This week’s top 5 engineering technology articles offer up some pretty varied examples of all the aspects of everyday life that can be influenced by different engineering technology.
- Tesla Has Received 325,000 Preorders For The Model 3
- This Startup Uses AI To Automatically Create Videos Out Of Articles
- Is Mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ Tugging on NASA Saturn Probe?
- Millimeters-Thick Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Incoming Bullets
- Dang, The Death Star Is Coming Together Quick In The New Star Wars Trailer
Tesla Has Received 325,000 Preorders For The Model 3
Yahoo Tech
[Elon Musk is certainly no strangers to headlines, but according to this week’s projected numbers of preorders for the Tesla Model 3, he’s about to make a whole new headline. A $14 billion headline of record breaking proportions.
325,000 preorders for the Tesla Model 3 have been reserved. This is nearing three times the number expected which does have some analysts concerned about the company’s ability to meet the demand of the consumer. However, if they do manage to pull off this amazing feat and all of the reservations are fulfilled, it will mean the biggest one-week product launch in history.
The $1,000 deposit required for a Model 3 is indeed refundable so for those consumers who dream big without planning ahead, they can cancel. Speaking of which, anyone want to lend me $1,000?
This Startup Uses AI To Automatically Create Videos Out Of Articles
Mashable
Marketing departments at companies all over the world look for ways to extend their range and reach with their current audience as well as finding new eyeballs. One way to engage users at any level is video content. However, professionally produced video is expensive, time consuming, and requires a lot of specialty equipment. And now, GliaCloud is ready to help out companies who don’t possess any of the necessities to produce video on their own.
GliaStudio uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically create video summaries out of text articles. And it’s not just a text to speech video, it uses a voiceover function and pull in photo and video clips from content partners. And with the reach that video has, this can be a game changer for smaller companies trying to compete in markets against larger budgets.
Is Mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ Tugging on NASA Saturn Probe?
Space.com
Scientists have been looking for real evidence of the existence of Planet Nine, an undiscovered world potentially 10 times larger than Earth and four times the size, for a long time. Now they believe that within the next year, they may have actual proof.
Based on exploratory evidence presented earlier this year by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology, and the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn are going to help make their case.
Gravitational pull from a planet as large as Planet Nine is potentially having an effect on items from the Kuiper Belt and other celestial objects. I guess I just feel bad for Pluto which, for me, will always be the ninth planet.
Millimeters-Thick Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Incoming Bullets
Popular Science
As humans, we’ve always been pushed to advance technology even within areas where it isn’t necessarily in our best interests. Weapons of war have become increasingly more destructive over the last century as technology has gone from protection to destruction and back to protection.
A suit of armor in the middle ages would stop all known weapons. Then along came gunpowder to propel an object through the armor. Then bullet proof vests, then armor piercing bullets. Now, beyond the Kevlar there comes a type of composite metal foam that can stop an armor-piercing bullet in just a fraction of an inch.
With a strike face made of boron carbide ceramics, the energy absorbing metal foam in the center and a Kevlar plate backing it up, it can stop all types of current ammunition.
Dang, The Death Star Is Coming Together Quick In The New Star Wars Trailer
Wired
Anyone who regularly skims my posts should realize that I’m most certainly a Star Wars geek. So, when the Rogue One trailer came out I was absolutely interested. And then I ran across this article. I will have to tip my hat…I’m not this much of a Star Wars geek, but I do appreciate that I can partake after the analysis is done.
Using some software and physics based analysis as well as assumptions from the original movies about the Death Star the tracking of the weapons panel is the focus of this article. I won’t get into all the intricate details; you can read the full article for that. However, the author does call a bit of shenanigans on how it all comes together. But again, I won’t spoil that for you either.
So, until next time, feel free to scour the globe (and beyond) to find great examples of how engineering technology is propelling forward into the future.
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