Drones

Pepper has become the de facto robot of the decade. Aloysius Low/CNET This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. It's 2019 and we still don't have ad…

Interesting read from AOPA. For anyone outside of the energy industry, the term “sock pull” may sound like a companion prank to “short-sheeting” a roommate’s bed, or a warm-up exercise at a slumber party. It describes the high-wire act of stringing lightweig…

Star Wars: Galaxys Edgeis at the cutting edge (heh) of reality imitating fiction, with Disney spending massive sums of money on converting a little pocket of its park to looking, feeling, tasting, and smelling like its really a part of the Star Wars universe,…

Key point: Even as early as the 1940s many countries were experimenting with what are today called drones. When it came to advanced military technology in World War II, arguably no one was better at it than Nazi Germany, whose scientists Adolf Hitler keep bu…

California has such a huge undersupply of housing -- and oversupply of housing speculators -- that affluent homebuyers have effectively rendered the state's major cities unaffordable for all but the very wealthy, even pushing into neighborhoods that were hist…

This is an excerpt from our full post on Drone Rush. Get all the specs and read all about the Mavic 2 Pro over on Drone Rush! When it comes to drones, one of the best you can get your hands on is the DJI Mavic 2 Pro. Launched in…

Do Not Pay, the "robot lawyer" that can help you do everything from beat a traffic ticket to getting access to services for poor and homeless people, has rolled out a new service: "Do Not Sign," a tool to analyze terms of service agreements. While its true t…

Every year around this time, our friends at Sparrow Lockpicks (previously) come out with a incredibly clever, giftable addition to your locksport arsenal; I always buy a few of these for Christmas gifts (often for younger people on my list) and they're univer…

After news broke that Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg had consumed a secret White House dinner with Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren characterised it as part of Facebook's "charm offensive with Republican lawmakers" in response to her call to use antitrust law …

This Coke can disappearing act is a fun experiment that reveals the hidden layer inside the soda's packaging. According to MEL Science, who posted their own version of this experiment in May, Coke is packaged in two layers of protective material, and only on…