Blue Origin to make 10th flight test of space tourist rocket
Blue Origin, the rocket company headed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is poised to launch the 10th test flight of its unmanned New Shepard rocket on Wednesday as it competes with Virgin Galactic to become the first to carry tourists on brief visits to
Amazon Begins Testing Delivery Robots
Prepare for Johnny 5 Amazon Scout.
On Wednesday, Amazon.com said its autonomous delivery robot, Amazon Scout, will begin delivering packages to a neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington. The device, a prototype for a robotic delivery service so
Shouldn't We All Have Seamless Micropayments By Now?
Back in the 1990s, when Tim Berners-Lee and his team were creating the infrastructure of the World Wide Web, they made a list of the error codes that would pop up when something went wrong. You've surely encountered many of them: "404 Not Found,
China's Second Gene-Edited Fetus Is 12-14 Weeks Old
Professor He Jiankui is a consummate Chinese Technocrat, applying advanced technology to the human condition while scorning oversight and regulation. The human genome has now officially been violated. ? TN Editor
Giant Grocery Chain To Rollout Robots To 500 Stores
Robots are invading grocery stores throughout America. "Marty" is a limited-purpose robot but will still replace a number of entry-level jobs that are so important for teenagers just entering the workforce. ? TN Editor
Doogee S90: A Modular Rugged Phone (That's Actually Useful!)
Modular phones never quite panned out, did they? But in the rugged device market, it turns out they're quite useful. Doogee has consistently stood out in a sea of Chinese import phones: sometimes with innovation, sometimes with quirky design choice
The World's First Robotic Kitchen - TV Commercial
The Future is Served. Thanks to the motion-capture system the robotic kitchen can now precisely replicate the actions of a master chef thereby creating a variety of delicious dishes, cooked to world-class standards, for the domestic kitchen and for o
Chang'e 4 Lunar Landing In Detail
I took the best video from an official source, then corrected it for real time, interpolated frames to smooth it using butterflow. Then using the high quality video I try to map through all the features we see to provide an idea of how large the crat
Could SpaceX's BFR replace traditional airliners?
With SpaceX announcing the BFR's first official mission to the moon, the possibility of Earth to Earth travel seems a little bit closer. In this video, we look at what needs to be done before Earth to Earth rocket travel can replace the traditional a
Lexar breaks out 1 TB SDXC memory card
With a bunch of digital cameras now able to record video is glorious 4K UHD resolution and 360° cams able to capture all-around scenes, even the highest capacity memory cards may start to tremble at the prospect of storing all that data.
Achieving The Third Letter of Captain Marque
The Third Letter of Captain Marque begins by explaining that the Crown grabs "every scrap of intel," but then, very importantly, it goes on to note the fact that encryption alone isn't nearly enough to solve this problem
How Fusion Propulsion Will Work
Fusion reactions release an enormous amount of energy, which is why researchers are devising ways to harness that energy into a propulsion system.
How Antimatter Spacecraft Will Work
NASA is possibly only a few decades away from developing an antimatter spacecraft that would cut fuel costs to a fraction of what they are today.