Photo: Raul Marrero (Gizmodo) A drone show from Verity Studios essentially involves creating an indoor GPS system that each of the custom-built drones uses to find its position. Ahead of a show, the company will install satellites through the arena to create a network that the drones can connect to. Once a drone is on…

Photo: Getty For years, a team at Amazon reportedly worked on software that vetted the resumes of job applicants in an effort to surface the most likely hires. It gradually became clear that no matter how hard engineers tried to fix it, the recruitment engine found a way to discriminate against women, Reuters reports. On…

Artist’s rendering of the Pluto-Charon dwarf planet system, which is not quite a system where moons have moons.Graphic: Kevin McGill (Flickr) Inquisitive kids ask some questions that parents just can’t answer. Astronomer Juna Kollmeier’s son gave her a real stumper one night back in 2014: “Can moons have moons?” So she went hunting for an…

Virgin Galactic Spaceplane Makes First Powered Flight Since Deadly 2014 Disaster Earlier today, the VSS Unity went supersonic during crewed tests, reaching speeds of 1,220 miles… Read more Read Indeed, it hasn’t been a smooth path for Virgin Galactic. In 2014, the VSS Enterprise, an earlier version of SpaceShipTwo, crashed, killing the pilot and badly…

Photo: Google The touchscreen experience also felt delightful in my brief time with the Home Hub. From the lock screen, I could just swipe down from the top to get a simple menu of available connected devices—like lights, thermostats, cameras, media players, and so forth. At the Google event, the company set up several rooms…