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(RNN) – The Department of Transportation’s plan to impose registration requirements on drone users signals more of a culture shift than an attempt to wrangle a technology getting out of hand. The FAA said it receives about 100 reports of … Continue reading →

Every year, the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) car show comes to town, and displays a bunch of impressive and yet absurd highly customized cars. Generally, I like impressive and absurd, which is why I’d like to propose an idea … Continue reading →

This article originally appeared on Wait But Why by Tim Urban. This is Part 1 — Part 2 is here. “We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.” -Vernor Vinge What does … Continue reading →

An intelligent piece by BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan said that Google’s self-driving car would bring about the “ugly end of driving.” He’s correct in almost every way; cars are “giant, inefficient, planet-and-people-killing death machines,” killing, as he cited, 1.2 million people … Continue reading →

During inspection season, the floor of the Flying Heritage Collection looks like a model builder’s table. Parts and pieces of aircraft lie on moving blankets under the wings of the planes. These (armored) panels belong to the Il-2 Shturmovik. Note … Continue reading →

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