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eVTOLs are one of those things that many groups announce their plans to create, but fail to produce in actual physical form. Such is not the case with Overair's Butterfly however, the just-unveiled prototype of which should soon begin flight testing.To recap our previous coverage, the Butterfly is an eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft being developed by Overair, a California-based aeronautical startup. Overair's parent company, Karem Aircraft, has been involved in a number of vertical-lift-related US…

A Hunter x Hunter fighting game is officially in development, as announced by publisher Bushiroad at Jump Festa 2024. It’s being worked on by DNF Duel and Tatsunoko vs Capcom developer Eighting. According to Gematsu, more details will be shared at Bushiroad New Year Grand Presentation 2024, which occurs on January 6. The announcement was made at the publisher’s booth in Jump Festa 2024 on Friday. No gameplay or even screenshots has been shown as of the time of writing. No platforms have been announced either. Bushiroad…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully conducted a full-scale rehearsal of its new Ariane 6 rocket at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a significant step towards the launch vehicle’s first flight.Who’s This Thing Actually for? | PlayStation Portal Hands OnGround controllers performed the full-scale wet dress rehearsal on Thursday, November 23, according to an ESA press release. The exercise (carried out at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana) involved a complete launch countdown and a seven-minute…

Adobe's $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,63,400 crore) bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation following EU regulators' preliminary review, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.The move underscores antitrust watchdogs' wariness of tech deals where bigger companies may acquire rival start-ups to shut them down.An Adobe spokesperson declined to comment on the EU review. The spokesperson said: "We continue to have productive conversations with regulatory bodies…

Ola Begins Prime Plus Services in Bangalore. (Photo: Ola)The company informed that the same service also will be introduced in other cities as well this month.India’s largest mobility platform, and one of the leading ride-hailing companies worldwide, Ola finally announced a full-scale launch of Prime Plus service in Bangalore. The decision comes after witnessing the massive success of the trial programme in selected areas in the city. The company informed that the same service also will be introduced in other cities as…

via 20th Century Fox With a release date of February 2025 locked in, it’s reasonable to expect that the cast for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Fantastic Four will finally be revealed before the end of this year, with San Diego Comic-Con or Disney’s own D23 event standing out as the most likely destinations on the calendar. The internet has been awash with rampant speculation ever since the project was first announced in December of 2020 with Spider-Man director Jon Watts at the helm, but as far as we know…

Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative pyramid-shaped floating wind turbine, which reduces materials and weight by more than 30%, and promises a big saving in energy costs. As we've discussed before, the typical fan-on-a-stick pinwheel design used for onshore wind turbines isn't a great fit when it comes to…

Elon Musk’s The Boring Company announced that it is starting testing on its first full-scale high-speed Hyperloop transportation system. The company might fulfill Musk’s vision for a new mode of transportation 10 years after unveiling it. Back in 2013, Elon Musk released a white paper describing what he called the “Hyperloop,” a new mode of transportation consisting of building a near-hard vacuum environment in a tunnel or tube in order to move electric vehicles at high speeds more efficiently inside of them. At…

The replica of Noah's Ark in Kentucky is in keeping with its supposed Biblical measurements: 150 meters (510 feet) long, 15 meters (51 feet) high, and 25 meters (85 feet) wide. A full-sized model of Noah's Ark sitting in rural Kentucky promotes a worldview that draws visitors from across the United States—that the theory of evolution is false.…

Telos blockchain has launched a 54 million TLOS fund to incentivize developers to build and deploy on its ecosystem. The EVM-enabled smart contract platform announced this new development today as part of the program to take the network to the next level and bring more liquidity to its growing Defi ecosystem. While the network already has some Defi projects, such as Sushi, Omnilend, Elk, and others, there is plenty of room for more AMM and lending projects. In fact, there is a need for more projects to attract more Defi…