A pair of red-crowned cranes emerge from what looks like a blank canvas, in a dance of courtship across the snow-capped landscape.
With their dark plumage and red crowns standing out as the only anchors of color, the scene begs the question: how much detail can a photographer remove before an image stops working?
“The set I came away with reads more like ink-wash paintings than wildlife…
Hobbyist wildlife photographer Brian Johnston has spent much of the summer looking for an elusive “white hart,” a rare albino male red deer. So when he got a tip that the stag had returned, he spent a weekend trying to frame the magical-looking creature in his…
Tesla confirms Autopilot/FSD was 'engaged' when car crossed a median and killed a man
October 17, 2026
A Tesla crossed the grass median of Route 55 in New Jersey, hit a tree, slid into oncoming traffic, and struck an SUV head-on. The SUV’s driver, 68-year-old Phillip Eastman, was killed.
Police reported it as a driver who lost control. What they didn’t say, and likely…
Tesla’s Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, Jody Kerns, is leaving the company to become Rivian’s Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois.
He’s the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this year. The head of Cybercab new product introduction walked out in April, before the vehicle ever carried a paying passenger.
From Cybercab to…
I’ve tested a lot of cargo e-bikes over the last decade-plus of reviewing electric bicycles. There are good cargo e-bikes. There are great cargo e-bikes. And then there’s Xtracycle.
More specifically, there’s the new Xtracycle Swoop ASM, which might just be a cut above…
U.S. Army combat medical teams are experimenting with ways to prolong care in preparation for a possible fight in the Indo-Pacific theater, where vast distances and limited evacuation platforms affect a patient’s timely access to surgical care.
A fight in the Indo-Pacific…
What is the US Army doing in Panama? A bit of everything.
October 17, 2026
Muted American flag patches on the right shoulders of camouflage-clad men and women in the jungle are one sign of an expanding partnership between the U.S. and Panama. American optometrists in the country’s Darién Province are another. U.S. military salvage and dive teams training near the Panama Canal offer a third.
As Washington shifts its attention toward the Western Hemisphere, a…
PERTH, Australia — An Australian startup is developing new tactical orchestration software that will allow Boxer 8×8 armored vehicles to control unmanned systems in the air and on the ground simply by operators giving verbal instructions.
Sydney-based Breaker…
Activision Thinks GTA 6 Will Actually Help Modern Warfare 4: 'No Offense to Zelda, but [GTA and COD] Are the 2 Biggest Games of the Year'
October 16, 2026
Activision believes GTA 6 will benefit Call of Duty rather than hinder it, with the expectation that Modern Warfare 4 and Rockstar’s behemoth will end up the two biggest games of 2026.
In an interview with The Game Business, Activision chief marketing officer Tyler Bahl…
Trollheim: Gnomes Aims to Bring the Mystery and Whimsy of Nordic Folklore to a Survival Crafting Game
October 16, 2026
Trollheim: Gnomes, a new survival crafting game for PC based on Nordic folklore that IGN announced as part of IGN Fan Fest, comes from a team of ex-Mojang developers who all grew up playing in the Nordic woods and hearing folk tales of Sprýg Gnomes and other creatures and want to make a game about it. I got an early look at it, and there’s one key thing that might set it apart in a very…
