Self-driving cars don’t seem to be getting any closer, as tech firms shut down and prototype investigations pile up. However, the technology that goes into producing autonomous vehicles can still be useful, even if the steering wheel and pedals remain. Specifically, LiDAR is an important piece of tech, best used in tandem with radar and cameras.

LiDAR is an abbreviation of Light Detection and Ranging and it works by using light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure the range ahead. In automotive terms, LiDAR helps create a geothermal picture of what is ahead, something that is especially helpful when testing autonomous vehicles. However, as traffic fatalities have risen this year, it’s set to become an important tool for modern vehicles using advanced driver assistance systems. In tandem with cameras, LiDAR can help prevent accidents by engaging automated braking systems significantly earlier than a radar-based system could.

One company, Luminar, is set on reducing traffic fatalities by 100 million lives over the next 100 years, working with Volvo and Polestar. That’s a lofty goal, one that even I won’t be around to see. The system itself is all new, built up over 10 years, and works together with a computing core in Volvo and Polestar’s newest EV SUVs.

“Now that you can have dramatically greater safety on the vehicle, not just in autonomous mode, but all the time, there’s that opportunity for consumers to really go out and say, ‘Hey, we need this on our cars!’,” explained Luminar CEO Austin Russell in an interview with Autoweek. “We should be valuing our lives, we should be making this difference, we should see this democratized, not just as a select technology on high-end vehicles, but on every vehicle.”

Ultimately, Russell doesn’t want to replace the driver, but

CES 2023 in Las Vegas saw a return to full in-person attendance and along with that a bevy of automotive and transportation technology developments.

EV reveals from VW, Ram, BMW, Sony Honda Mobility and Peugeot took center stage and suppliers previewed their latest technologies, products and ways of doing business. In addition to new EV concepts, Stellantis laid out a new tech vision. 

Read this recap of our live coverage for all of the top automotive technology stories from the show.

CES 2023 in Las Vegas saw a return to full in-person attendance and along with that a bevy of automotive and transportation technology developments.

EV reveals from VW, Ram, BMW, Sony Honda Mobility and Peugeot took center stage and suppliers previewed their latest technologies, products and ways of doing business. In addition to new EV concepts, Stellantis laid out a new tech vision. 

Read this recap of our live coverage for all of the top automotive technology stories from the show.

Advanced technology battery start-up Log9 Material on Monday said it has raised USD 40 million (nearly Rs 325 crore) in Series B funding led by Amara Raja Batteries Ltd and Petronas Ventures.

The round was also participated by other investors, including Incred Financial Services, Unity Small Finance Bank, Oxyzo Financial Services and Western Capital Advisors.

”The recent round of investments will allow us to grow our battery manufacturing capabilities to a 2 GWH capacity by the end of 2024,” Log9 Material Founder and CEO Akshay Singhal said in a statement.

He further said it will also help the company to commission its first fully integrated Lithium Ion Cell production line.

”Furthermore, over Rs 100 crore will be invested towards advancements in cell and battery technology stacks,” Singhal added.

Log9 said it also plans to invest a part of the raised funds into ”budding start-ups and organisations that are solving challenges related to charging infrastructure, technology ancillaries and companies fighting climate change at large”.

On the company’s investment, Amara Raja Batteries Executive Director Vikramaditya Gourineni said, ”Log9’s progress in the field is significant in meeting India’s growing aspirations in the energy and mobility space. Battery manufacturing is the most critical part of the value chain that needs to be localised, and batteries designed in India for India will pave the way.” Petronas Ventures Head Arni Laily said, ”Log9’s approach to the future of energy continues to excite us and strongly aligns with the investment priorities of PETRONAS Ventures. This partnership will further enhance PETRONAS’ expansion in the new energy and green mobility sectors.” Log9 is also backed by CBC Japan, Grip Invest Advisors Private Ltd., Cornerstone Venture Partners, LO Funds, Oxy Capital and other leading angel investors.

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Scientists have long sought better tools to study teeth and bones from ancient humans. In the past, they’ve had to scour many ancient remains to find a sample preserved well enough to analyze.  

Now cheaper techniques and new methods that make damaged DNA legible to commercial sequencers are powering a boom in ancient DNA analysis. 

Today, scientists can even analyze microscopic traces of DNA found in dirt Neanderthals urinated in—no teeth or bones required. In November, the field now known as paleogenetics took center stage when Svante Pääbo, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, won a Nobel Prize for his foundational work.

Ancient DNA analysis has led to the discovery of two extinct species of human—Homo luzonensis and Denisovans—and taught us that modern humans carry a substantial amount of Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA. And the number of ancient human individuals for whom we now have whole-­genome data has jumped drastically, from just five in 2010 to 5,550 in 2020. 

By indicating that India’s population came from a mix of ancestors, these techniques have undermined the caste system. DNA from a 2,500-year-old battlefield in Sicily has revealed that ancient Greek armies were more diverse than historians depicted. 

Old samples can unravel modern health mysteries, too. Last year scientists identified a single mutation that made people 40% likelier to survive the Black Death—and it’s also a risk factor for autoimmune issues like Crohn’s disease. 

Differences in how cultures believe human remains should be treated will keep creating ethical and logistical questions for scholars seeking to work with ancient DNA. But its revelations are already rewriting history.

Mobiles which were once merely a mode of communication has now become an integral part of our daily life. With the time, the forms and usage of mobile phones have also changed.

Today, we are not just mobile phone users - we are the smart-phone users. What makes our phone smart is the set of programs which are designed to complete a particular task. It is an application.

In the past few years, mobile applications have changed the world unbelievably.Konseling Online  From booking movie tickets to the financial transaction to operating home appliances, everything can be done in just a snap through mobile applications.

The number of mobile applications downloaded worldwide in 2017 was 178.1 billion. This number will expect the increase by 2022 to 258.2 billion.

This means that there’s a huge possibility lying ahead for both - the mobile app user and for the mobile app development company.

Mobile Application Marketing

The demand for mobile applications is increasing every day. Be it an about editing any image or watching your premises through camera or be it managing your ac through mobile, for every big and small task you require mobile applications.

According to a survey, the mobile app revenues generated in 2017 was 88.3 billion US dollars, and this revenue is expected to rise to 188.9 by 2020.

With so many possibilities and good fortune, it is essential for mobile app company to have a proper mobile app marketing strategies so as to win this cut-throat competitive market.

Best Mobile App Marketing Strategies

There are many digital marketing agencies in Australia, each of them is striving towards building the marketing strategies for the promotion of mobile application.

The marketing of mobile application is a complex process and consumes massive time and efforts. On the same hand, Lowongan Kerja the mobile app