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Europe’s longest hyperloop test track revives futuristic tube transport hype | Hyperloop

02/02/2025 avi maxwel

The longest hyperloop test track in Europe has opened, raising faint hopes once more that the maglev meets vacuum tube transport technology could be the future.

Operators said the facility would help prove the hyperloop’s feasibility, saying it could allow a 6,200-mile (10,000km) network of high-speed tubes to be in place around the continent by 2050.

As it stands, the European Hyperloop Center test bed in Veendam is not so much a loop as a 420-metre-long forked white pipe running alongside the railway and road that must still be used, for now, to transport people around this corner of the Netherlands.

Made of 34 interconnected prefabricated 2.5-metre-wide steel cylinders, the partly EU-funded test pipe is somewhat shorter than the 2-mile track envisaged in 2020, and allows speeds of only a fraction of the 620mph (1000km/h) that proponents believe the technology can achieve.

The test track at the European Hyperloop Center

Developing countries double down on technology at Havana summit

31/01/2025 avi maxwel

(1/5)Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the G77+ China summit in Havana, Cuba, September 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini Acquire Licensing Rights

HAVANA, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Developing nations on Saturday declared Sept. 16 the annual “Day of Science, Technology and Innovation in the South” as they prepared to wrap up a two-day summit on the subject.

“We note with deep concern the existing disparities between developed and developing countries in terms of conditions, possibilities and capacities to produce new scientific and technological knowledge,” the final declaration of the G77 group of developing nations and China said.

“We call upon the international community, the United Nations System and the International Financial Institutions to support the efforts of the countries of the South to develop and strengthen their national science, technology and innovation systems,” the organization, which now counts 134 countries, stated.

The statement cited the pandemic and

Best Technology Stocks To Buy For The Long Term

27/01/2025 avi maxwel

Top Technology Stocks

Technology is one of the most attractive sectors of the stock market. They’re a favorite of growth-oriented investors and risk-takers alike. Technology stocks have gained investor favor over time, leading to the sector now commanding 27% of the U.S. stock market benchmark S&P 500 Index in 2023 (compared to 11% a decade ago). However, these stocks also represent a high-volatility segment of the market.

When sifting through the myriad of technology stocks that the stock market has to offer, you need to have some parameters to help filter down the list. Here’s a list of my top technology stocks filtered using these parameters (and why):

Large-cap stocks: safe, having stood the test of time
Trading on the Nasdaq with a volume of over 1 million: investor interest and ease of trading
Short float of less than 10%: do not have a pessimistic market sentiment
Trading below-average

Opinion | We shouldn’t listen to tech entrepreneurs on anything but technology

26/01/2025 avi maxwel

In today’s noisy artificial intelligence marketplace, Adam Lashinsky’s query in his July 18 op-ed, “Why are we listening to tech moguls like Musk?,” resonated loudly. Why do we listen to only the loudest voices when some of the quieter voices might be echoing a truth we need to hear? Opinions are not truths, no matter who speaks them. And truths are only one component of wisdom, no matter their source.

Sorting out AI’s challenges and complexities must not be left only to those with the loudest voices. Tech giants whose profit motives encourage the rapid development of products and who sometimes ignore ethical standards are part of our world. There are other, quieter voices that also need to be heard, those for whom ethical responsibilities loom large. Their AI applications, although less well-known, might be equally important.

Take the recent spate of lawsuits against Big

Canada must turn to the next generation of Canadian technology – the CANDU MONARK – to power its future

22/01/2025 avi maxwel

Ontario has a homegrown solution to the problem of decarbonizing its energy supply in CANDU nuclear technology.
To meet increased demand and zero-carbon energy by 2050, new nuclear reactors will be needed in the province.IMAGE COURTESY OF ATKINSRÉALIS

Ontario will soon be making some big decisions about nuclear power. Already the largest beneficiary in Canada of this clean, reliable, stable power source, Ontario gets between 50-60 per cent of its power from nuclear. Recently, the provincial government announced its intention to build 4,800 MW of new nuclear power production at Bruce Power’s site in Kincardine, Ont., the largest operating nuclear site in the world. It has also announced that it will extend the life of four CANDU® reactors at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station for another 30 years of safe operation and that it intends to build four small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), including