Can you believe it’s been 14 years? …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes UPI: After nearly four decades with NASA, including 22 years as an astronaut, Peggy Whitson is leaving the space agency. Her retirement is effective Friday, NASA announced… Whitson ends her career with multiple records to her name, including most time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut — 665 days… The…

We pit two of our favorite Android phones against each other to see which one’s the better buy. …read more Source:: CNet

The production capability available to the individual hacker today is really quite incredible. Even a low-end laser engraver can etch your PCBs, and it doesn’t take a top of the line 3D printer to knock out a nice looking enclosure. With the wide availability of these (relatively) cheap machines, the home builder can churn out…

This week’s iPhone news, summed up. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: Forget about new hardware, E3 2018 shows us that the real future of gaming is cloud-based. …read more Source:: CNet

There are a lot… …read more Source:: CNet

The biggest allure of 3D printing, to us at least, is the ability to make hyper-personalized objects that would otherwise fall through the cracks of our mass-market economy. Take, for instance, the Frozen Rat Kidney Shipping Container, or maybe some of the less bizarro applications in the US National Institute of Health’s 3D Print Exchange….

“A giant egg equipped with rotors and ‘Transformers’-style robots are among some of the creative designs submitted in a $2 million dollar contest to dream up new ways of flying,” reports CNN. “GoFly, a $2 million competition to design personal flying machines backed by Boeing, has announced its first round of most promising designs out…

“Wait, was that 423 or 424?” When you’re stuck winding a transformer or coil that has more than a few hundred turns, you’re going to want to spend some time on a winding jig. This video, embedded below, displays a simple but sufficient machine — with a few twists. The first elaboration is the addition…