Ivan Stepanov's Nuclear War Simulator shows the real-life dangers of nuclear war. Nuclear war is nothing new in video games that splatter graphic images of a barren dystopia on your screen, but Nuclear War Simulator is not a game.
NWS was developed by Ivan Stepanov as a mod to the nightmarish video game Defcon, which lets you command a global superpower in the heat of nuclear war. The problem was that Stepanov didn’t have enough freedom with the simulator as just a mod. How do you see a smart environment? Fully Driverless Grocery Deliveries Have Started In Arizona. It could still be several years before you ride in a fully autonomous car with no human backup on public roads.
Your groceries, however, can take that ride today. That is as long as you live in the Scottsdale area and shop at Fry’s. Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has kicked off a pilot project in Arizona by teaming up with grocery Kroger. Just in time for Christmas, Nuro’s compact driverless R1 “pods” are hitting the roads to save locals from yet another run to the store during the annual holiday craziness. The R1 can handle two deliveries at the same time. Like some of the other, smaller delivery drones that are rolling around streets and sidewalks, customers gain access to their orders by entering a code on a keypad. The compact R1 isn’t built for long-range deliveries that require a heavier foot. Its size helps, too. Among those evasive actions: self-sacrifice. More on Geek.com: Why you have (probably) already bought your last car. Image copyright Getty Images I'm guessing you are scoffing in disbelief at the very suggestion of this article, but bear with me.
A growing number of tech analysts are predicting that in less than 20 years we'll all have stopped owning cars, and, what's more, the internal combustion engine will have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Elowan is a Cyborg Plant That Can Move Towards the Light. There’s little telling what the future holds for technology.
Flying cars, once thought to be a 20th Century certainty, have barely made it off the ground. Facebook, once a tool for rating college co-eds, has become one of democracy’s greatest threats. And who but Jeff Bezos would’ve thought online book sales could turn into $150 billion? So, it doesn’t sound so crazy when Harpreet Sareen, a designer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, says our cities might someday be lush with plant-robot hybrids.
Like a modern day Dr. Enter Elowan, a cybernetic plant unveiled this month by Sareen and his team. Driverless buses to start Edinburgh-Fife journeys within months. Are hydrogen trains the future of UK travel? First refurbished high-speed train starts on Aberdeen-Edinburgh line next week. Image copyright ScotRail The first of a fleet of upgraded high-speed trains (HSTs) is to enter service in Aberdeen next week, it has been announced.
Rail operator ScotRail said the first of the 26 newly-refurbished Inter7City trains would run from Aberdeen to Edinburgh via Dundee from Monday. The diesel trains date back to the 1970s but they have all been renovated, at an estimated total cost of £54m. The first of the refurbished trains had been supposed to be introduced in May.
But ScotRail admitted the refurbishment project had been "a challenge". The Intercity 125 Class 43 HSTs (high-speed trains) will operate on the lines from Aberdeen and Inverness to Glasgow and Edinburgh, which take in Dundee, Perth and Stirling. The rail operator's boss Alex Hynes is reported to have told an SNP conference fringe meeting earlier this week that "people don't care how old their trains are". Why you have (probably) already bought your last car. Electric cars: Charge points could be requirement in new build homes. Image copyright PA New homes in suburban England would need to be fitted with electric car charging points under a government proposal to cut emissions.
Ministers also want new street lights to come with charge points wherever there's on-street parking. Details of a sales ban on new conventional petrol and diesel cars by 2040 are also expected to be set out. The strategy comes at a time when the government is facing criticism for failing to reduce carbon emissions. The government's target is to reduce the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% of 1990 levels by 2050. The proposals, announced by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, aim to make it easier to recharge an electric car rather than refuel petrol or diesel vehicles.
They include: Mr Grayling said the proposed measures would mean the UK having "one of the most comprehensive support packages for zero-emission vehicles in the world". Image copyright AFP/ Getty Images Analysis by BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin. Virginia School Board Votes to Allow Armed Teachers in County Schools. First driverless buses to be trialed this year. Transport firm Stagecoach has announced plans to trial a driverless bus.
The bus will be used without a driver in depots for manoeuvres such as parking, fuelling and washing. The company said legal restrictions prevent the vehicle being used without a driver when passengers are on board but in future the technology is expected to be used more widely.