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Next-Gen 2019 BMW X5 M Spied: It’s Maximized
– What It Is: Four fat exhaust tips and twin kidney grilles poke out of a midsize SUV sitting low on wide tires. Its driver pulls it into BMW’s M testing center outside the Nürburgring. We therefore wager that what we’re looking at is the next-generation BMW X5 M. READ MORE ›› – Car and […]
Next-gen Nissan Leaf launches September 5; new photo teased
Nissan has been slowly teasing the next-generation Leaf EV, and will continue to do so over the course of the summer. We now know, though, when the teasing ends and the feature presentation begins, as the automaker announced on Twitter that the new Leaf premieres on Sept. 5. The new Nissan LEAF Premieres September 5, […]
Next-gen Nissan Leaf launches September 5; new photo teased
Nissan has been slowly teasing the next-generation Leaf EV, and will continue to do so over the course of the summer. We now know, though, when the teasing ends and the feature presentation begins, as the automaker announced on Twitter that the new Leaf premieres on Sept. 5. The new Nissan LEAF Premieres September 5, […]
Nissan teases self-driving features for the next-gen Leaf
The next generation Leaf EV will be the first with ProPilot driver assist in North American and Europe, and Nissan has just showed how that will look. Activated by a button on the steering wheel, it can control steering, braking and acceleration, but only in a single freeway lane. The driver can see exactly what’s […]
US funds tech giants’ efforts to build next-gen supercomputers
The US government is giving six companies a total of $ 258 million in hopes that they can build an exascale supercomputer before China, Japan or anyone else does. A post on the Exascale Computing Project website has revealed that the Department of Energy has awarded AMD, Cray, HP, IBM, Intel and Nvidia $ 258 […]
WD’s next-gen SSDs add even more speed and capacity
Hard disk specialist Western Digital (WD) acquired SSD maker SanDisk last year for a colossal $ 19 billion, and now we’re getting some idea as to its strategy. The company unveiled two new lineups — branded under each company’s names — that feature the first SSDs to use 64-layer 3D NAND chips developed by SanDisk. […]
Kim Jong-un observes test & orders mass production of ‘next-gen air defense system’
Published time: 28 May, 2017 05:08 Kim Jong-un has ordered the mass-production and deployment of a new type of anti-aircraft guided weapon system which the North Korean leader personally witnessed being test fired recently, state media reported. Read more Without revealing the date and location, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim watched “the […]
We Drive the Next-Gen, 2018 BMW M5!
– It’s a week after the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon debuted, and it is still blowing up the internet. Its specs have already been tattooed on the faces of more than a few of Mopar’s faithful. But Dirk Hacker, vice president of engineering at BMW’s M division, hasn’t heard word one about America’s newest and […]
The tobacco giant behind Lucky Strike is spending billions on ‘next-gen nicotine delivery systems’
British American Tobacco. The buzzword du jour in boardrooms globally is “innovation,” with industries from banking to pharmaceuticals forced to contend with tech-driven disruption. Perhaps the most unlikely industry to face this grand wave of disruption is Big Tobacco — a field where the menthol once passed as innovative. “We are becoming a tech company,” British […]
