Extra footage of record-setting Yates electric plane flight shows power loss, dramatic deadstick landing (video)

We’ve chronicled Flight of the Century founder and CEO Chip Yates’ record-breaking 202.6MPH flight in his Long-ESA EV craft before. What we didn’t quite touch on, however, is the power loss Yates’ aircraft suffered after earning that electric plane speed record. Now Yates has released new video of the

Cisco Touts Its Cloudy Open Future – Will VMware Do The Same?

Lew Tucker is the distinguished Cloud CTO for Cisco Systems. He’s a revered character in the "clouderati," community for his clear views and his support for OpenStack, the open cloud effort that is getting a lot of attention these past few weeks.

He’s also a proponent of open source. In this video,

Chinese microbot walks on water, skims the surface of insect-inspired design

Bugs are creepy. You don’t need to be an entomophobe to empathize with that sentiment. But bugs are also inspiring — to researchers in China, that is. Taking a cue from nature, a team of engineers from the country’s School of Chemical Engineering and Technology have devised a microbot weighing just

Finding Inspiration In The Aurora Tragedy, By Helping Victims Through HopeMob

I’ve gone through various stages of “connectedness” in my life. We all have. Some of you are so young that you’ve never known anything else and some of you remember the days when you only knew the local news and big events like going to the moon. Today, we no longer have to rely

Did ASUS’ Windows 8-packing Tablet 600 hit the FCC?

Toying with the idea of picking up a keyboard-dockable Windows 8 slate? Take your pick — since Computex (and Microsoft’s own Surface unveiling), these devices have popping up like wildflowers — and one of them may have just slipped through federal inspection. A recent FCC filing reveals an ASUS branded

Day in the Life of a Future Facebook Phone

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North Korean media reports North Koreans love North Korean tablet

Remember those futuristic PCs we reported North Korea was producing last year? Well now the Democratic People’s Republic has unveiled a seven-inch flagship tablet called the Achim (Morning). Understandably, we don’t know what’s inside this 0.66-pound (300g) device with a five-hour battery life, but it’s

Apple iPad prototypes revealed in court docs

Say what you will about the state of patent disputes in America these days. There are of course companies that specialize in securing patents for the sole purpose of suing companies who end up actually putting those ideas to some sort of commercial use, and then there are frivolous battles between competing

Una aplicación para evitar los atascos

La nueva tendencia en la topografía móvil parecen ser los algoritmos que redirigen automáticamente tu coche.

Crytek’s Crysis 3 on Wii U a possibility

There is a possibility that Crysis 3 will be making its way to the newest Nintendo console. This kind of story may seem like a positive for Nintendo, but when you really look at it, consider Crysis 3 – a quintessential “multiplatform” title. This just highlights the fact that multiplatform