Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP (Getty Images) Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo … Read more
NASA just put its new propulsion system to the test, powering a 3D-printed rotating detonation rocket engine for a sustained burn that lasted three times as long as the first test. Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023 The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE, produced more than 5,800 pounds of thrust for a total of … Read more
My favorite thing about a fancy gadget I recently tested involved being nine feet from it and sipping a cold one. I wasn’t doing nothing, just close to nothing: talking to my brother-in-law Ben while occasionally glancing at a countdown timer on a display next to the grill. That timer is a feature on a … Read more