Author Archives: James Ross

Nectome: Startup Wants to Capture Your Memories

It sounds like a premise from the show Black Mirror, a series on Netflix that eerily depicts the darker side of technology – unforeseen consequences of having too much control, seeing too much, looking too…

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Giant Magellan Telescope: Building a Mirror for the Largest Telescope in the World

The building of the Giant Magellan Telescope is an incredible engineering project, by any measure. Expected to be the largest telescope in the world, the GMT has a unique design. A major part of the…

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Chinese Space Station Will Crash-Land in March

Sometime this March, the Chinese space station known as Tiangong-1 — 18,753 lb. of equipment — will come hurtling to Earth. It has to land somewhere, but it probably won’t be on you. Back in…

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Bloodhound Super Sonic Car Heads to Kalahari in 2018

The Bloodhound Project is moving on to the next stage in its quest to set a new world land speed record — not to mention its ultimate goal of hitting 1,000 mph. After a successful…

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Neil Young Archives: Online, Free, Right Now

Here’s something to make your day: The Neil Young Archives site is up and running. The Canadian singer-songwriter has realized a project that has been years in the making: a vast online library of his…

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Low Cost Robotics From igus: Affordable, Flexible

It is hard to imagine any industry that hasn’t been profoundly affected by robotics. Since the early 1960s, the manufacturing industry has made use of industrial robots. And areas such as medicine, mining, as well…

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Project Loon: Balloon-Powered Internet

Roughly 48 percent of the world’s population is without internet access. But the semi-secret research facility X, founded by Google in 2010, has a plan to bring that number down. Project Loon, a network of…

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Facial Recognition: Facing Facebook

Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow you to simply face the camera on your phone to log into your account. This facial recognition technology will be useful for times when you are…

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Aevena Aire: Your Flying Robot Sidekick

Sometimes you see a new idea or product and just fall in love with it immediately. This is the case for the Aevena Aire flying robot. As soon as I saw it, I thought of…

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Porsche Mission E Hits Street in 2019

First appearing in 2015 as a concept, the all-electric Porsche Mission E sport sedan will hit the streets in 2019. Company chairman Oliver Blume made the announcement at this year’s Frankfurt Auto Show. Poised to…

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