Autonomous driving technologies are determining the future of the trucking industry. While the first tests for self-driving trucks under real conditions are underway, the entire absence of the driver is still far in the future. Using data from the specialist magazine Lastauto Omnibus, a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that by 2025, fleet owners could reduce their total […]
How Tesla’s Vehicle Deliveries Measure Up With The Big 3
Earlier this year, Tesla became America’s most valuable car manufacturer by surpassing the “Big 3”, i.e. General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler, in terms of market capitalization. As our chart below illustrates, the fact that the market values Tesla higher than these industry heavyweights is not a reflection of its current size but rather a bet on […]
Amazon’s Alexa Is A Fast Learner
Amazon’s Echo devices featuring the company’s smart voice assistant Alexa have proven very popular since their (limited) release in November 2014. Consumers appear to like the idea of having a voice assistant in their homes, be it to control smart home devices, manage shopping lists or crack a joke every once in a while. And while […]
1.2 Billion iPhones In 10 Years
A little more than nine years after it made its debut in the United States, Apple sold the one billionth iPhone in July 2016. By the end of March 2017, the tally had grown to 1.16 billion units and when the iPhone turns 10 on June 29, Apple will likely have sold 1.2 billion smartphones. Having generated […]
The Losers Of The Smartphone Boom
When the original iPhone hit the stores in the United States exactly ten years ago, nobody could have predicted the impact it would have in the years to come. Its (at the time) unique touchscreen soon became the standard for mobile phones and over the years, as smartphones got better and better, the iPhone and its many […]
The Top 10 Supercomputers
The world’s fastest “supercomputer“ has a computing power of 93,015 teraflops, i.e. it can carry out nearly 100,000 trillion floating point operations per second. While that only sounds like Chinese to the uninformed ear, Sunway TaihuLight, the computer topping the current TOP500 ranking of supercomputers, is indeed located in China. Supercomputers are used to run complicated simulations […]
China Is Beating The U.S. In The Renewables Race
The renewable energy sector employed an estimated 9.8 million people worldwide in 2016, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 3.09 million of the jobs were in solar, followed by liquid biofuels (1.7 million) and hydropower (1.5 million). Despite his new plan to line his border wall with solar panels, U.S. President Donald Trump is […]
Washington D.C. Has The Fastest Internet In America
Washington D.C. has the fastest internet in America. People in the capital can now enjoy surfing at an average speed of 28.1 Mbps, which constitutes 17 percent increase in speed compared to the same quarter of last year. Connection speeds have increased across all top ten contenders in the past year. To some extent D.C.’s […]
Electric Cars Have Lots Of Room To Grow
According to a new report published by the International Energy Agency on Wednesday, the number of electric vehicles on roads around the world passed the 2-million mark in 2016. With more than 750,000 new registrations, the past year was another record year for electric mobility, which, according to the IEA, is on the verge of mass adoption. […]
America’s Leading Wireless Audio Brands
When Apple’s marketing boss Phil Schiller introduced the company’s new wireless speaker, the HomePod, on Monday, the emphasis was clearly on the device’s hi-fi capabilities as opposed to its function as a voice-enabled smart home hub. While the focus may shift towards Siri integration by the time the HomePod is released later this year, for now […]