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"We don't like our car bumping into things," said Chris Urmson, head of Google's self-driving project, addressing the February 14 incident where Google's car struck a bus. "This was a tough day for us."

Fly longer and with more skill with the X-Star Drone with 4K Camera by Autel Robotics. Outdoing every other drone on the market, this quadcopter is sophisticated yet super user friendly. Ready to fly right out of the box...

As virtual reality headsets are on the verge of becoming major platforms for gaming and more, we're going to see more accessories and tie-in products that aim to enhance the VR experience. The hand-held controllers that ...

The Return of the Black Panther Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most important voices of our time, and he went to work on a new Black Panther series of comic books for Marvel. Coates preview...

Plastic waste floats around the ocean as massive islands of garbage, it kills wildlife and destroys environments. Scientists have been scrambling for a solution to the growing problem, and now a team of Japanese research...

Need a weapon? Grab some magnets and some nails and you got yourself a hell of an arrow launcher. The magnets push out the nail darts so fast that it's basically a mini crossbow mixed with a nailgun, no batteries necessa...

Richard Garfield, best known as the creator of Magic: The Gathering, is working with Hasbro to release a new version of his 1995 pet project Robo Rally.

The US government is offering seven cities a remarkable challenge: reinvent urban transportation for the 21st century, with a particular focus on autonomous vehicles. To pull it off, those cities will work with some of t...

The music and the aviation worlds were wowed recently by the iconic metal band Iron Maiden's unveiling of their tour plane, a 747-400 with their name blazed across it. Sadly, less than a month later, and early in Iron Ma...

She is the invisible crewmate inside every F/A-18 Hornet cockpit, shelling out snappy commands and dire warnings to even the world's most experienced and confident fighter pilots. Now, the woman behind the Hornet's famou...

Astronaut Scott Kelly, the International Space Station's selfie king, is retiring from his post at NASA on April 1st -- no foolin'. The American record-holder for most time spent in space will spend his foreseeable days ...

As far as autonomous driving goes, it's still a bit of a freaky concept for most of us--whether we can trust the cars to detect objects, stay in their lanes and, oh, not kill us. In a test of the autopilot sensors on the...

BMW's M division knows how to put a fast car together, but even the experts there may be patting themselves on the back over the 2016 BMW M4 GTS. The latest creation from the famed tuners, the car billed as "the most agi...

Movie CG gets better every year, and that's bad news for the blockbusters of yesteryear which have a tendency to age really, really poorly.

In development for several years now, Honda's hydrogen-powered Clarity FCV (fuel-cell vehicle) is finally ready to begin sales. The four-door sedan won't be easy to get your hands on, however, as it's only available to a...

There was a lot to like about Google's Pixel C, but ultimately I was left underwhelmed because Android is still far behind the competition when it comes to productivity. The biggest problem? You can only use one app at a...

We've been loving the pictures that the Cassini Spacecraft has been beaming back of Saturn and its various moons: this latest one is a gorgeous portrait of Rhea and Tethys.

Last year at CES, I remember seeing a life-size, fully functioning R2-D2 unit (minus the Leia hologram, sadly). I assumed it was hired out from a professional movie props unit or something similar; now I'm not so sure. W...

Sport apparel maker Under Armour isn't the first to incorporate 3D-printing into their shoes, but they are the latest. The company has unveiled a limited edition training shoe called UA Architechs, which feature a 3D-pri...

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Folio Society's special editions. They've been creating some fantastic books, particularly in the science fiction world. After tackling Frank Herbert's Dune , Philip K. Dick's The Ma...

If you could go back and redo anything you've created, would you? The team at Insomniac Games was able to do that and give the original Ratchet and Clank from 2002 a complete overhaul. But it isn't a "definitive edition"...

No doubt, as fossil and nuclear fuel are considered more and more dirtier and untrustable, there is a growing demand for greener and safer renewable energy sources. Sun, wind, water, biomass, waves and tides, and the hea...