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• Former US Air Force pilot arrested for allegedly training Chinese military pilots FBI says Brown conspired with foreign nationals to provide combat aircraft training to the Chine

• Ursa Major cries HAVOC and let’s slip a new hypersonic missile Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email Aerospace and defense company Ursa Major aims to bring greater con

• Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the actions of various animals • From the famous Skinner boxe

• Big breakthrough: Vacuum-deposited perovskite cells retain 80% performance after 1,080 hours In the lab, the cells achieved 19 • Researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in

• Way, way back in the days when men wore beards and wide-lapelled suits in exotic colors, only NASA had access to photovoltaics and ‘solar’ meant solar thermal • In those days of

• 1,000-mile range: US firm’s military drone can operate in world’s most dangerous environment Its system delivers assured connectivity to rural and remote regions • An Alameda-bas

• US Air Force drone swaps AI software midflight in successful mission autonomy test Anduril’s YFQ-44A flew with Shield AI’s Hivemind and then switched to Lattice midair, demonstra

• Ion beams simulate decades of reactor damage 1,000x faster at 1/1000th the cost New ion beam method simulates decades of nuclear reactor damage in days, accelerating advanced fis

• Spotify’s new $495 burial urn lets you play your personal playlist from the grave Spotify and Liquid Death launch a $495 Bluetooth-enabled urn that plays your music forever, plus

• Liberty Class autonomous naval ships can be cranked out like sausages Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email A new naval autonomous ship project isn’t much to write hom

• There was a time when only the richest ham radio operators could have a radio with a panadapter • Back in the day, this was basically a spectrum analyzer that monitored a broad s

• 6-meter catamaran 3D printed in 160 hours as monolithic open-water vessel Robotic 3D printing produces 6-meter monolithic catamaran designed for scalable marine manufacturing • V

• Westfalia’s Nugget-like camper van beats Mercedes at its own RV game Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email This month, Mercedes-Benz announced it would bebringing prod

• Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks • [Theory to Thing] recentlybuilt a device to generate

• Commercial 5G powers first haptic robot teleoperation, boosts feedback 40% A 5G slicing method reduced wireless delay, improving robot force feedback by 40 percent • NTT DOCOMO a

• Fold-flat mouse gets thin ‘in a snap’ for easy stowage Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email The search for the most compact and comfortable alternative to the traditi

• If you want smooth top surfaces on your 3D printed parts, a common technique is to turn on ironing in your slicer • This causes the head to drag through the top of the part, emit

• Largest ALMA image ever sheds light on extreme star formation at Milky Way’s center A striking new image of our Milky Way’s center, captured by ALMA, spans more than 650 light-ye

• German scientists turn trash ash into CO2-binding concrete for sustainable construction The team is comparing wet and moist carbonation to see which stores the most CO2 • German

• 90-million-year-old tiny bird-like dinosaur’s skeleton unearthed in Argentina Weighing under 2 lbs, Alnashetri stands out as one of the smallest non-avian dinosaurs ever discover

• McMurtry begins manufacturing its hypercar that you can drive upside down Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email Ten years since the company formed, the mad lads at McM

• Climbing is a cool sport • With that said, like everything, it’s even better if you integrate lots of glowing colorful LEDs • To that end, [Superbender] worked upthis fun climbin

• One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for the wake word • If your system isn’t totally locally-hosted, that

• Learn how FACTUREE approaches custom parts with manufacturing in mind • FACTUREE, the Online Manufacturer has sponsored this post • You design a part and choose a material that m

• It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey • The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grou

• Dual-material DLP printing fuses base and teeth, reducing bonding steps and limiting occlusal adjustments in HeyGears tests • HeyGears announced its One-Piece Denture Solution at

• Collaboration supports training, simulation and deployment of AI models to embedded systems using MATLAB and Simulink • MathWorks announced it has joined theEDGE AI FOUNDATION, a

• US scientists solve Schrödinger’s 100-year-old theory of human color perception The team used geometry to define a crucial missing element known as the neutral axis • Researchers

• World’s first operational 5th gen jet could become more lethal with stealthy fuel tanks The concept shown in the new model points toward tanks engineered with radar-reducing cont

• German firm unveils 360-degree anti-drone defense for battlefield vehicles SCILT uses scalable shotgun calibre munitions, from rubber to armour piercing, for controlled and flexi

• China claims to develop world’s smallest and most energy-efficient transistor Using advanced processing techniques, the researchers built a gate electrode just 1 nm big • Researc

• Quantum discovery could enable efficient battery-free, energy-harvesting devices Quantum material converts ambient alternating signals into usable direct current without magnets

• R-36 Orb: The forbidden space weapon hidden behind ‘alien’ sightings Known as the R-36Orb inside the military, the weapon was designed by Soviet military to bypass American defen

• US develops ‘flowing’ nuclear fuel that extracts more energy from uranium particles Higher uranium concentrations than pure liquid fuels provide the flexibility to power everythi

• Solar-powered ‘biohybrid system’ offers 94% uranium cleanup efficiency in water While standard bacteria achieve a limited 48% removal rate, this new biohybrid system cleared 94%

• 100V per drop: New perovskite cell converts rain and sunshine to electricity A single raindrop could generate a potential difference of 110 V, sufficient to power a small portabl

• One of the more promising 3D printing technologies that hasn’t quite yet had its spotlight is volumetric 3D printing. • Researchers from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua Un

• Airbus pitches next-gen rotorcrafts for NATO’s aircraft fleet modernization plan NATO wants speed, range and autonomy. • Airbus just answered with two very different rotorcraft v

• World-first remotely operated landing crafts for offshore logistics to be built by Nam Cheong The order includes two Dive Support Vessels (DSVs) alongside two world-first Remote

• Lithium-metal EV battery made safer with smarter design, charges in just 12 minutes New intelligent protective layer suppresses dendrites, tackling a key barrier to lithium-metal

• Google promises its upcoming Texas data center won’t use any water for cooling Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email Among the many problems posed by the rapid prolife

• US firm unveils new hypersonic missile that can launch from jets, ships, and ground New HAVOC system features throttle and restart capability across all flight phases without cos

• New single-module TCU and antenna design supports 5G, V2X and satellite signals while reducing wiring and signal loss • LG Electronics (LG) will unveil its next-generation smart

• The Yamaha DX7 is one of the most iconic synthesizers that emerged in the early 1980s, and is still very popular today. • That said, with even the newest of these having left the

• ‘World’s largest battery’ to provide 100-hour iron-air storage for Google data center The battery has a 30 GWh capacity and a 100-hour duration. • US tech giant Google announced

• Three-in-one IoT module cuts board space by up to 60% and supports dual-mode connectivity for global deployments • Iridium Communications Inc • unveiled theIridium 9604, a compac

• Collaboration brings GPU-native software to channel partners to improve utilization and reduce AI infrastructure energy waste • SCAILIUM announced a strategic partnership with TD

• Airbus unveils two copter concepts for NATO program Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email NATO is set to replace and modernize its current helicopter fleet, and Airbus

• There are some clocks, mostly in or around international airports, which have multiple faces to show the time at various cities around the world. • Taking more a forward-looking

• While you may have never heard of TAT-8, there is a good chance you sent some data through it. • TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable and the first transatlantic

• ‘Urban mine’: Collaborative method unlocks critical minerals from electronic waste UH model turns U.S. • e‑waste into a profitable source of critical minerals with a collaborativ

• Road-ready tiny house packs plenty of flexibility into just 20 ft Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email The Kinnakeet tiny house is very small but makes every inch cou

• BMX bikes are a unique frame geometry, essentially forgoing all travel efficiency for maneuverability and sturdiness. • For how much abuse these bikes are designed to take, these

• From grain to gear: Rice powers adaptive robots and impact-resistant equipment Rice grains inspire metamaterials that adapt automatically to pressure, enabling soft robotics and

• Chinese dronemaker DJI sues US over drone ban, says FCC exceeded ‘statutory authority’ The FCC cites national security risks, but DJI says it was denied a fair chance to respond.

• Split-modular multitool swaps functions & stashes secret backup tool Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email Earlier this month, we took a first look at the all-newFlex

• CERN chills giant magnet line for the world’s most powerful particle collider upgrade The upcoming Long Shutdown 3 will transform the LHC over four intensive years. • Scientists

• If you know about Peltier modules, a solid-state fridge seems like an easy project. • Pump 12V into the module, include a heat sink and a fan. • Then you are done, right? • Accor

• BAE Systems flight-tests electromagnetic system that jams enemy air defense networks The new modular electromagnetic attack hardware can be fitted to drones, ground vehicles, and

• Video: Unitree’s AI-powered robot dog carries 143 pounds, runs 11 mph with AI and LiDAR Unitree unveils As2 quadruped robot with 90 N·m torque, 5 m/s speed, 65 kg payload, and AI