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If you find that your tools are always disappearing from your garage or jobsite, listen up. Milwaukee Tool introduced a clever new feature to help you keep track of that wayward gear. Tools equipped with the brand’s One-Key digital platform already can be customized, managed, and tracked via bluetooth. Now, Milwaukee is adding geofencing so that you’ll be alerted if a tool leaves a particular area. Milwaukee ToolGeofencing creates a virtual geographic boundary....

In a major change from standard online operating procedure, the Mozilla Foundation has announced it will soon by defaults turn off all third-party tracking in its signature web browser, Firefox. Mozilla vice president of Firefox product Nick Nguyen writes in a blog post:“In the physical world, users wouldn’t expect hundreds of vendors to follow them from store to store, spying on the products they look at or purchase. Users have the same expectations of privacy on the web, and yet in reality, they are tracked wherever they go....

Owner: Wes ShaverLocation: Milwaukee, WisconsinFound on: eBayPurchase price: $3,100Years owned: twoMy grandpa would always buy my grandmother the newest Cadillac. Her last Cadillac would go to him, and his Cadillac went to my uncle. Then my aunt, then my other uncle, my other aunt, down through our whole family. I remember being seven years old and going to Central Cadillac in Cleveland with my grandpa. I was enamored with this Allanté sitting there....

Scientists have documented a new electronic layer of matter found between two 2D nanolayers.The electrons pool in a regular arrangement of electron holes based on the sandwiching layers.This was previously believed to be impossible at room temperature.The group of newly discovered, electric forms of matter has a new addition. In this case, researchers at Northeastern University have accidentally identified a new configuration where layers of electrons form a uniform lattice. “I’m tempted to say it’s almost like a new phase of matter,” says physics professor Swastik Kar in a statement....

Every Red Bull Air Race is a struggle—not just among competitors, but between pilots and the course. For June’s championship, the first to be flown in New York City, race director Jim DiMatteo crafted a high-g’s course along the Hudson River near the Statue of Liberty. DiMatteo’s team calculates the planes’ speeds, turn rates and turn radii to ensure the pilots are not exposed to g-force spikes greater than 12. They also use simulations to ensure spectators won’t be hurt by debris in the event of a crash....

Several Finnish soldiers participating in military exercises were in an accident involving a reindeer.All of the soldiers, who were traveling in armored personnel carriers, have been released from the hospital.The reindeer’s status is unknown.A Finnish Army convoy of armored personnel carriers ran into a formidable opponent during exercises earlier this week. When the convoy suddenly encountered a reindeer on a road, the first vehicle swerved to avoid the beast, only to collide with the vehicle behind it....

Stanford scientists have developed a stretchy semiconductor that dissolves over time.Research into extreme and novel semiconductors isn’t just trendy—it’s vital to future technology.This project is one of many that use biology ideas to model new ways to make technology.In the future, diagnosing conditions inside your body might be as effortless as dissolvable stitches. Scientists from five different departments at Stanford have developed a “stretchable” semiconductor material that naturally dissolves in environments like the human body....

Even on the fast-paced, open-source highway of biology, it’s a long road from breakthrough to application–one usually built by engineers, who figure out how to take the delicate results of lab experiments and make them robust enough to survive the onslaught of industry. That’s why, for biomedical engineers like Peter Zandstra, last week’s news that embryonic stem cells had been created from human skin cells came as a beginning, not an end....

Net neutrality will come up for a vote in the Senate. A group of 33 Democrats, led by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, have submitted a petition to bring the matter to a vote under the Congressional Review Act, which gives Congress the ability to veto the decisions of bodies like the FCC. Now that a petition has been filed, the CRA will force the Senate to have a vote on whether or not to overturn the FCC’s recent regulatory decision sometime before June 12, though the vote is expected to happen as early as next week....

On Wednesday, China will open a sprawling six-lane mega-bridge connecting the mainland city of Zhuhai to Hong Kong and Macau with over 34 miles of elevated roadway. Running along a vast stretch of the Pearl River Delta, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge will snake through an underground tunnel, fed by two entrances made to look like islands. The four-mile underwater detour will allow for the passage of ships in the busy commercial hub....

Can a neural implant help you recover your memory? A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded research pilot suggests that the answer may soon be yes. In a small trial on 15 patients at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, “prosthetic memory” implant helped patients improve short-term memory by an average of 35 percent — a “substantial improvement” according to lead research Robert Hampson. “We were not surprised to find that this worked,” Hampson said, “what surprised us was how successful it was....

Update: The U.S. Air Force has clarified that there are no imminent plans to put B-52 bombers back on 24-hour alert, although facilities for the aircraft and crews are receiving renovations to prepare for the possibility of around-the-clock readiness should U.S. Strategic Command decide to issue the order. Original Post:The U.S. Air Force is preparing its fleet of B-52 nuclear-capable bombers for 24-hour alert at Barksdale Air Force Base in northwest Louisiana, according toDefense One....

The USS Fitzgerald collided with a commercial ship in June 2017.The collision killed seven sailors and crippled the destroyer.After more than two years and half a billion dollars in repairs, the ship is nearly ready to rejoin the fleet.A U.S. Navy warship severely damaged during a collision with a container ship in the summer of 2017 is back in the water, repaired, and undergoing tests. The USS Fitzgerald, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, is underway in the Gulf of Mexico, testing her repairs and new equipment before rejoining the fleet....

Onlookers at the Herne Bay Air Show in England earlier this week were about to see a rare demonstration, when a pilot’s single-engine, open-cockpit aircraft lost power and he was forced to make an emergency landing on the water in front of thousands of spectators. But then things went wrong: After gently touching down the aircraft immediately flipped over, leaving the pilot trapped under water.Roughly a dozen helpful beach-goers rushed to the downed plane and had it righted and pulled ashore in just a few moments....

Scientists have used a natural protein within silk to control how it unwrinkles. The protein, called fibroin, doesn’t dissolve in water, but it does change shape. Controlling the way fibroin absorbs water vapor allows scientists to tweak its visual appearance.The researchers say there are many potential applications for the technology, including creating words, textures, and detailed images.Tufts University engineers have developed a silk material that has the ability to wrinkle into highly detailed patterns, and then unwrinkle itself, ready to be imprinted with a new design all over again....

You know the Gibson Les Paul: It’s that chunky electric guitar hanging off the shoulders of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, the classic axe thrust skyward by Guns N’ Roses’ lead guitarist Slash.You know Gibson’s great rival Fender, too, even if you don’t know guitars. It makes the iconic Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix played and the workhorse Telecasters so often seen in the arms of Bruce Springsteen.The names of Les Paul and Leo Fender grace many of the most famous electric guitars....

One of the most exciting discoveries in astronomy over the last several years has been the explosion in exoplanet identification. Hundreds of worlds beyond the solar system, with the potential for Earth-like rocky planets abounding. But a new study throws some cold water on the excitement, noting that many of these younger planets have likely had their atmospheres obliterated by the stars they orbit.Many exoplanets orbit stars known as M dwarves....

Flared fenders make any car look way tougher. And it certainly works on the new STI. Those flares house big tires and help cool the turbo-stressed boxer Four. The 2.5-liter makes 305 hp thanks to variable valve timing on the intake and exhaust camshafts. It’s more fuel efficient, too. The only choice is a slightly notchy six-speed. Fine with us. Romp the loud pedal, and this Subi scoots to 60 mph in 4....

Bennu is ready for its close-up. The asteroid, which passes Earth every six years, had its photo taken at a closer distance than ever before thanks to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The photo was snapped a mere 0.4 miles (690 meters) from Bennu’s surface.NASA is studying Bennu to better understand the origins of life. The agency calls the tiny asteroid a “silent witness to titanic events in the solar system’s 4.6 billion year history....

Researchers have discovered several new species and subspecies of songbirds on the Indonesian archipelago of Wallacea.Typically, scientists only find five to six new bird species each year, so this is incredibly rare.Conservation efforts are needed to ensure that the new birds will be able to survive for more than a few years before being wiped out thanks to natural and man-made disasters like forest fires and logging.During a time when so many animals are going extinct at unprecedented rates and droves of animals are dying in the Australian bushfires, here’s a small sign of hope: Researchers have discovered 10 new kinds of birds on the Indonesian islands that make up the archipelago of Wallacea....