NASA may be called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but the agency has been neglecting the aeronautics aspect of its research in favor of space-related projects. Charles Bolden, the agency’s administrator, thinks it’s about time that changed, which is why he&n
Despite the numerous protests of Western technology companies, and even a warning from President Obama himself, China’s legislature voted unanimously to pass the country’s controversial new anti-terrorism law. As with most laws that claim to be designed to combat
With the new Star Wars movie having finally been unleashed upon the world, this is the perfect time to be talking out the science fiction technology that’s quickly making its way into the real world. One such technology is lasers, which the United States military has been especially interested
For most of human history, industry has been seen as the antithesis of nature, and that’s been true for the most part. Now that we’ve entered what’s essentially a golden age of research and science, however, industry and nature are becoming integrated in a way that we’ve neve
For reasons unbeknownst to me, Japan is basically a Mecca for robotics in terms of both creation and adoption. In the most recent example of this, a theme park by the name of Huis Ten Bosch has decided to open a hotel that will be staffed by robots. Known as Henn-na Hotel, the name translates as Str
A Los Angeles International Airport flight bound for London was cancelled Sunday when a passenger’s phone picked up the Wi-Fi signal “al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork” that was emanating from a fellow flier’s hotspot minutes before the United Airlines flight was set to liftoff.
The US Navy has a cool new trick up its sleeve , its unmanned boats can now autonomously swarm enemy targets. The technology is called CARACaS (Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing) and it can be fitted on any boat, allowing it to operate either autonomously, or as a part of a
NASA has had its fair share of robots, or rovers, sent over to the Red Planet in the past, and it does not look as though the facility is about to slow down in its efforts anytime soon. In fact, NASA’s Maven spacecraft has reportedly arrived at Mars on late Sunday after completing its 442 […]
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to purchase the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. Ballmer and Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling reportedly settled on the deal late Thursday afternoon although Bobby Samini, an attorney for Donald Sterling, pointed out that there can be no sale
CNN announced on Friday that it’d fired one of its news editors, Marie-Louise Gumuchian, after discovering multiple instances of plagiarism in her work. According to CNN’s editor’s note, Gumuchian regularly covered news about Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. From CNN: “An
Neil Young wants to start a revolution against the MP3, against the CD, poorly made vinyl, and poor audio quality in general. He wants people to hear the music the way it was made. So at SXSW, Young introduced Pono. In Hawaiian, the word means righteous or goodness. For the world of sound it’s
4G and even LTE-Advanced seem so last generation now that South Korea has revealed plans to build a 5G network. The country’s communications technology ministry will put in 1.6 trillion won ($1.5 billion) and work with local firms through 2020. The 5G network is expected to be 1,000 times faster tha