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After four months of production following a worrisome delay, CBS is finally comfortable enough with its long-awaited new Star Trek series to set a release date: September 24th, 2017. That’s right on schedule. The new …
… But as efficient as these machines are, they still can’t hold a candle (literally) to the dexterity, sensitivity and gripability of the human hand. Take the industrial robots that work on automotive-manufacturing lines, for example. …
For all the damage the “WannaCry” ransomware has done, there’s still one looming, unanswered question: who’s behind it? At last, there might be a clue. Google researcher Neel Mehta has noticed that an early version …
Wow … I wonder who actually got paid for that? In early 2016, Apple was embroiled in a battle with the FBI over privacy, specifically whether it could (or would) crack an iPhone 5C following …
The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex is a group of nebulae and stellar nurseries positioned some 1,500 light years away from Earth. This is a place where new stars are born, but also apparently where they …
Now why would a man attach miniature jet engines to his limbs?! Well, it’s part of a home-made Ironman suit says Gravity founder Richard Browning. This is nuts! But he actually made it work successfully … …
It took a lot of clever engineering behind the scenes and some very public failures, but SpaceX has finally worked out the kinks of landing its Falcon 9 rockets after launch. It’s been recovering rockets …
Baxter is a robot developed in 2012 by Rethink Robotics, the project of former CSAIL director Rodney Brooks. Now a research team from Boston University and MIT’s CSAIL have successfully enabled Baxter to interpret and …
Scientists have suspected for a while that there could have been cryovolcanism on Ceres somewhere in its distant past, because of one big pile of frozen mud — but nobody had managed to prove it. …
Uranium is actually a rather common element on Earth. You can find it in small quantities within most rocks, but 99.3% of that uranium is the relatively harmless uranium-238. It’s the much more rare uranium-235 …
Critics tell the Republican-led agency to put ‘consumers first’ The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should reverse course and keep the net neutrality rules it passed just two years ago, several Democratic senators said Wednesday. …
A data dump from WikiLeaks says the CIA can spy on you through your internet-connected Samsung television, which means government spies could know a lot more about you than whether you love Girls. Earlier today, …
What you think of as “cold” really isn’t very cold in the grand scheme of things. Even the frigid depths of space are toasty by the standards of NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), an instrument …
The cloud provider is implementing several changes to prevent similar events Everyone makes mistakes. But working at Amazon Web Services means an incorrectly entered input can lead to a massive outage that cripples popular …
A few decades ago, the TV was the undisputed hub of entertainment in virtually all US households. A new study from the government’s Energy Information Agency (EIA) shows that Americans own fewer TVs on average …
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