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If you looked up on Sunday night, you might have spotted a “blood moon,” also known as a lunar eclipse. Millions around the world enjoyed the sight of the moon slowly turning dark and then red over several hours during the weekend, but a few extremely sharp-eyed viewers noticed something more: During the eclipse the moon apparently took a hit from a small meteorite.The meteorite collision was even spotted by at least one observer watching the eclipse from their backyard....

A Russian startup called Promobot is now offering a new line of androids that can be made to look exactly like you. The company says the robot can be used as an office worker, a consultant, an administrator, or roommate.Robo-C, the name of the android product, has over 600 facial expressions and life-like artificial skin.Welcome home! You slam the car door shut, walk up to the front door, wiggle your house key into the lock, and then walk inside....

Media Platforms Design TeamLAKE COMO, ITALY - Unseasonably wet weather in Italy led to the cancellation of sneak peek at BMW’s first Villa d’Este collaboration with Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina, but that won’t keep us from posting official press pics of the just-unveiled Gran Lusso Coupé, a one-off style exploration which tips a hat to BMW’s decades old tradition of building long wheelbase two doors.In profile, the Gran Lusso Coupe’s proportions are guided by a long hood, a relatively rearward a-pillar, and a traditional BMW Hofmeister kink; a gently raking roofline extends a lazy arc towards the rear decklid, a la the BMW Group’s Rolls-Royce Wraith....

Researchers at Penn State are working to enclose the submarines of the future in a bubble of gas, allowing them to achieve top speeds faster than what is possible while moving through regular water. If successful, it could mean submarines capable of speeds of up to hundreds of miles per hour. As submarines and torpedoes travel through seawater they are naturally at the mercy of physics, and objects traveling through sea travel encounter much more drag than objects traveling through air....

A team of divers followed up discovering 300-year-old wine with a new find of 100-year-old cognac.Technology has made 2019 a golden age for shipwreck discovery.The cognac and Benedictine must be analyzed for drinkability after 100 years.Divers for a company specializing in “salvaging alcohol from shipwrecks” have brought 900 bottles to the surface of the Baltic Sea from a 100-year-old shipwreck. The team, assembled by spirit salvagers Ocean X, dove to more than 250 feet deep with remote-controlled vehicles in order to retrieve the bottles....

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900.Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing.Where previous examples were up to 4 digits of binary, this one is 10 digits.Scientists at the University of Rochester have used DNA to make a simple computer that calculates the roots of perfect squares up to 900, New Scientist reports. The computer works by sequencing numbers up to about 1,000 onto a strand using binary-encoded markers, and the solutions light up using fluorescence....

In January, we ran an exclusive interview with Elon Musk in which he explained, for the first time, his full thinking—and the complex engineering questions—behind his decision to construct SpaceX’s Starship rocket and booster with stainless steel. The previous design for the rocket (which was then known as the BFR) had called for carbon fiber, but Musk recalculated and went with steel due to its durability, cost-effectiveness, and ductility.Here, in a continuation of that interview, Musk goes deep on what it takes to actually travel beyond orbit and into space....

Here’s the tweet that got Elon in trouble.View full post on TwitterAfter a showing off a lovely picture of a shipment of Teslas bound for Europe, Elon Musk tweeted on Feb. 19 that “Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019.” And then yesterday, he walked back that claim a bit. It’s not that Tesla will make 500,000 vehicles this year, Musk clarified. Rather, by the end of the year the company will be making 10,000 cars per week....

Honda, the worldwide maker of cars and motorcycles and lawn mowers, is doubling down on aircraft manufacturing. The Honda Aircraft Company unveiled a new jet, the HondaJet Elite, on Sunday May 27 at this year’s European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The original HondaJet achieved FAA certification in late 2015 and deliveries began shortly thereafter. The new business jet, which will be on display at EBACE until May 31, sports an extended range up to 1,437 nautical miles (a 17 percent increase over the original HondaJet), which Honda says makes it “the furthest-flying aircraft in its class....

Media Platforms Design TeamHow did Epic Games get started? Tim Sweeney [Epic Games’ founder, CEO, and technical director] started the company in his basement as a shareware game developer and publisher back in 1991. I joined Epic less than a year later, while it was still being operated in his basement. Together we built the company up to where it is today and assembled an amazing group of people to make it Epic, and we continue to love every minute of it....

Q:My Mac Pro tower computer doesn’t seem to have an eject button for its CD/DVD drive. Apparently, the button is on the keyboard that it came with. Trouble is, I don’t use that keyboard. Is there any other way to open the drive?A:Like many Apple products, the monolithic Mac Pro tower (along with some of its predecessors) was designed with as few physical buttons as possible. One element that was sacrificed by Apple’s designers on the altar of minimalism: the eject button....

Media Platforms Design TeamView full post on YoutubeIvan “Ironman” Stewart dominated professional off-road racing throughout the 1980s and 90s, with 17 Baja 500 wins, 17 victories in the MTGE series, three Baja 1000s wins, and 10 points championships among many other victories. Retired since 2000, Stewart has remained involved with racing and with his former sponsor, Toyota. Last week we got some seat time with Stewart at an off-road demonstration at the Stagecoach Music Festival and had to ask a few burning questions—after he’d pulled off a few good donuts in a Tacoma, of course....

“Star Trek” actor Leonard Nimoy has died at age 83. The New York Timesreports that Leonard Nimoy passed away this morning in his Los Angeles home. Susan Bay Nimoy, his wife, confirmed that the cause of death was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Related Story23 Moments from Leonard Nimoy’s Incredible LifeNimoy was a bit actor on multiple television series before landing a role as Mr. Spock, the half-Vulcan, half-Human crew member on the Starship Enterprise in “Star Trek....

Media Platforms Design TeamIt started with a thunderstorm. Around 5:40 pm on Friday, June 28, residents of the sparsely populated mountains 75 miles northwest of Phoenix reported a wildfire sparked by lightning. The burn grew slowly at first. On Saturday morning, a helicopter crew documented the affected area at 8 acres. At 7:38 pm, the fire was 100 acres—tiny as Western wildfires go. It was still 2 1/2 miles from the closest town, the isolated community of Yarnell, population 650....

For the first time, we now know what the inside of a B-2 Spirit bomber cockpit looks like. And that’s not all: Thanks to a new series of articles from Defense News, we also know just what maintainers go through to keep the heavy strategic bomber flying, and what kind of munitions the bomber carries. The articles kick off Defense News’ coverage of the Pentagon’s nuclear triad, “The U.S. Nuclear Enterprise....

NASA’s latest tower for launching rockets has a little bit of a lean, which means it may be able to launch just a single rocket. The cost of this tower boondoggle? Almost $1 billion.The tower in question is the Mobile Launcher designed for NASA’s upcoming Space Launch System, which would become the world’s most powerful rocket once completed in a few years. The tower is supposed to keep the rocket stable and upright on the platform during a launch....

Like Jupiter, Neptune has a giant spinning mystery. NASA’s Hubble Telescope captured a time-lapse of the storm for the first time and found a surprising conclusion—it is shrinking.NASA notes that it might have “the pungent smell of rotten eggs"Officially called a “dark vortex,” the Neptunian storm shares a few properties with Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS). Like the GRS, a dark vortex is moving in a anti-cyclonic direction that sweeps up material from the planet’s icy atmosphere....

Northrop Grumman just released never-before-seen video of its classic stealth bomber designed for the United States Air Force. Watch it and enjoy flying with the B-2 Spirit in stunning high-definition. Even though the design is now over 26 years old, this flying wing bomber still looks incredibly intimidating.Northrop Grumman is no doubt attempting to generate some marketing buzz around their highly successful production run with the B-2, especially as the Department of Defense is ramping up development of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B)....

Thanks to some new reporting by The Drive, we know that the long testing and development program for the B-21 stealth fighter will happen at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Brigadier General Carl Schaefer of 412th Test Wing at Edwards quietly snuck in the announcement over the weekend.The project to build a successor to the B-2 Spirit was originally called just the Long Range Striker Bomber. Then Northrop Grumman won the contract and announced in 2016 it would be called the B-21 Raider....

Welcome back to a series of knights and knaves logic puzzles. These riddles take place on an island where there are two types of people, knights, who always tell the truth, and knaves, who always lie. You can see the first knights and knaves puzzle here. Problem On the island of knights and knaves, you are approached by two people. The first one points to the second and says, “he is a knave....