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By Jon D. Markman On November 22, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Two years ago, the best bipedal robots couldn’t climb stairs or open doors. Watching them calculate, quiver and then tumble was hilarious.
Now, Boston Dynamics has one doing backflips!
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By Jon D. Markman On November 20, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It’s crazy. Elon Musk has built a semi truck that can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 20 seconds while hauling a 40-ton load.
Think that’s impressive? Well, set the cab free of its trailer, and the...
By Jon D. Markman On November 17, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The opioid epidemic ravages small and large towns across America.
And it has largely been intractable both to law enforcement and to the medical community. Until now.
This week, the...
By Jon D. Markman On October 13, 201702:00 PM Eastern
How cool would it be to take photos or videos just by blinking your eye?
Now imagine telescopic vision. Or, infrared night-vision.
It would be like having superpowers. And you could...
By Mike Larson On October 9, 201707:00 AM Eastern
I love it when a plan comes together! That’s what the late, great George Peppard used to said as “Hannibal” on The A-Team – and it’s how I feel about many of our latest picks.
In my High Yield...
By Jon D. Markman On October 6, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Imagine riding a rocket from New York City to Shanghai in only 39 minutes!
If you believe Elon Musk, it’s possible … and not too far away.
Musk founded SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA) and a handful of...
By Jon D. Markman On October 4, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In James Bond films, the villains are often eccentric billionaires bent on world domination. They always have great gadgets, tropical islands and legions of hapless, expendable bad guys.
In the...
By Jon D. Markman On September 20, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Your parents probably told you to eat your vegetables so you could grow up strong and healthy.
Well, if you give the same advice to your children and grandchildren, you might be wasting your...
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 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In an era dominated by energy-sipping, self-driving wannabes, there is something oddly satisfying about a Ferrari.
Last week, the company Enzo Ferrari carved out of Alfa Romeo in 1939,...