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Schaeffler has begun volume production of its rear-wheel steering system at its Kysuce, Slovakia plant for a German automaker. This system is part of Schaeffler’s “Generate Motion” product family and targets both passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. The rear-wheel steering system is now being produced for seven vehicle modelsContinue Reading

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Designwerk Technologies has reported a significant milestone: its fastest-ever megawatt EV charging session, exceeding 1.1 megawatts during a July 2025 demonstration in Oberbüren, Switzerland. The trial, conducted as part of a project supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, showed Designwerk’s Megawatt Charging System (MCS) in operation under real-worldContinue Reading

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If you’re a fan of iconic open-source racing game SuperTuxKart, you will have noticed that effort on the upcoming 1.5 release has stalled, having hit beta in late 2024 and release candidate status in spring 2025 but with no real progress since. Now, in an update shared by STK developers,Continue Reading

‘Cool gemstones’ and ‘fiery grime’: James Webb telescope finds clues to Earth’s origins in dazzling new view of Butterfly Nebula

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The twin-lobed Butterfly Nebula, as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Matsuura, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), N. Hirano, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)) Apologies, birds of the cosmos — the James Webb Space Telescope has set aside ornithology and officially entered its entomology era, a stunning new image of the ButterflyContinue Reading

NASA Awards Spaceflight Operations, Systems Organization Contract

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Tiernan P. Doyle Aug 28, 2025 NASA has awarded ASCEND Aerospace & Technology of Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS), to provide services at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The COSMOS is a single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at $1.8 billion that begins its five-year baseContinue Reading

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Campus Guardian Angel, a safety response company, is looking to deploy drones to combat school shootings, running test trials in Florida. Campus Guardian Angel CEO Justin Marston told The Hill the system puts drones in boxes at different points around a school that can be triggered by an emergency silentContinue Reading

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Mozilla has acknowledged that its Firefox AI Runtime — the on-device engine powering features like Smart Tab Groups and alt-text generation — was “not quite at the speed we wanted.” Translation: it was slow, and users noticed. So, in typically un-Mozilla fashion, it’s done something about it. Over the pastContinue Reading

BYD to build another SEA plant in Malaysia

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BYD on Aug. 22 announced plans to build its fourth electric vehicle plant in Southeast Asia, expected to begin production in Perak, Malaysia, in 2026. The Chinese EV giant plans to assemble vehicles from “completely knocked down” (CKD) kits — major components shipped for local assembly — at a new facility covering 600,000 square metersContinue Reading