It’s Focal’s first high-end closed back headphone, and sounds awfully good! …read more Source:: CNet

Thelasko tipped us off to this story. NBC News reports: The U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines — as well as 11 international partners who participated in the program — grounded all F-35 fighters on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into a jet that crashed in Beaufort, South Carolina, late last month. “The…

Your two-minute guide to this week in machine-learning world Roundup Hello, here’s a quick roundup of what’s been happening in AI outside of the headlines.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The Audiophiliac finds so many high-end audio goodies at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica: Microsoft was the fifth-biggest PC maker in the U.S. in the third quarter of this year, according to industry advisory firm Gartner. The top spot in the U.S. belongs to HP, with about 4.5 million machines sold, ahead of Dell at 3.8 million, Lenovo at 2.3 million, and Apple…

We check out the fitness functions on the new Apple Watch; drive an electric vehicle in Africa; and explore strange new worlds with Star Trek: Discovery. …read more Source:: CNet

First Man recounts efforts to get astronauts to the moon. Keeping them safe on Earth was no easy feat either. …read more Source:: CNet

DevNull127 writes: In a remarkable odyssey, documentary-maker Cary McClelland interviewed more than 150 San Francisco residents — including a tattoo artist, a longshoreman, a venture capitalist, and a pawnshop owner — to capture the real voices of a changing city, in a kind of oral history of the present. It becomes a magical “documentary without…

But will the martial arts superhero pop up again on Disney’s streaming service? …read more Source:: CNet

Ever seen a bit of graffiti in a strange location and wondered how the graffiti artist got up there? It might have been a drone rather than an athletic teen. Disney research has just published an interesting research paper that describes the PaintCopter: an autonomous drone fitted with a can of spray paint on a…