Snapchat"s flying selfie drone
The company behind Snapchat and Spectacles is now selling a drone camera named Pixy......»»
Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
Zuckerberg told execs to “figure out” how to spy on encrypted Snapchat traffic. Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project.....»»
The company building a rotating detonation engine is pushing the tech forward
"I'm convinced that this is going to be the engine that unlocks the hypersonic economy." Enlarge / A Venus Aerospace drone makes a powered flight. (credit: Venus Aerospace) Venus Aerospace conducted its first powered fli.....»»
Flying coach? At least you’ll be able to watch movies on an in-seat OLED TV soon
Who needs legroom when you have 8.3 million individually emissive pixels? This is one of the Panasonic Avionics Astrova in-flight entertainment systems, set to debut in Iceland.....»»
Gray-headed flying-fox population is stable—10 years of monitoring reveals this threatened species is doing well
Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians. So it may come as a surprise to learn two of the four mainland species, both gray-headed and spectacled flying foxes, are threatened with extinction......»»
Flying first on Ariane 6
With Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket now at its spaceport in French Guiana, the passengers it will launch to space are getting ready to be added to the top of the tall new rocket. Ariane 6 will launch several satellites, deployers and experiments from s.....»»
GM uses AI tool to determine which truck stops should get EV chargers
Forget LLM chatbots; this seems like an actually useful implementation of AI. Enlarge / A 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV WT at a pull-through charging stall located at a flagship Pilot and Flying J travel center, as part of the new.....»»
Fly through Tesla’s Giga Berlin factory in this epic drone video
Take a trip through Tesla's technology-packed car manufacturing facility — Giga Berlin — in this dramatic drone video......»»
What can we learn flying through the plumes at Enceladus?
In the next decade, space agencies will expand the search for extraterrestrial life beyond Mars, where all of our astrobiology efforts are currently focused. This includes the ESA's JUpiter ICy moon's Explorer (JUICE) and NASA's Europa Clipper, which.....»»
Arctic Weather Satellite tested for life in orbit
ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite has passed its environmental test campaign with flying colors—meaning that the satellite has been declared fit for liftoff and its life in the harsh environment of space......»»
DJI details efforts to avert the potential ‘$116 billion economic impact’ of US blacklisting its drones
Global drone leader DJI has come under increasingly intense pressure in the US, as successive federal and state measures banning its craft for official use have proliferated amid worsening relations with China – and accompanying security conc.....»»
The next iPad Air is rumored to come with a key camera change
The iPad Air 6 is said to be coming with a selfie camera that sits at the top of the tablet in landscape mode......»»
Threatened in their homeland, feral Mexican parrots thrive on LA"s exotic landscaping
During a walk through the Huntington Botanical Gardens with her mother one morning, Brenda Ramirez was alarmed by the sudden squawks, warbles, and screeches of troops of parrots flying overhead at great speed in tight, precise formations......»»
Russia’s Starlink use sparks probe into SpaceX compliance with US sanctions
Despite US sanctions, Russia using Starlink "to coordinate attacks" in Ukraine. Enlarge / A Starlink terminal used by the Ukraine army for drone operations in May 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Pacific Press ) Democratic.....»»
First Arab woman to graduate NASA training shoots for the Moon
Like her ancestors before her, Emirati astronaut Nora AlMatrooshi has spent much of her life gazing up at the stars and dreaming of flying to the moon......»»
Fact Focus: Claims Biden administration is secretly flying migrants into the country are unfounded
Fact Focus: Claims Biden administration is secretly flying migrants into the country are unfounded.....»»
Russia’s next-generation rocket is a decade old and still flying dummy payloads
Russia's heavy-lift Angara A5 rocket is about to launch on its fourth test flight. Enlarge / Technicians assemble an Angara A5 rocket at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East. (credit: Roscosmos) By some measures.....»»
Designing a drone that uses adaptive invisibility: Towards autonomous sea-land-air cloaks
The idea of objects seamlessly disappearing, not just in controlled laboratory environments but also in real-world scenarios, has long captured the popular imagination. This concept epitomizes the trajectory of human civilization, from primitive camo.....»»
India"s "drone sisters" steer farming and social change
Once a housewife in rural India, Sharmila Yadav always wanted to be a pilot and is now living her dream remotely, flying a heavy-duty drone across the skies to cultivate the country's picturesque farmlands......»»
"Flying tigers" come to a university"s live bird cams project
A new feathered face has just popped up in front of the live cameras hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bird Cams project......»»
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Save 50% on the Ninja Dragon Alpha Z Pro camera drone at the Mashable Shop. TL;DR: As of March 1, you can snag the Ninja Dragon Alpha Z Pro 4K camera drone for only $99.99 instead of $199.99 — that's a savings of 50%.Flying a drone for th.....»»