Big questions about raging Western U.S. wildfires, answered
The great blazes burning the West are like colossal campfires. What do you need to start a campfire? You need to burn some kindling. "The more kindling you have, the...
Curly the curling robot throws stones like a pro – TechCrunch
Robots have shown themselves to excel at any number of sports and activities, though they do best when they have a single task. Fortunately some sports, such as curling, consist...
Blue Origin job listing sheds more light on its space-based orbital habitat ambitions – TechCrunch
Blue Origin founder and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made no secret of his ambition to eventually create orbiting space stations that act as places for people to live and...
CMU’s MoonRanger robot rover will be the first to search for water ice on the Moon in 2022 – TechCrunch
Carnegie Mellon University and spinoff space startup Astrobotic are developing a robotic rover to look for water on the Moon, and the little bot just passed the crucial preliminary design...
WellSaid Labs research takes synthetic speech from seconds-long clips to hours – TechCrunch
Millions of homes have voice-enabled devices, but when was the last time you heard a piece of synthesized speech longer than a handful of seconds? WellSaid Labs has pushed the...
Zombie storm Paulette, a past hurricane, reforms in the Atlantic ocean
The former hurricane, Paulette, essentially died last week, on Sept. 16. But Paulette has risen again, in the form of a tropical storm (meaning an organized storm with wind speeds...
Microsoft launches Premonition, its hardware and software platform for detecting biological threats – TechCrunch
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced that Premonition, a robotics and sensor platform for monitoring and sampling disease carriers like mosquitos and a cloud-based software stack for analyzing samples,...
Blue Origin targets this Thursday for New Shepard reusable rocket launch with NASA landing system test – TechCrunch
Blue Origin just announced the timing of its next rocket launch – and it’s surprisingly soon, in just two days on Thursday, September 24. The launch of Blue Origin’s New...
Made In Space is sending the first ceramic manufacturing facility in space to the ISS next week – TechCrunch
In-space manufacturing company Made In Space is pushing the envelope on what can, well, be made in space with its next mission – which is set to launch aboard a...
Satellite radar startup ICEYE raises 87 million to continue to grow its operational constellation – TechCrunch
Finnish startup ICEYE, which has been building out and operating a constellation of Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) small satellites, has raised an $87 million Series C round of financing. This round...