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Implant Could End Jet Lag, Food Poisoning
This week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made an incredible announcement that could, at first, improve the operational readiness of soldiers but eventually improve the lives of any person suffering jet lag or food poison...
Tesla Sued Over Breach of Contract
A couple in Pennsylvania is taking Solar Roof to court and attempting to initiate a class-action lawsuit against the Tesla subsidiary.It seems that after agreeing to a price of just over $46,000 to have their entire roof outfitted with T...
3M Loses First of Many Earplug Lawsuits
A jury has awarded three veterans a total of $7.1 million after a case against 3M went to trial. At issue are earplugs.The Wall Street Journal...
Huawei Could Acquire Automakers
Huawei is one of the world’s most prominent consumer electronics and telecommunications companies.It’s also the first global tech giant to emerge from China — a fact that put a target on its back from governments wary of Beijing’s influe...
GM Mini EV Only Costs $4,400
One of the smaller pieces of news coming out of the Shanghai Auto Show last week was the unveiling of new, and more colorful versions of China’s most popular electric car.Standing out more than the new yellow, pink and green versions of ...
Steel Fabricator Fined for Violating Iran Sanctions
An Oklahoma manufacturer of prefabricated steel structures will pay more than $430,000 to settle dozens of apparent violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran, federal officials announced this week.According to
Beavers Wipe Out Town’s Internet
Among other lessons, the past year has shown the serious consequences of the decades-long inability to get modern broadband communications to rural or remote communities.Too many parts of the country
Auto Lighting Maker Faces Fines After Molding Machine Explosion
Based in Paris, Illinois, North American Lighting manufactures automotive lighting systems.On Nov. 14, 2020, an accident at the company's Advanced Forward Lighting Plant left an employee severely injured.According to the Departmen...
Stolen Crypto Cards Lead to High-Speed Boat Chase
Typically, a story involving smugglers and a high-speed boat chase through the harbors of Hong Kong would be fuel for a Jason Statham movie surrounding organized crime, guns and/or drugs.Post-pandemic however, we’re not talking about nef...
Electric Mustang Plagued by Battery Trouble
Ford is making its first foray into long-range, fully electric vehicles with the Mustang Mach-E, an SUV based on its iconic sports car that drew rave re...
America is Running Out of Ketchup Packets
If you order fries from a fast-food establishment during April, don’t be shocked if they tell you they’re out of ketchup.Yes, as just the latest food commodity facing major disruption due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, America is c...
Tyson Ensnared in $244M 'Ghost Cattle' Scheme
On Wednesday, March 31st, 49-year-old Cody Easterday pleaded guilty to a $244 million scam to defraud Tyson Foods and another unnamed company. According to the Department of Justice, the Washington man charged the companies to purch...
New Genesis X Called 'Hottest Concept Car in a Decade'
The gearheads over at Jalopnik usually take to new auto development with a critical eye, so when their observations reach the level of aggrand...
GM’s $9,000 Pickup
For years, automakers have increased their focus on trucks and SUVs as much for their higher profit margins as the heavy demand from car buyers.Even the cheap...
DARPA Solicits Jetpack Designs
Whenever the conversation between my follow comic book nerds turns to the topic of super powers, my first choice is always the ability to fly. Maybe that’s why the concept of an individual jetpack has always intrigued me.And now, finally...
Electric Truck Startup Investigated Over Fake Orders
After more than a half-century of making cars for General Motors, the automaker closed down the local assembly...
Repeated Amputations at Ice Cream Plant in New Jersey
Back in 2018, a sanitation worker lost one finger and fractured another when his hand got caught in the crimping bar of a jammed ice cream wrapping machine at New Jersey-based Fieldbrook Foods Corporation.It happened again this past Sept...
Harley Shifts to Used Bikes
Harley-Davidson has a problem, and it’s one many of us have: there’s something about Gen Z it just doesn't get. But for Harley, it’s more than just a disconnect with the TikTok generation: The last time Harley reported the average a...
Engineer Steals 2,500 Pages of Classified Info
From July 2016 to May 2019 Izaak Kemp worked as a contractor at the Air Force Research Laboratory and National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.During his time at the base, which oversees the d...
Missile-Firing Missile Fights Incoming Air Strikes
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency consistently offers leading-edge product developments that often begin with military applications before transferring the technology to the mainstream. While that’s the case with a lot o...
Ford Truck Windshields ‘Inadequately Bonded’
I don’t think it would be biased in any way to say that Ford knows how to make a good pickup truck. Their F-150 has been the best-selling truck in the U.S. since 1976 and the best-selling overall vehicle in America since 1981. ...
Fisker Taps Foxconn to Make ‘Emotion-Stirring’ Mystery Vehicle
Fisker Inc., a company that describes itself as a designer and manufacturer of the "world’s most emotion-stirring, eco-friendly electric vehicles," has announced a memorandum of understanding with Foxconn to develop a new electric vehicle.<...
Semiconductor Makers Struggle to Catch Up
Executives from Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments say the U.S. tech sector is “at risk.” The domestic electronics sector has long decried the long, slow migration of semiconductor manufacturing from the U.S. to overseas factories — and
