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Dubai police have announced they will soon have officers buzzing around the skies on Star Wars-style electric hoverbikes capable of speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour. The Hoversurf Scorpion was unveiled at the Gitex Technology Week conference. The …

Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis presented an Abundance 360 webinar on Friday, October 13 on mind-boggling predictions and transformative (even “dangerous”) ideas. They discussed * Radical life extension * space * artificial intelligence * uplifting the developed world with internet …

The full virtual reality demo for Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab is below. It was captured on the Oculus Rift, this free demo releases on October 19th. Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab does not have good dialogue or acting. This …

Early Saturday morning Oct 07, 2017, Spike Aerospace successfully test flew the subsonic subscale SX-1.2 demonstrator aircraft for the first time. The jet is an early unmanned prototype of the company’s 18 passenger S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet. The SX-1.2 test …

I tried out the Alienwheels hoverboard. ($298) I was able to take about twenty minutes to get standing and balanced on the board and fairly comfortable with basic control. Control is with shifting weight at the toes, heal and using …

The X3 thruster was designed by researchers at the University of Michigan in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force. It is a Hall thruster — a system that propels spacecraft by accelerating a stream of electrically charged atoms, …

The primary challenge with microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) involved the spin torque oscillator (STO)— and those issues have now been solved thanks to Western Digitals innovative STO breakthroughs. Western Digital has produced prototype MAMR drives this year, and would give …