In this issue we will tell you:
- Sberbank presented an autonomous electric vehicle.
Tech giant Sber has unveiled a prototype of an unmanned utility vehicle called FLIP. The car is a tall capsule on wheels, inside of which wide seats for six passengers are installed opposite each other.
- Fusion is getting closer.
The UK launched the modernized MAST Upgrade tokamak, bringing its performance to an unprecedented level. A tokamak is a magnetic chamber for holding plasma heated to one hundred and fifty million degrees.
- The next revolutionary batteries are presented.
In the phrase “revolutionary accumulators” I pronounced the word “revolutionary” with irony. Australia’s Graphene Manufacturing Group has created aluminum and graphene batteries that will compete with traditional lithium-ion batteries in the future.
- The new USB can power anything at all.
Recently, a new standard for the USB-C interface was introduced, the main innovation of which was the transmission of power of two hundred and forty watts. The previous version of USB-C transmitted up to one hundred watts, which is also a lot.
- The world of cryptocurrencies is storming.
The week brought some entertaining news about cryptocurrencies. Gene Hoffman, the creator of the Chia cryptocurrency, which requires hard drives and high-capacity SSDs to mine, admitted that his brainchild has caused a global shortage of storage drives.
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