Ampair, a Los Angeles clean tech company in my neck of the woods, is set to begin accepting orders for a hybrid electric aircraft at the EAA AirVenture airshow in Wisconsin next week. Dubbed the EEL, the aircraft is in fact a retrofit of a Cessna 337, an aircraft that has a forward-mounted prop engine…

Your periodic reminder that there was maybe a reason so many people voted to leave The European Commission has, yet again, changed its position on who can have a .eu domain after Brexit.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

We are normally told that microwave ovens are strictly for food only, and that anything else will cause all sorts of bad things to come our way. There can be few readers who haven’t at some time seen the shower of sparks when an inadvertent metallic object finds its way onto the turntable. A particularly…

What a waste of time and money that was Creative Content UK, the organization that terrified British internet users by requiring ISPs to send out emails with accusations of copyright infringement, has decided to drop this questionable practice.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Simmons, a former Australian of the Year, and her team at the University of New South Wales announced in a paper published in Nature journal on Thursday that they have been able to achieve the first two-qubit gate between atom qubits in silicon, allowing them to…

Spending an hour or two around any consumer-level padlock or house deadbolt lock with a simple lockpicking kit will typically instil a good amount of panic and concern about security. While it’s true that any lock can be defeated, it’s almost comically easy to pick basic locks like this. So, if you’re looking for a…

Heads up: Thanos was going to de-CAPitate Captain America. …read more Source:: CNet

Jon Favreau’s version of the classic offers incredibly lifelike characters, but at what cost? …read more Source:: CNet

Get ready to see Rick Grimes and zombies on the big screen. Plus more details on AMC’s The Walking Dead season 10 revealed at SDCC. …read more Source:: CNet

Exclusive: Unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con, the Hasbro Star Wars toy features super realistic details and articulation. …read more Source:: CNet