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Ford Patents Convertible Pickup Truck
If there’s one thing we know about Americans, it’s that they love trucks. But even one of the top producers or pickups in the world knows that, sometimes, even pickup drivers want some wind in their hair.Which may be why the company has ...
Boston Dynamics Starts Selling Robot Dog
Interested companies can lease the life-like quadruped — at a pretty steep cost. Boston Dynamics is most famously known for videos of its eerily life-life robots doing eerily life-like tasks, from opening a door to performing somers...
Chinese EV Startup Slashes Jobs
Nio delivered fewer cars as the government phases out subsidies for electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are considered part of the future of transportation, but in the present day, conventional automakers tend to have trouble selli...
Elon Musk is Trying to Buy a Village
What does parenthood and space exploration have in common? Both take a village.According to a recent report from Business Ins...
Air Force Wants Flying Car to Replace V-22 Osprey
The Air Force wants a flying car, and according to a report from Defense One, they want it to replace the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor.Agility Prime is the name of a new U.S. Air Force (USAF) project to replace the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraf...
This Smart Airplane Tracks Your Bathroom Breaks
Airbus wants you to have a better experience when flying in its commercial jets, so it’s going about that the best way it knows how – by tracking your every move.The aerospace company has announced that it is kicking off trials of its Io...
Marines Continue to Use Recalled, Defective ATVs
Last spring, we discussed the difficulties that off-road vehicle manufacturer Polaris was having with its line of RZR all-terrain vehicles.In fact...
OSHA’s Top 10 Safety Citations
It’s back, and while the focus of this year’s most frequently cited workplace safety violations didn’t change too dramatically from 2018, some of the factors contributing to them offer perspective on the changing face of industrial safety. ...
Worker Dies After Affair; Death Ruled Work-Related Accident
In 2013, a safety technician was working for French railway engineering company TSO died while traveling for work. The circumstances around his death, however, stray from your average work-related injury. According to a report from ...
Boeing Plane in Development Fails Safety Test
Boeing’s disaster year continues to hurtle down the runway, as we learned this week that one of the company’s planes failed a safety test – and it’s not the sidelined 737 Max jet, the model blamed for two deadly crashes since last Fall.A...
Man Arrested in Elaborate Counterfeit Vaping Plot
A 20-year-old Wisconsin man is accused of an elaborate plot to manufacture thousands of counterfeit v...
Bentley to Produce Replica 1929 Racecars
If you look at the fastest cars in the world today, it’s hard to imagine that, 90 years ago, race cars looked
Stealth Gliders Dissolve in Sunlight
Advancements in aerospace design technology has allowed the U.S. military to get really efficient at transporting people, equipment and supplies. However, many of those same technologies also make it really difficult to do those things without ...
Porsche Debuts First Electric Vehicle
The automaker is betting that high-end buyers will be willing to pay — a lot — for an electric vehicle with Porsche performance. German luxury automaker Porsche this week officially joined the list of automakers competing with...
Scientist Can Inject Night Vision Straight into Your Eye
Back in April, U.S. Army Lieutenant General James Richardson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the new ENVG-B – the army’s enhanced night vision goggle-binocular – was “better than anything (he’s) experienced” in his whole career.
Fiat Announces the Latest Dead Car Model
Last week, we brought you the news that the iconic Lincoln Continental was more than likely living out the last of its golden years in a...
SpaceX Closer to Mars Mission After Starhopper Flight
This week, SpaceX successfully tested the Starhopper prototype in Texas. In just 57.36 seconds, the rocket lifted off, reached 150 m, and then stuck the landing. It was the craft’s second successful test. In July, it reached 18 m, b...
Microwave-Sized Harvester Pulls Water from Desert Air
Researchers from the University of California - Berkeley have developed a new solar-powered water harvester that's the size of a microwave and pulls water out of the air in areas as dry as the Mojave Desert. The harvester blows air ...
Exosuit Fits Like a Pair of Shorts
A research team has designed a new portable exosuit that could soon help people walk and run. You know what, it's just nice to report a new exoskeleton that
121-Ton EV Can Generate More Energy Than It Uses
Controlling energy costs is a critical challenge in any production environment. But when you combine the harsh conditions, safety concerns and regulatory scrutiny that accompanies mining operations, that challenge becomes even more pressing, es...
Gold Industry Roiled by 'Forgery Crisis'
Reuters is calling it a “forgery crisis” and, in a recent exclusive story, the news outlet ...
75-Year-Old Worker Dies in Accident
A 75-year-old worker died last Thursday after an accident at The Rose Corporation in Reading, PA.Local authorities say that Wilfred Santiago died after he was pinned between a wall and a large turntable from a vertical turning and boring...
Truth Behind Salmon Video Climate Claim Sham
On August 10, 2019, a video was posted on Facebook by MyWay Alaska that depicted thousands of dead pink salmon in the Tutka Bay in Alaska.The original video was shared more than 115,000 times and viewed over 1.2 million times. The captio...