Future

Last year, at the IAA show in Berlin, BMW gave us a first look at what it calls the Neue Klasse, a "new class" of sedan that would not only drive BMW into its electric future, but also create a platform with greater efficiency and driving dynamics than we've yet seen from the German brand.Now, the company is showing us an evolution of that concept. A taller one at that, to see just how that same idea for future electrification would apply to an SUV. In keeping with BMW's naming conventions, this one's called the Neue…

This week, Future and Metro-Boomin are returning to the rap game grandly with We Don’t Trust You, the first half of a two-part album — the sequel, rumored to be an R&B-focused project, drops April 12th. Their release will compete with Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2, the second volume in a series of three albums over three months. There’s also Beyoncé’s upcoming record, Act II: Cowboy Carter, which drops next week and follows 2022’s Act I: Renaissance. The country-focused album already has fans speculating on…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER (AP Economics Writer) WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday that they still expect to cut their key interest rate three times in 2024 despite signs that inflation was surprisingly high at the start of the year. Yet they foresee fewer rate cuts in 2025, and they slightly raised their inflation forecasts. After ending their latest meeting, the officials kept their benchmark rate unchanged for a fifth straight time. In new quarterly projections they issued, the policymakers…

An artistic impression of the ice-ray lattice shell. Credit: Dr Rian (XJTLU) Chinese ice-ray lattice, or "binglie" as it is called in Chinese, is an intricate pattern that looks like cracked ice and is a common decorative element used in traditional Chinese window designs. Originally inspired by fragmented patterns on ice or crackle-glazed ceramic…

In a world where innovation rules and opportunities are everywhere, there’s a project all set to redefine the very core of decentralized finance. Meet Healix Protocol, a visionary force in the crypto world, geared up to unleash a massive wave of change through its highly anticipated HLX token presale. Revolution in Financial Systems Healix Protocol isn’t simply another cryptocurrency venture, it embodies a revolutionary shift in the paradigm of finance. By harnessing the transformative potential of blockchain…

Taking a look at the Web 3 scene over the last few months shows that it has been filled with a large amount of new projects. In search of the rising returns brought by the bull run, a ton of new projects have come to the scene. Now, it is left for the best investor to do their research and figure out what projects have value propositions that are worth looking into long-term. In line with that, a good example seemed to be Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Solana (SOL) investors. In search of where to invest their…

MOSELEY'S LOVE FOR caves began on a family camping trip to Cheddar, Somerset, when she was 12 years old. When an opportunity came up to take a guided tour of some local caves, she made her first foray into the dim, labyrinthine underbelly of the earth’s crust. Crawling about in the muck, she was instantly hooked: she started saving the money from her paper round so that on future holidays to Somerset she could disappear into those caves once more. “I just absolutely loved it,” Moseley says. “Other people might get the…

In 2020, EVTEC installed five charging stations outside Islington Town Hall in London, and the company will launch another trial with Swiss car-sharing provider Mobility later this year using 50 Honda electric cars. Since the cars are reserved or used via a booking system, the software developers can clearly define and control when a charging station taps the surplus electricity and when not.It has already been proven that bidirectional chargers can save users money. A consortium including energy company OVO Energy and…

With NVIDIA’s announcement of AI Enterprise 5.0 and NVIDIA Inference Microservices at the GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang plans to begin an era of making enterprise AI deployment easier and more widely applicable than ever before – possibly while changing the main way people interact with computers. The idea of controlling and programming computers with prompts alone is similar to what Humane has proposed with its prompt-based Ai Pin, but Huang extends it to developers and IT as well as consumers: “The job of…

What happened to “as long as the baby is healthy”? For some expecting parents, the sex of their future baby has become a priority, with one mother opening up about experiencing “gender disappointment.” After encouraging other parents to embrace their feelings, she ignited a heated conversation about motherhood.A woman named Autumn Freeman candidly shared her initial reaction during the gender reveal of her baby girl, displaying visible disappointment when pink streamers flew out instead of blue.The expecting mom took to…