This is the world’s first Sony E-Mount 35mm film camera – and it’s open source April 24, 2018 by John Aldred Leave a Comment Well, this is an interesting turn up for the books. It turns out that while many…
The year is 1999, the month, September. There’s panic at the NASA headquarters because they’ve just lost contact with their Mars Climate Orbiter. The orbiter entered the Martian atmosphere, but the thrusters fired too late, resulting in a crash with…
I like a quiet bar. I have since I was 21. This isn’t an unusual desire; any time I’m at a bar past 8, someone (sometimes it’s not even me!) eventually says “Sorry, I couldn’t hear you. The bar got…
A comet known as Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was visited by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft for two years. The agency released a new batch of photos of the comet in March. A fan of the spacecraft animated some of those images…
Amazon is taking its relationship with its customers to the next level. On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it is extending its Amazon Key delivery service from homes to personal vehicles. With Amazon Key In-Car, Amazon couriers will be able to…
This short video shows the surface of a comet April 24, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment In 2014, Rosetta spacecraft became the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and bring the back the first-ever photos of it surface.…
Can blockchain technology fix the soul sucking tedium and cost of back-and-forth bureaucracy? The Swiss team behind a blockchain-based platform, called Proxeus, believes it can — and that that will be just the tip of what decentralization brings down the…
Global Entry is by far one of the best investments in anything I’ve ever made. I travel internationally at least six times a year, often more, and customs in my home airport of San Francisco can sometimes take hours. My…
Geo-grafika You’re probably used to sorting your garbage into bins: green for paper, or blue for plastic and glass. But when it comes to electronics, we’re still used to selling those off or tossing them into the trash heap. Unfortunately,…
These days, blood-testing startup Theranos is on its last legs. But in 2014, the billion-dollar company and its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, were on top of the world. Back then, Theranos was a revolutionary idea thought up by a woman hailed…
