Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Google Wants to Patent a Blood-Sucking Smartwatch
December 5th, 2015Via: Gizmodo: Just when you thought our data-driven lifestyles were getting a little weird, Google wants to make it creepy. The company just filed a patent application for a “needle-free blood draw” device that can be implanted in a wearable.
Car Turns Driver in for Hit-and-Run
December 4th, 2015Via: WPBF: A Port St. Lucie woman is under arrest in connection with a hit-and-run. Police responded to a hit-and-run in the 500 block of Northwest Prima Vista Boulevard on Monday afternoon. The victim, Anna Preston, said she was struck from behind by a black vehicle that took off. Preston was taken to the hospital […]
Google Increasing Staff in Makani Energy Kites Division
December 2nd, 2015Via: Business Insider: GoogleX is ramping up recruiting at Makani, hinting that the ambitious project to create “energy kites” that generate cheap wind power is moving closer to reality. In the past few months, Google has posted more than 30 Makani job openings, and a recent posting on the company’s LinkedIn page boasts that the […]
Q-Carbon
November 30th, 2015Via: PhysOrg: Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of solid carbon, called Q-carbon, which is distinct from the known phases of graphite and diamond. They have also developed a technique for using Q-carbon to make diamond-related structures at room temperature and at ambient atmospheric pressure in air. Phases are distinct […]
The Secret Message Hidden in Every HTTP/2 Connection
November 30th, 2015Via: jgc: If you spy on an HTTP/2 connection starting up you’ll notice that it sends an almost-but-not-quite valid HTTP request at the very start of the connection… Written a little more clearly that’s: PRI * HTTP2.0 SM The HTTP verb is PRI and the body contains just SM. Put them together and you get… […]
Amazon Unveils New Prime Air Drone Prototypes
November 30th, 2015Via: USA Today: Amazon revealed the latest prototype of drones it will deploy as part of its Prime Air service using the unmanned aerial devices to deliver packages in under 30 minutes. According to details released Sunday by the online retailing giant, Amazon says the drones weigh 55 pounds and can carry packages weighing up […]
DJI Launches Crop-Spraying Drone
November 27th, 201515 grand today. $499 in… three years? Via: BBC: Billion-dollar drone company DJI is expanding from consumer and camera drones into the agriculture industry. The Chinese firm’s latest model is a crop-spraying drone, which it claims is “40 times more efficient” than manual spraying, despite having just 12 minutes of flight time. It will be […]
The Next Frontier in Formula Racing: Driverless Cars
November 27th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: Imagine taking Google’s driverless car, mashing it up with Tesla’s zero-to-60-in-three-seconds “ludicrous mode,” and then pushing it to speeds of over 100 mph. Now imagine nearly two dozen of these souped-up robotic cars all speeding around on the same closed track and trying to outdo one another — without a human […]
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots for Combat Patrols
November 27th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: The Air Force has hired civilian defense contractors to fly MQ-9 Reaper drones to help track suspected militants and other targets in global hot spots, a previously undisclosed expansion in the privatization of once-exclusively military functions. For the first time, civilian pilots and crews now operate what the Air Force calls […]
Blue Origin: Successful Reusable Rocket Test
November 24th, 2015Via: NPR: It started with a boom and ended with a touchdown: Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has sent a craft past the edge of space and then landed its rocket safely – and vertically — in Texas. The flight of the New Shepard spacecraft was the second full […]
