Scientists hit 21.6% perovskite cell efficiency using concentrator PV
Elon Musk: Tesla Cybertruck already has 200,000 pre-orders
Deutsche Telekom looking into a possible merger with Orange: Handelsblatt
Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru…Loon’s solar-powered balloons reach altitudes of more than 12 miles (19.3 kilometres) above Earth and can cover areas within a 25-mile radius. Over the last decade, the company has improved the balloons’ life span to an average of 150 days (the record so far is 223 days).
How heat from the sun could help clean up steel and cement
Elon Musk says building the first sustainable city on Mars will take 1,000 Starships and 20 years
Yandex has built a fleet of self-driving food-delivery robots
researchers from the University of Oxford recently determined that the probability of our entire species going extinct in any given year is as high as one in 14,000.
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data (paywall)
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
Tesla Returns To Profitability, Smashes Analyst Estimates
“The Last of Us Part II” is now scheduled to arrive on PlayStation 4 on May 29, 2020
Some of the universe’s heavier elements are created by neutron star collisions
Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.8) mobile-only monthly plan in India
An Uber boss insists its flying taxis will be fully functional by 2023, and says the company is talking with NASA to find a way to manage air traffic
The think tank Carbon Tracker Initiative reported that four in five coal plants in the European Union were unprofitable and utilities faced losses of nearly 6.6 billion euros this year.
Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Most Popular Mobile Payment Platform in the US
No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers.
‘Whoa, it worked!!’: Elon Musk successfully tweeted using a Starlink satellite for the first time…SpaceX plans to start offering Starlink broadband services in 2020
“If you’re creating a paid-for product, you have to start charging from day one.”
AI Weekly: In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan
Virgin Orbit plans to launch first commercial small satellites to Mars
Uber’s newest feature alerts drivers that pets will be joining the ride
(Pivot) Dyson kills its electric car project and turns to solid-state batteries…Dyson said it will end its electric vehicle project after determining it could not make the car commercially viable or find a buyer…
NASA Administrator ‘very confident’ SpaceX crew launch could happen in early 2020
Steam will soon let you play local-only multiplayer games with far off friends