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Amazon Tells Customers They May Have Bought Fake Pills
Amazon is warning customers this week that nutritional supplements they purchased recently may be knock-offs.In an email to customers, first reported by Wired, Amazon sai...
The Fastest Corvette Ever
It was inevitable. In fact, we were talking about it nearly three years ago. But late last week Chevrolet finally unv...
Six Untested Connectors Cost ITT Cannon $11 Million
This week, ITT Cannon, a division of ITT Inc., agreed to pay $11 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that it supplied untested electrical connectors to the military.According to the Department of Justice, ITT sold six models o...
Lead Paint Makers Pay Millions in Lawsuit
Lead based paint was banned for residential use more than 40 years ago, but those who live in older homes could still be paying the price.But the impact doesn’t stop there. We learned this week that three paint manufacturers ...
Combat Vehicles Enter Video Game Mode
For any of you who have previously been or are currently being chastised for your addiction to first-person shooter games, the United States Army has your six.The Army recently announced that it will begin testing robotic combat vehicle...
Buckle Up: The UAW Contract Talks Are Going to Be a Bear
Yesterday marked the start of negotiation talks between the United Autoworkers Union – or UAW – and the Big 3 automakers – GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler … and according to industry experts, we shouldn’t expect this to be easy. No...
Virgin Orbit Rocket Falls 35,000 Feet
Billionaire Richard Branson’s satellite launch business is one step closer to a live test flight after sending its launch vehicle plummeting into the California desert this week. Like its sister spaceflight company, Virgin Gal...
Pharma Exec Gets 30 Years in Prison for Fraud Scheme
A former CEO and chairman of a multinational pharmaceutical manufacturing company will spend the next 30 years in prison for an international fraud scheme that led to the collapse of one of the largest banks in Puerto Rico. Accordin...
Bird Strike Triggers Accidental Bombing
Last week the Air Force inadvertently tried to add their own kind of fireworks to the holiday festivities. Apparently, an A-10C Thunderbolt II out of Moody Air Force Base in Georgia dropped three 25-pound nonexplosive training bombs after an un...
BMW Made a Pickup Truck
If you’re BMW and you’re going to make a pickup truck concept, let’s face it – it’s going to be super fancy. And you’re going to insist that it’s just this little old thing you let some trainees tinker with, and you’re never actually going to m...
Russian Defense Unveiled a Owl Drone
So, whenever we talk about drones or unmanned aerial vehicle technology, we try to position these machines as having application potential for various industries. But let’s be real – the main purpose right now is for military operations. <...
Ex-Engineer Accused of Starting Identical Startup in China
For any of you who have been following the peaks and valleys of the tech company Magic Leap over the past few years, you know that for all the hype there has been just as much failed potential.For those of you who haven’t been following,...
Robot Queen Custom Builds a Tesla Truck
When you start out a custom engineering project with the phrase “I don’t know if this is the smartest or most stupid thing I’m ever going to do”, the results are typically predictable. However, inventor, tinkerer, brain tumor surviv...
Harley to Make a Smaller Motorcycle
Harley-Davdison is the latest in a long line of vehicle manufacturers to partner with a Chinese company in an effort to capitalize on a massive, rapidly growing market.But the iconic motorcycle manufacturer is also making a significant <...
Boeing May Rename Jet Involved in Fatal Crashes
The Paris Air Show kicked off earlier this week, and the most awkward guest at the party appears to be Boeing, the airplane maker that’s been scrambling since March to fix a software glitch that’s being blamed for two fatal plane crashes.
Playable Burger-Powered Guitar
James Trussart has made a name for himself by designing custom guitars for rock icons that include Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards. But I doubt any of them offered as unique a challenge as the Hard Rock Café. In looking f...
Autonomous Flying Car to Begin Flight Tests Next Year
The Aska is a new eVTOL flying car design. The door-to-door, drive and fly, hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle comes from California-based NFT, which maintains an R&D center in Israel. The company is hopeful that, by 2025,...
MIT Helps Factory Robots Understand Humans
Last year, MIT researchers partnered with BMW to test ways for humans and robots to assemble car parts together in close proximity.The team created a robot on rails concept that delivered parts to workstations. However, human workers wou...
Beekee Box Creates Network Without Internet, Electricity
Researchers at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have created the Beekee Box, a standalone box that can generate a wireless network that enables users to log on to a learning platform without the internet or electricity.The standal...
Equipment Inventor Headed to Prison
Last week, exercise equipment inventor Douglas Brendle was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of tax and healthcare fraud.A resident of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Brendle is the inventor of the Fitwall, a s...
Report Says GM’s Driverless Cars Are Plagued by Glitches
We hear a lot about the millions of dollars in research and development that’s being poured into autonomous vehicle projects but often, that’s it. Besides partnerships and funding announcements that drop into the news cycle here and there, we d...
Musk Says Tesla Has Designed a Submarine Car
If you’re a James Bond fan, you’ve certainly seen the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me. You’d also know that there is literally no way that Bond could adequately investigate the disappe...
‘Maker Faire’ Backer Suspends Operations
One of the world’s foremost champions of engineers, inventors and at-home tinkerers appears to be on life support amid a desperate push by its supporters to keep it running.Maker Media, the organizer of the Maker Faire festivals and own...
Once the Darling of Millennials, LaCroix Water is Sued Again
As an avid consumer of sparkling water, I can attest to the fact that brand loyalty is not often a consideration when making a purchase. And if you were to ask the brands within this increasingly crowded market, they might even admit that the f...