Engineer Devises "UFO Patents" For US Navy
Paul Ratner writes via Interesting Engineering: Theoretical inventions known as the "UFO patents" have been inflaming worldwide curiosity. A product of the American engineer Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, the patents were filed during his work for the U.S.....»»
When did humans start experimenting with alcohol and drugs?
Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don't just reshape our external world—we engineer our internal worlds, and reshape our minds......»»
Here’s the new car Formula 1 hopes will improve racing in 2022
F1's lead engineer Rob Smedley explains how and why the cars are changing. Formula 1 has new technical regulations for 2022, the most sweeping changes to the sport in many years. This is what t.....»»
Facebook Engineer Abused Access To User Data To Track Woman That Left Him After a Fight, New Book Says
A Facebook engineer abused employee access to user data to track down a woman who had left him after they fought, a new book said. Business Insider reports: Between January 2014 and August 2015, the company fired 52 employees over exploiting user dat.....»»
The creator of Dogecoin says all crypto is a scam
Software engineer Palmer, who created the payment system with Billy Markus in 2013 as a joke based on the "doge" meme, has been absent from Twitter since making his account private in 2019. He returned with a bang yesterday, slamming cryptocurrency a.....»»
Mobile.dev launches with $3M seed to catch app issues pre-production
As mobile developers build apps, they push them out into the world and problems inevitably develop, which engineers have to scramble to fix. Mobile.dev, a new startup from a former Uber engineer, wants to flip that story and catch errors before the a.....»»
Dear Sophie: Tell me more about the EB-1A extraordinary ability green card
I’m a postdoc engineer who started STEM OPT after failing to get selected in the H-1B lottery. A colleague suggested I apply for an EB-1A green card, but I have not won any major awards. Tell me more? Sophie Alcorn Con.....»»
Reducing the Computational Cost of Deep Reinforcement Learning Research
Pablo Samuel Castro, Staff Software Engineer at Google Research, writes on Google AI blog: It is widely accepted that the enormous growth of deep reinforcement learning research, which combines traditional reinforcement learning with deep neural netw.....»»
Whisper Aero emerges from stealth to quiet drones and air taxis
The skies are on the cusp of getting busier — and louder — as drone delivery and electric vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft startups move from moonshot to commercialization. One former NASA engineer and ex-director of Uber’s.....»»
What"s a suborbital flight? An aerospace engineer explains
"Suborbital" is a term you'll be hearing a lot as Sir Richard Branson flies aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity winged spaceship and Jeff Bezos flies aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle to touch the boundary of space and experience a few minutes.....»»
Microsoft is hiring engineers to develop AI-based upscaling tech for the Xbox Series X
Details on Microsoft's progress are scarce for the time being, and this news primarily comes through two recent job postings on the company's "Careers" website. On the site, you'll find ads for a Senior Software Engineer and a Principal Software Engi.....»»
Dispatch from Bangalore
A startup founder, who hasn’t had much sleep all week, woke up on a recent Sunday to a phone call from his co-founder. A senior engineer was feeling burnt out and was contemplating leaving. For the founder, who had several calls scheduled with many.....»»
Maker Spotlight: Stefan Hermann of CNC Kitchen
First and last name Stefan Hermann Where are you located? Germany What is your day job? Metal Additive Manufacturing Research Engineer Youtube Channel | Patreon What kinds of stuff do you make? 3D Printing Stuff, Material Tests and 3D Pri.....»»
Synthetic biology circuits can respond within seconds
Synthetic biology offers a way to engineer cells to perform novel functions, such as glowing with fluorescent light when they detect a certain chemical. Usually, this is done by altering cells so they express genes that can be triggered by a certain.....»»
Microsoft Engineer Stole $10 Million By Selling Xbox Gift Cards For Bitcoin
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PC Gamer: An oversight in accounts used to test Microsoft's payment systems let one engineer swindle his way into over $10 million after selling Xbox Gift Cards for Bitcoin over two years, a new report from Bl.....»»
Accelerate, Innovate, Transform, Repeat – Engineer your Next. Now!
Accelerate, Innovate, Transform, Repeat – Engineer your Next. Now! Tech Mahindra Tue, 06/29/2021 – 10:14 “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that’s why we call it the present”. – It’s strange how this qu.....»»
Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its 21st employee its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He talks proudly of that time, but like all good things, it ran its course and by the end of 2017, having accompl.....»»
Uber’s first head of data science just launched a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its 21st employee its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He transitioned out of the company in late 2017, after Travis Kalanick had been replaced as CEO by Dara Khosrowsh.....»»
DOJ files 7 new charges against alleged Capital One hacker
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed seven new charges against Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer accused of hacking Capital One and stealing the personal data of more than 100 million Americans. The new charges,.....»»
New Charges Filed Against Capital One Hacker, Trial Postponed To 2022
The US government has filed a superseding indictment against Paige A. Thompson, a former Amazon engineer accused of hacking Capital One and stealing the personal data of more than 100 million Americans. From a report: According to court documents fil.....»»
BreezoMeter, the iPhone tool that measures air quality, raises a $30M Series C
Ran Korber and his asthmatic and pregnant wife were looking to buy a house in Israel. As an environmental engineer, he knows that air pollution is the leading environmental cause of premature death, can cause premature birth, and can account for othe.....»»