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MIT is working on a new way for self-driving cars to get around in unfamiliar areas by imitating the way human drivers navigate. Called Variational End-to-End Navigation and Localization, it uses basic maps and video cameras to analyze and na… Continue reading MIT is teaching cars to navigate using a simple map and visual data, just like humans
The Royal Air Force (RAF) has begun testing the latest version of the BriteCloud missile decoy on its Typhoon fighter aircraft. At the Typhoon Ministerial Meeting in Germany, British Defence minister Stuart Andrew revealed that the disposable… Continue reading RAF tests BriteCloud missile decoys on Typhoon fighters
At NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Boeing recently completed live-fire tests of the complex array of thrusters that will be used to guide the seven-passenger spacecraft in orbit and provide propulsion for the emergency abort s… Continue reading Boeing CST-100 Starliner completes hot-fire thruster tests
The technology that will guide NASA’s Mars 2020 mission to a landing on the surface of Mars began testing recently in the skies over Death Valley in California. Installed in an Airbus helicopter, an engineering prototype of the Lander Vision … Continue reading Mars 2020 mission goes to Death Valley to test landing cameras
In an effort to make vaccines more available to people in difficult to reach areas, a team of scientists at McMaster University has developed an inexpensive, sugary gel that can preserve heat-fragile antiviral vaccines for over eight weeks at… Continue reading Sugary gel allows vaccines to be transported where refrigeration is lacking
A retired Cold War US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber has been rescued from an Arizona boneyard where it has sat since 2008, and is being returned to active duty. Nicknamed “Wise Guy,” it has been made flightworthy and flew fro… Continue reading Scrapped B-52 bomber to return to service after rescue from the boneyard