GM’s car-sharing program links Uber drivers to weekly rentals

Posted on 02/11/2016 by Engadget RSS Feed

While we mostly think of GM's Maven program as just a ZipCar-like car sharing service, it's more generally an option for "flexible" access to vehicles. That's why Maven is a part of Lyft's Express Drive program that offers up short term rentals for d...

GM’s car-sharing service arrives in Los Angeles

Posted on 28/10/2016 by Engadget RSS Feed

Maven, General Motors' car-sharing service, is finally coming to the City of Angels. Though Maven has been around in other cities for awhile now -- Ann, Arbor, Mich., Boston, New York City and San Francisco to name a few -- its move to Los Angeles is...

NASA’s MAVEN Probe Observes how Water Escapes From Mars

Posted on 20/10/2016 by ians

After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, NASA's MAVEN mission has found that the escaping water does not always go gently into space.Sophisticated...

NASA’s MAVEN Delivers Ultraviolet View of Mars

Posted on 18/10/2016 by ians

NASA's MAVEN mission has returned images showing the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behaviour.They include the first...

GM’s car-sharing service Maven lands in San Francisco

Posted on 14/10/2016 by Engadget RSS Feed

There's a new option to getting around the streets of San Francisco. GM has announced the immediate availability of its car-sharing platform Maven in the City by the Bay. The automaker -- which has a substantial $500 million investment in Lyft -- wil...

OnStar is helping GM plan for an autonomous-car future

Posted on 18/03/2016 by Roberto Baldwin

General Motors has been on a tear lately. The automaker recently invested $500 million in Lyft and acquired both self-driving startup Cruise and ride-share company Sidecar. And that's all since January. But there's one thing that GM has had for years...

Keep a Zipcar for as long as you want

Posted on 25/02/2016 by Timothy J. Seppala

Just ahead of GM's car-sharing service Maven launching in Ann Arbor, resident rival Zipcar is punching back. The latter's unveiling a new system wherein you could keep a car indefinitely rather than being stuck to a rigid reservation schedule. Switch...

NASA’s closer to knowing why Mars’ surface is cold and dead

Posted on 06/11/2015 by Christopher Klimovski

It looks like NASA's figured out one of the reasons why Mars isn't fit for human -- or any other kind -- of life. The space agency held another press conference to discuss why Mars has turned from what was thought to be a wet, lush planet (that mig...

Watch NASA launch its Maven mission to Mars at 1:30pm (video)

Posted on 18/11/2013 by Daniel Cooper

What are the clouds of Mars made of? That's the question that'll be answered when NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) probe reaches our neighbor. Before that can happen, however, it needs to leave home on its long journey, which is scheduled to commence around 1:30pm ET today. The stream kicks off from 11:00, showing the preparations live from Cape Canaveral, so if you're interested in watching what goes down, or, more appropriately, what goes up, head past the break and grab some popcorn.

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NASA and Lockheed Martin finish MAVEN probe, hope to study Mars’ upper skies

Posted on 09/02/2013 by Jon Fingas

Us humans are surprisingly familiar with Mars' surface, yet we haven't studied its higher altitudes -- an odd discrepancy when the sky plays as much of a role as the soil in determining the planet's climate. We'll get a better balance in our research now that NASA and Lockheed Martin have finished constructing the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe, or MAVEN. The robot craft will learn how quickly the Martian atmosphere is escaping into space and give us a better idea of how the planet's arid landscape came to be. Lockheed Martin still needs to conduct space simulation tests and ship MAVEN to the Kennedy Space Center, but the ship should launch in November and deliver results roughly a year later; that's a quick turnaround for a probe that could answer riddles spanning millions of years.

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