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Watch SpaceX launch 60 more Starlink satellites for its broadband internet service
UPDATE: Scrubbed for today due to weather. SpaceX is launching 60 additional satellites to join the over 500 already on orbit as part of its Starlink global broadband internet constellation. The launc
Skydio partners with EagleView for autonomous residential roof inspections via drone
Skydio only just recently announced its expansion into the enterprise and commercial market with hardware and software tools for its autonomous drone technology, and now it’s taking the lid off
Ring’s newest security camera is a $249 autonomous indoor drone shipping in 2021
Ring built its entire business on reinventing the doorbell — and now it’s taking a similar approach to the humble home security camera, with the Ring Always Home Cam, set to be available somet
Ring to offer opt-in end-to-end encryption for videos beginning later this year
Ring will be stepping up its efforts to make its security products secure for users by enabling end-to-end video encryption later this year. The company will be providing this toggle in a new page in
Ring gets into automotive security with three new car products, including one debuting first for Teslas
Amazon -owned Ring is expanding from home and neighborhood security to the automative world, with three new products it debuted today at Amazon’s expansive devices and services extravaganza. The
United Airlines is making COVID-19 tests available to passengers, powered in part by Color
There’s still no clear path back to any sense of “business-as-usual” as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but United Airlines is embarking on a new pilot project to see if easy access
Blue Origin job listing sheds more light on its space-based orbital habitat ambitions
Blue Origin founder and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made no secret of his ambition to eventually create orbiting space stations that act as places for people to live and work — he outlined a visio
Tesla says its battery innovations will deliver its goal of a $25,000 mass market electric car
Tesla held its Battery Day event on Tuesday to discuss a variety of innovations it has developed and is pursuing in battery technology for its vehicles. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and SVP of Powertrain and E
Future Teslas will have batteries that double as structure, making them extra stiff while improving efficiency, safety and cost
Tesla has fundamentally redesigned the way that its battery packs integrate into their vehicles, turning them into structural elements of the car, rather than just fuel sources on their own. At Tesla&
CMU’s MoonRanger robot rover will be the first to search for water ice on the moon in 2022
Carnegie Mellon University and spin-off space startup Astrobotic are developing a robotic rover to look for water on the moon, and the little bot just passed the crucial preliminary design review phas
Blue Origin targets this Thursday for New Shepard reusable rocket launch with NASA landing system test
Blue Origin just announced the timing of its next rocket launch — and it’s surprisingly soon, in just two days, on Thursday, September 24. The launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard veh
Made In Space is sending the first ceramic manufacturing facility in space to the ISS next week
In-space manufacturing company Made In Space is pushing the envelope on what can, well, be made in space with its next mission — which is set to launch aboard a Northrop Grumman International Sp
Satellite radar startup ICEYE raises $87 million to continue to grow its operational constellation
Finnish startup ICEYE, which has been building out and operating a constellation of Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) small satellites, has raised an $87 million Series C round of financing. This round o
CDC removes updated guidelines around COVID-19 aerosol transmission, but this expert explains why it should reverse the reversal
Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, I got the chance to speak to Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist who is a Senior Fellow of the Federation of American Scientists. Dr. Feig
How to make the most of iOS 14 widgets and iPhone home screen customization
You’ve probably seen the screenshots going around that show iOS home screens that differ considerably from the stock options that Apple provides. Yes, if you’re an Android user you’r
Microsoft commits to putting more water than it consumes back into the ecosystems where it operates by 2030
One good trend in 2020 has been large technology companies almost falling over one another to make ever-bolder commitments regarding their ecological impact. A cynic might argue that just doing withou
The Lumos Matrix is the ideal urban bike helmet for a smarter, safer day trip
Many of us are still more or less confined to our own homes and limited social spaces for the foreseeable future, and for a lot of you, that has led to a rediscovery of the joys of biking. Bike riding
MIT engineers develop a totally flat fisheye lens that could make wide-angle cameras easier to produce
Engineers at MIT, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, have devised a way to build a camera lens that avoids the typical spherical curve of ultra-wide-angle glass, while stil
NASA to test precision automated landing system designed for the moon and Mars on upcoming Blue Origin mission
NASA is going to be testing a new precision landing system designed for use on the tough terrain of the moon and Mars for the first time during an upcoming mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard r
German space agency reveals an autonomous, electric urban mobility prototype for use right here on Earth
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has debuted a prototype of what it calls “U-Shift,” an urban mobility vehicle designed for multiple uses. U-Shift is a fully electric vehicle, designed fo