The UK Defence Department has just showcased Dragonfire, a laser defence toy which can destroy incoming missiles and hostile aircraft. The released test footage seems extremely bland until you understand the implications of what it happening. But when you do understand, the test footage looks like a scene from the climax of Dune Part 2. […]
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Seriously? 33 problems out of 89 safety checks in the manufacturing and assembly of the Boeing 737 Max? How is it possible this aircraft is still flying? Why do the Boeing board of directors still have jobs? How is it even conceivable that Spirit Aerosystems, a contractor for much of the assembly process, is still […]
Just a few hours ago, Oppenheimer shut out the Academy Awards with a haul of seven Oscars. They were Best Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematographer, Editing and Original Score. What this cinematic masterpiece did not win, was the prize for best sound. This is a little ironic given that the audio tech and ingenuity […]
A recent report on how the Israeli military’s deployment of GPS-disruptive technology in southern Lebanon is affecting the civilian population is interesting, but just barely scratching the surface. Interesting because a sector you wouldn’t even dream of being disrupted is being severely tested; the fishing industry. GPS tells fishermen where the fish are, literally. So […]
Consumers have been fed a steady diet of sustainability messages for the last 20 years, at least in developed markets. And now this is becoming built-in to the choices we make when buying or remaining loyal to a brand. But our parameters for purchasing are becoming ever more demanding, particularly because of our increasing appreciation […]
Dune Part 2 Hits the Big Screen Today After a delay of four months, the much anticipated second part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune arrives in cinemas today. It’s fair to say that Dune Part 2 cannot be tied down to one genre, and that is one of the reasons both the book and the earlier […]
In a move that shocked the world on Tuesday, Apple terminated their decade-long program to build a car. The shock was that it took so long to kill it off. The process had been so beset with issues that, internally, the so-called Titan Project was whisperingly referred to as the Titanic Project. Various media reports […]
Last week at the Singapore Airshow, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China showed off its C919. The nose design is a copy of Boeing’s 787 and Airbus’s A350, and its elegant wingtips mirror the raked elegance inherent in the latest advances to reduce aerodynamic drag. The backend of the plane is nothing to write home […]
This year, there’s going to be a significant amount of traffic to the moon. The reason for this is to confirm the presence of water and to figure out how to extract it. 53 years ago… Signs of water vapour were first detected by Apollo 14. More evidence has surfaced since, around the moon’s poles. […]
Almost every day, headline-hogger Elon Musk manages to fill our screens with news that excites, sickens, surprises, revolts, frightens, amuses, angers, etc. Name any particular emotion, and Musk evokes a daily dose of it, and the opposite. On this particular day, we offer up a fact a lot of people know. But how many have […]