areas such as civil aviation, youth financial literacy and tcreation of a digital currency for cross-border payments. This initiative was announced at the...

In the coming years, German Daimler plans to invest € 500 million to create self-driving trucks. The company intends to release fully autonomous trucks to the market by 2025, Daimler spokesman at the international Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas said. Partially automated trucks will be commissioned as early as 2019, reports Deutsche Welle. The company intends to create about 200 jobs in...

The incident with two drones, which resulted in closure of London Gatwick Airport for more than a day, forced the public to think about how the world is ready to withstand the threat from drones. As it turned out, the world has already adopted standards for combating drones, but this problem is treated differently in various countries. Trained birds For the first time this method was proposed...