Everything You Should Know About Crate Engines
Crate engines can be daunting, and there are a lot of dos and don't when picking the perfect powerplant for your project car. Crate engines can be daunting, and.....»»
Catalyst advance improves natural gas cleaning technology
A newly developed catalyst with unique, atomic-sized "rafts" does a better job than current technology for cleaning up emissions from natural gas engines. .....»»
Team develops computationally quick approach to predict molten droplet solidification on a solid surface
Gas turbine engines in planes provide the required thrust by sucking in air, heating it to very high temperatures in a combustion chamber, and finally exhausting it at high velocities. As they operate, small inorganic particles such as volcanic ash g.....»»
Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law
Law targets small engines, which can pollute more than passenger vehicles. Enlarge (credit: Aleksandr Potashev / iStock) Gasoline-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers will soon be a thing of the past in California. Gov. Gavin.....»»
California To Ban Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers and Mowers
"California will soon ban the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers," reports the Associated Press, calling it "a move aimed at curbing emissions from a category of small engines on pace to produce more pollution each year than passeng.....»»
Unusual material could improve the reliability of electronics and other devices
Moving heat around where you want it to go—adding it to houses and hairdryers, removing it from car engines and refrigerators—is one of the great challenges of engineering......»»
Rocket Report: Next Falcon Heavy launch date set, Soyuz 5 engines clear tests
"I think that that's exactly the wrong message to send." Enlarge / The Falcon Heavy rocket could launch again in one month. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann / Ars Technica) Welcome to Edition 4.15 of the Rocket Report! This week, we have an update on.....»»
Game engine, meet game streaming: Unity acquires Parsec for $320M
Follows Parsec's explosion during the pandemic as a remote game-development tool. Enlarge / Unity unites with Parsec in a $320 million deal. (credit: Aurich Lawson) The parent company of Unity, one of the most popular game development engines.....»»
Privacy-oriented search app Xayn raises $12M from Japanese backers to go into devices
Back in December 2020 we covered the launch of a new kind of smartphone app-based search engine, Xayn. “A search engine?!” I hear you say? Well, yes, because despite the convenience of modern search engines’ ability to tailor their search resul.....»»
Opportunities of Taiwanese ICT suppliers in EV
Electric vehicles (EVs) are in rapid development. The EV industry, which has no gas engines and heavily involves technology, is a completely different battlefield compared with the traditional car industry. Threatened by Tesla's smashing success and.....»»
SpaceX takes big step toward Super Heavy’s first orbital flight
SpaceX is in the latter stages of preparing its massively powerful Super Heavy rocket for flight, fixing 29 Raptor engines to its base......»»
Finding the cause of a fatal problem in rocket engine combustors
Rocket engines contain confined combustion systems, which are essentially combustion chambers. In these chambers, nonlinear interactions among turbulent fuel and oxidizer flows, sound waves, and heat produced from chemical reactions cause an unstable.....»»
SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night
Progress on the regulatory side of things remains murky, though. Image of 29 Raptor rocket engines installed on a Super Heavy booster. (credit: Elon Musk/Twitter) Sometimes it is difficult to write objectively about the rate at which SpaceX ma.....»»
Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for the launch of Natural, a natural language search engine and ‘super app’
Voice-based and other personal assistant apps — which use natural language and hefty AI engines in the backend to source information to address your various questions, do your e-commerce bidding, or control one electronic device or another in y.....»»
Peppy, a B2B health platform for menopause, fertility, raises $10M Series A led by Felix Capital
When it comes to health issues like menopause, fertility, pregnancy, and even early parenthood, the data tells us that people typically turn to search engines and social media for advice to ask about symptoms or concerns they have. They tend not to g.....»»
"Cool flames" ignited in space
A discovery has been made in Earth's orbit—steady spherical cool diffusion flames. Measurements in these flames could help improve the engines of the future......»»
The Case Against SQL
Long-time Slashdot reader RoccamOccam shares "an interesting take on SQL and its issues from Jamie Brandon (who describes himself as an independent researcher who's built database engines, query planners, compilers, developer tools and interfaces)......»»
Fifteen Percent of US Air Force F-35s Don"t Have Working Engines
Areyoukiddingme shares a report from The Drive: Atotal of 46 F-35 stealth fighters are currently without functioning engines due to an ongoing problem with the heat-protective coating on their turbine rotor blades becoming worn out faster than was ex.....»»
Bentley has a new plug-in hybrid Flying Spur sedan on the way
First battery Bentley due in 2025; no more combustion engines after 2030. Bentley is adding a second plug-in hybrid to its lineup this year in the form of a new Flying Spur Hybrid......»»
Open Source AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Impresses In PC Game Tests
MojoKid writes: AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) PC graphics up-scaling technology is ready for prime-time and the company has allowed members of the press to showcase performance and visuals of the tech in action with a number of game engines.....»»
Google Gets a New Rival as Brave Search Opens To the Public
Brave, the maker of a popular ad blocking browser, opened on Tuesday a public beta of its privacy-focused search engine, a first step in creating a product that could compete with market titan Google. From a report: Unlike other new search engines, w.....»»