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Qatar Airways to Offer Laptops on Flights as Workaround for Device Travel Ban
The recent electronic device travel ban on US-bound flights have left many business-class travelers without anything productive to do during the long flight. Usually these flights are a chance for many of them to get some work done undisturbed, but the electronic device travel ban limits the use of any…
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Latest Apple Patent Disables Wearables When It Detects the User Driving
The latest Apple patent is about improving driver safety by limiting user distraction while driving. Granted to the tech giant last week, the latest patent uses built-in motion detection on the wearable device to determine whether the user is operating a vehicle, and if so, disables it until the vehicle…
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Terrorist Plot to put Explosives Inside iPads Led to US-UK Device Travel Ban
The US Department of Homeland Security has quietly issued a device travel ban last week preventing users from bringing in electronic devices larger than smartphones such as laptops and tablets on their carry on luggage if they are flying in specifically from 10 airports from the Middle-East and North Africa.…
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Startup to Fly Electric Planes on Short-Haul Journeys
A new startup based in Massachusetts, US is hoping to launch a fleet of electric-powered passenger planes for short-haul flights within the next ten or twenty years. Wright Electric has unveiled its first concept for a 150-seat electric aeroplane (pictured above) at Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator Demo Day this week.…
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US and UK Issue Electronic Device Travel Ban Amid Fear of Terror Threat
The US Department of Homeland security and the Transportation Security Administration has quietly issued a warning 8AM on Tuesday that travelers approaching the US from ten different airports in the Middle-East and Africa will be banned from carrying electronic devices larger than a smartphone due to fears of possible terrorist…
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Buzz Aldrin Hosts Cycling Pathways to Mars VR Experience
Buzz Aldrin was on the Apollo 11 mission which first set foot on the moon, but his latest project takes the 87-year old astronaut all the way to Mars in a virtual reality movie. The VR film titled Cycling Pathways to Mars has a short runtime of just 10 minutes,…
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SpaceX Plans to Send Tourists to the Moon in 2018
Elon Musk’s SpaceX currently flies and returns cargo capsules to the International Space Station but the company will soon be heading to a different orbiting satellite, Earth’s own moon, with tourists in tow. Two private citizens whose identities have not been disclosed have approached SpaceX with the idea and have…
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NASA Begins Testing X-Plane with Quiet Supersonic Technology
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NASA to develop a Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) passenger plane which has now begun wind-tunnel testing their preliminary design at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The initial testing of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane is conducted on a nine percent scale model inside…
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US Travel Ban has Negatively Affected Valve Says Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell, the president of Valve, candidly spoke about the latest US travel ban in a roundtable with gaming journalists at their Bellevue, Washingon studio offices recently. President Donald Trump’s travel ban has hit Valve in two fronts according to Newell: employees and eSports. According to Newell, there are Valve…
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DARPA Fund Bioreactor That Creates Vaccines On-Demand
Think of those multi-color retractable pens that you’ve used for years, now imagine if someone was to take out the ink and instead dispenses something a little different. Imagine if instead of red, black, green and blue ink you could get different medicines on the go. Thanks to a new design…
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The Waterfront – Panasonics 4K Seat For Airplanes
Going to take a long flight in the near future? You may want to hope that Panasonic is the ones providing you with the in-flight entertainment though after they revealed the Waterfront, a 4k experience to keep you happy on the plane. Concealed within a private seating area, not only…
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Europe Might Take the Lead in Adopting Electric Vehicles
It’s really surprising to hear something like this, but the fact is that Europeans are more interested in electric vehicles. I know the EV hype has been going on in the US for quite some time, but according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, Europe has seen a 78% rise…
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Turn Your Smartphone’s Camera Flash Into a Lamp
What makes the tech sphere stand out from other industries is the vast array of concepts and nifty innovations which solve problems that are not always apparent. This new gadget may not be the greatest problem solver, but it sure is nifty and also has real world potential. Below is…
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LightSail Says Final Goodbye With Selfie
After it was theorized by Carl Sagan, the LightSail was finally brought to life earlier this year with Bill Nye heading up the Solar Sail Project. After a successful launch and a communications blackout, the solar sail has finished its mission. After 25 days in low-orbit, the Solar Sail has completed its…
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