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Technology
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Aviation
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Aviation
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Aviation
The PigeonBot flies like a bird but won’t poop like one
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Aviation
Bell’s sleek new electric air taxi design promises speeds of 150 mph and a 60-mile range
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Aviation
A pilot passed out while flying an F-15 over Oregon. Here’s what happened next.
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Aviation
Our highest-flying stories of 2019
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Vehicles
Lincoln’s new heated windshield wiper tech could make winter driving a lot simpler
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Security
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Electric Vehicles
Watch an electric seaplane take to the skies for the first time
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AI
When it comes to board games, humans don’t stand a chance against AI
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Aviation
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AI
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Aviation
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NASA
Why we’re still obsessed with the watches astronauts wore to the moon
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Space
Are we alone in the universe? Probably not.
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Aviation
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Aviation
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Aviation
The coolest planes at the Reno air races
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Drones
This big drone takes off like a helicopter, flies like a biplane, and can carry 70 pounds
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Security
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Electric Vehicles
Does Hyundai’s rooftop solar panel change the fuel-economy equation?
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Technology
Everything you need to know about the new Apple credit card
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Self Driving
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Security
What to know about the ‘extremely unusual’ Capital One hack
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Aviation
Everything we know about the new airplanes in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
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Aviation
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Self Driving
A Boeing air taxi prototype crashed last month. That might be a good thing.
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AI
Google is working on ‘self-healing’ maps, thanks to artificial intelligence
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Moons
The Apollo 11 mission as told through the astronauts’ heart rates
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AI
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Self Driving
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AI
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Internet
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Social Media
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Aviation
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Security
How a foreign country hacks a power grid
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Self Driving
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Self Driving
Watch a digitally-upgraded Black Hawk helicopter fly for the first time
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Technology
Apple is breaking up iTunes. Here’s what you need to know.
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Self Driving
MIT’s new robot takes orders from your muscles
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Aviation
This new box full of sensors could help more flying machines get off the ground
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Technology
Oculus Quest brings your real-world motion into VR. Here’s what that’s like.
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Aviation
Watch this electric air taxi take off vertically, thanks to 36 swiveling ‘jet’ engines
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Self Driving
Black Hawk helicopters have a flight plan to go autonomous
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Air Force
Everything you could ever want to know about flying the U-2 spy plane
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Drones
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Security
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AI
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Self Driving
Volvo taught its cars to warn each other about icy roads
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Aviation
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Internet
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AI
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Aviation
This experimental airplane will change shape while flying
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Aviation
What to know about the software issue that delayed major airlines today
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Aviation
Dual rotors could make the Defiant one of the world’s fastest helicopters
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Self Driving
What will it take for humans to trust self-driving cars?
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Self Driving
Before self-driving cars can get safer, they need to push their limits
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AI
This supercomputer will perform 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second
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Weapons
These blades can cut nearly anything
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Aviation
Jet engines get planes in the sky, but software keeps them safe
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Health
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Aviation
Investigating commercial airline crashes goes beyond the ‘black box’
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