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Nvidia has unveiled what it describes as the world's most advanced gaming GPU, the GeForce GTX 1080. Designed to power the extremes of modern gaming, such as virtual reality and higher resolution monitors, the chip runs on Nvidia's Pascal architecture, which currently powers its DGX-1 supercomputer and Drive PX 2 in-car computer.

• GeForce
• NVIDIA
• Computers

• NVIDIA launches all new GeForce 800M notebook graphics
• Nvidia brings Maxwell graphics to the masses with entry-level GeForce GTX 960
• Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 690 Dual-GPU video card
• NVIDIA's hybrid technology balances PC performance and power consumption
• NVIDIA unleash GeForce GTX 200 GPUs
• NVIDIA officially outs GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 graphics cards

A few weeks ago, startup carmaker Faraday Future (FF) broke ground on a US$1 billion manufacturing facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be the first plant for the California-based, Chinese backed company that started in 2014 with a view on developing a range of connected electric vehicles. With robot greeters and a long-term goal of being powered completely by renewable energy, the plant is set to be as innovative as the cars that will come out of it.

• Manufacturing
• Faraday Future
• Cars

• Mokumono's monocoque design catches the eye – and brings manufacturing home
• Autodesk's CEO of today on the machines that will be making things tomorrow
• Behind the scenes at GE's future-forward factory
• Rethink Robotics announces more dextrous Sawyer one-armed robot
• Revolutionary steel treatment paves the way for radically lighter, stronger, cheaper cars
• Circa Cycles takes a modular approach to keeping costs down

Can't face the drive to the airport? Why not bypass the whole circus and jump in your two-seat, vertical take-off and landing all-electric engine jet aircraft? That's the vision for the Lilium Jet, an aircraft currently being developed in Germany under the auspices of the European Space Agency's business incubation center that boasts fly-by-wire joystick controls, retractable landing gear, gull-wing doors, and a claimed top speed of 400 km/h (250 mph). The creators claim that this personal e-jet could be made available to the public as early as 2018.

• Lilium
• VTOL
• Electric Aircraft
• ESA
• Aircraft

• XTI Aircraft Company offers stakes in the TriFan 600 VTOL business plane
• DARPA's unmanned X-Plane packs electric fans aplenty for vertical take-off and landing
• Can Boom bring back supersonic flight without the astronomical price tag?
• Cobalt's Valkyrie: Bruce Wayne's new private plane?
• Electric 18-rotor Volocopter makes first manned flight
• DARPA's ICARUS program to develop self-destructing air delivery vehicles

With a population of under 600,000, it's not surprising Luxembourg isn't currently on the list of spacefaring nations. But that hasn't stopped its government, along with the Luxembourg Société Nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement (SNCI), entering into a partnership with the US asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI) as part of the country's spaceresources.lu initiative to develop new commercial space technologies with an emphasis on asteroid mining.

• Asteroid Mining
• Deep Space Industries

• Deep Space Industries announces asteroid mining plans
• Russian meteor strike prompts call for asteroid sentries
• Subaru begins production on BRZ and Toyota GT 86 sports cars
• Goodbye ground control: Nanosatellites achieve first autonomous orbital maneuver
• Israel Aerospace Industries unveils tilt-rotor Panther UAV platform
• Companies join forces to standardize charging infrastructure

Engineers at the Toyota Research Institute of North America think they've found the secret to using magnesium in rechargeable batteries. This would replace lithium as a safer, more energy-dense option for batteries in everything from cell phones to cars.

• Battery
• Toyota
• Magnesium

• Magnesium and silicon carbide recipe results in lightweight metal with record strength
• New electrolyte to enable cheaper, less toxic magnesium-sulfur-based batteries
• Porsche goes after the purists with 911 R
• Stainless magnesium breakthrough bodes well for manufacturing industries
• The 6kg RS-X wheel - a carbon fibre rim with a magnesium centre
• LED lantern runs on saltwater

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