Prototype of SpaceX’s future Starship rocket flies short hop to 500 feet

SpaceX’s Starship prototype during the test hop, recorded by LabPadre’s livestream | Image: Screenshot from LabPadre livestream Just two d...

Former Google exec Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months for stealing self-driving car secrets

Photo by Angelo Merendino / AFP / Getty Images Controversial engineer Anthony Levandowski, who worked for the Google division that would b...

Amazon's Engineers Are Building Robots In Their Garages

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The next generation of Amazon's Scout bots -- the fully-electric autonomous delivery dev...

Tesla's Touchscreen Wiper Controls Ruled Illegal In Germany

New submitter Rei_is_a_dumbass shares a report from Electrek: Tesla's wiper controls through its touchscreen have been ruled illegal in ...

Monkeying around: Study finds older primates father far fewer babies

Older male rhesus monkeys sire fewer offspring, even though they appear to be mating as much as younger monkeys with similarly high social s...

Energy demands limit our brains' information processing capacity

Our brains have an upper limit on how much they can process at once due to a constant but limited energy supply, according to a new study us...

EU launches full investigation into Google’s Fitbit acquisition over health data fears

Fitbit’s health-tracking business was losing money when Google swooped in to buy it. The European Commission is launching a full investiga...