Search results for 'technology' (68)

Long Beach, California, United State--Haven-1, developed by the American company Vast, a single-module station designed to launch in May 2026 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and will support up to four astronauts for short-duration missions, sets the world record for the World’s First Private Space Station.

West Orange, New Jersey, United States--The Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey includes his laboratory complex and Glenmont Estate and houses over 300,000 artifacts and 5 million documents, setting the world record for the World's largest collection of Edison inventions.

Houston, Texas, United States--Lapsi Health announced the launch of Keikku 2.0, a breakthrough medical tool for clinicians who can listen, document, and diagnose in real time with a single device, the World's First FDA-Cleared Digital Stethoscope with Integrated AI Scribe, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California, United States--Rondo Energy has commenced commercial operations of a 100 MWh Rondo Heat Battery (RHB) — now running at full capacity at a Holmes Western Oil Corporation facility in California; the battery sets the world record for the World's Largest Industrial Heat Battery.

Goleta, California, United States--California-based organic photovoltaic (OPV) start-up Next Energy Technologies has unveiled a 101.6 cm x 152.4 cm laminated transparent power-generating window that was produced with the company’s pilot production line; the window is built with a substrate, a transparent OPV layer, an

Sunan County, Hebei Province, China--Chinese telecom heavyweight Huawei and state-run operator China Unicom had launched a commercial 10-Gigabit (10G) broadband network in Sunan County, Hebei Province, marking a significant development in next-generation internet infrastructure; real-world tests recorded download speeds of up to 9,834 Megabits per second (Mbps), upload speeds reaching 1,008 Mbps, and latency as low as 3 milliseconds, thus setting the new world record for the World’s First 10G Internet Network, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Plan-les-Ouates, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland--Featuring 41 'complications', 5 rare astronomical functions and an innovative Westminster minute-repeater, Les Cabinotiers Solaria Ultra Grand Complication from the Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin is a unique watch with 1,521 components and 13 patent applications filed, which sets the new world record for being the World's Most Complicated Mechanical Wristwatch, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--The Seha Virtual Hospital currently offers its remote healthcare services to over 200 hospitals, specializing in rare and complex medical case and has a capacity of 400,000 patients annually; this enables patients to receive comprehensive medical care in their local areas, eliminating the need for long-distance travel and significantly improving access to quality healthcare across the Kingdom, while setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Virtual Hospital, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Stamford, Connecticut, United States--United Rentals, Inc. has an integrated network of 1,520 rental locations in North America, 38 in Europe, 23 in Australia and 19 in New Zealand; the company offers approximately 4,800 classes of equipment for rent with a total original cost of $20.59 billion, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Equipment Rental Company, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Cerro Pachon, Elqui Province, Chile--The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, in northern Chile, house the Simonyi Survey Telescope, a wide-field reflecting telescope with an 8.4-meter primary mirror that will photograph the entire available sky every few nights; images will be recorded by a 3.2-gigapixel charge-coupled device imaging (CCD) camera, which sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Digital Camera, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Memphis, Tennessee, United States--Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, successfully made a nuclear fusion reactor in his family's spare room aged just 12 with parts he got online in his family playroom, setting the world record for being the World's youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States--Air Liquide officially opened its largest liquid hydrogen production and logistics infrastructure facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada; The facility, and the associated logistics infrastructure, marks a $250 million investment created jobs for 700 contractors and sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Liquid Hydrogen Production Plant, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Irving, Texas, United States--Caterpillar Inc., also known as Cat, (NYSE: CAT), an American construction, mining and other engineering equipment manufacturer, has over 500 locations across the globe, employs 107,700 people and distributed its products through 44 distributors in the US and 116 in other regions across 193 countries; with over US$37 billion in sales, Caterpillar sets the world record for being the World's Largest Construction Equipment Manufacturer, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Armonk, New York, United States--IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries; it has twelve labs on six continents, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Industrial Research Organization, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Mountain View, California, United States--Google LLC (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG) is an American-based multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI); capturing nearly 92 percent of the search market, it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Search Engine, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Menlo Park, California, United States--Facebook, (Nasdaq: META), a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta, was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates (Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes); Facebook championed over three billion monthly active users (MAU) as of January 2024, thus setting the world record for being the World's Largest Social Media Platform, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.



