Cordless tools have been making strides over the past few years, as batteries become more advanced, smaller, and lighter. Lithium ion batteries have been slowly increasing their capacity and run time while shrinking in size and weight. But there’s a new material on the market for cordless tools: graphene, a lightweight material that has changed
DETROIT - One day after Ford CEO said union activity was making him reconsider where the company puts its plants, the United Auto Workers union is threatening a strike at the company’s largest and most profitable factory. The union said Friday that nearly 9,000 workers at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville will strike on
TEXAS - In a past message on X, Elon Musk said Tesla Inc.'s humanoid robot called Optimus could “eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks.” He suggests a future where robots integrate into daily lives, helping people with both mundane chores like doing the dishes to working in hazardous conditions. In a Jan. 15, 2023, message on
PHILADELPHIA -Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the processing speed of computers while also reducing their energy consumption. The silicon-photonic (SiPh) chip’s design is the first to bring together Benjamin
DETROIT - The Michigan Cyber Patriot program, that works with grade school students to make the cyber security savvy, has placed a team in the national finals, where they will compete against 11 other teams from around the country. Michigan Cyber Patriot Founder Tamars Shoemaker joins Matt Roush and Mike Brennan on MITech TV to
A UFO-focused think tank called The Sol Foundation has just released a collection of 17 videos from their inaugural UAP conference. The Foundation’s leadership consists of highly respected figures in the UFO community, including Dr. Garry Nolan from Stanford (executive director of the board), anthropologist Dr. Peter Skafish, Robovision chair Jonathan Berte, and UFO whistleblower David Grusch.
BEIJING - A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that's capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS. "The GoldPickaxe family is available for both iOS and Android platforms," Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said in an extensive report shared with
WASHINGTON DC - The FBI took down a botnet of small office/home office (SOHO) routers used by Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) to proxy malicious traffic and to target the United States and its allies in spearphishing and credential theft attacks. This network of hundreds of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers infected with Moobot
Physicist Sean Kirkpatrick shed light on the Pentagon's efforts to demystify Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings, now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs). Until his departure in December, the former intelligence official led the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office at the Pentagon. It was tasked by Congress to investigate these phenomena. As per Kirkpatrick, there are two
Individuals hoping to find aliens and UFOs in the US will likely have the best luck in spotting them out west. According to data submitted by the National UFO Reporting Center and the US Census Bureau, more than 100,000 alien sightings have been submitted to the Reporting Center between 2000 and 2023. Today, the national average of alien sightings
