TECHNOLOGY

The Navy's rail gun project is dead, but four new lasers are in the horizon.

Researchers devised a way to teach small drones to see and detect the environment they fly through without depending on intricate maps.

The technology used in the high-speed jet could be leveraged by commercial airlines to start supersonic passenger flights.

"That looks bad, plane and simple," Google engineer Erik Haddad tweeted.

The Advertising Standards Authority investigated after a customer claimed an Amazon advert resulted in their Echo Dot placing an order for Purina cat food.

UK man Sam Battle has managed to build a working organ out of 44 Furbys. He shared a video of his work on his YouTube channel "Look Mum No Computer".

Anti-abortion activists are writing fake reviews and listing abortion clinics as permanently closed in a bid to show more "crisis pregnancy centres" in the search results.

"Surprise, the lying liar @realDonaldTrump lied again," one Twitter user wrote.

Boston Dynamics, the SoftBank-owned robotics giant, has shared a new video of its four-legged and technology-rigged pet.

The next-gen stealth bomber is expected to arrive in the mid 2020s.

The organisers of the challenge say that the race was an effort to showcase South Korea's growing footprint in the robotics' space.

Twitter users roasted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over her "ridiculous" and "bullsh*it" defence of Trump's response to the Rob Porter scandal.

Unlike regular clocks, atomic clocks are highly accurate, enabling scientists to use them to measure gravity.

A strontium atom is suspended in high vacuum and illuminated between two electrodes with a blue laser.

From an outpost on the moon and build flying cars to funding cut for the international space station and earth science missions, the budget covers a lot of things

The weapon test, from Kazakhstan's Sary-Shagan testing range, was successful despite frigid weather conditions prevailing in the region

Over the past few months, security experts have observed a steady rise in cryptojacking attacks, malware-based miners and browser-based cryptominers.

Elon Musk's next drone ship will be used on the east coast to handle landings at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX uses drone ships as landing pads for their Falcon 9 rocket cores in the sea.

The social media reach of state-run Russian news networks eclipsed that of the largest Leave campaigns in the run up to the Brexit referendum.

A new report shows that Facebook will lose 2 million users aged 24 or younger this year. Snapchat will gain 1.9 million users of the same age. People over 65 will prefer Facebook.

Met Office issues weather warnings for Scotland, Wales and the Midlands as cold spell is set to continue.

Not content with nabbing the idea of "Stories" in the first place, Instagram is now trialling alerts for screenshots.

UK parents are more willing to buy children smartphones at a younger age. Around 20% now believe 11 is the "ideal" age.

The clip is part of the second season of National Geographic's documentary series "Mars" scheduled to air in spring.

Javier Palomarez, president of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, says it sends "a very troubling message."

The craft will switch to software-based stellar navigation to conserve power and extend service life.

The launch, in which a Falcon 9 rocket will carry a 1350 kg Paz satellite and two 400 kg Starlink demo satellites into to a 514km Sun-Synchronous Orbit, is set for 17 February.

The algorithm came up with some bizarre results after learning from genuine candy heart messages.

Marines are the first and so far the only branch in the US armed forces, apart from the Special Operations Command, to provide drones to soldiers on the ground at this level.