Category: Technology
Aurora’s massive LightningStrike VTOL UAV just got one step closer to reality
A vertical take-off and landing craft (VTOL) that can stand toe-to-toe with combat helicopters, a concept taken directly from sci-fi, it’s almost the default futuristic military ship among Hollywood epics. A real one just finished its first test flight program, as the Aurora Flight Science LightningStrike XV-24A Demonstrator Craft ended its first stage of flight […]
The only way to prove you aren’t a robot is to solve this chess puzzle
Check it out, Mate! Image: James Tagg Check out the chess board above: looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something’s amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop instead of a queen. For another, virtually all the action’s moved to the left side of a […]
Boston Dynamics Handle robot dominates parkour on wheels in new footage
Boston Dynamics wheeled Handle robot received much fanfare earlier this month when DFJ partner Steve Jurvetson slipped us an early video from a company Keynote. Today we have more details on Handle in the form of a shiny HD video. We already knew Handle could manage some pretty sick hurdles and spins, but the new […]
Ex-Googler (and Cisco’s newest board member) Amy Chang on her leap into startups
Wednesday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, venture capitalist Aileen Lee took the stage to interview Amy Chang, a former eBay product manager turned head of Google Analytics turned startup founder. It’s a transition that has introduced Chang to night sweats, she readily admitted. Chang’s three-year-old startup, Accompany, received one of its first […]
Tiny chip looks deep inside your body with millimeter-wave radiation
Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created a chip for use in medical imaging and other applications thats as powerful as it is tiny. The pint-size millimeter-wave radiator could lead to better scanning of tissues and organs, but may also work as part of our everyday wireless data ecosystem. “We’re very excited about […]