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TLDR:With a 4K camera, a host of handy flight features, and a small, but compact build, the Ninja Dragon Vortex 9 is a perfect drone for new fliers. It’s easy to just write off drones as classic big boy toys. That is…until they start saving lives. A team of researchers think it’s possible, presenting a study last month outlining how drones can be outfitted to fly over disaster areas andactually identify the screams of anyone trappedand bring help....

If you don’t finish reading this article it may never be written. If that’s not incentive to abandon a boring news piece, we’re not sure what is. A team of researchers from Australia recently publisheda new takeon Wigner’s Friend that’s pretty mind-blowing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic: this might be the most exciting quantum physics theory sinceSchrodinger’s Cat. Wigner’s Friendis a theory posited by Eugene Wigner in 1961. A really dumbed-down version of it goes like this:...

This rare meteorite found on a driveway might hold the answer to our solar system’s origin Precious rocks Why is this such a big deal? Meteorites aredivided into two main groups: primitive and processed. The primitive ones come from the solar nebula that gave birth to the Solar System, preserving the composition of this original material. In contrast, processed samples have been altered by heat. They are from larger bodies and contain information about planetary surfaces and interiors....

I’m a cynic, it helps in my line of work, but despite my resistance, this speech and video truly had an impact. I hope it will for you too. It’s old and many of who will have seen it various forms over the years, this version may be the best of them all. The speech itself is from a comedy directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, Chaplin plays two characters who look strikingly similar- a jewish barber and a dictator who looks like Adolf Hitler....

This is not just a robot seal. This seal shoots mini basketballs out of its mouth. “If there’s an Uncanny Valley of animals, this is it,” writes iEEE editorErico Guizzoin an email to me this week. Using a robotic gripper, the seal, which is little more than a stuffed animal, shoots hoops 3 meters away with 99% accuracy, according to its Taiwanese creators at the National Chiao-Tung University. Watch the video of the crazy robot seal here....