Not since Ross and Rachel on Friends has there been a more epic will-they-or-won’t-they story than the US has with drone registration. Up until 2015, casual pilots could send their drones skyward with little regulation from the FAA. Late in that year, however, a new program required pilots to pay a $5 registration fee and follow a series of specific rules, like keeping the craft within the pilot’s direct line of sight....
Reminiscently bops in the periphery of my contacts, begging me to check out its latest creation. I go to turn off its notifications, but, like always, I’m lured into the A/R overlay memory that’s titled “The Hammad Family’s First Days.” It has a 3D loop of Ayan and Tymeena dancing around me in our living room extracted from a video that none of us took. These overlays are usually constructed from our photos and videos, but now and then they pull in media from connected devices around our home....
As of Tuesday evening, the US had recorded more than 663,000 COVID deaths according to data from the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The 2020 census count of 331.4 million residents puts the country’s death toll right at 0.2 percent of the total population, or 1 in 500. People aged 85 and older make up just 2 percent of the US population, but account for more than 30 percent of deaths....
If you’re using Google Chrome (or Microsoft Edge, which uses the same code), you can use these add-ons to enhance the online Instagram experience and make tweaks and modifications that sometimes you just can’t make with the app on your phone. If you come across a video clip on Instagram, you can click on the content to start and stop playback, and that’s about it. The very handy Controls for Instagram Videos adds a much more useful control bar along the bottom of the video clip that you’re viewing—you can jump forward or backward, go full screen, or even download the video to your computer....
Whether you call it texting, instant messaging, or anything else, sending a message to someone has never been easier. The variety of messaging apps available today all seem pretty straightforward, but you’re bound to find something new if you dig a little deeper into their settings and features. Facebook Messenger If you need a break from notifications, you can mute specific threads. This means you won’t receive new message notifications about that particular conversation for a certain period of time....
1. Customize your notifications On Android, open up Settings, then go to Apps & notifications and choose an app to make changes. On iOS, you can take even more control over the style of alerts: From Settings, pick Notifications, then tap on a particular messaging app to see the available options. Notifications ping you at all hours of the day, stacks of unread messages build up until they aren’t worth the effort to catch up on, and important information gets lost in the stream....
Hasselblad cameras went to space before the moon landing Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad created cameras for early space travel. In the early ‘60s, the Mercury mission astronauts brought several Hasselblad 550C cameras into space. The Hasselblad was a natural choice for the job. The internal mechanisms were entirely mechanical with few moving parts, and the modular system kept film in switchable modules called “backs” that easily swapped. So, when they finished shooting one batch of film, it was easy to stow it and attach another fresh back....
Note: The video below contains strong language, some sci-fi horror imagery, and flashing strobe lights not appropriate for some viewers. Many venues are turning toward live streaming while patrons can’t attend in person, but Code Orange had a specific vision in mind for how they wanted the show to look, and veteran videographer and cinematographer Sunny Singh was onboard to help. He keeps an extensive archive of punk, heavy metal, hardcore, and other alternative band concerts on his site, Hate5Six....
Lo and behold, here are 19 unique tech and outdoor gear on sale at huge discounts until May 31. Phigolf: Mobile and Home Smart Golf Simulator with Swing Stick Play golf anytime, anywhere with this simulator that includes a state-of-the-art sensor and swing. With the accompanying app, you can even play against family and friends through multiplayer mode. It’s usually $249, but you can get it on sale for $179....
In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the U.S. Department of Energy projects that renewable energy will be the fastest-growing U.S. energy source through 2050. However, it’s still relatively expensive to store energy. And since renewable energy generation isn’t available all the time – it happens when the wind blows or the sun shines – storage is essential....
Among other things, these tools can help you see which projects are taking longer than they should, give you a better idea of what you should be charging for your time, and make sure you’re making the most out of every minute. They’re particularly useful if you’re a freelancer, run your own business, or manage other people. But whatever your job description, you should be able to get some real benefits from using a time-tracking app like the ones we’ve featured below....
Without understanding the role each of these elements plays, you’ll likely spend hours lifting every day, but your progress will only go so far. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a muscle math genius to buff up, and winter is the perfect time to start. Consistency builds with discipline over time. But sometimes that’s not enough, so you’ll need to come up with some extra motivation to get moving. It’s a pretty simple process, but there are several things that go into boosting it and making it more efficient....
Popular Science tracked down ground-breaking startups at the Kairos Global Summit. Check out our complete coverage here. You can hear more from Katie on her podcast.
There are more than 700 steel knots in The “Bobbed Wire” Bible, Jack Glover’s “illustrated guide to identification and classification” of barbed wire. They have names like Scutt’s Wooden Block, Greenbriar, Glidden Union Pacific, and the J. Brotherton Parallel. Scrupulously updated and republished by Cow Puddle Press starting in the 1960s, the bible—like the rest of barbed wire’s history—is one-part Americana and one-part innovation. Glover’s book and similar materially-specific compendiums (the Barbed Wire: Identification Encyclopedia comes to mind) document the minutiae of fencing materials and techniques....
The image generator works by taking a landscape or photograph from inside a building and expanding it into a full 360-degree spherical panorama around the camera. Of course, it can’t know what’s actually behind the camera, so it uses machine learning to create a plausible and seamless environment—whether the input image is of a mountain landscape or the interior of a concert hall. Adobe’s algorithms can also estimate the 3D geometry of the new environment, which enables the view point to be changed, and even for the camera to appear to move around the environment....
A new report out this week collected data from all clinical cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis reported in the United States in 2015, 2016, and 2017, to provide a comprehensive view of the disease so far. “I think the publication really fills in the gaps,” says Janell Routh, a medical officer in the Division of Viral Diseases at the CDC and an author on the paper, published in the journal Pediatrics—it connects data published at the start of the outbreak to that from intervening years....
Each video also looks like how we might imagine a world as perceived by a robot. Rooms are mapped in dots of color, with real spaces assembled the way a computer perceives space. It is the visual equivalent of running a hand along stucco—texture rendered into form. For the Subterranean Challenge, held in late September of 2021, an international array of teams built and then used robots to explore underground obstacle courses....
On Sunday, energy companies scrapped their proposal for a 600-mile pipeline carrying natural gas from West Virginia into North Carolina and Virginia, which would cross forested lands with rivers and wetlands. The Atlantic Coast Natural Gas Pipeline has faced fierce opposition from environmental advocates ever since it was announced in 2014. The CEOs of the companies responsible for the project, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, announced they were cancelling the pipeline....
The plant rested in the herbarium of the Field Museum for decades after its initial collection, but it was hardly forgotten. When a team of botanists received funding to study the plant further, they performed DNA testing on the dried specimen, but unfortunately the DNA wasn’t intact enough to yield the desired results. After realizing they needed live specimens for the DNA testing, the team contacted Patricia Álvarez-Loayza in 2015, a scientist at the Manu National Park, and the individual the plant is named after....
Named, very technically, “Passenger Seat Arrangement For A Vehicle” the patent features not just rows but layers of seats. While primarily designed for airplanes, the patent helpfully notes that it is suitable for other means of passenger transport, like buses or trains. While most airplanes are already densely packed, the patent observes that wide-body airplanes (think Boeing Jumbo Jets or the Airbus 330 family) aren’t utilized to their full economic potential....
