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A salvage team contracted by the U.S. Navy has located a transport aircraft that crashed into the Philippine Sea in November 2017. The Navy will recover the C-2A Greyhound aircraft and her crew in what is being described as the deepest underwater aircraft salvage ever attempted.The C-2A Greyhound, a carrier-based onboard delivery aircraft, took off from Marine Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, on November 22, 2017, and was set to rendezvous with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the Philippine Sea....

You had one job. And I’ll be damned if you aren’t great at it, sort-a-bot.In this video captured at a PackExpo, a two-headed robot is tasked with lining up 9-volt batteries coming down a factory line into groups of four, and then moving those four-packs into a line going the other direction. Which it does. Without fail. Over and over again.View full post on YoutubeThe destination of those perfectly organized four-packs is out of frame, so their ultimate fate is unclear....

Last week’s mysterious nuclear accident in Russia became even more mysterious as the government admitted that a small nuclear reactor had exploded, killing seven people. Evidence is piling up that the incident is somehow related to Russia’s development of a nuclear-powered cruise missile, and President Donald Trump took to Twitter to state that the U.S. has a similar system. One problem: the U.S. looked into nuclear-powered cruise missiles more than half a century ago before rejecting them as impractical....

A Brooklyn man died this week after falling off a 10-foot-high ledge. Inman Morales was naked and had been swinging a fluorescent light bulb, according to police reports, but (gruesome) eyewitness video shows that he fell to his death only after New York City police officer Nicholas Marchesona shot him with a Taser gun. (Marchesona has since been placed on desk duty for an apparent violation of department guidelines.) The strange incident has drawn attention to the NYPD’s decision this summer to have more officers carry the electroshock weapons, generically called Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs)....

The F-35 has smaller accommodations for pilot survival gear than previous aircraft.As a result, the first F-35 squadron to be based in cold weather has been working on a smaller survival kit.An accident during testing revealed the kit actually works at 25 degrees lower than originally planned. A survival kit designed to keep F-35 pilots alive in freezing conditions has proven its worth all the way down to -65 degree Fahrenheit....

Ever since the nuclear disaster of 1986, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has taken on a second life as an animal haven of sorts. In 2004, a team of scientists began to introduce the endangered Przewalski’s horse, the world’s last truly wild equine species, into the zone.Motion-sensor cameras have shown that the horses have begun to make a small comeback with help from the abandoned area’s shelters.The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) remains one of the world’s most extraordinary locales for a number of reasons....

Media Platforms Design TeamLast week, Davin Coburn headed to the Pacific Northwest to learn about one company’s revolutionary new build process for their high-performance kitplane—and then to go for a test drive, to figure out what it was like 180 degrees from a midtown Manhattan office. Catch up with his journey by clicking here, then take to the skies below… Morning in Dawson City is what you make of it. This time of year, it’s a lot like nighttime, except that stores are open....

Bluesmart, the smart luggage startup buoyed by multiple multi-million dollar Indiegogo campaigns, has just met an unfortunately if not entirely unpredictable end. Following a series of bans from multiple airlines that prohibit the use of “smart” luggage with irremovable batteries out of fire concerns, Bluesmart is shutting down, stopping production, ending all warranty support, and no longer offering replacements or refunds. It’s bad timing for Bluesmart customers since, as The Verge notes, the company had recently finished pre-orders for at least 18,000 of its second-generation line of bags, which came with a number of improvements, but not the removable battery that would be required to comply with airlines’ new rules....

CLAIM: At 1000 words per minute, you could read this issue in 20 minutes!HENDERSON: Aside from becoming a genius,that would be hard, because difficult words and complex grammar slow you down. It’s not the text that’s the problem; it’s the content that requires extra processing. We know how people normally read, from eye-tracking experiments. Their eyes stop on a location for about a quarter of a second and then hop to another location and pause....

Google Maps now can make one of the more irritating aspects of owning an electric car just a little bit easier. The service now only will allow users to search for electric vehicle charging stations in the U.S. and the U.K, but also will tell them if those chargers are currently occupied, which could save EV users valuable time and effort.“If you’ve ever driven to an electric vehicle (EV) charging station only to find that all ports are occupied,” Google product manager Alex Donaldson says in a blog post, “you know that you could end up waiting in line for anywhere between minutes to hours—which can really put a damper on your day when you have places to go and things to do....

A highway patrolman high in California was a little confused when his onboard radar went off without another car in sight. The mystery was quickly solved, though, when a F-16 Fighting Falcon flew overhead, streaking low and fast over the lonely patch of winter road.View full post on FacebookThe video, shared by California Highway Patrol-Bishop station and credited to Officer Chris Bol, shows a patrolman’s Ford Explorer parked on the road, wind buffeting the camera microphone....

The U.S. Air Force’s F-35A Joint Strike Fighters are practicing air-to-air combat in the skies over Okinawa, Japan. The new multi-role fighter jets are facing off against American and Japanese F-15 Eagle fighters and also against each other, allowing both jets to practice fighting stealthy adversaries while F-35 pilots gain valuable experience. In October 2017, the 34th Fighter Squadron deployed to Okinawa, Japan with twelve F-35A fighters and 300 personnel. The 34th, also known as the “Rude Rams,” was the first Air Force F-35A squadron to achieve initial operating capability back in August 2016, and it deployed to Kadena Air Base less than a year later....

Glasses-free 3D Mobile Displays[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/pWYgM1RGixM&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/youtube]Sure, 3D is cool, but who likes to wear silly glasses? In the near future, we may not have to. We’ve seen various attempts at glasses-free 3D displays (or “autosterescopic displays,” as engineers call them) for years. But we’ve yet to see one that we could stomach for more than a few minutes. The chief problem: They tend to have a very narrow viewing sweet spot—you can’t shift too far to either side without being left with an image that’s blurry at best and nauseating at worst....

Harrison Ford is iconic, from Rick Deckard, to Indiana Jones, and of course, Han Solo. His playful magnetism was something Disney tried to recapture with Alden Ehrenreich in Solo. Critics called Solo average at best, something nobody would dream to call Ford. One Star Wars fan decided to take things into their own hands. Using deep learning algorithms that can map one person’s face onto another’s—creating what’s known as a ‘deepfake’—the YouTube account derpfakes was able to insert Ford’s into a few moments into Solo....

New, contested research suggests our universe may actually be a closed loop instead of a vast, never-ending expanse. The theory has drawn sharp criticism from other cosmologists. Confirmation of this theory could completely unravel everything scientists know and understand about our universe.Imagine jetting out into the universe. You sail past Mars, Neptune, and Pluto, far out past the milky way and into the frothy nothingness of space. What might you find if you travelled far enough?...

In 1972, the United States was deep into the Vietnam War with little end in sight. North Vietnam had just launched an offensive on the South, the Easter Offensive. The United States military was desperate to gain any advantage it could, so top brass hatched a plan to cover the port of Haiphong with underwater mines.Starting in May of that year, Operation Pocket Money saw thousands of mines dropped in the water outside Haiphong’s port....

The first step in preparing for an emergency situation that may require you to quickly leave your home, is setting up a disaster kit, or what’s often known as a “bug out bag.” In the case of a flood or fire, you may only have minutes to grab what you need and go—which is why having a bug out bag that is packed and stored in an easy-to-reach and known location can be vital to your safety....

Media Platforms Design Team In last night’s episode of Lost, “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” the character John Locke—now known as Jeremy Bentham—visited each of the Oceanic 6 (plus Walt), trying unsuccessfully to convince them to return to the Island. At each visit, different parts of Locke’s character were ripped to shreds (his inability to love, his lack of “specialness,” his delusions of grandeur), leaving him ready to commit suicide....

Media Platforms Design TeamOne problem that wearable tech makers have yet to solve is how to make their creations fold seamlessly into everyday life. The sight of someone donning Google Glasses still inspires ire; it’s still too inconvenient to charge your smartwatch everyday. Jawbone’s new Era headset might be received differently, though. The tiny headset can sit in your ear all day without being intrusive and can process voice commands using both Siri on the iPhone and Google Now on Android smartphones....

Oscar extended the house\’s original workbench and added discarded oak flooring for durability.Matthew MonteithFor three decades, Popular Mechanics readers have turned to senior home editor Roy Berendsohn, 56, for instruction on nearly any home project, along with advice on the best tools to use for the job. But who taught Roy? His father, Oscar, 91, a German immigrant who helped design and launch two of the most important satellites in U....