Internet der Zukunft: Niemand hat die Absicht, IP zu ersetzen

Mobilfunker und auch chinesische Konzerne wollen das klassische Internet ersetzen. Die Idee ist aber weder neu noch praktisch umsetzbar. Von Sebastian Grüner (Internet, Huawei)

Mobilfunker und auch chinesische Konzerne wollen das klassische Internet ersetzen. Die Idee ist aber weder neu noch praktisch umsetzbar. Von Sebastian Grüner (Internet, Huawei)

"Ich hoffe, dass das Nichtessen von Tieren zur Normalität wird"

Tönnies und der Corona-Ausbruch. Interview mit der Aktivistin Friederike Schmitz: “Wer unnötiges Leid gegenüber Tieren ablehnt, muss auch die aktuelle Nutztierhaltung ablehnen”

Tönnies und der Corona-Ausbruch. Interview mit der Aktivistin Friederike Schmitz: "Wer unnötiges Leid gegenüber Tieren ablehnt, muss auch die aktuelle Nutztierhaltung ablehnen"

Elektroauto: Keine Smart EQ mehr bestellbar

Der Smart EQ ist das günstigste Elektroauto. Doch wer gehofft hat, mit Umweltbonus und Steuersenkung bald kräftig zu sparen, wird enttäuscht. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Der Smart EQ ist das günstigste Elektroauto. Doch wer gehofft hat, mit Umweltbonus und Steuersenkung bald kräftig zu sparen, wird enttäuscht. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Elektroauto: Opel zeigt den Mokka-e

Opel hat den Mokka-e enthüllt, der bisher nur getarnt gezeigt wurde. Das Auto wurde im Vergleich zum Vorgänger deutlich kürzer. (Opel, Technologie)

Opel hat den Mokka-e enthüllt, der bisher nur getarnt gezeigt wurde. Das Auto wurde im Vergleich zum Vorgänger deutlich kürzer. (Opel, Technologie)

Corona-Impfstoff: China muss im Ausland testen

Chinesische Covid-19-Impfstoffe sollen demnächst unter anderem in Brasilien und den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten auf ihre Wirksamkeit getestet werden

Chinesische Covid-19-Impfstoffe sollen demnächst unter anderem in Brasilien und den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten auf ihre Wirksamkeit getestet werden

Everything we know about the new Ford F-150 truck—including the hybrid

New features include fold-flat seats, work surfaces, and onboard power.

On Thursday evening, Ford livestreamed the launch of its newest F-150 pickup truck. It's hard to overstate how important the truck is for Ford; the F-Series has earned the company tens of billions of dollars, and it regularly tops the chart of best-selling light vehicles in the US market. So redesigning the truck for its 14th generation is not a task the company has undertaken lightly—according to the automaker, more than a thousand hours of customer research has informed this latest evolution of an American staple. When it goes on sale this fall, it will be Ford's most advanced light truck ever, with over-the-air updates enabling new features and for the first time, a hybrid option, and a battery EV version due in a year or two.

What’s PowerBoost?

For model year 2021, Ford is providing a variety of options when it comes to powertrains. Most of these carry over from the 13th-generation F-150, including a naturally aspirated 3.3L V6, turbocharged 2.7L and 3.5L V6 EcoBoost engines, a naturally aspirated 5.0L V8, and a 3.0L turbodiesel. (Exact power and torque outputs are not being disclosed yet.) All these use the same 10-speed automatic transmission. As standard, the F-150 is rear-wheel drive, but it can also be configured with all-wheel drive, with an open or locking rear differential.

The new, exciting addition to these is called PowerBoost, which is Ford-speak for a parallel hybrid. It combines the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 with a 35kW (47hp) electric motor that's integrated into the transmission and fed by a 1.5kWh lithium-ion battery pack. The pack is liquid-cooled and located between the frame rails, so there's no negative effect on interior volume or the load bed. There's no overall power or torque figure yet, but we are told it should tow up to 12,000lbs (5,443kg).

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Europe officially sets its sights on a giant LHC successor

An enormous ring under Lake Geneva will host two colliders in succession.

Image of metal wires and equipment.

Enlarge / CERN makes its own superconducting wiring for the successor to the LHC. (credit: CERN)

The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle collider humanity has ever built, resides in an enormous, 27-kilometer-long tunnel that extends under the Swiss and French countrysides. What's often overlooked is that the tunnel was built for an earlier piece of hardware, the Large Electron-Positron collider, or LEP. LEP had been built specifically to provide a clean way to study the Z boson; only later was it converted to a higher-energy proton collider that enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Now, Europe is officially committing to taking a similar approach: building a huge tunnel at the CERN facility that will collide particles to enable a clean study of the Higgs boson. But Europe is leaving the option of using the tunnel for a future collider that could reach energies nearly 10 times higher than the LHC.

Electrons vs. hadrons

Electrons and positrons are fundamental particles; as far as we know, they have no smaller particles that comprise them. That makes their collisions extremely clean. The protons collided by the LHC, in contrast, are composed of a collection of quarks and gluons, making their collisions a complicated collection of sub-collisions that can be challenging to interpret.

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CDC: Here’s the latest on who gets the sickest from COVID-19

Risk increases with age and certain underlying health conditions.

A serious man wears a suit and a face mask.

Enlarge / Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), wears a protective mask during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday updated and expanded its list of who is at risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19—emphasizing that it’s not just the elderly who suffer from the disease.

Most noticeably, the CDC removed the specific age threshold of 65 and over for those considered at risk of severe COVID-19—that is, those requiring hospitalization, intensive care, ventilation, or those who die from the disease.

Now, the agency emphasizes that there is a gradient of risk based on age. In other words, there is some risk at any age, but that risk increases with age. A 50-year-old will have more risk than a 40-year-old, and a 60-year-old is at higher risk than someone in their 50s. The greatest risk is seen in those aged 85 and over.

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