I monitor missile activity with satellites for Lockheed Martin
“This particular job, I sort of stumbled into.”

July 5, 2015 at 11:05AM
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Don’t Try To Rob A House If It Has This Nerf Sentry Gun
Two electrical engineering students built this face-tracking, self-aiming Nerf sentry gun for a final project. While it doesn’t quite pack the punch of a real gun, we don’t trust any Nerf gun that can track our faces.

July 5, 2015 at 09:57AM
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How 16 Harvard Students Built the Ultimate BBQ Bot
Some of the best smoked brisket comes out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. And it practically cooks itself.

July 5, 2015 at 09:02AM
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This Little Seahorse Will Teach Us How To Build Better Robots
It’s hip to be square if you’re a seahorse — or rather, it has certain adaptive advantages. Cylindrical tails may be much more popular in the animal kingdom, but the seahorse’s bizarre square-prism tail has far better mechanical properties.

July 5, 2015 at 01:06AM
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Just The Robot Battles From The First Episode Of ‘BattleBots’
Here is 9 uninterrupted minutes of robot carnage. What’s better than this?

July 4, 2015 at 01:58PM
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How Good Is Facial Recognition Technology, Really-and How Should We Regulate It?
Should a company need your permission before scanning your face? And does the technology really work?

July 4, 2015 at 04:15AM
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Is the seat-back movie about to die out?
Airlines feel the pressure to keep us constantly entertained while we’re up in the air. Is wi-fi about to change how we keep entertained above the clouds?

July 4, 2015 at 01:12AM
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The Workers Behind WeWork
Who picks up after the sharing economy?

July 3, 2015 at 07:00PM
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Is this BlackBerry’s First Android Phone?
For the past month or so, the general thinking around the rumor mill has been that BlackBerry is working on an Android phone. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, right? Now we’ve got a rough idea of what their first Android handset might look like.

July 3, 2015 at 02:56PM
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Future of Life Institute
The Boston-based Future of Life Institute announced the selection of 37 research teams around the world to which it plans to award about $7 million from Elon Musk and the Open Philanthropy Project as part of a first-of-its-kind grant program dedicated to “keeping AI robust and beneficial.”

July 3, 2015 at 02:56PM
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