Space enthusiasts stirred by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong’s venture to the moon spent more than $4 million (€3.5 million) in just the first day of a rare auction of Armstrong’s personal collection of memorabilia. On July 20, 1969,…
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Truckin’ While sports car enthusiasts are salivating over the Tesla Roadster’s record-shattering performance — 0 to 60 in under two seconds is no joke — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is more excited about a very different Tesla. “Actually, I’m…
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The laboratory’s artificial lilypad, called aPad, can explore marine environments while keeping in direct contact with a team above sea level, or other manned robots underwater. The aPad lilypads can provide precise maps of a marine…
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With character-driven games, facial animation is more important than ever – and modern games need vast amounts of it. The scripts for some of this year’s AAA releases span thousands of pages (compared to just 120 for an average Hollywood…
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  Berning Man Where others might see 67,000 acres of desolate desert, Jeffrey Berns sees a future utopia powered by blockchain. Earlier this year, Berns’s company, Blockchains LLC, bought a vast plot of land surrounding Tesla’s Nevada…
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  Concrete and Crafts Forget scarves and mittens. Soon, we might be able to knit entire buildings. A team from the Swiss university ETH Zurich has developed a technique that allows them to knit textiles that can then form the scaffolds for…
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  Adapt, React, Readapt, Apt Robots have never been more advanced than they are today, but they aren’t terribly adaptable — most are capable of completing just one or two specific tasks. In an effort to create a more capable robot,…
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  Star Power Get ready to trade in your car’s sunroof for a solar roof. On Wednesday, automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors jointly announced plans to install electricity-generating solar panels on select vehicles beginning in 2019.…
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  An Ocean of Data Think water and electricity don’t mix? A new kind of data center is turning that idea on its head. Back in 2016 we reported on Project Natick, Microsoft’s moonshot idea of building data centers underwater, where they’d…
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