Emerging Tech

The First Satellite in Facebook’s Plan for Global Internet Success Just Exploded

Earlier today, a SpaceX rocket carrying the satellite that Facebook planned to use exploded during a pre-launch test at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Emerging Tech

FAA Says Over Half a Million Drones Have Been Registered in Just 8 Months

According to the agency, it took 100 years for about 320,000 regular aircraft to be registered with US officials.

Modernization

With Its Takeover of Yahoo, Verizon Becomes King of the Internet for the Older Crowd

Across America, millions of people use dial-up connections to web portals as they surf the information superhighway.

Emerging Tech

7-Eleven Has Delivered its First Slurpee Via Drone

The order also included a chicken sandwich, donuts and a cup of coffee.

Digital Government

Facebook’s Terrifying Internet Drone Has Made its Maiden Voyage

The full-sized, carbon-fiber drone is solar-powered, and has a wingspan comparable to a Boeing 737 jet.

Digital Government

The US Commercial Drone Industry Finally Governed by Real Rules

“License and registration, please. Do you know how fast you were going back there?”

Emerging Tech

It’s Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab in Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom

With every passing day, it feels like the robot uprising is getting a little closer.

Emerging Tech

Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn

The tech giant halted trading of its shares Monday morning to announce its intention to purchase the social network for $26.2 billion in cash.

Emerging Tech

Google Seems to Be Working on Warehouse Robots Like Amazon’s

The tech giant outlined a theoretical strategy for ensuring that autonomous and remote-controlled robots in a warehouse facility aren’t overloaded as they move cargo around the warehouse.

Emerging Tech

IBM Has Been Awarded an Average of 24 Patents Per Day so Far in 2016

The company is in the middle of a reinvention, that sees the company shifting further away from hardware sales into cloud computing, analytics and AI services.