Representatives of 20 companies joined NASA officials onstage to launch the space agency’s new commercial plan, which allows private businesses to operate on the ISS, including “in-space manufacturing,” marketing activities, healthcare…
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Whirly Bird In July, Uber will launch a helicopter service to shuttle people between New York City’s JFK airport and downtown Manhattan. The service, “Uber Copter,” is expected to at least halve the amount of time it takes to travel from…
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Facial Recognition Microsoft just quietly deleted a facial recognition database of more than 10 million images of around 100,000 people most of them known celebrities TechNews reports. The news comes after Microsoft has actively tried to…
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A group of scientists in the USA has developed the first-ever standardized method of evaluating commercially available driver-monitoring systems. The details were published in the May issue of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), a…
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A new 3-D printed thermoelectric device, which converts heat into electric power with an efficiency factor over 50% higher than the previous best for printed materials and is cheap to produce in bulk has been manufactured by researchers at…
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This September, the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch a new space rideshare service capable of shuttling dozens of small satellites into space at once. The new system, called the Vega Small Spacecraft Mission Service, is expected to…
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EMERGING technology is hard to understand and harness, but it seems as though augmented reality (AR) is finally making its way into mainstream business and commerce. Most recently, Apple announced the new Mac Pro with up to 128GB of high…
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Fuel for Thought Airlines are testing all sorts of ways to make planes less of a drag on the environment. Virgin Atlantic recently used recycled waste to power a commercial flight, while Boeing and JetBlue have backed an effort to create…
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Pix Mini has kids playing games and display drawings on the back of a smart backpack. It’s the latest product from Pix, which earlier made a smart programmable backpack for adults. The new backpack for kids is smaller, and it can connect…
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