Bethesda might not have had anything on the scale of Fallout 4 to announce at its E3 press conference this year, but the publisher did have a few surprises up its sleeve. First up is Quake Champions, an arena-style shooter "designed for players of all skill...
Bethesda unveils Quake Champions, Prey, and a VR version of Fallout 4
Hyperloop One unveils a new name, new partners and $80 million in new funding
Forget Hyperloop Technologies: Now the company is called Hyperloop One, and it’s backed by $ 80 million in...
Microsoft unveils new effort to make its developer, IT documentation great again
Microsoft's developer documentation used to be the model that all others should follow. The documentation itself was thorough, combining reference material with usage guides and sample code. Its use of, at the time, novel JavaScript and XML techniques (known in those days...
Echodyne unveils a palm-size radar that’s just right for drones and driverless cars
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Radar and aircraft go...
High-tech kicks: Nike unveils self-lacing shoes, will go on sale later this year
Hate tying your shoelaces? Nike has you covered.
The shoe giant today unveiled the Nike Hyperadapt 1.0, its first self-lacing sneaker that is available to the general public.
“Innovation at Nike is not...
Amazon unveils ‘Echo Dot’ and ‘Amazon Tap’ devices, expanding lineup of Alexa-enabled hardware
Amazon’s Echo, the AI-enabled Bluetooth speaker that has been a surprising hardware success, is getting two new siblings, the company announced today.The devices extend the reach of Alexa, the company’s virtual,...
Marley Natural unveils new marijuana strains, lotions, and accessories
Bob Marley would have turned 71 years old this Monday. He may be resting in peace, but his legacy still lives on. Marley Natural, an international brand that the Marley family launched this past summer, today announced that it will start...
Dual RNA-seq unveils noncoding RNA functions in host–pathogen interactions
Bacteria express many small RNAs for which the regulatory roles in pathogenesis have remained poorly understood due to a paucity of robust phenotypes in standard virulence assays. Here we use a generic ‘dual RNA-seq’ approach to profile RNA expression simultaneously in pathogen and host during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection and reveal the molecular impact of bacterial riboregulators. We identify a PhoP-activated small RNA,...
Chinese company unveils a drone so big it can carry a human – but is it a drone?
Look! Up in the air! It’s a drone, it’s a plane, it’s … Super-Quadcopter! Droves of drones were unveiled this week at the International CES show in Las Vegas, but the one that made the biggest splash was arguably the...
XPRIZE unveils $7 million contest for ocean discovery, with bonus for sniffing out pollution
The latest high-tech competition from XPRIZE is offering $ 7 million to promote new ways to map our planet’s final frontier: the depths of the ocean. “Our oceans cover two-thirds of our planet’s surface and are a crucial global source of...