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Herald Sun
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Herald Sun
EVs embrace wireless charging
Don't miss out on the headlines from On the Road. Followed categories will be added to My News. Aussies could be soon charging their cars as easily and effortlessly as they charge their mobile phone, courtesy of game-changing new technology. A decade since Tesla debuted it's autonomous 'snake' charging technology, that never went into production, Chinese carmaker Li Auto has launched its own version of self-chargeding to the acclaim of many car lovers and tech enthusiasts on social media. The video of the family SUV charging itself via a robotic arm on a charging station stunned viewers and offered a glimpse of what motorists can expect in the very near future. MORE: Chinese brand moves into Holden's home Like something out of Terminator 2 or Blade Runner, the robotic arm reaches for the charging cable and using a laser scanning system inserts the charging cable into the car's electric charging outlet. It then unlocks and releases the cable when the charging is finished and is able to do so for all cars in the several bays of the charging station. However it appears the future might be even brighter than this. Self proclaimed 'optimistic futurist; CEO Elon Musk has indicated his EV darling Tesla will go even further, very soon. The laser scans the charging port. Musk has indicated induction charging – which like wireless charging for mobile phones is the process of transferring electrical energy between two objects using electromagnetic induction – could be available as soon as next year. Tesla's Cybercab service has been launched to much fanfare in Austin Texas and San Francisco. And if Musk is right, induction charging would allow the cars to be even more autonomous. It might not be that long before the cars don't need any human intervention at all. The other possibility is that Tesla's Optimus robot could perform the tasks around charging EVs and even maintenance that humans currently do. MORE: New ute to spark price war Iti's like something out of Terminator 2. Picture: Supplied Musk said on a recent earnings call for the car maker that he believes Tesla will be making 100,000 units of Optimus in five years time and predicts it will be the most sought-after product in the history of human kind. Musk has also indicated his Cybertaxis will use the wireless charging system and has rolled out a proof of concept as to how it will work, with the car moving over the top of the charge as it parks for charging to occur. It would appear to follow suit that inductive charging in EVs would take a substantially longer time than traditional charging via cables but Musk said that won't be the case. Aussies could be soon charging their cars as easily and effortlessly as they charge their mobile phone, courtesy of game-changing new technology. 'There is no meaningful efficiency difference between inductive and conductive charging if the system is designed right,' Musk wrote on X. There are also indications that the Cybertruck might be able to use induction charging when it is widely available and the applicable systems updates are made. Volvo is another leading carmaker moving down the road to induction charging. The Swedish car giant has begun real-world testing of the charging in partnership of Momentum Dynamics with its XC40 Recharge, reaching speeds of up to 40kW. Volvo is also going down the road of wireless charging. Photo by Thomas Wielecki Which would mean it could conceivable charge from 20 to 80 per cent in less than an hour. Originally published as EVs embrace wireless charging
Courier-Mail
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Courier-Mail
EVs embrace wireless charging
Don't miss out on the headlines from On the Road. Followed categories will be added to My News. Aussies could be soon charging their cars as easily and effortlessly as they charge their mobile phone, courtesy of game-changing new technology. A decade since Tesla debuted it's autonomous 'snake' charging technology, that never went into production, Chinese carmaker Li Auto has launched its own version of self-chargeding to the acclaim of many car lovers and tech enthusiasts on social media. The video of the family SUV charging itself via a robotic arm on a charging station stunned viewers and offered a glimpse of what motorists can expect in the very near future. MORE: Chinese brand moves into Holden's home Like something out of Terminator 2 or Blade Runner, the robotic arm reaches for the charging cable and using a laser scanning system inserts the charging cable into the car's electric charging outlet. It then unlocks and releases the cable when the charging is finished and is able to do so for all cars in the several bays of the charging station. However it appears the future might be even brighter than this. Self proclaimed 'optimistic futurist; CEO Elon Musk has indicated his EV darling Tesla will go even further, very soon. The laser scans the charging port. Musk has indicated induction charging – which like wireless charging for mobile phones is the process of transferring electrical energy between two objects using electromagnetic induction – could be available as soon as next year. Tesla's Cybercab service has been launched to much fanfare in Austin Texas and San Francisco. And if Musk is right, induction charging would allow the cars to be even more autonomous. It might not be that long before the cars don't need any human intervention at all. The other possibility is that Tesla's Optimus robot could perform the tasks around charging EVs and even maintenance that humans currently do. MORE: New ute to spark price war Iti's like something out of Terminator 2. Picture: Supplied Musk said on a recent earnings call for the car maker that he believes Tesla will be making 100,000 units of Optimus in five years time and predicts it will be the most sought-after product in the history of human kind. Musk has also indicated his Cybertaxis will use the wireless charging system and has rolled out a proof of concept as to how it will work, with the car moving over the top of the charge as it parks for charging to occur. It would appear to follow suit that inductive charging in EVs would take a substantially longer time than traditional charging via cables but Musk said that won't be the case. Aussies could be soon charging their cars as easily and effortlessly as they charge their mobile phone, courtesy of game-changing new technology. 'There is no meaningful efficiency difference between inductive and conductive charging if the system is designed right,' Musk wrote on X. There are also indications that the Cybertruck might be able to use induction charging when it is widely available and the applicable systems updates are made. Volvo is another leading carmaker moving down the road to induction charging. The Swedish car giant has begun real-world testing of the charging in partnership of Momentum Dynamics with its XC40 Recharge, reaching speeds of up to 40kW. Volvo is also going down the road of wireless charging. Photo by Thomas Wielecki Which would mean it could conceivable charge from 20 to 80 per cent in less than an hour. Originally published as EVs embrace wireless charging
Yahoo
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
This 1996 Action Classic Almost Starred Arnold Schwarzenegger Instead of Nicolas Cage
Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't need more movie credits to secure his place as a legend of action cinema. Through films like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Predator, Commando, and True Lies, by the mid-1990s, Schwarzenegger was already an icon of the genre. But there were other classic action films that almost made his resume even more impressive. Looking back now, it's hard to imagine anyone but Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery starring in Michael's Bay 1996 film The Rock, but believe it or not, there's a version of that movie that would have put Schwarzenegger in one of the leading roles. More on Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 2 was Almost Arnold vs. Arnold The Scene That Was Too Wild for Schwarzenegger's Commando How Stallone and Schwarzenegger Pushed Each Other with 80s Movie Feud Why Arnold Schwarzenegger turned down The Rock According to Schwarzenegger, speaking in to Empire back in 2012, he first heard of The Rock when producer Don Simpson approached him with a of. According to Schwarzenegger, the script was incomplete, and was covered in notes from Simpson's fellow producer, Jerry Bruckheimer. It was all enough to make the action star, who had a packed schedule already, back away from an unfinished concept. '[Simpsons] has 85 pages with him and there are handwritten notes all over it by Jerry Bruckheimer," Schwarzenegger recalled. "He says, 'Here, look at this script. But don't read it! Just, here's what the premise is...' He was all over the place. I said, 'Look, Don. I can't make a commitment based on what you're showing me here. You won't even let me read the script! Why don't you bake it some more, develop it some more and then we'll talk again.' He was very upset." Speaking on Jason and Travis Kelce's New Heights podcast last year, Schwarzenegger elaborated a bit more on what happened next. With him out of the picture, the lead in The Rock of Dr. Stanley Goodspeed went to Nicolas Cage, fresh off his Oscar win for Leaving Las Vegas and primed for a blockbuster run. With Cage on board, the script was doctored and re-tooled to better fit Cage's style, and the results were, for Schwarzenegger, hard to argue with. "Even though I was not in it, Nicolas Cage did a fantastic job," Schwarzenegger said. "Sean Connery was great. The directing, the writing, everything was really a straight 10. So I really enjoyed the movie but that was one movie for instance that I thought I wished I would have taken.' Of course, Schwarzenegger went on to many more films, and now it's hard to imagine The Rock without Cage as the nervous, overwhelmed Goodspeed, a scientist inserted into a world of soldiers and master criminals. It would have been a very different movie if Schwarzenegger had taken the role, but as the man himself said, what we got turned out to be pretty great. airs Monday, July 21 on SYFY. for complete listings. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
James Cameron calls Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer "a bit of a moral cop out"
Of the very small number of currently working Hollywood directors who could be said to be at, or even above, the level of Christopher Nolan in terms of both producing power and name recognition, James Cameron is almost certainly the one most willing to talk a little shit. Cameron has many laudable traits as both a filmmaker and an interview subject, but holding his tongue isn't one of them—something that became obvious in a recent conversation he had with Deadline, about a new film centered on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and where Nolan came in for some genuine critique over his blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer. Cameron was speaking at length about Ghosts Of Hiroshima, his planned film adaptation of the book of the same name, soon to arrive from his old buddy (and fellow Titanic and nuclear war obsessive) Charles R. Pellegrino. As with underwater travel, the intricate hair-bonding rituals of the Na'vi, and basically everything else he sets his moviemaking mind to, Cameron has thought and researched about this topic a lot, it is very clear, and he sounds really excited/horrified to tell the story of the bombs dropping. And that includes doing his damnedest to center the conversation in the viewpoint of the people the bombs were actually dropped on, something he (as Spike Lee did a few years back) criticizes Nolan's movie for flinching away from. 'It's interesting what he stayed away from,' Cameron noted of Nolan's film, after being reminded of the implausibility of turning Robert Oppenheimer's life story into a massive box office property. 'Look, I love the filmmaking,' Cameron acknowledges. 'But I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop out. Because it's not like Oppenheimer didn't know the effects. He's got one brief scene in the film where we see—and I don't like to criticize another filmmaker's film–but there's only one brief moment where he sees some charred bodies in the audience and then the film goes on to show how it deeply moved him. But I felt that it dodged the subject. I don't know whether the studio or Chris felt that that was a third rail that they didn't want to touch, but I want to go straight at the third rail. I'm just stupid that way.' (When told that Nolan felt it wasn't the place of his particular film to tackle the effects of the bombs from the perspective of the people they were dropped on, Cameron quipped, 'Okay, I'll put up my hand. I'll do it, Chris. No problem. You come to my premiere and say nice things.') Cameron has been on this particular topic for multiple decades at this point—this is the man who filmed that sequence from Terminator 2, so take it as read that he thinks about nuclear bombs more than most people—including traveling to Japan with Pellegrino to meet with Tsutomo Yamaguchi, one of the only people to have survived both bombings. (And who ultimately died of stomach cancer in his 90s.) Cameron is, among other things, un-shy about admitting he has limits on the story he wants to tell, too, saying he has no interest in using the film to discus the politics that led to the dropping of the bomb, and simply wants to capture its effects on the people who were at literal ground zero: I don't want to get into the politics of, should it have been dropped, should they have done it, and all the bad things Japan did to warrant it, or any of that kind of moralizing and politicizing. I just want to deal in a sense with what happened, almost as if you could somehow be there and survive and see it… I just think it's so important right now for people to remember what these weapons do. This is the only case where they've been used against a human target. Setting aside all the politics and the fact that I'm going to make a film about Japanese people…I don't even speak Japanese, although I have a lot of friends there. I've been there a million times, and I may need to work with a Japanese writer, a Japanese producer, so that I am not a complete outsider to their cultural perspective. I want to keep it as a kind of neutral witness to an event that actually happened to human beings, so that we can keep that flame alive, that memory. They've only died in vain if we forget what that was like and we incur that a thousand fold upon ourselves and future generations. More from A.V. Club Podcast Canon: Making Gay History is a treasure trove of archival recordings 3 new songs and 3 new albums to check out this weekend NASA Plus launches on Netflix this summer Solve the daily Crossword
Tom's Guide
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
'M3GAN 2.0' arrives on streaming and don't listen to the haters — it's exactly what a summer blockbuster's supposed to be
"M3GAN 2.0" isn't doing too hot in theaters, so much so that it's already on digital streaming. That's right, you can stream Blumhouse's sequel to the campy 2022 horror hit from home, less than three weeks after it opened in theaters on June 27. Typically, that's a sign that a moviemaker is desperate to drum up more buzz (and sales) for a flop in the premium video-on-demand market. "M3GAN 2.0" is no exception, earning $36 million during its theatrical run so far, compared to the original's $180 million global haul. It isn't faring much better with critics either. Currently, it holds a 58% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes (though notably, the "fresh" reviews slightly outweight the "rotten" ones.) But after seeing it in theaters, I'm here to say: Don't listen to those haters. If you're expecting another horrifying take on the rise of AI, you might be disappointed, sure. But if you go into it expecting a typical summer blockbuster where the only goal is to have fun and be entertained, you'll have a blast. Audiences seem to be on my side, too, as it has a considerably better 82% Popcornmeter from Rotten Tomatoes users. The sequel shifts from small-scale horror into a superhero action movie a la "Terminator 2," and that genre switch-up may have some viewers understandably bummed. That being said, I had so much fun seeing it in theaters that I think M3GAN's killer glow-up has the makings of the next sleeper hit on streaming. Those who enjoyed the original's campier parts will be eating good. There's more ridiculous dancing, more over-the-top deaths, more snarky comebacks and more queer overtones than you can shake a dismembered arm at. (Just look at that bisexual lighting in the image above — I am here for it!) Here's everything you need to know about where to watch "M3GAN 2.0" online, and when we expect to see "M3GAN 2.0" streaming free on Peacock. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. The first "M3GAN" introduced us to the titular autonomous android (played by Amie Donald and voiced by Jenna Davis ), designed by roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams) to be a companion for her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) after her parents are killed in a car accident. When M3GAN develops self-awareness and goes off the rails, taking her mission to protect Cady to deadly extremes, the two are forced to take her out of commission. The sequel continues two years after M3GAN went rogue. When a dangerous new android, AMELIA (Ivanna Sakhno), built using M3GAN's initial design starts cracking skulls, government agents break into Gemma and Cady's home demanding answers. Once they leave, Gemma, now an advocate for AI regulation (and who can blame her?), discovers M3GAN is not only still around but has been secretly pulling the strings to fast-track her career. With M3GAN's cover blown and her protocol to protect Cady still driving her, she volunteers to help take down her power-hungry counterpart, becoming a reluctant anti-hero along the way. There's just one condition: She'll need a new body, and she wants to be taller this time. As of July 15, you can buy or rent "M3GAN 2.0" on Amazon, Apple and other VOD platforms. As with other premium new releases, it's available to rent for $19.99 or purchase for $24.99, though the price may vary depending on your platform of choice. As of now, "M3GAN 2.0" is not streaming on any subscription streaming services. We expect to see "M3GAN 2.0" arrive on Peacock at some point in the future, but an official date has not yet been announced. We do have a guess, though. Another Universal release, "The Woman in the Yard," came to Peacock on June 27, about three months after opening in theaters. If history repeats itself, that would mean "M3GAN 2.0" could land on Peacock around late September or the first week of October. I'll always prefer a messy swing for the fences over a safe single. Even at its most chaotic, "M3GAN 2.0" remains energetic and entertaining, packed with the same sharp wit and wicked edge that defined the original. "M3GAN" became a hit thanks in large part to a surge of internet memes, and "M3GAN 2.0" definitely tries to recapture lightning in a bottle with moments clearly designed to go viral. Some land while others don't, though one standout reference to the infamous singing scene from the original had me and the rest of the theater cracking up. While "M3GAN 2.0" may not match the first movie's endlessly quotable appeal and it largely trades scares for pulpy mayhem, it still delivers plenty of wild, memorable scenes that are easy to lose yourself in. M3GAN's transformation from a once-lethal cyborg to humanity's protector will resonate with fans of the "Terminator" movies, the series's clearest inspiration. In many ways, it feels like an old-fashioned "turn your brain off and enjoy" action film, perfect for cackling over some popcorn on a summer night. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
