Spot is the quadruped robot by Boston Dynamics that climbs stairs and traverses rough terrain with unprecedented ease, yet is small enough to use indoors. Now engineers have added a robotic arm to expand on the robot’s capabilities and now the possibilities of what you can do with this beast are mind blowing. With the …
Boston Dynamic’s Spot gets a new arm! And look what it can do! Read More »
An Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet almost made it to the moon in April. It took a selfie with the lunar surface in the background, but then lost contact with Earth and presumably crashed onto the lunar surface. Now it’s been revealed that the mission was carrying a cargo of dehydrated microscopic lifeforms known as tardigrades. Beresheet was the first …
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Where the High Line ends and Midtown begins you will find Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in US history. The extraordinary centerpiece of Hudson Yards is its spiral staircase, a soaring new landmark meant to be climbed. This interactive design piece was imagined by Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio as a focal point where people …
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A Chinese engineer, who was concerned for the well-being of stray cats in his native city Beijing, recently built the world’s first AI-powered cat shelter. Wan Xi is a computer engineer who was always a devoted animal lover. He’d feed the stray cats and provide them with fresh water. During this icy cold winter, he …
When it comes to promoting your content, these Facebook Groups are your first point of call You’ve created your content, so what next? To promote your hard work, these Facebook Groups are not only supportive of bloggers and content creators, but they can also be the deal breaker for helping you succeed. Each of these …
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A new commercial Rocket Startup has just made history. Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket on Nov. 10 on a long-delayed first commercial mission for the small launch vehicle. The Electron lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 10:50 p.m. Eastern (4:50 p.m. local time Nov. 11) …
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If you’re one of the many people who miss the looping video app Vine, we have some good news for you. Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann has just confirmed his plans to bring the popular app back are coming to fruition. On Wednesday, he tweeted out that the new looping video app will simply be called byte …
Vine creator announces the name of his new app and it bites… er, it’s byte! Read More »
Starting a new Blog can be daunting, especially if you don’t know where to start and have no technological knowledge on web-building. Let’s face it, we’ve all been there and like anything in life you’ve got to start somewhere! This quick and easy guide will help you set up your website step by step, allowing …
How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right is an immense ring-like structure 150,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars. That galaxy, AM 0644-741, is known as a ring galaxyand was caused by an immense galaxy collision. When galaxies collide, they pass through each other …
Got some spare time this weekend? Why not build yourself a working rover from plans provided by NASA? The spaceniks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have all the plans, code, and materials for you to peruse and use — just make sure you’ve got $2,500 and a bit of engineering know-how. This thing isn’t made out of …
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I mean, I’ll try anything. A font designed by psychologists and typography experts could be the answer to your study struggles. Sans Forgetica, a “fundamentally different” type-face, was revealed on Thursday by Melbourne’s RMIT University. Lecturer of typography at RMIT Stephen Banham said the font was unique, as its formulation demonstrated a “clear application of …
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Every mobile app entrepreneur dreams of having that massively successful app. How we gauge this success is what varies from person to person. Some of us gauge our success by the number of downloads, by the amount of money coming in, by the number of daily users, or by the number of dedicated users. Our ideas of …
Follow my blog with Bloglovin The city, which has been criticized for human rights abuses of migrant construction workers, believes the technology could reduce the workforce by 70%. According to the World Economic Forum, Dubai wants 25% of every new building to be 3D printed within the next seven years. The Dubai Future Foundation, an organization …
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Follow my blog with Bloglovin Photographer Rod Evans took this 20 second long exposure with some steel wool (lit) and a 360 camera. He then took the raw image and gave it the ‘tiny planet’ effect. On reddit, where Evans shared the photo, he adds: The camera I have is the Insta360 ONE. To do this shot …
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According to the USGS, about 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered with oceans holding about 96.5% of all Earth’s water. This inspired a series of maps in 1942 by oceanographer and geophysicist Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus which can be found in his book: Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents and Tectonic Plates in …
This afternoon, Facebook held an emergency press conference to disclose a startling security breach. The company said 50 million Facebook accounts were affected in a hack that allowed attackers to control an account as if they were the account holders. “Since we’ve only just started our investigation, we have yet to determine whether these accounts were misused or …
The Quest headset may completely shift how consumers think about virtual reality Oculus VR had one big hardware surprise to reveal at its annual Connect developer conference on Wednesday: the all-new standalone Quest virtual reality headset. The Quest is a culmination of Oculus’ last five years of VR work, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called …
