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You probably won’t be able to buy a Toyota RAV4 this year
A North Carolina company grows its bricks instead of baking them, feeding bacteria calcium and water until they cement loose sand into solid stone at room temperature in three days, with no kiln and none of the 2,500-degree fire cement normally needs
A fleet of four robots just clamped down 100 megawatts of solar panels in the California desert at better than one a minute, the first time machines have done it at scale instead of as a demo, taking the back-wrecking job nobody wants off human hands
Canada just dropped a 953-tonne reactor into a shaft, but America’s newest one is the size of a parked sedan, an 85-kilowatt machine cooled by liquid metal with no pumps that makes barely enough power for a few server racks, built for one reason: to let everyone else practice first