Electric multicopter flies manned for the first time
By Editor The e-volo electric multicopter has been taken on its first manned test flight by inventors Thomas Senkel, Stephan Wolf and Alexander Zosel in […]
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Analysis: CIA Open Source Center monitors Facebook, Twitter, blogs
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS The Associated Press has been given unprecedented access to the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Center, which is tasked with, […]
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Here’s Facebook’s Massive Arctic Server Farm
By Sam Biddle What do you get when you spend over $700 million on a new Swedish party house for your servers? This. 300,000 feet […]
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Lighting Sheets Made of Tiny LEDs
By Kevin Bullis A company called Nth Degree Technologies hopes to replace light bulbs with what look like glowing sheets of paper (as shown in […]
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What Is Google Ripples?
By Mario Aguilar Google released a bunch of new Google+ features yesterday, including “What’s Hot” and Instagram-ish photo filters—those weren’t big surprises. But Google Ripples? […]
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Google Street View Is Going Inside Buildings (Sorta)
By Sam Biddle Google Street View is a magical realm of accidental crimes in progress, fires, and other assorted serendipitous fun. Now, you’ll be able […]
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Special Ops’ Latest Drone: A Russian Doll of Death
By Katie Drummond Come spring, there’ll be a new drone in the Special Ops arsenal of annihilation. Call it … the Robotic Russian Doll of […]
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Invisibility Tiles Can Cloak Any Shape
By editor The science of invisibility is rapidly moving from a focus on research to a focus on development. In other words, this discipline is […]
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Japanese Defense Ministry shows world’s first spherical flying machine
By Randolph Jonsson Announced last summer by the Technical Research and Development Institute at Japan’s Ministry of Defense (JMD) and recently unveiled at Digital […]
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Microsoft HoloDesk lets users handle virtual 3D objects
By Paul Ridden Does anyone remember the animated version of Star Trek from the 1970s? The Emmy-Award-winning series was the very first outing for the […]
