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Man Escapes Burning Tesla After Electronic Shutdown

He saw smoke coming through the air vents and filling the cabin.

Lumber Manufacturer Fined After Worker Killed by Forklift

A 45-year-old employee was run over while walking through the company’s shipping yard.

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Also on the podcast, convicted killer's successful startup, Jeep's new layoffs, Bentley EV's brutal acceleration and Russian carmakers throw out key safety components.

U.S. Train with Deadliest Record to Get Faster

World’s Most Expensive Car Sold

Bentley Promises 'Brutal' Acceleration in New EV

Amid Sanctions, Russia Lets Carmakers Skip the Airbags

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Industrial Media Unboxing Video

IEN Unboxed is a new show in which our editors unbox new tools on the market and discuss their features.

Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS) drone prototype for real-time through-foliage tracking of moving targets.

Aerial Imaging Technique Improves Detection Through Thick Foliage

It can detect and track moving people in a dense forest.

Researchers have developed soft robots that are capable of navigating complex environments, such as mazes, without input from humans or computer software. The soft robots are made of liquid crystal elastomers in the shape of a twisted ribbon, resembling translucent rotini.

Noodle-Like Robots Navigate Complex Environments

Autonomous rotini.

Doctoral student Sebastian Gratz-Kelly from Professor Stefan Seelecke’s research group demonstrates the prototype glove that will be showcased at Hannover Messe.

Smart Films Facilitate Human-Machine Interaction

How smart tactile surfaces are now being used as novel human-machine interfaces.

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in Washington. The Federal Reserve intensified its drive to curb the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by a sizable half-percentage point.

'Soft' Economic Landing May Be Out of Fed's Control

High inflation and economic weakness overseas could thwart his efforts to avoid causing a recession.

John F. Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the United States, gestures during a news conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from May 22 until May 26, 2022.

At Davos, Climate Debate over Role of Oil in 'Going Green'

In different times the question could have been academic, but today it's urgent.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. On Monday, May 23, 2022, the District of Columbia sued Meta chief Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal.

Zuckerberg Sued Over Cambridge Analytica Breach

The District of Columbia wants to hold him personally liable.

VR equipment and a version of the TASER 7 that utilizes VR technology for training, is demonstrated, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Washington.

Virtual Reality Brings Portable Taser Training to Police

The program is aimed at increasing training for officers with Tasers in life-like scenarios.

An unsold 2019 Accent sedan sits at a Hyundai dealership in Littleton, Colo. on Sunday, May 19, 2019. Korean automaker Hyundai is recalling 239,000 cars because the seat belts can explode and injure vehicle occupants. The recall, which expands and replaces three previous recalls, includes 2019-2022 Accents, 2021-2023 Elantras and 2021-2022 Elantra HEVs, or hybrid electric vehicles. Owners will be able to take their recalled vehicles to dealerships where the seat belt pretensioners will be fit with a cap at no cost.

Hyundai Recalls 239,000 Cars for Exploding Seat Belt Parts

Three injuries have been reported.

U.S. Releases Environmental Study About New Idaho Test Reactor

It would be the first new test reactor built in the U.S. in decades.

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The Key to Riding the Long Wave of Inflation

We may never go back to "normal" as we knew it.

Automaker Stellantis has scheduled an announcement for Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Kokomo, Ind., for what could be the company's second North American electric vehicle battery factory.

Stellantis Making Indiana Announcement; May be Battery Plant

The automaker said it would build two electric vehicle battery factories in North America.