David Ellison has emerged victorious. And he’s boldly — or arrogantly, if you prefer — decided to name the entertainment giant that he’s bolted together Skydance Corp., nodding to the original name of his film production firm that has swallowed up two Hollywood studios over the past 14 months. Defying skeptics and beating back opponents,
Bio-inspired robots are a dime a dozen these days, with machines mimicking everything from bats and beetles to long-extinct sea creatures. But making the absolute most effective robot for certain niche scenarios like remote ocean monitoring during storms requires going one step beyond what nature offers. With this in mind, researchers from the Singapore University
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Doom is such a simple, beautifully designed game that it can run on all sorts of weird things, from pregnancy tests to potatoes. Weird things can play it, too. In an effort to eternally one-up itself, the community has now gotten a map of a fruit fly’s brain to play the 1993 first-person shooter. It
You can soar above the earth for free.Google Earth Longing to soar above some breathtaking scenery? For decades, Google has hidden a flight simulator game in the desktop app for Google Earth. Now, the whole world can take off online, for free. Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorized SpaceX to fly Starship prototypes again, after the company identified the probable cause of the rocket system’s booster stage failure during a flight in May. SpaceX said over the weekend that the next Starship flight could take place this Thursday, July 16. It would be the second release of
