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By Gavin Magor On September 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Devastating, and expensive, the damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey will fall mainly on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as I said last week. Catastrophe funding will also kick in for...
By Jon D. Markman On August 30, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The future of spying arrived while you weren’t looking. The new eye-in-the-sky isn’t some shiny satellite. It’s not even a plane or a helicopter.
Drones make perfect super-snoopers.
They are...
By Jon D. Markman On August 23, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Electric propulsion goes mainstream. Quietly, big parts of the industrial complex are plugging in.
You could easily mistake the Sun Flyer for many other small planes, like a Cessna or a Piper.
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By Mike Larson On August 21, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Happy Eclipse Day! For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will streak across the continental U.S. later today. Viewers in a 70-mile wide swath of territory stretching southeast from...
By Jon D. Markman On August 18, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Industrial designers dream about products free of buttons and wired connections. Sadly, function always gets in the way.
That is likely to change. Samsung, Foxconn and other firms are...
By Jon D. Markman On August 16, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Airlines have been the butt of customer service jokes for years. Deservedly so. Now they’re fighting back, with software.
This week, JetBlue announced a large investment in Gladly, a Silicon...
By Jon D. Markman On August 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A couple of celebrity tech CEOs are having a Twitter fight.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla (TSLA) and part-time rocket scientist, believes that unchecked artificial intelligence will ultimately...
By Mike Larson On August 11, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Twenty-seven years and two weeks ago, Iraqi infantry and tanks poured across the border into Kuwait. Saddam Hussein’s lightning-fast invasion overwhelmed the defenders, and he seized the country...
By Jon D. Markman On August 4, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Water covers most of the planet. Yet, fresh drinking water remains a precious commodity in many places. It’s one of life’s rich riddles.
A Spanish company has a solution. Abengoa S.A. (MCE:...
By Jon D. Markman On August 2, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Everywhere you look, something in the real world seems to be getting replaced by something digital.
Thankfully, the real world has started to strike back.
This week, The Wall Street...