This is the European Space Agency’s test spaceplane, which is planned to go on a 100 minute mission without a crew on February 11. It will blast off from Kourou, French Guiana. Read more…
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This Gleaming Monolith May Spawn the Next Space Shuttle
As a wannabe guitarist, I find that the hardest thing to do is sit down and actually play guitar. When I first saw the Jamstik, a six-fret mini electronic guitar, I was impressed. It was about as big as a sub bun and featured strings that never had to be tuned. To play it you simply chorded and strummed as usual and you could transmit your MIDI-translated noodlings to a mobile app or your desktop. Read More
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The New Jamstik+ Is A Musician’s Best Friend
It seems that General Motors has a couple electric surprises in store for next week’s Detroit Auto Show. In addition to the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Volt extended range plug-in hybrid, they’re also cooking up a pure electric crossover aimed right at Tesla Motors for a fraction of the price — and it’s called the Chevrolet Bolt. Read more…
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The Chevrolet Bolt Will Be A 200-Mile Electric Tesla Fighter For $30,000
At its CES keynote today, Ford announced its Smart Mobility initiative, a set of 25 experiments ranging from big data analytics to a car swap service that let you swap your Mustang in for a minivan for the weekend. The company also talked about its plans for autonomous cars. Ford CEO Mark Fields noted four trends for the auto industry’s future: Increasing urbanization, and its… Read More
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Ford Has Big Plans For Autonomous Cars And The Future Of Driving
Apple is set to start finally selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus without SIMs, completely unlocked in the U.S., according to 9to5Mac’s reliable Mark Gurman. The SIM-free version of the iPhone has been available in the stores of other countries before now, but a debut stateside would be the first time it’s officially unlocked and without any carrier ties or SIM since its launch this… Read More
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Apple Said To Kick Off SIM-Free iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Sales Tomorrow
Last year at CES we were introduced to Onewheel, a crazy new self-balancing skateboard built by electromechanical engineer and board sports enthusiast Kyle Doerksen. Less than a year after the project went up on Kickstarter, Onewheel is shipping to early backers and those who pre-ordered the device. A few weeks ago, we got a tour of the Onewheel assembly line to see how it gets put together and… Read More
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How Self-Balancing Electric Skateboard Onewheel Goes From Assembly Line To Users’ Homes
It’s rare to see the future unfold in front of our eyes this dramatically but here it is: the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab has helped a man who lost both his arms in a “freak electrical accident” connect to dual robotic arms by connecting to and reading from his nervous system. The results aren’t quite staggering as he still has limited control over the… Read More
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Watch This Double Amputee Control Two Robotic Arms At Once
Tor is having a bit of a crisis, as it’s become increasingly clear that the wildly popular network isn’t the internet invisibility cloak it was once thought to be. Don’t panic. It’s not perfect, but it’s still the best we’ve got. Read more…
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Tor Is Still Safe
As we enter the second half of this, the Decade of 3D Printing, we are coming to a crossroads. On one hand the Rebel open source RepRap crowd are clamoring to keep 3D printing free, man, while the Imperial forces of 3D Systems and Stratasys – along with countless imitators all attempting to commercialize 3D printing and create the first popular home printer – are locked in a race… Read More
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The da Vinci 1.0 AiO Is The Future Of All-In-One 3D Printers
sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from Science Insider: New analyses of the hundreds of thousands of technical manuscripts submitted to arXiv, the repository of digital preprint articles, are offering some intriguing insights into the consequences — and geography — of scientific plagiarism. It appears that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others, but the outcome is generally the same for authors who copy extensively: Their papers don’t get cited much. The system attempts to rule out certain kinds of innocent copying: “It’s a fairly sophisticated machine learning logistic classifier, ” says arXiv founder Paul Ginsparg, a physicist at Cornell University. “It has special ways of detecting block quotes, italicized text, text in quotation marks, as well statements of mathematical theorems, to avoid false positives.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Study of Massive Preprint Archive Hints At the Geography of Plagiarism