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  • Graphene robot-spider, for whom the movement does not need electricity

    All robots need a power source for its operation. It would seem that this statement is almost an axiom. But in fact, scientists sometimes create such mechanisms, in which insight is not so easy. For example, recently demonstrated the robot spider from graphene, which movement does not require anything except a certain humidity of the…

  • Sales of the first unmanned Shuttle will begin in the fall of 2017

    The first electric mini-bus with the autopilot you can already pre-order from the French company NAVYA that without the noise, dust and unnecessary movements announced the beginning of sales of their offspring. Van ARMA stuffed with lidar, motion sensors, GPS and cameras, thanks to all this it feels great on the road, distinguishing the other…

  • Boeing Starliner Astronauts Are Going to Have the Most Space Punk Boots

    Image Courtesy of Reebok Astronauts are golden retrievers of human beings. The rest of us have to live vicariously through their resplendent existences while we sit back and watch hours of cats reacting to fidget spinners. Now, Reebok has decided to make our astronaut envy even worse—it’s finally revealed the space boots for Boeing Starliner…

  • Authorities Shut Down Two Major Dark Web Markets

    Photo: Europol Two major dark web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa, have been shut down, US and European authorities announced. The marketplaces offered drugs, weapons, forged documents, and malware. AlphaBay, the larger of the two sites, hosted around 369,000 listings for various items at the time of its seizure, the US Department of Justice said. AlphaBay…

  • The Biem Butter Sprayer Solves My Most Pressing First World Problem

    GIF I hate getting anything greasy on my hands. That includes moisturizer, sunscreen, olive oil, margarine, and butter. Until recently I had reserved myself to living a life of dry toast and flavorless corn-on-the-cob, but then a one-trick kitchen gadget came along with exactly the one-trick I desperately wanted. You might assume there are only…

  • Elon Musk Says He Got ‘Verbal Govt Approval’ for Hyperloop From NY to DC

    Source: AP Elon Musk tweeted this morning that he has received “verbal” government approval for his Boring Company to build an underground Hyperloop tunnel connecting New York City and Washington, DC. According to Musk, a Hyperloop passenger would be able to travel between the two city centers in 29 minutes. His plans also include stops…

  • Twitter Says It’s a Safer Place, But There’s No Hard Data to Prove It

    Photo: Getty Twitter claims it has become a safer site thanks to all its anti-abuse efforts, but there’s no way to tell if that’s true because the company didn’t share any hard numbers behind its data. In a closed-door meeting with reporters from several outlets this week this week, Twitter said it’s taking action against…

  • Genetically Engineering Nature Will Be Way More Complicated Than We Thought

    Image: Getty Images For more than half a century, scientists have dreamed of harnessing an odd quirk of nature— “selfish genes,” which bypass the normal 50/50 laws of inheritance and force their way into offspring—to engineer entire species. A few years ago, the advent of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology turned this science fictional concept…

  • Build This DIY Cannon to Catch Rogue Drones

    GIF Unlike an RC car that will simply crash into a wall if you lose control, an expensive drone can potentially fly for miles after it stops heeding your remote’s commands. But while a shotgun can blast your treasured robot out of the sky before causes any trouble, this net-firing, air-powered, anti-drone cannon seems like…

  • Massive Tides Could Boost TRAPPIST-1’s Prospects For Life