This morning, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieved controlled flight on Mars, a first for mankind. Interestingly, Ingenuity runs on the same Qualcomm chip as some Android phones, including the Samsung Galaxy S5.
At 3:34 a.m. PT, as announced by NASA, the Ingenuity helicopter took off from the surface of Mars, rose to an altitude of 10 feet, hovered there for 30 seconds, then safely landed back…
Genesis, Hyundai’s luxury brand, is unveiling today its first all-electric vehicle: an electric version of its G80 sedan.
While Hyundai has had all-electric vehicles for years, its Genesis brand never got an entry in the all-electric space.
That’s despite Tesla, Audi…
MELBOURNE, Australia – The first Northrop-Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aircraft destined for Japan took its maiden flight in the United States last week, as the Asian country ramps up its intelligence gathering capability to monitor North Korean and Chinese military…
Chromecast with Google TV is the culprit behind broken speaker groups for some, fix coming [U]
April 20, 2021
A useful feature of Google Assistant speakers and Android TVs is the ability to select a bunch of them to play the same audio simultaneously. It’s a useful feature, but if the new Chromecast with Google TV is a part of your speaker group, it may also be breaking them.
Article updated on April 19th with information from Google.
Prior to the release of the new Chromecast, Google had been working…
Fuell Flluid first ride: Turns out a motorcycle designer can build a very nice e-bike!
April 20, 2021
I’ve watched in fascination as Erik Buell’s latest two-wheeler company, Fuell, unveiled and then began deliveries on a high-end electric commuter bike. Now that the company let me borrow a Fuell Flluid for a test ride, I can finally tell you what I think of the…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has picked five small business innovators to build prototypes intended to help increase the rate of fire of self-propelled howitzers as well as in future systems, Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of the service’s Long-Range Precision…
Controversy rages on around Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative as various tech companies take a stance on the tech that could replace third-party cookies for targeted online advertising. This week, WordPress announced a proposal that would turn FLoC off by default on all websites powered by its Content Management System.
As a part of this new proposal, WordPress would…
The US Department of Energy announced the winners of its collegiate competition, the Solar Decathlon, yesterday. The contest, which has been running since 2002, challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by clean…
Google is honoring soul singer Luther Vandross, on what would be his 70th birthday, with a video Google Doodle.
Life of Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr. was born on April 20, 1951, in Manhattan, as the fourth child in his family. Inspired by musical greats like…
Watch beat-up GMC Hummer EV crab walk in traffic
April 20, 2021
A pretty beat-up GMC Hummer EV prototype was spotted using its “crab walk” feature in traffic to help change lanes.
Last year, GM unveiled the GMC Hummer EV, a 350-mile electric pickup truck with an $80,000 starting price.
The pickup truck is stacked with a ton of very impressive features, and one of the most impressive of them is “Crab Mode.”
Not unlike a crab walking on its sides, the…
