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This is a sponsored article and all content and opinions expressed within are of the author.With Christmas and Chanukah right around the corner, families are getting ready to celebrate one of the most joyous times of the year. Gathering with friends and family for the holidays is something we look forward to all season long. Of course, it’s also the time of year when we give each other gifts.Christmas presents are especially important for children, who spend months dreaming about opening the perfect present on…

Having shown off simplified copter controls, Airbus Helicopters' FlightLab has completed a fully automated flight testing a new simplified tablet-based human machine interface (HMI) designed to reduce pilot workloads and increase safety.Normally, flying a helicopter is so complicated that it requires both hands, both feet, and the third hand that you don't actually have. Since flying in general is already an attention-heavy task, it isn't surprising that Airbus Helicopters and others are looking for ways to simplify the…

EMotorad, an Indian startup manufacturing electric bikes, raised $20 million in a Series B round as it aims to disrupt China’s market domination and expand its presence in global markets. The three-year-old startup has raised more than $22.5 million in total funding, with Singapore’s Panthera Growth Partners leading the latest round, along with participation from Alteria Capital, xto10x Technologies, and Green Frontier Capital — the startup’s existing investor. Additionally, the fresh funding round includes a debt of…

Swedish foiling e-boat maker Candela has announced the maiden flight of its P-12 passenger ferry, with its dual electric drives and tri-wing setup lifting the vessel above the water to reach a top speed of 30 knots. Series production has now begun, marking "the start of a new, sustainable era in water transport.""Today, in many cities, roads are congested while the waterways – mankind’s oldest infrastructure – is unused for fast commuting," said company founder Gustav Hasselskog. "The P-12 offers a path to use these…

Following the pedestrian collision on October 2nd, Cruise had its driverless vehicle permit revoked in California, but the company is now also voluntarily pausing its supervised and manual robotaxi operation in the US "in the coming days." This will be part of an expanded safety probe conducted by independent engineering consulting firm, Exponent, which originally came on board to focus on "a technical root cause analysis" of the aforementioned accident. The suspended manual operation will apparently affect around 70…

After a somewhat troublesome 2022, Hong Kong's Fiido has released an all-terrain fat-tire cargo ebike called the Titan that can ride with three batteries for a tasty per-charge range of up to 400 km.Back in 2021, Fiido essentially smoothed out the frame bumps of the funky D11 folding ebike and updated the seat-tube battery for the eye-catching X model – and hit Indiegogo to fund production. We got to ride one in March of the following year and were pretty impressed.But a few weeks after that review was published, the…

It's no secret that Starfield — out now on PC and Xbox Series S/X — is hands down one of the most monumental game launches of the year. For Bethesda, it's a gamble in uncharted territory as they undertake their first new universe in 25 years, set across the stars in a futuristic civilised corner of the Milky Way galaxy. For publisher Xbox, it's an opportunity to bounce back from a lacklustre 2022 slate and dominate the gaming conversation for a long time — probably years, given the staying power director Todd Howard's…

Back in 2020, a London startup launched an electric road scooter on Kickstarter that did away with the usual deck in favor of foot platforms on either side of a tubular folding frame for a face-forward riding stance. Now the second-generation Taur has been launched.Since the first successful Kickstarter, Taur has opened for business in Los Angeles as well as London and intends to ship the Taur II e-scoots to the US, Canada, the UK and continental Europe.New to the second-generation ride are larger, wider wheels wrapped in…

The Mahindra Scorpio-N is currently one of, if not the most popular full-size ladder-on-frame SUVs in its segment in India. The SUV is so popular that the company is sitting on open orders of around 1 lakh. Despite delivering so many every month, the bookings keep on increasing. The Scorpio-N has resonated extremely well with SUV buyers in the country, and a ton of people who have already received their cars are now modifying them to make them look distinct in the ocean of Scorpio-Ns in the country. Recently, a few…

As the monsoon has descended upon India, many parts of the country are experiencing heavy rainfalls. In some states like Goa situation is getting out of hand as a number of streets are getting flooded and causing massive inconveniences to common people riding on their humble scooters and bikes. When a flooded road is spotted in general most of the scooter and bike owners take a U-Turn however some people like this Ola Electric S1 Pro EV scooter owner decided to do otherwise. This particular owner of the hugely popular…