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Joby Aviation has announced an accident during flight testing of its market-leading eVTOL aircraft prototype. Flight tracking data appears to show the aircraft was being pushed over 270 mph (435 km/h), well beyond its advertised top speed of 200 mph (3… Continue reading Joby crashes one of its two eVTOL prototypes during high-speed testing
Motorcyclist’s vulnerability to bodily harm and weather has spawned several enclosed motorcycle designs over the years. Fascinated by the idea, [Meanwhile in the garage] finally got around to building his …read more Continue reading A DIY Enclosed Motorcycle To Keep You Dry In The Rain
A few days ago, two Texan men, aged 59 and 69, died in a bizarre road accident when their car, a 2019 Tesla Model S, ran off the road at high speed in a curve, hit a tree, and burst into a fireball that took four hours to fully extinguish. The shocking… Continue reading How much blame should Tesla accept if customers misuse its products?
Now that we drive around cars that are more like mobile data centers than simple transportation, there’s a wealth of data to be harvested when the inevitable crashes occur. After a recent Tesla crash on a California highway, a security researcher got a hold of the car’s “black box” and …read more
There comes a moment when our project sees the light of day, publicly presented to people who are curious to see the results of all our hard work, only for it to fail in a spectacularly embarrassing way. This is the dreaded “Demo Curse” and it recently befell the SIT …read more
Many of us have become familiar with the distinctive sound of multirotor toys, a sound frequently punctuated by sharp sounds of crashes. We’d then have to pick it up and repair any damage before flying fun can resume. This is fine for a toy, but autonomous fliers will need to …read more
Continue reading Quadcopter with Tensegrity Shell Takes A Beating And Gets Back Up
Google Project Zero disclosed the bug before a patch becomes available from Microsoft. Continue reading Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild for Sandbox Escape
It should have been another fine day, but not all was well in paradise. Few things bring a creeping feeling of doom like a computer that hardlocks and then refuses to boot. The clicking sound coming from the tower probably isn’t a good sign either. Those backups are up to …read more
Continue reading Tales From the Sysadmin: Impending Hard Drive Doom
When we first saw the Hoversurf Scorpion flying motorcycle, we thought it was “just the vehicle for aspiring amputees.” Four exposed propellers spinning dangerously close to the rider’s limbs made us cringe, and we wondered how much would be left of th… Continue reading Video: Russian hoverbike loses control at 100 ft and crashes in Dubai
Yes, a rogue “word” could freeze up your iPhone – but it’s not malware, it doesn’t steal data and doesn’t do permanent damage. Continue reading iPhone “word of death” could crash your phone – what you need to know