Waymo’s self-driving vehicles have now logged 10 million miles

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Green,Emerging Technologies,Autonomous,Future Here’s what’s planned for the next 10 million Continue reading Waymo’s self-driving vehicles have now logged 10 million miles Waymo’s self-driving vehicles have now logged 10 million miles originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 14 Oct 2018 11:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of […]

The US government logged 308,984 potential space-junk collisions in 2017 — and the problem could get much worse

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/JSC China’s Tiangong-1 space station recently crashed to Earth as a giant chunk of space junk. But there are millions of small, hard-to-track bits of orbital debris that can collide with satellites. In 2017, the US government logged 308,984 close calls with space junk and issued 655 “emergency-reportable” alerts to satellite […]

Japan’s economy just logged its longest stretch of growth in over a decade

Japan’s economy grew at the fastest pace in a year in the first quarter of 2017, according to data released by the government on Thursday. Real GDP increased by 0.5%, marginally shading expectations for a smaller expansion of 0.4%. It was also an improvement on the 0.3% increase of December quarter. It was the fifth […]