MAN electric truck feeds 350 kW back to the grid in SPIRIT-E bidirectional charging project
The SPIRIT-E research project, which includes MAN Truck & Bus and Traton R&D, has shown that electric trucks can store energy and feed it back into local and public power grids. Led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the project tested bidirectional charging at freight forwarder Spedition Schmid’s depotContinue Reading
Scientists discover that necks didn’t evolve for the reason we thought
Scientists have discovered that the first animals to venture onto land nearly 380 million years ago had surprisingly stiff necks, overturning a long-standing theory about evolution. Rather than evolving to help animals turn their heads, necks may have emerged as part of the anatomical changes that allowed them to moveContinue Reading
JK Rowling shares post claiming Conversion Practices bill is ‘biggest threat to gay rights since Section 28’
JK Rowling re-shared a post which claims the proposed Conversion Practices bill “may also be the biggest threat to gay rights since Section 28”, writing: “THIS.” The Harry Potter author reposted an X post from columnist Kevin McKenna, who also wrote: “The proposed Conversion Practices bill risks an authoritarian governmentContinue Reading
SS United States sinks off Florida for artificial reef
Once the world’s fastest ocean liner, the 990-foot SS United States was sunk off the coast of the Florida panhandle on Wednesday to establish an artificial reef. Authorities in Florida hope the sunken vessel will draw both marine life and provide a destination for scuba diving tourists. The storied ship,Continue Reading
Doomsday study calculated humanity’s end on Friday 13 November 2026
According to a study, the end of the world was supposed to come on 13 November. It sounds dramatic and would be quite urgent – if the study were not already “outdated”. Still, it is fascinating.Continue Reading
Russian officer killed by car bomb in St Petersburg as murder investigation begins
Kyiv rarely claims responsibility for such attacks on Russian troops, but Ukrainian forces have previously used similar blasts to show that Russia’s security services are vulnerable.Continue Reading
Michigan Residents Voted to Get Corporate Money Out of Politics. Now Utilities Are Suing
Amid rising electricity costs, Michiganders decisively voted for a ballot proposition to curtail the ability of utilities to spend on elections—a move utilities say limits their freedom of speech.Continue Reading
Why are Northern Europeans snubbing EPSO and the EU institutions?
German, Finnish, Dutch and other Nordic graduates are not interested in EU careers, as new figures from the EPSO competition show that northern Europeans are largely staying away. Is Brussels doing enough to compete with stronger national labour markets?, Read MoreContinue Reading
Megaspeed, firm central to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s scandal, pledges to cooperate with US probe
HONG KONG (AP) — Megaspeed, the Singapore-headquartered data center company at the center of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s scandal, pledged Thursday to cooperate with investigations into potential risks to U.S. national security. In its first statement since Huang admitted to having an affair with a Chinese woman and former executiveContinue Reading
The Traitor’s Inferno: Just Stop
In the hopeful, chaotic aftermath of the biggest blue wave in 50 years, the inept “cartoon ghoul of a man” who fomented the carnage and his foul minions – Miller, Hegseth, Unholy Mike, the wrong Dana White – are scrambling like “pigs in the mire” to grasp some thorny newContinue Reading
Brazil fines Facebook $1.3 million for failing to comply with court orders during election
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s top electoral court fined Meta’s Facebook $1.3 million for failing to fully comply with judicial orders during last month’s presidential election runoff campaign when the company was accused of political bias by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ’s team. Justices ruled late TuesdayContinue Reading
From the UK to the Gulf, are US overseas bases becoming liabilities?
For decades, these bases allowed the US to wage faraway wars. Now, Iran has changed that calculation., Doha, Qatar — Late one morning in March 1999, a United States B-52 bomber took off from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, headed southeast. Seven more jets followed, at two-minute intervals. It was the startContinue Reading
US envoys arrive in Moscow for Russia-Ukraine talks with Putin
The meeting with Kushner and Witkoff comes after two days of trilateral talks in the UAE yielded no breakthrough., The meeting with Kushner and Witkoff comes after two days of trilateral talks in the UAE yielded no breakthrough. United States envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have arrived in MoscowContinue Reading