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This self-charging electric-vehicle maker is giving Tesla a run for its money — and an IPO could be just around the bend

Sono Motors, a German company whose electric vehicles charge themselves, is giving Tesla a run for its money in terms of cash preorders for its flagship vehicle and could go public soon. Founded in 2016, Munich-based Sono Motor’s flagship Sion vehicle is encased with solar cells that allow it to self-charge, adding 112 kilometers of solar-generated range to its 54kWh battery each week. Also equipped with a battery that can be charged off the electricity grid, the five-seat Sion is said to be able to travel 305 kilometers on a single charge — nearly 190 miles — with a planned…

Roscosmos Launches Progress MS-17 to the International Space Station

Roscosmos has launched their latest resupply mission to the International Space Station, Progress MS-17. The launch occurred at 23:27 UTC on June 29 from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle was used to launch the Progress MS-17 spacecraft. The mission is known to NASA as Progress 78P, as Progress MS-17 is the 78th Russian resupply mission to the ISS. Pre-launch preparations In early March 2020, the Progress MS-17 spacecraft arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after traveling from the RSC Energia manufacturer by rail. On March 11, 2020, the spacecraft was moved to Site…

Smallest, densest white dwarf ever discovered packs the sun’s mass into a moon-size stellar corpse

Astronomers may have discovered the smallest and heaviest white dwarf star ever seen, a smoldering ember about the size of our moon but 450,000 times more massive than Earth, a new study finds. White dwarfs are usually about the size of Earth and are the cool, dim cores of dead stars that are left behind after average-size stars have exhausted their fuel and shed their outer layers. Our sun will one day become a white dwarf, as will about 97% of all stars. Although the sun is alone in space without a stellar partner, many stars orbit around each other…

Latin America and the price war for Software Development services

In a globalized world as it is currently, the concept of going to an office every day to work is gradually disappearing, and with the current pandemic due to COVID-19 it is forcing a change of concept to what area of work it means. This change in concept arises since technology currently allows working from home as if you were in the office, meeting hours, handling documentation among many other tasks that generally must be performed in a work area. There is also a new career in the labor area such as computer systems programming, currently programmers are in high…

Surprising Discovery of Dozens of Underground “Lakes” on Mars Leaves Scientists Puzzled

A new paper finds more radar signals suggesting the presence of subsurface ‘lakes,’ but many are in areas too cold for water to remain liquid. In 2018, scientists working with data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) Mars Express orbiter announced a surprising discovery: Signals from a radar instrument reflected off the Red Planet’s south pole appeared to reveal a liquid subsurface lake. Several more such reflections have been announced since then. In a new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, two scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California describe finding dozens of similar radar reflections…