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Elon Musk has officially announced the start of production of the Tesla Semi and the date of deliveries of its first units to PepsiCo, who acquired up to 100 of these electric trucks years ago.

Tesla has announced that it will ditch the use of sensors in all of its electric cars in favor of the cameras and computational neural networks that make up the Tesla Vision system.

What they revealed could enable ultra-secure computing and new telescope technology

Estonia’s digital residency scheme makes it possible for anyone, anywhere in the world, to acquire a legal identity in the country, and to start and operate an Estonian company remotely. This is popular with digital nomads and entrepreneurs from outside the EU who want to trade as Europeans. But the system also works for technology start-ups, helping them get around bureaucratic barriers at home and access Estonia’s dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology, VU University Amsterdam and Radboud University in the Netherlands developed a new technique for monitoring biological rates in dynamic microbial systems using on-line measurements from a Thermo Scientific Prima BT benchtop mass spectrometer.1

After opening at the end of March, it took almost three months before Tesla was able to report the first milestone for its German Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin: for the first time, 1000 Model Y units were produced within a week, the company announced in mid-June. Since then, rumors of further increases have been heard again and again, and on Saturday the next round number became official: in the past week, 2000 Model Y were produced in the German factory, Tesla announced again via Twitte...

Experts are very critical of the government’s plan to cut Schiphol’s annual flight movements from 500,000 to 440,000, calling the calculation to get to that number one-sided and poorly substantiated. The Ministry ignored the criticism, EenVandaag reports based on its own research.

I speak With Max Ter Horst, entrepreneur and Managing Partner at Rockstart cleantech accelerator about what they are all about, how they help, and what part an accelerator plays in the cleantech ecosystem.

Andrew DeLuca, an electrical engineering major, is working on a first-of-its-kind rover that could aid in landmine detection.

With more than a million cars sold per year and with estimates of doubling that number very quickly, Tesla needs more batteries right away. This, among other reasons, is why it is going to expand its Nevada Gigafactory, aiming directly at a steady increase in production.