Race car vs. Excavator: Pushing the limits of hybrid technology - New Scientist

Yes, buying a mini excavator can become a valuable business opportunity in 2026 for contractors, rental companies, landscaping businesses, farmers, and equipment entrepreneurs who have consistent demand for excavation-related work. A mini excavator is no longer only a construction machine.

Rarely seen by the general public, rail road excavators are a critical piece of the infrastructure puzzle – one that can travel directly on the tracks while digging, lifting, and clearing obstacles from the track, working on everything from track maintenance and renewal to utility and civil construction projects. This one’s electric. Co-developed by Dutch equipment brand AMT and construction firm Royal BAM, the TW series of electric rail road excavators (available in 150, 160, and 180 sizes, representing 18-24 metric tonne classes) are all-electric machines packing a 600V electrical system managing a water-cooled, permanent-magnet electric motor putting out 121 kW (~160 hp).

Volvo designed the 50-ton class EC500 Electric to deliver the same performance as the diesel-powered EC500 the brand’s customers know and love – but saying that is one thing. Proving it? That’s…

We want to know how many times you can fold an iPhone Duo before it breaks. After waiting over three hours at the Apple store on Friday, we bought one of the coveted iPhone Duo foldable phones in Louisville, Kentucky, and brought it back to CNET’s lab, a bespoke facility where I oversee hardware and software testing as the director of lab operations. The goal is simple. As of Friday afternoon, my team and I have loaded the iPhone Duo into a proprietary machine we built to test foldable phones like Apple’s and Samsung’s rival Galaxy Fold 8, which we’ve already started testing. I’ve overseen the methodology and build of this testing rig for months in anticipation of Apple’s long-rumored foldable iPhone. (Read on for how CNET tests foldable phones.)

Using Google’s products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world’s largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won’t use the sensitive data from products like Gmail, Drive, and Photos for ad personalization, but a change to the company’s privacy policy appears to dismantle that firewall. On October 16, Google issued an update to its privacy policy, spotted by Android Authority. The ad personalization section used to include a clear limit on data from certain apps. “We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos,” the document said. Now, Google has updated it with the following language.