Oracle

With about 100 days left before the America's Cup kicks off in Bermuda, Oracle Team USA recently took their racing boat out of the warehouse and put it in the water. New Atlas was on hand at the event, which included a question-and-answer session with team skipper, Jimmy Spithill.

A partnership between America's Cup defenders Oracle and aircraft makers Airbus was announced in 2014. Today the sleek, speedy child of that union was revealed to the world in Bermuda, and New Atlas was on-hand to witness it.

The Platypus is an electrically-powered underwater exploration craft that enables two people to travel for eight hours above the water at 10-12 knots or below the water at 3-4 knots.

Audi has revealed that an Autonomous TTS has completed the Pike’s Peak mountain course in 27 minutes. An expert driver in the same car would take 17 minutes. The race between computer and human has started, and we're long odds-on to LOSE!

The America's Cup has won by Larry Ellison's Team BMW Oracle trimaran which trounced the Swiss Alinghi team's Catamaran in a one-sided event.

The America's Cup kicked off yesterday and just 40 nautical miles later, the whole event seems all but over, as BMW Oracle was clearly faster downwind and particularly so upwind in comparison to the defending champ Alinghi V in conditions which were expected to favour the Swiss.

Only one team at this year's America's Cup will have the Racer's Edge - a laser wind activity detection system that can literally build up a 'wind map' extending as much as a kilometer in front of the vessel.

Team USA (BMW Racle Racing) has put together one of the craziest boats ever to contest this year's America's Cup - it features a 57 metre solid, motorized carbon fiber wing in place of a main sail, for starters.