After chasing the International Space Station for more than two days, a spacecraft that looks like a huge flying barrel caught up with it Wednesday on a resupply mission. U.S. astronaut Kjell Lindgren used a robotic arm to grapple the unmanned Cygnus spacecraft, carrying more than...
A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 today, with a plan to crowdfund its first product, a voice-controlled robot assistant called Olly,...
The Federal Communications Commission will head to court on Friday to defend its net neutrality rules against opponents who want to overturn the broadband regulations, a hearing that may help determine how consumers get access to content on the web. If this sounds familiar, it’s because...
SAN ANTONIO--Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is best known for its ambitions to fly tourists to the edge of space. But it has been increasingly focused on another venture: launching small satellites....
'This is not rocket science; this is basic hygiene' Simply put, security control considerations were "not really part of some of these early medical devices," said Kevin Fu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan....
More than 200 years ago, British economist Thomas Robert Malthus famously suggested that the earth would run out of food resources to feed a burgeoning global population. Now, thanks to advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering, we could soon be talking about exponential increases...
Following an 11-year battle, Nicholas Merrill finally gets to publicly talk about the FBI's National Security Letter, which demanded he hand over a wide swath of private information about one of his ISP customers. Nicholas Merrill, founder of a small ISP, disclosed publicly on Monday...
Osaro, a new, San Francisco-based startup that’s developing advanced machine learning known as deep reinforcement learning, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to take its technology to market. The money comes from Scott Banister, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, and Peter Thiel, for whom Osaro...
When we last left off with the two companies hired to fly cargo to the International Space Station their unmanned rockets had exploded, incinerating thousands of pounds of cargo and leaving the astronauts on the orbiting lab in a bit of a lurch. Suddenly, the so-called...
As a company grows, individual teams often develop their own project management styles. But when you're trying to scale, having multiple systems can lead to confusion and missed deadlines. So how do you adjust that methodology as you expand? ...