The mostly male students in the classroom lift their virtual aircrafts into the air. This is all part of a new cottage industry that’s rapidly growing in China: drone pilot schools.
Continue reading… “China’s drone schools to field pilots for new sector”
If you don’t need a separate dishwasher from a dish dryer, why would you need one for laundry? This is the question that Glenn Reid of Marathon Laundry – former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs – has been trying to answer for six years.
Continue reading… “Marathon Laundry will completely change appliances and the way we use them”
Google’s testing its solar-powered drones at Spaceport America in New Mexico. They are exploring new ways to deliver high-speed internet from the air.
Continue reading… “Google’s secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed through Project Skybender”
Coin is primarily known for making one of the first “smart” credit cards. This hasn’t exactly worked out well, but it does mean that Coin has learned a thing or two about how to integrate payment systems into hardware. The company is teaming up with MasterCard to get other companies to integrate mobile payments into basically anything and everything that can fit an NFC chip inside it.
Continue reading… “Coin / MasterCard to make everything you wear a payment device”
Vigilant Solutions, a vehicle surveillance broker, has offered Texas law enforcement agencies “free” access to its automated license plate reader databases and analytical tools. However, this comes at a hefty price. The police must give Vigilant access to all of their data.
Continue reading… “Texas license plate readers are now also debt collectors”
Thanks to a new invention by German inventor Clemens Bimek, the invasive vasectomy may be a thing of the past. This new “sperm switch” will allow men to decide their own fertility by turning the switch on and off.
Continue reading… “Men can turn fertility on and off with “Sperm Switch””
Bitcoin is dead, or is it? We are uncertain of what the future holds, but we do know that the pioneer in the cryptocurrency movement is in some trouble.
Continue reading… “Zcash – The untraceable Bitcoin alternative with some heavy hitters backing it”
Bill Gates and the UK government are pledging $4 billion to eliminate malaria. This new fund will help support research on the infectious disease that killed more than 400,000 people last year alone.
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Running a startup is hard. Really hard. But behind every successful startup is usually a great CEO. Here are 13 attributes that have helped startup CEO’s stand out.
Continue reading… “13 things that the best startup CEOs do better”
When you’re trying to land your dream job in tech, there’s often one obstacle you have to pass first: Getting someone to respond to your job applications. So before you put yourself out there for tech companies to view, consider these 12 skills to help you land your job.
Continue reading… “Top 12 skills tech employers want”
For years, New York City has been developing a “free” public Wi-Fi project, called LinkNYC, which is a great effort to bring wireless Internet access to the city’s residents. But does “free” really mean free?
Continue reading… “The real price you pay for ‘free’ public Wi-Fi”
According to experts, some people really do win the genetic lottery. This is the first time that scientists have shown that good health is linked to intelligence. These people are less likely to become sick, develop diseases or die early.
Continue reading… “Experts find intelligent people are genetically predisposed to be healthier”