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Invisible man: German startup bets on remote driver

A German startup is pioneering remote driving technology, offering a unique alternative to autonomous vehicles. By utilizing human drivers operating from remote locations, the company provides cost-effective rides and vehicle delivery services. This innovative approach is gaining traction, with a growing fleet and thousands of completed rides.

With no one in the driver seat, the SUV pulling up resembles an autonomous robotaxi like those becoming increasingly present in some cities—but the car from German startup Vay is something else.

One of a number of emerging players aiming to disrupt road transportation, the seven-year-old company is built around remote driving, where a human is very much present, though sitting in an office using TV monitors to guide the car.

Over the last year, riders in Las Vegas have been able to test drive Vay, and the company was demonstrating its technology ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s most important tech show.

The Race For AI Agents. Who Will Supply Tomorrow’s Workforce?

A German startup is pioneering remote driving technology, offering a unique alternative to autonomous vehicles. By utilizing human drivers operating from remote locations, the company provides cost-effective rides and vehicle delivery services. This innovative approach is gaining traction, with a growing fleet and thousands of completed rides.

In 2025, we’ll see more AI agents entering the workforce, transforming workflows by simplifying, enhancing, and automating tasks across industries.

UN aviation agency investigating ‘potential’ security breach

On Monday, the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) announced it was investigating what it described as a “reported security incident.”

Established in 1944 as an intergovernmental organization, this United Nations agency works with 193 countries to support the development of mutually recognized technical standards.

“ICAO is actively investigating reports of a potential information security incident allegedly linked to a threat actor known for targeting international organizations,” ICAO said in a statement.

Microsoft president says AI is ‘the electricity of our age’ as company prepares to hit $80 billion spend

“The Chinese wisely recognize that if a country standardizes on China’s AI platform, it likely will continue to rely on that platform in the future,” Smith said.

The US should move quickly to promote its AI technology as superior and more trustworthy, enlisting allies in the effort, he recommended.

For its part, Microsoft is on pace to invest about $80 billion this year to build out AI datacenters, train AI models and deploy cloud-based applications around the world, according to Smith.

Nvdia’s CES 2025 Event: Everything Revealed in 12 Minutes

At CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicks off CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics show, with a new RTX gaming chip, updates on its AI chip Grace Blackwell and its future plans to dig deeper into robotics and autonomous cars.

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Breakthrough in Zinc-based Rechargeable Batteries: A safer, sustainable alternative

Case Western Reserve University researcher advances zinc-sulfur battery technology. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power everything from electric vehicles to wearable devices. But new research from Case Western Reserve University suggests that a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative may lie in zinc-based batteries.

In a study published recently in Angewandte Chemie, researchers announced a significant step toward creating high-performance, low-cost zinc-sulfur batteries.

“This research marks a major step forward in the development of safer and more sustainable energy storage solutions,” said Chase Cao, a principal investigator and assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case School of Engineering. “Aqueous zinc-sulfur batteries offer the potential to power a wide range of applications — from renewable energy systems to portable electronics — with reduced environmental impact and reliance on scarce materials.”

Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life

A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement between microbes in a lab.

So much of life relies on endosymbiotic relationships, but scientists have struggled to understand how they happen. How does an internalized cell evade digestion? How does it learn to reproduce inside its host? What makes a random merger of two independent organisms into a stable, lasting partnership?

Now, for the first time, researchers have watched the opening choreography of this microscopic dance by inducing endosymbiosis in the lab(opens a new tab). After injecting bacteria into a fungus — a process that required creative problem-solving (and a bicycle pump) — the researchers managed to spark cooperation without killing the bacteria or the host. Their observations offer a glimpse into the conditions that make it possible for the same thing to happen in the microbial wild.

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.